Residents of Shekisso Woreda, where MIDROC Gold is mining used to mine, protested in a demonstration on Friday, December 4, 2009. The demonstration arose due to the company's move …to open another mine accusing…it had not constructed roads, schools, bridges and clinics for the community during its 12-year operation in the area…The university students also raised concerns about 2,000 farmers who…were supposed to be paid compensation when they were displaced to make room for the Lega Dembi mining site. Tafesse Sahelle, senior director of communications and public relations at MIDROC Gold…said that MIDROC Gold, under its own initiative, had provided clean water, constructed a kindergarten, [and] donated computers to the local preparatory school…But he declined to comment on the issue of farmers that the students said still needed compensation.