The bride and groom along with their best men and women savored the dishes but no one was willing to pick up plates thereafter. Expectations of a lavish feast and merry-making were taken over by an erie silence, prompting the wedding couple to make a courtesy request that the man publicly known to have been hired by the government to destroy Kinijit leave the place immediately.

Once hailed as a champion of the people's cause for democracy and freedom, Lidetu suffered a disgraceful fall when the public found out he was the double-agent of Ethiopia's most reviled tyrant, Meles Zenawi.