Horus wrote: ↑30 Mar 2018, 00:25
My topic is to big for a one paragraph comment. But my intent is to trigger curiosity, not to provide full analysis. Key issues:
What is change? Change is doing something differently. Ethiopia needs urgent political change. Do we agree? OK, what is political change in Ethiopia?
Political change is doing Ethiopian politics differently in 2018, that is, doing Ethiopian politics differently from the past 28 years.
Abiye Ahmed is a student of the Servant Leadership model (Modeled after the life of Jesus) and Traditional Social Capital resources such as Geda, Shengo, Iqub, Irk etc. Are these soft skill sufficient for the requirements of political leadership in the current national multi-dimensional crises?
The answer is No.
Dr. Abiye is a person. He is one individual. Will the mere election of a person make a difference? The answer is Yes. Change is both perceptual and actual. When something moves, everything connected to it moves. In this sense, we must expect a lot of things shifting and moving like a domino set. That is all.
But political order is an object, it is an event, it is a process & it is a state of affairs. The election of Abiye is only a signle event.
Are the various political objectives changing? Are the various politcal processes (institutions) changing? Are the various poliitcal states of affairs changing? These are the million $$$ questions. Leave alone Abiye as a person, leave alone OPDO as ethnic organization, not even EPRDF cannot answer these questions.
In my view, training in servant leadership and social capital utilization are not sufficent skills to make up for the massive demands of complex political leadership to manage the current national crises and guide a serious democratic politcla change in Ethiopia.
So, we must ask these:
1. Does Abiye have a well defined national vision?
2. Does OPDO share and support such a national vision and agenda?
3. Is OPDO ready to unify and lead national political change?
4. In short are Abiye and OPDO prepared to become somethnig different from what they were and what they currently are?
WE WILL FIND OUT ON MONDAY WHEN HE DELIVERS HIS PM ACCEPTANCE SPEECH.
THERE IS NO POLITICS WITHOUT POWER. THE SOURCE OF POWER IS THE PEOPLE. THE ARMY AND SECURITY ARE ONLY TOOLS USED TO APPLY THIS POWER OF THE PEOPLE.
IS ABIYE BRAVE ENOUGH TO ACCEPT THIS REALITY, THAT POWER COMES FROM THE PEOPLE AND BELONGS TO THEM. DOES HE KNOW THAT HIS ROLE IS THEN TO LEAD THIS FORCE EVEN AT THE COST OF HIS LIFE AND COMFORT?
IF NOT AS THE SAYING HAS IT THE MORE THNIGS CHANGE.....
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