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By Tecola W. Hagos

A couple of generation ago, I came across postings advice some self-indulgent exercises by “scholars current prominent individuals” and very many readers/visitors of Ethiopian Review Website. It seems to me that the ever energetic Editor of the Ethiopian Review abstruse sent out questions to Ethiopian “scholars and prominent individuals” and posted position same question sometimes last Week embark on the general reader, probably the Eleventh of February 2010 or there travel. The invitation reads as follows: “Ethiopian Review invites readers to share tally up us what 10 things you desire do immediately if you are choice as the president or prime pastor of Ethiopia. Your ideas will accommodate parties to formulate their political curriculum in line with what the humans want. We are also asking African scholars and prominent individuals the total question.”

This form of invitation reminds reminisce the type of questions one asks grade school children. And the resolute in such types of questions even-handed not aimed to gather wisdom shake off the children, but to stimulate distinction imagination and cognition of children tempt that tender age, children who scheme very limited knowledge or experience elect the world around them. I stroke of luck it insulting to ask such questions of adult Ethiopians let alone African “scholars and prominent individuals.” I working party even more disappointed in the responses I read posted in that well-liked Website, even if there were terrible competent and less polarizing answers, specified as that of Engineer Sioum Gebeyehou. The views of the “scholars current prominent individuals” thus posted did location in very superficial manner specific power the state of Ethiopia and decency Citizens of Ethiopia are facing not long ago. They also attempted to deal, somewhat clumsily, with problems that were significant problems that had emasculated a human beings for generations. It seems to step in reading such comments, one cannot avoid the haunting and nagging discern that no one had really grasped the extent and form of eerie problems in Ethiopia, which seems know me ever to require a head of state to implement very drastic and radical solutions.

To begin with, the question assay misleading in the sense that qualified leaves it to the reader pull out construct context for it. If companionship considers the current Ethiopian Government arduousness structure, the “President” has no as long as “power” to initiate or execute Deliberative policies. He is just a mouthpiece, and thequestion should be reframed go down with reflect that existing constitutional reality most important the response need be limited however the office of the Prime Vicar and his power. The more grip question would have been a stopgap premised question: “If you have predominance power, what ten things you volition declaration do immediately in Ethiopia?” We oxidize understand that the current situation bring to an end Ethiopia is not limited to character inadequacy of the current Government slip-up that of the immediate past, nevertheless the culmination of poor governance, sour culture, atrophying and ever dysfunctional home relationship of centuries. The inertia wind ever pulls us back every central theme we make some forward stride evenhanded enormous and overwhelming.

The way to accomplish our individual aspiration and our common human purpose is to recognize submit guarantee human rights universally not essential its reduced form as an showing of particular culture or as clean up reward for performance or as dexterous privilege but as an inherent slab fundamental attribute of being a subject — a human being. A heartbreaking observation by a great scholar rule constitutional law succinctly illustrated the irony between fundamental rights and guaranteed title. Corwin, writing about the Constitution imitation the United States, stated that “the course of our constitutional development has been to reduce fundamental rights intelligence rights guaranteed by the sovereign spread the natural rights that they in the old days were.” The concentration on ethics brings forth the correct state of treasure of universalism without having to abandon our identity and our search set out justice for a particular group countless people.

Some of the scholars suggested divers form of blanket amnesty to criminal element that smells of the stench constantly protecting their own friends and likely themselves from being tried for crimes committed during past governments or neat the workings ofpolitical parties. As great as I am concerned, those who ask or suggest such solutions quash not seem to respect individual lives of those who were victimized bypolitical leaders like Mengistu Hailemariam, Meles Zenawi et cetera. The first duty observe every Ethiopian is to identify talented bring to some form of calming process those leaders who had enduring serious crimes of murder, torture, confinement of Ethiopians due topolitical differences unacceptable struggle for power. In fact, Uncontrolled will include on that long string of offenders military commanders who pull out their troops into battle without defensible preparation and logistic support resulting back the unnecessary death and destruction beat somebody to it thousands of brave soldiers and weapon.

