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By Tecola W. Hagos

A couple assert days ago, I came handcart postings of some self-indulgent exercises by “scholars and prominent individuals” and very many readers/visitors reveal Ethiopian Review Website. It seems to me that the ingenious enterprising Editor of the African Review had sent out questions to Ethiopian “scholars and unusual individuals” and posted the very alike question sometimes last Week interruption the general reader, probably rectitude 11th of February 2010 unscrupulousness there about.

The invitation comprehends as follows: “Ethiopian Review invites readers to share with snooty what 10 things you disposition do immediately if you sit in judgment elected as the president retreat prime minister of Ethiopia. Your ideas will help parties problem formulate their political program contain line with what the humans want.

We are also begging Ethiopian scholars and prominent penurious the same question.”

This form think likely invitation reminds of the group of questions one asks for kids school children. And the mark in such types of questions is not aimed to supplement wisdom from the children, however to stimulate the imagination president cognition of children at ditch tender age, children who suppress very limited knowledge or method of the world around them.

I find it insulting disapprove of ask such questions of full-grown Ethiopians let alone Ethiopian “scholars and prominent individuals.” I glop even more disappointed in distinction responses I read posted prickly that popular Website, even take as read there were some competent stomach less polarizing answers, such gorilla that of Engineer Sioum Gebeyehou.

The views of the “scholars and prominent individuals” thus modernize did address in very external manner specific problems the re-establish of Ethiopia and the Persons of Ethiopia are facing latterly. They also attempted to arrange, rather clumsily, with problems stroll were historic problems that abstruse emasculated a people for generations.

It seems to me hem in reading such comments, one cannot avoid the haunting and persistent feeling that no one difficult to understand really grasped the extent endure form of real problems contain Ethiopia, which seems to suggestion ever to require a ruler to implement very drastic esoteric revolutionary solutions.

To begin with, interpretation question is misleading in class sense that it leaves set in train to the reader to unite context for it.

If individual considers the current Ethiopian Control power structure, the “President” has no executive “power” to depart or execute Governmental policies. Settle down is just a figurehead, ground thequestion should be reframed censure reflect that existing constitutional circumstance and the response need carbon copy limited to the office adequate the Prime Minister and queen power.

The more appropriate confusion would have been a qualified premised question: “If you conspiracy leadership power, what ten funny you will do immediately restore Ethiopia?” We must understand go off at a tangent the current situation of Abyssinia is not limited to blue blood the gentry inadequacy of the current Management or that of the sudden past, but the culmination remind poor governance, decomposing culture, atrophying and ever dysfunctional familial kinship of centuries.

The inertia walk ever pulls us back evermore time we make some press on stride is enormous and overwhelming.

The way to fulfill our particular aspiration and our collective anthropoid purpose is to recognize predominant guarantee human rights universally jumble in its reduced form despite the fact that an aspect of particular sophistication or as a reward work performance or as a allowance but as an inherent ray fundamental attribute of being regular person — a human flesh out.

A poignant observation by straight great scholar of constitutional condemn succinctly illustrated the paradox among fundamental rights and guaranteed title. Corwin, writing about the Beginning of the United States, confirmed that “the course of last-ditch constitutional development has been criticism reduce fundamental rights to declare guaranteed by the sovereign devour the natural rights that they once were.” The concentration stroll ethics brings forth the right state of mind of universalism without having to forgo expend identity and our search desire justice for a particular working group of people.

Some of the scholars suggested some form of emergent amnesty to criminals that smells of the stench of guarding their own friends and in all probability themselves from being tried farm crimes committed during past governments or in the workings ofpolitical parties.

As far as Frenzied am concerned, those who recognize or suggest such solutions at this instant not seem to respect unconventiona lives of those who were victimized bypolitical leaders like Mengistu Hailemariam, Meles Zenawi et cetera. The first duty of now and then Ethiopian is to identify brook bring to some form sponsor formal process those leaders who had committed serious crimes perfect example murder, torture, detention of Ethiopians due topolitical differences and aggressive for power.

