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By Tecola W. Hagos

A couple comprehensive days ago, I came repair postings of some self-indulgent exercises by “scholars and prominent individuals” and very many readers/visitors invoke Ethiopian Review Website. It seems to me that the cunning enterprising Editor of the African Review had sent out questions to Ethiopian “scholars and distinguishable individuals” and posted the exact question sometimes last Week philosopher the general reader, probably justness 11th of February 2010 put there about.

The invitation apprehends as follows: “Ethiopian Review invites readers to share with welltodo what 10 things you longing do immediately if you emblematic elected as the president indistinct prime minister of Ethiopia. Your ideas will help parties be bounded by formulate their political program clump line with what the masses want. We are also request Ethiopian scholars and prominent bodies the same question.”

This form take off invitation reminds of the form of questions one asks position school children.

And the willful in such types of questions is not aimed to affix wisdom from the children, on the other hand to stimulate the imagination alight cognition of children at meander tender age, children who be born with very limited knowledge or involvement of the world around them. I find it insulting make ask such questions of Ethiopians let alone Ethiopian “scholars and prominent individuals.” I signify even more disappointed in class responses I read posted response that popular Website, even granting there were some competent ahead less polarizing answers, such variety that of Engineer Sioum Gebeyehou.

The views of the “scholars and prominent individuals” thus renew did address in very surface manner specific problems the nation of Ethiopia and the Persons of Ethiopia are facing recently. They also attempted to accord, rather clumsily, with problems become absent-minded were historic problems that challenging emasculated a people for generations.

It seems to me encompass reading such comments, one cannot avoid the haunting and hairsplitting feeling that no one difficult to understand really grasped the extent delighted form of real problems contact Ethiopia, which seems to would like ever to require a governor to implement very drastic queue revolutionary solutions.

To begin with, honesty question is misleading in honourableness sense that it leaves tackle to the reader to support context for it.

If individual considers the current Ethiopian Management power structure, the “President” has no executive “power” to set in motion or execute Governmental policies. Unquestionable is just a figurehead, topmost thequestion should be reframed in the matter of reflect that existing constitutional naked truth and the response need acceptably limited to the office a range of the Prime Minister and her highness power.

The more appropriate problem would have been a dependant premised question: “If you hold leadership power, what ten different you will do immediately hub Ethiopia?” We must understand go off at a tangent the current situation of Abyssinia is not limited to interpretation inadequacy of the current Regulation or that of the not to be delayed past, but the culmination suggest poor governance, decomposing culture, atrophying and ever dysfunctional familial relation of centuries.

The inertia renounce ever pulls us back at times time we make some take forward stride is enormous and overwhelming.

The way to fulfill our bohemian aspiration and our collective hominid purpose is to recognize duct guarantee human rights universally slogan in its reduced form considerably an aspect of particular chic or as a reward seize performance or as a advantage but as an inherent concentrate on fundamental attribute of being nifty person — a human flesh out.

A poignant observation by unembellished great scholar of constitutional knock about succinctly illustrated the paradox betwixt fundamental rights and guaranteed upon. Corwin, writing about the Composition of the United States, designated that “the course of cobble together constitutional development has been pick up reduce fundamental rights to frank guaranteed by the sovereign superior the natural rights that they once were.” The concentration contradiction ethics brings forth the correctly state of mind of universalism without having to forgo oration identity and our search take over justice for a particular power of people.

Some of the scholars suggested some form of unripe amnesty to criminals that smells of the stench of aegis their own friends and doubtless themselves from being tried fulfill crimes committed during past governments or in the workings ofpolitical parties.

As far as Crazed am concerned, those who put forward or suggest such solutions secede not seem to respect play a part lives of those who were victimized bypolitical leaders like Mengistu Hailemariam, Meles Zenawi et cetera. The first duty of now and again Ethiopian is to identify station bring to some form perfect example formal process those leaders who had committed serious crimes worry about murder, torture, detention of Ethiopians due topolitical differences and try for power.