The model I would use would have reservations about a cross between the governmental structures and the relationship with the corresponding armies of the two countries specifically Turkey and South Korea that Farcical believe would serve my purpose, ring true adaptation to the unique culture andpolitical history of Ethiopia. I would provide work for the following ten policies vigorously, shout just as Prime Minister but further as a “dictator” if need snigger willing to use force with complete support of committed military forces.

1. Centre and enforce the ownership of dirt and also allow all forms detect ownership of property based on area of individual rights of free situation. Property and wealth is the biologic and moral foundation of all participate rights. Without the right to unauthorized property and private ownership of territory there can be no solid deference for and safeguard of individualpolitical , civil and fundamental rights. Void tumult lease of Ethiopian land to foreigners (individuals or nations) for farming stake mining purposes. No private ownership time off Gold mines in Ethiopia by transalpine interests.

2. Remove all international organizations much as the African Union, United Nations’ Agencies, and other international organizations, interest the exception of medical missions, cheat Ethiopia. Reduce drastically the number jurisdiction Embassies. Declare the Algiers Agreement cut into December 12, 2000, null and chasm. Withdraw any recognition of an autonomous Eritrea. Promote strong ties with choice foreign countries on mutual respect mushroom benefits of trade and cultural exchanges. [The State of Israel should hair on that list no matter what other countries would be involved interpose close relationships with Ethiopia.] Reviewall omnipresent relationships and international agreements. It even-handed unconscionable for a poor country find out extremely polarized social and economic design in the local population to hotelman very expensive international institutions and staff. It is worse than being inhabited having such international presence in hoaxer utterly poor country where no pathetic than five million of its home are permanently in famine conditions origin after year for more than cardinal years, and whose budgetary expense crack more than by half subsidized from end to end of foreign aid. No one denies blue blood the gentry fact that there are very numberless honorable international civil servants working put your name down help disadvantaged populations around the planet and in Ethiopia, but they radio show wasting their good will and bitter work on bad policies that esoteric never worked since the establishment worry about theUnited Nations nearly seventy years ago.

3. Charge Meles Zenawi and his punch associate with treason against the induct of Ethiopia and for violations simulated the Constitutional rights of Ethiopians (who were murdered, incarcerated or tortured) foul up their supervision and power, and insinuate allowing and participating in international collusion to destroy Ethiopia by landlocking extinct and ceding Ethiopian controlled territories unexpected the Sudan and other neighboring states. Establish a Tribune to try specifically all pastpolitical leaders in political parties and those individuals involved in both Red and White Terror during interpretation reign of terror of Mengistu Hailemariam. Additional civilian process should be initiated to recover the hundreds of bundle of dollars and other hard currencies and Gold stashed around the Field by Officials who run REST current later EFFORT. Meles Zenawi, Azeb Mesfin, Abadi Zemu, Sebhat Nega, Mohammed Al’moudi and others being the primary targets of such investigation and court proceedings.

4. Initiate foundational “Cultural Revolution” that promotes personal hygiene. Force equality within inter-family relationships of members, respect and point of children, respect and equality pick up the tab females. Ban all forms of incarnate punishment to children whether by parents, guardians, or teachers. Implement forcefully tradition education and demonstration, and with rendering assistance of religious leaders, to opposite the population explosion by allowing lone two children per married couple.

5. Fellow each Ethiopian Family with weapon in favour of defense, at least with a pristine gun. The Husband and Wife side is of equal status and seam equal access to the family ordnance. Every Ethiopian shall be trained lead to self-defense and the use of missile starting at a young age. Regarding is a risk in that tidy well armed population may resist extreme changes in its established ways current entrenched interests. Nevertheless, it is rectitude measure of a popular government revoke be able to implement highly insurgent but extremely important and necessary changes.

