Are we dull or Our struggle?
As everyone of us are aware the struggle for the inception of democracy in Ethiopia goes to the last fifty years but we are not going far in terms of achievement why?are we dull or are we myopic to put a decent strategy to achieve our goal?what are our culpits? what have to be done to ameliorate our failures?
In order to discuss these issue we have to look into out history of struggle at phases and their problems attached to,so i will raise so issues and try to put my ideas so that others can discuss on it.
Ethiopians in the last 50 yeears had struggled to overthrow the fuedal based Imperial regime as well the military dictators but end up on Ethnic based dictators who do not want to hear the people as well put visionary democratic government.Besides all thios the same phenomena is growing with all the different government who came to power,that is the pestillence and hunger throughout the nation. To substantiate these one can remember the drought of Tigray and Wollo regions during the last years of the Imperial regime,the 1984/85 catastrophic hunger and drought in the country and now the severely wide spread drought in the country.Why? are we dull or our struggle astrayed by few egoist and selfish governers?
Most Ethiopians think that the catastrophs in the country are the results of maladministration.egoist policy,nepotism and corruption which i also share these ideas but the root causes also lie with in the political structure we have during the last 50 years.So we have to study what have to be done in order to alleviate the pertinent problems in the coutry.
Ethiopian economy being based mostly on agricultural production(85%employment,60%foreign exchange) one has to deal with this sector in order to find some solutions to enhance productivity as well production.The developmental strategies used by the Socialist government as well the now so called liberalgovernment do not set strategies which focus on the rural development and enhancement because these governments are using the land as a means of political tool to facilalte their election as well the sectors strategy is only a symbol to say that we have some written policy but there must be a crucial change in the country if one needs to boast productivity as well feed the escalatinly growing population boom.
If we take countries who were at the same stage of development in 1974 (korea,vietnam,kenya etc)are now moving into self suffiecent or developing countries while Ethiopian isone of the last poorest countries in the planet.Why?The root causes for Ethiopia are multifaceted but the mjor are ill agricultural,educational and health and infrastructural policies.
When i raise these problems as a core issue i do not want to state what the statistics show the per capita of health professionals,teachers student ration,productivity of land,illitracy rate,road per capita etc but what i want to emphasise is the nature of the ministries which are crucial to development and their structural organization,how they function,their budgetary allocation and some facilities availed to the rural population.
Any state has got its ministries and deprtments at all levels but the structural arrangment in Ethiopia is more or less the same as any country because it is adopted from experieces of others and taking experience is onething but copying is where governments are wrong.
In Ethiopia all facilities (budget,cars,school materials,medicines,laboratories,office equipment,personnel,communication equipments) are allocated where there is not actual beneficiary in ministry of agriculture or health,infrastructure or education,that is to say that the minister will have minimum three vechcles(atleast one sedan,two 4 wheel drive)and more than two secretaties(one serving tea/coffee,one transpoting file to and from,one special seccretary for the office) while a person working in the rural areas do not have atleast a bicycle to bring materials from a place where it is distributed or is bought.These are the same with the alocation of budgets and educational/medical supplies as well to students/patients or farmers organizers who are atelast devoting most of their time with the beneficiaries.
The second issue what i raised was ill agricultural policy launched by the now EPRDF as well the socialist government which were till 1991.
In Ethiopia farmers despite they are given the least budgets and facilities are also tenants of the government,that is a farmer can be evicted if the government thought he is against the ruling party or symphasis oppositions or as the priminister Meles Zenawi once put it "we can evict anyone(foreigner)if we hate the color of their eyes. So a farmers always is thinking about eviction so do not invest to plant perrenial crops which can bring more saving to him but focus on annual crops whether the waether(climate) is favourable or not. The other issue related to this is that the farmer due to uncertainity do not invest on technologies to produce semifinished or finished products (added costs) to earn more by putting his labour on products.
The socialist as well the EPRDF government always propagate Agricultural Led Industrialisation as a corner stone policy to launch but in a country where the producer is uncertain to decide what to produce?where to produce?where to sell his product it is a bizzare for the farmer.
Let i bring some experience i encountered during the first years of EPRDF the world bank gave Ethiopia 642 million Dollars for the structural adjustment program in the country what EPRDF did with this money is to buy political parties which are affiliated to them by allocating millions of Birr to political leaders to distribute to its members of which i know 5000000 Birr was given to ONLF(now labeled as TERRORIST by EPRDF) as well import cotton with 12 USD per kilo while closing cotton farms which produce raw cotton to textile factories in the country.
A government with a vision has to restructure the economic activities in due time but one has not replace parastatals(state owned) with parapartatals(party owned corporation)but what EPRDF did is dissolved all the agricultural input distributors and formed regional party owned firms.
If this vicious trend is to continue the people in Ethiopia are in a grave danger to be starved year in year out.
Entwurf
September 24, 2008
September 18, 2008
ARE WE FOR OR AGAINST
it was nice if i put it in Amharic to open the forum for all to contribute for Ethiopia irrespective of their individual opinion or the motto which drive them from behind but i am not due to that i use some organizations internet access which did not have Ethiopic or other softwares to write Amharic. Despite that it is my idea to invite all intersted groups to bring Ethiopians to end the mysery which is put on us.
Before i enter to the issues i will remind my colleague Ethiopians please do not feel anything/anyone to discuss your mind because it is the core to bring unity and refined strategies and solutions to enhance democracy in our country(Ethiopia).
when i raised the question "Are we for or Against" it is open to all who can use this ediomatic word, to start with who are we? can one say individually we? whose representation have you? etc. But when i use this word it is only to open a forum to all Ethiopians (us) and mainly to us who everyday give our ideas in the different forums which are easily availed with the help of technology because of the access we have around us is better than our sisters,brothers,mothers,fathers,daughters and sons living in an open prison under the tyrant EPRDF Government.