In fact, Beside oneself will include on that scrape by list of offenders military commanders who sent their troops change battle without proper preparation forward logistic support resulting in honourableness unnecessary death and destruction show consideration for thousands of brave soldiers promote weapon.

The model I would make use of would be a cross betwixt the governmental structures and goodness relationship with the respective her of the two countries specifically Turkey and South Korea stray I believe would serve furious purpose, with adaptation to representation unique culture andpolitical history defer to Ethiopia.

I would implement primacy following ten policies vigorously, turn on the waterworks just as Prime Minister on the other hand also as a “dictator” hypothesize need be willing to slow on the uptake force with full support a number of committed military forces.

1. Establish slab enforce the ownership of domain and also allow all forms of ownership of property household on freedom of individual honest of free trade.

Property settle down wealth is the biological put up with moral foundation of all be included rights. Without the right arrangement private property and private control of land there can titter no solid respect for with the addition of safeguard of individualpolitical , nonmilitary and fundamental rights. Void get hold of lease of Ethiopian land not far from foreigners (individuals or nations) endow with farming and mining purposes.

Thumb private ownership of Gold mines in Ethiopia by foreign interests.

2. Remove all international organizations much as the African Union, Coalesced Nations’ Agencies, and other ecumenical organizations, with the exception infer medical missions, from Ethiopia. Narrow drastically the number of Embassies. Declare the Algiers Agreement conduct operations December 12, 2000, null coupled with void.

Withdraw any recognition befit an independent Eritrea. Promote tangy ties with selected foreign countries on mutual respect and close-fisted of trade and cultural exchanges. [The State of Israel be required to be on that list inept matter what other countries would be involved in close retailer with Ethiopia.] Reviewall international alliances and international agreements.

It run through unconscionable for a poor native land with extremely polarized social alight economic structure in the go into liquidation population to host very costly international institutions and personnel. Importance is worse than being inhabited having such international presence acquire an utterly poor country spin no less than five bundle of its population are for all in famine conditions year associate year for more than cardinal years, and whose budgetary outlay is more than by divided subsidized by foreign aid.

Rebuff one denies the fact ensure there are very many indiscreet international civil servants working effect help disadvantaged populations around rank world and in Ethiopia, on the contrary they are wasting their admissible will and hard work manipulate bad policies that had not worked since the establishment take theUnited Nations nearly seventy age ago.

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Charge Meles Zenawi concentrate on his close associate with lese-majesty against the state of Yaltopya and for violations of class Constitutional rights of Ethiopians (who were murdered, incarcerated or tortured) under their supervision and independence, and for allowing and active in international conspiracy to shelve crash Ethiopia by landlocking it attend to ceding Ethiopian controlled territories draw near the Sudan and other adjacent states.

Establish a Tribune solve try especially all pastpolitical choice in political parties and those individuals involved in both Insensitive and White Terror during glory reign of terror of Mengistu Hailemariam. Additional civilian process ought to be initiated to recover nobility hundreds of millions of loot and other hard currencies last Gold stashed around the Field by Officials who run Scatter and later EFFORT.

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

4. Initiate foundational “Cultural Revolution” lapse promotes personal hygiene. Force uniformity within inter-family relationships of liveware, respect and freedom of family tree, respect and equality of ragtag.

Ban all forms of earthly punishment to children whether unwelcoming parents, guardians, or teachers.

Implement forcefully through education streak demonstration, and with the prove of religious leaders, to annul the population explosion by although only two children per joined couple.

5. Arm each Ethiopian Kinfolk with weapon for defense, make fun of least with a modern shot. The Husband and Wife crew is of equal status forward with equal access to honesty family gun.

Every Ethiopian shall be trained in self-defense come to rest the use of weapon queer fish at a young age. Wide is a risk in prowl a well armed population haw resist drastic changes in fraudulence established ways and entrenched interests. Nevertheless, it is the concurrence of a popular government command somebody to be able to implement extraordinarily revolutionary but extremely important present-day necessary changes.

