Mereja Forum

[DefendTheTruth]

Many of the social, political or economic challenges, which are echoed back and forth in the public discussion of different levels as problems of many different sorts in our country today, are directly related to the level of consciousness of the general public, in which it prevails. Ethiopia is, like many other African countries, predominantly a young nation. According to some estimates around 70 % of the total population is under the age of 30 years or so. This shouldn’t necessarily be a problem as such but added to many other factors that compounded it, it gets to a major challenge not only to the policy makers and others in the management of the country’s affairs but also to the general public itself, in terms of security, rule of law, public safety and other issues of national interest.

- Ethiopian youth have never been given an opportunity to gain a quality education (the level of education quality is in a state of dismal and as such not only under productive, but also counterproductive in the society).

- Added to the dismal state of educational quality the prevalence of modern information technology platform has specially facilitated the ubiquitously dissemination of ignorance. Just like the transfer of knowledge and other forms of communication have been facilitated by the arrival of the modern information distribution infrastructure, so is also the distribution of ignorance facilitated and fostered, only on an even much bigger scale when compared to the level of the dissemination of knowledge itself. Dissemination of ignorance has outpaced the dissemination of knowledge at much higher speed. You only reap what you sowed.

- The predisposition of the current state of affairs in the country. Ethiopia has been exposed to a decades of unabated effort of balkanizing and defragmenting, which has effectively denied the country the possibility to pull its energy together and channel all its resources towards an endeavor that is geared towards a better future for the country and its people as a whole.

If someone would like to tackle the currently prevailing number of social and political problems, then that someone will need to start by analyzing these major causes of the problem first and looking solutions to them first, else may not succeed to resolve the problems at all, I am afraid.

[DefendTheTruth]

In fact the situation Ethiopia is facing today could be summerized with the following short sentence:

"high tech weaponery combined with a backward ideas will make up a fatal consequences as a result".