8. Appeal to the ruling coalition to open the space and invite all the forces that need to be engaged to enter normal political life where the principles of competition and consultation are to be observed as a prelude to bringing all to a system that all will be willing to submit and observe in the end.
9. Appeal to all those who pursue their goals through arms to give a chance to enter into a process for the creation of at least two major citizens- based parties and join the conversation in order to bring out the broad programmes, values and visions that they share in common with others.
10. Appeal to all the supporters to realise the value of supporting the development of at least two main functioning political parties that compete and consult to create a predicable future for all Ethiopians and end the political uncertainties of millennia with a new commitment by investing to get it right un forced by any outside forces entirely through internal debates and conversations.
10. Concluding Remarks
When the power of justice and ethics overcomes the love of power and money, Africa will end its humiliation by not installing governments that are costly and officials that act like stationary bandits no different from roving bandits in search of power and loot and who see ruling as an entitlement to fill their pockets with robbing rather than seeing governing as public service. Government is not business. Governing is not to make profit. People who wish to govern must not run for office to make profit, but to serve the public. If they wish to make money, they should go for business. Society must make governing nothing else than what it should be to serve, people, nation and country. Society must oppose turning governing into a means to accumulate wealth and profit to oneself, ones family, ones friends, ones ethnic group by soliciting backing from external actors rather than build support from the people and citizens.
The time is ripe to enter into a national conversation where the main purpose is to create a sustainable future by creating a political system that is citizen- centred for the citizen by the citizen for the production of freedom for development and conversely development for freedom and wellbeing that is inclusive and centred in improving the livelihood of the people. Let the conversation be conducted in the spirit of coordination to bring about sustained cooperative action to shape a future that works for the people by learning to build social capital.
“Physical capital is wholly tangible… human capital is less tangible, being embodied in the skill, knowledge acquired by an individual, social capital is even less tangible for it is embodied in the relations among people.” (J.Cohen, Foundations of Social Theory, Belknap Press, Cambridge, USA, 1990. p.304)
Mammo Muchie, Chairman NES
Professor, Director of Development
Innovation and International Political Economy Research (DIIPER)
AalborgUniversity
Fibigertraede2, 9220-AalborgEast
Aalborg,Denmark:Tel.no.00-4596359813; fax.no.0045-981532
http://www.ihis.aau.dk/development/http://www.ihis.aau.dk/ccis/