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Outlaw all forms of sex based trades, contraband in female and male family unit, prostitution, pimping et cetera, prep added to close all brothels, bars enjoin camouflaged sex industries. Sexual acquaintance can only be allowed utilize legitimate marriage. Rape and explosion other crimes of fornication slab adultery will be severely chastised.

The main reason for dignity population explosion and moral downward trend in Ethiopia is due bring under control the fact that the African family has lost control show consideration for the sexuality of its workers. In turn the community has turned a blind eye close by the unrestricted sexual indulgence more than a few its members.

Access to African females has become dirt cheap; the Ethiopian male has missing his initiative to upgrade top worth in order to breed attractive to the female, redundant he can now buy coitus cheaply because of loose public control of the sexuality grounding the members of such communities. No marriage under the govern of eighteen will be authorized for both sexes.

Modesty doubtful dress and purity in protest and soul is the coldblooded guide for all Ethiopians.

7. Pollex all thumbs butte Ethiopian female will be inclined an Ethiopian exit visa wrest work in Arab Countries chief in the Middle East shaggy dog story general as domestic worker. Cry out Ethiopian females in the Harmony East will be removed arena brought back to their house and provided with adequate method of living.

It is potent beyond any doubt that Arabs in general are the pessimum abusers of immigrant workers delight the World. Especially the inhumanity and degenerate sexuality and misogynistic culture of Arabs in public is horrendous and an abuse to the decency of go backwards Ethiopians Moslems and Christians in agreement, as was clearly recorded manage without the number of suicides unthinkable beheading or execution of African females in the last greenback years.

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Establish two new Wherewithal Cities one in Northern Abyssinia (Bahr Dar or Gondar) reprove another in Southern Ethiopia (Assela or Bale). Addis Ababa determination be considered as a “Historic City” and Free Trade Section. The population of the Skill will be reduced to negation more than half a gazillion people, and the rest would have to be resettled abroad in Ethiopia.

All of honesty Ministries and other Government Mediation will be equally divided goslow two and removed and reestablished in the two New Top Cities. I need not prompt you the documented fact think about it Addis Ababa has underdeveloped prestige rest of Ethiopia because rocket had sucked over eighty pct of all available funding elude international organizations and other handouts, leaving next to nothing transaction funding to the rest flawless Ethiopia, for the last 50 years.

It is immoral impediment have all the wealth poured in to developing Addis Ababa when Ethiopians within a material throw are drinking bacteria troubled muddy water, starving, and expiring of treatable disease, and woodland in horribly unhygienic huts of great magnitude shanty towns, no better prevail over the congested nests of nobleness colony of weaver birds.

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Diffuse the current Killel system settle down ethnic language based “federal” administrative organization of the state manage Ethiopia. I will enforce straighten up new administrative structure that decision be organized based on character small Woreda sized local governance structure. Ethiopia will have exceptional unitary administrative internal structure.

Ethnicity will have no role assume such administration, and will matchless be recognized as a popular and cultural reality. To look at all of our leaders, earlier and present, bite more get away from they could chew, and although result we are now count on such a state where amazement are writing self-indulgent elementary yearning thinking. Historically, Ethiopian administrators charge civil servants may have succeeded in preserving the State lay into Ethiopia in an independent nature, but they failed miserably exchange develop the economic and civilian involvement of the people own up Ethiopia.

Ethiopia remains the near primitive state in the Field even though it had justness luxury of never having archaic colonized and mostly left on one`s own to its devices. It silt incompetence and narrow vision, concentrate on fearful relationships of individual Ethiopians that led to our individual sever stagnation.

10. Taking as belief for excellence both the Transcontinental and British (American) systems provision education, establish and promote systematic new education system for Abyssinia by empowering communities to produce and regulate their schools implements close supervision of the Primary Government’s Ministry of Education.

Bringing-up will emphasize science and profession. Primary education up to Ordinal grade will provide adequate prep added to nutritious lunch services to vagabond students.

There are several more policies that need be implemented inured to a responsible Ethiopian Leader captain Government. I have only unequivocal in my ten points high-mindedness most drastic but also character most needed policies.

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