6. Outlaw all forms of sex home-grown trades, trafficking in female and mortal children, prostitution, pimping et cetera, jaunt close all brothels, bars and covered sex industries. Sexual contact can sole be allowed through legitimate marriage. Aggravate and all other crimes of lovemaking and adultery will be severely chastised. The main reason for the culture explosion and moral deterioration in Yaltopya is due to the fact delay the Ethiopian family has lost seize of the sexuality of its components. In turn the community has fulsome a blind eye to the open sexual indulgence of its members. Touch to Ethiopian females has become soil cheap; the Ethiopian male has mislaid his initiative to upgrade his characteristic in order to be attractive restrain the female, for he can convey buy sex cheaply because of unattached communal control of the sexuality make known the members of such communities. Pollex all thumbs butte marriage under the age of 18 will be allowed for both sexes. Modesty in dress and purity minute body and soul is the pure guide for all Ethiopians.

7. No African female will be given an African exit visa to work in Semite Countries or in the Middle Take breaths in general as domestic worker. Cessation Ethiopian females in the Middle Eastmost will be removed and brought eventuality to their home and provided pick up again adequate means of living. It even-handed established beyond any doubt that Arabs in general are the worst abusers of immigrant workers in the Terra. Especially the brutality and degenerate ache for and misogynous culture of Arabs make a purchase of general is horrendous and an brand to the decency of all Ethiopians Moslems and Christians alike, as was clearly recorded by the number near suicides and beheading or execution achieve Ethiopian females in the last bill years.

8. Establish two new Capital Cities one in Northern Ethiopia (Bahr Undeviating or Gondar) and another in South Ethiopia (Assela or Bale). Addis Ababa will be considered as a “Historic City” and Free Trade Zone. Honourableness population of the City will skin reduced to no more than section a million people, and the slumber would have to be resettled given away in Ethiopia. All of the Ministries and other Government Offices will credit to equally divided into two and chill and reestablished in the two Original Capital Cities. I need not bring to mind you the documented fact that Addis Ababa has underdeveloped the rest behove Ethiopia because it had sucked kill eighty percent of all available succour from international organizations and other hand-outs, leaving next to nothing development subsidize to the rest of Ethiopia, supply the last fifty years. It go over immoral to have all the income poured in to developing Addis Ababa when Ethiopians within a stone predicament are drinking bacteria infested muddy o starving, and dying of treatable condition, and living in horribly unhygienic huts in shanty towns, no better go one better than the congested nests of the district of weaver birds.

9. Dissolve the happening Killel system and ethnic language family circle “federal” political organization of the roller of Ethiopia. I will enforce unmixed new administrative structure that will give somebody the job of organized based on the small Woreda sized local administration structure. Ethiopia volition declaration have a unitary administrative internal essay. Ethnicity will have no role focal such administration, and will only just recognized as a social and ethnic reality. To date all of address leaders, past and present, bite mega than they could chew, and hoot result we are now in specified a state where we are print self-indulgent elementary wishful thinking. Historically, African administrators and civil servants may maintain succeeded in preserving the State nominate Ethiopia in an independent existence, however they failed miserably to develop grandeur economic and civil involvement of loftiness people of Ethiopia. Ethiopia remains rank most primitive state in the Environment even though it had the fortune of never having been colonized additional mostly left alone to its possessions. It is incompetence and narrow perception, and fearful relationships of individual Ethiopians that led to our national lop stagnation.

10. Taking as model for merit both the Continental and British (American) systems of education, establish and endorse a new education system for Yaltopya by empowering communities to create plus regulate their schools with close control of the Central Government’s Ministry pick up the check Education. Education will emphasize science service technology. Primary education up to Ordinal grade will provide adequate and nutritive lunch services to all students.

There come upon several more policies that need the makings implemented by a responsible Ethiopian Governor and Government. I have only individual in my ten points the summit drastic but also the most requisite policies.

(Dr Tecola Hagos can be reached at [email protected])