Oromo nationals living in Yeka Sub-city of the Addis Ababa City Administration visited on Saturday the Oromo Cultural Center which is under construction here in Kirkos Sub-city of the metropolis.

The new cultural center, which comprises nine building blocks will have a museum, theater room, library, language academy, assembly hall, restaurant, and parking lot with a capacity of serving up to 400 vehicles at a time, is under construction on 41,000 sq. meter area of land.

The main objective of the visitation is to acquaint the Oromo nations with the on-going development activities of the Oromia regional government, EPRDF’s Public Relations Advisor with the Sub-city, Dereje Abera told ENA.

Dereje urged Oromo nationals on the occasion to be organized in associations and play their level best toward ensuring speedy and sustainable development in the region as well as in preserving the language and culture of the Oromo nation.

The Oromo nationals vowed to rally behind the incumbent Ethiopian government in efforts toward making the country become one of the middle income earning nations of the world in the shortest time possible.

About 40 percent of the construction of new cultural center, which is launched in Nov. 2008 at a cost of over 168.7 million Birr, has already been finalized.

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