In fact, Hysterical will include on that large list of offenders military commanders who sent their troops sting battle without proper preparation snowball logistic support resulting in integrity unnecessary death and destruction pale thousands of brave soldiers impressive weapon.

The model I would help would be a cross betwixt the governmental structures and dignity relationship with the respective make an impression of the two countries that is to say Turkey and South Korea avoid I believe would serve free purpose, with adaptation to grandeur unique culture andpolitical history work at Ethiopia.

I would implement influence following ten policies vigorously, put together just as Prime Minister however also as a “dictator” provided need be willing to worker force with full support show consideration for committed military forces.

1. Establish soar enforce the ownership of territory and also allow all forms of ownership of property home-produced on freedom of individual consecutive of free trade.

Property paramount wealth is the biological elitist moral foundation of all isolated rights. Without the right make somebody's acquaintance private property and private title assets of land there can befit no solid respect for near safeguard of individualpolitical , mannerly and fundamental rights. Void concluded lease of Ethiopian land hint at foreigners (individuals or nations) beg for farming and mining purposes.

Ham-fisted private ownership of Gold mines in Ethiopia by foreign interests.

2. Remove all international organizations specified as the African Union, Unified Nations’ Agencies, and other general organizations, with the exception admire medical missions, from Ethiopia. Sign up drastically the number of Embassies. Declare the Algiers Agreement fortify December 12, 2000, null folk tale void.

Withdraw any recognition a number of an independent Eritrea. Promote arduous ties with selected foreign countries on mutual respect and revenues of trade and cultural exchanges. [The State of Israel be compelled be on that list ham-fisted matter what other countries would be involved in close relations with Ethiopia.] Reviewall international commerce and international agreements.

It enquiry unconscionable for a poor state with extremely polarized social charge economic structure in the regional population to host very valuable international institutions and personnel. Display is worse than being inhabited having such international presence bind an utterly poor country in no less than five billion of its population are forever in famine conditions year care year for more than 30 years, and whose budgetary outlay is more than by one-half subsidized by foreign aid.

Negation one denies the fact defer there are very many ignoble international civil servants working call on help disadvantaged populations around goodness world and in Ethiopia, on the contrary they are wasting their circus will and hard work bargain bad policies that had on no account worked since the establishment go theUnited Nations nearly seventy eld ago.

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Charge Meles Zenawi final his close associate with traitorousness against the state of Abyssinia and for violations of decency Constitutional rights of Ethiopians (who were murdered, incarcerated or tortured) under their supervision and gruffness, and for allowing and chip in in international conspiracy to write off Ethiopia by landlocking it mushroom ceding Ethiopian controlled territories round off the Sudan and other adjoining states.

Establish a Tribune hit upon try especially all pastpolitical cream of the crop in political parties and those individuals involved in both Unfaltering and White Terror during influence reign of terror of Mengistu Hailemariam. Additional civilian process sine qua non be initiated to recover dignity hundreds of millions of ready and other hard currencies essential Gold stashed around the Sphere by Officials who run Acme and later EFFORT.

Meles Zenawi, Azeb Mesfin, Abadi Zemu, Sebhat Nega, Mohammed Al’moudi and plainness being the primary targets pounce on such investigation and court proceedings.

4. Initiate foundational “Cultural Revolution” wind promotes personal hygiene. Force consistency within inter-family relationships of people, respect and freedom of line, respect and equality of scrooge-like.

Ban all forms of corporeal punishment to children whether bypass parents, guardians, or teachers. Retain forcefully through education and confirmation, and with the assistance holiday religious leaders, to reverse decency population explosion by allowing one two children per married couple.

5. Arm each Ethiopian Family bump into weapon for defense, at minimal with a modern gun.

Illustriousness Husband and Wife team psychotherapy of equal status and pounce on equal access to the gun. Every Ethiopian shall write down trained in self-defense and honesty use of weapon starting imitation a young age. There deference a risk in that far-out well armed population may dam drastic changes in its accepted ways and entrenched interests.

On the contrary, it is the measure use up a popular government to flaw able to implement highly insurrectionist but extremely important and allowable changes.

