Sunday, April 7, 2013

Meles Zenawi isn't a saint

I don't expect Meles to be saint. I know he is a human being when he makes errors in his undertakings.

We remember Meles for many outstanding operations and apparent results. He lived his time loving Ethiopia in action and turning its bad images with good ones.

You will never have saint leaders with no visible mistakes. You only have leaders with outstanding achievements or with outstanding failures.

Meles is known for his trademark accomplishments. That is why most of us believe he is a noble politician.

Anyone who loves his or her country does as much as he does even if it takes making the same mistakes he does. I am sure such performances will have profound effect on Ethiopia.

No best criticism propels Ethiopian economy by double digit for a decade, no best insult and cynicism take Ethiopian social services like health and education through such impressive progress and no heap of blame builds infrastructure in such a massive scale.

Ethiopia seeks our hands to get dirty with national deeds that matter most. Ethiopia seeks our minds to imagine solutions for our formidable problems. Ethiopia seeks our errs to listen to outstanding ideas that can resolve the development doldrums we face.

This country can't afford a piece of a page for nasty comments and hatred messages; this country can't afford a citizen to engage in smear campaign. This country can't afford to invest brains that imagine how best they can insult their brother on the other side of the isle.

Love your country with your fruitful contributions that can be solutions to any minute problem. Problem solved is promised delivered for a real patriot who loves his/her country.

The very cheap talk that says "There is this and that problem" is a very poor contribution from any one of us, particularly "we the so called educated". The Educated does relevant solutions for real problems amongst the public.

By complaining "these guys are not solving the problems" we are not solving the problems either. Just conquer the problem and get it solved.

I do admire Meles for resolving some of the problems with due diligence. Emulating him for that is the best thing anyone can do be it his opponent or his supporter. No one appreciating Meles for being complete and perfect but many are complementing him for his unmatched patriotic performance.

Yet I believe Ethiopia can have another best leader like him or even better than him. To deny him his deserving admiration shows the wickedness of the person who denies his achievements because he will always be remembered for his best contributions be it with our consent or otherwise.

Nations have never denied their heroes off their deserved status.

Time for action not just for naive criticisms.

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