What i want tp raise here are sequence of questions which i always try to get solutions but never find one so may be it could be the same to the likes of me.
When i say are we for or against what i mean is that are we against the emancipation of our people towards democracy? Do we always dream of democracy and stay to hinder its way? Are we realy on the right mind when we envy democratic Ethiopia? Are we always see division and subtraction as a means rather than multiplication and addition? Are we sometimes driven by egos than good will? Are we for cultism not against it?
As to my experience and the history of the struggle for democracy in Ethiopia backs far more years from my date of birth but the emancipation of our people still exists in my fifties,that, does not mean to why but it is better to ask why not, what reasons are curving it, is it/was it myopic or readiness was illusion?are we jut phrase mongerers and are blindfolded to have vision? have we special interest democracy will take out of us? does unity means a spear which will kill us as well our people?
Then let i bring some of my experiences to show the answer to all the questions above are yes except the question about envying democratic Ethiopia the reason can be set on the following reasoning.
1974-1991
From the start of the revolution the visionary parties have the same idea but different strategies to emancipate our people but that strategic fault brought the fall of the visioned parties and brought up 17 years of misery and murderers(i will let the details for historians and politicians (if any)).
1991-2005
As to my dairies and the past realities the number of hatching of parties in the country was the main aim of the ruling party and some who are not even ready to participate in the government came to vision as oppositions to orchestrate and agravate the misery and well blindfolded for the piece of place given to them and failed to farsight the revenge weded to them and fall to it and left playing the scene written to them.Moreover open up instruments of tyrany in their cooperation.
2005 till now
Atleast the wave of democracy was at the door of Ethiopian households in May 2005 but things which i raised as a question were more of a yes than a no so the cumulative effect was what we had seen it for the most 20 months after that,what was next to answer the above questions our politicians as wll as we ourselves were not on the right vision or track to say enough is enough to tyranny or to also cultism and we were fragmented because either we were in illusion/phrase mongerers/egoist.
What we see now a party which we said and believe had a vision is fragmented in to pieces which returns back to my core question "are we against or for".
As to me unless we individually think lonely and come to our mind first and second to evaluate ourselves how we contribute to the mass struggle of the people we are contributing to the misery of ourselves and our people.
The above idea is what i think which is against our peoples motto but for EPRDF a bonafide and lastly i call all Ethiopians to come to their mind and come under an umbrella to fight the regime and give their ideas later to the people to decide on their plans,programs and visions.
Let we raise ourselves to a new ways of thinking
Before i enter to the issues i will remind my colleague Ethiopians please do not feel anything/anyone to discuss your mind because it is the core to bring unity and refined strategies and solutions to enhance democracy in our country(Ethiopia).
when i raised the question "Are we for or Against" it is open to all who can use this ediomatic word, to start with who are we? can one say individually we? whose representation have you? etc. But when i use this word it is only to open a forum to all Ethiopians (us) and mainly to us who everyday give our ideas in the different forums which are easily availed with the help of technology because of the access we have around us is better than our sisters,brothers,mothers,fathers,daughters and sons living in an open prison under the tyrant EPRDF Government.
What i want tp raise here are sequence of questions which i always try to get solutions but never find one so may be it could be the same to the likes of me.
When i say are we for or against what i mean is that are we against the emancipation of our people towards democracy? Do we always dream of democracy and stay to hinder its way? Are we realy on the right mind when we envy democratic Ethiopia? Are we always see division and subtraction as a means rather than multiplication and addition? Are we sometimes driven by egos than good will? Are we for cultism not against it?
As to my experience and the history of the struggle for democracy in Ethiopia backs far more years from my date of birth but the emancipation of our people still exists in my fifties,that, does not mean to why but it is better to ask why not, what reasons are curving it, is it/was it myopic or readiness was illusion?are we jut phrase mongerers and are blindfolded to have vision? have we special interest democracy will take out of us? does unity means a spear which will kill us as well our people?
Then let i bring some of my experiences to show the answer to all the questions above are yes except the question about envying democratic Ethiopia the reason can be set on the following reasoning.
1974-1991
From the start of the revolution the visionary parties have the same idea but different strategies to emancipate our people but that strategic fault brought the fall of the visioned parties and brought up 17 years of misery and murderers(i will let the details for historians and politicians (if any)).
1991-2005
As to my dairies and the past realities the number of hatching of parties in the country was the main aim of the ruling party and some who are not even ready to participate in the government came to vision as oppositions to orchestrate and agravate the misery and well blindfolded for the piece of place given to them and failed to farsight the revenge weded to them and fall to it and left playing the scene written to them.Moreover open up instruments of tyrany in their cooperation.
2005 till now
Atleast the wave of democracy was at the door of Ethiopian households in May 2005 but things which i raised as a question were more of a yes than a no so the cumulative effect was what we had seen it for the most 20 months after that,what was next to answer the above questions our politicians as wll as we ourselves were not on the right vision or track to say enough is enough to tyranny or to also cultism and we were fragmented because either we were in illusion/phrase mongerers/egoist.
What we see now a party which we said and believe had a vision is fragmented in to pieces which returns back to my core question "are we against or for".
As to me unless we individually think lonely and come to our mind first and second to evaluate ourselves how we contribute to the mass struggle of the people we are contributing to the misery of ourselves and our people.
The above idea is what i think which is against our peoples motto but for EPRDF a bonafide and lastly i call all Ethiopians to come to their mind and come under an umbrella to fight the regime and give their ideas later to the people to decide on their plans,programs and visions.
Let we raise ourselves to a new ways of thinking
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