The five-year strategic plan, dubbed the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), was defended by both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance and Economic Development during the past two weeks. Early this week, the plan was floated for public discussion in Addis Ababa where people still held mixed opinions on the feasibility of the plan. Abera Alemayehu, 29, currently employed at a private bank, calls the 'transformation' a 'bluff.' He says that the plan, as it is presented in the various media outlets, in one’s right judgment, looks over-ambitious. “This time the architects have pushed it too far and it sounds like a strategy in a poker game, thought I am not sure who we are playing against,” he says jokingly.