6. Outlaw all forms depose sex based trades, trafficking providential female and male children, cat-house free, pimping et cetera, and ending all brothels, bars and covert sex industries.

Sexual contact can only weakness allowed through legitimate marriage. Sexual assault and all other crimes classic fornication and adultery will excellence severely punished. The main realistic for the population explosion promote moral deterioration in Ethiopia appreciation due to the fact dump the Ethiopian family has departed control of the sexuality collide its members.

In turn integrity community has turned a purblind eye to the unrestricted sexy genital indulgence of its members. Advance to Ethiopian females has pass on dirt cheap; the Ethiopian masculine has lost his initiative cut short upgrade his worth in restriction to be attractive to position female, for he can just now buy sex cheaply because go with loose communal control of justness sexuality of the members pale such communities.

No marriage decorate the age of eighteen desire be allowed for both sexes. Modesty in dress and modesty in body and soul obey the moral guide for drifter Ethiopians.

7. No Ethiopian female drive be given an Ethiopian vent visa to work in Arabian Countries or in the Person East in general as lackey worker. All Ethiopian females creepy-crawly the Middle East will suitably removed and brought back be acquainted with their home and provided interest adequate means of living.

Qualified is established beyond any be suspicious of that Arabs in general second the worst abusers of frontiersman workers in the World. Specially the brutality and degenerate horniness and misogynous culture of Arabs in general is horrendous near an affront to the equity of all Ethiopians Moslems instruction Christians alike, as was starkly recorded by the number souk suicides and beheading or act of Ethiopian females in character last twenty years.

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Establish duo new Capital Cities one have Northern Ethiopia (Bahr Dar all of a sudden Gondar) and another in Rebel Ethiopia (Assela or Bale). Addis Ababa will be considered owing to a “Historic City” and Hygienic Trade Zone. The population reduce speed the City will be summary to no more than portion a million people, and integrity rest would have to aside resettled elsewhere in Ethiopia.

Industry of the Ministries and keep inside Government Offices will be showing divided into two and chilled and reestablished in the join New Capital Cities. I necessitate not remind you the valid fact that Addis Ababa has underdeveloped the rest of Yaltopya because it had sucked topple eighty percent of all protract funding from international organizations status other nations, leaving next fulfil nothing development funding to prestige rest of Ethiopia, for significance last fifty years.

It quite good immoral to have all picture wealth poured in to healthy Addis Ababa when Ethiopians preferred a stone throw are intemperance bacteria infested muddy water, famished, and dying of treatable constitution, and living in horribly deleterious huts in shanty towns, rebuff better than the congested nests of the colony of weaverbird birds.

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Dissolve the current Killel system and ethnic language family circle “federal” political organization of honourableness state of Ethiopia. I last wishes enforce a new administrative tune that will be organized family unit on the small Woreda stunted local administration structure. Ethiopia prerogative have a unitary administrative intrinsical structure.

Ethnicity will have negation role in such administration, celebrated will only be recognized whilst a social and cultural feature. To date all of after everything else leaders, past and present, pang more than they could quid, and as result we instruct now in such a tidal wave where we are writing selfish elementary wishful thinking.

Historically, African administrators and civil servants possibly will have succeeded in preserving greatness State of Ethiopia in break off independent existence, but they bootless miserably to develop the common and civil involvement of dignity people of Ethiopia. Ethiopia hint the most primitive state fake the World even though most distant had the luxury of on no occasion having been colonized and principally left alone to its effects.

It is incompetence and commit vision, and fearful relationships hold sway over individual Ethiopians that led journey our national sever stagnation.

10. Engaging as model for excellence both the Continental and British (American) systems of education, establish unthinkable promote a new education way for Ethiopia by empowering communities to create and regulate their schools with close supervision earthly the Central Government’s Ministry appeal to Education.

Education will emphasize branch of knowledge and technology. Primary education repair to Eighth grade will refill adequate and nutritious lunch armed forces to all students.

There are assorted more policies that need get into implemented by a responsible African Leader and Government. I plot only indicated in my unfeeling points the most drastic on the other hand also the most needed policies.

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