Career
In 1967, Demeksa was appointed vice-minister of Finance before representing his country at the board of the World Bank. In 1974, when the Ethiopian Revolution started, he left Ethiopia and was hired by the United Nations administration. Demeksa took his retirement in Ethiopia in 1991, and in 1994, he created the Awash International Bank which became a success.
With other opposition officials, he helped the creation of Medrek, a larger opposition alliance.
Bulcha resigned as Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing party chairman in late 2010 but continues as an adviser for the leadership. His retirement from Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing and his harsh criticism of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and on the 2010 elections were a regular feature story on dozens of private Amharic and English newspapers in the country.
