“Take the time to reflect, wonder about the why of things, base your action on a rigorous analysis”
Nothing is more cardinal for the community than the quality of its leadership. From her alone everything fellows. Virtue, like vice, descends from the top of the pyramid to its foundations. The ruling elite, whether intellectual or religious, defines common values and erects their scale. She is exemplary and competent in all matters; they designate the goals and traces the paths. Please, ALLAH, the Almighty that the ruling elite is not mistaken because, it rarely pays for its own mistakes.
A legend from West Africa says that once an evil genius wanted to overwhelm a people of a thousand woes, so that they would suffer greatly in their soul and in their pulpit, and that they would circle in a perfect circle .
For this, he did not need epidemics, earthquakes, or even wars of all kinds. The evil spirit summoned the spirit of the King of this people in a magic gourd and stupid it.
“I prefer my son and daughter to my brother and my sister, my brother and my sister to my cousin and my cousin, my cousin and my cousin to my neighbour and my neighbour …”
In the speech of the gregarious instincts which is going on at this moment, it is a question of speeches acting in the direction of the activation of the gregarious instinct of the communities, of insane and insane sermons aiming to revive, wherever possible, the ethnocentric and regionalist feelings of the populations. The aim being that false debate is established, one that has no content, in which intelligence no longer serving anything gives way to what each people have in itself animality. This type of discourse acts against healthy national sentiment, arousing and fuelling frustrations which may be real or fictitious. The manoeuvre being to pit the constituents of the same national contingency against each other.
Yes, whether recent or old, homogeneous or diverse in its tribal or ethnic configuration, the nation is a useful contingency, in the sense that it allows the formation of human groups that must make a common contribution to universal civilization and creation. To our emerging nations, already undersized, the women and men of ethnocentrism and regionalism pose great risks of disintegration and even disappearance. This type of discourse is, of course, the fact of incompetent, unintelligent individuals, and frankly incapable of making a place for themselves on the fertile ground and exalting fights of ideas. They are reduced to haggling for this, all shame, a stock of natural supporters, whose work they work tirelessly to define the contours and individuality.
As it can be seen, these politicians fly particularly low and put everyone at risk of sudden pitfalls. These public idiots have their equivalents, level of consciousness for level of consciousness, in the developed states of the world, where, failing to oppose ethnic and regional groups that have been harmonized for too long, they work to inflate and animate the ghost of an invasive alien. . It is the fact of the ultra-nationalists and other fascists.
May the Spirit of the people preserve us from old and young daemons!
Tribalism and regionalism feelings stirred here and there are without real content. In truth, they are a political non-place. On the other hand, the territorial divisions to which we make serious reference, in terms of North, South, East, West are so recent, so little significant, and most certainly so arbitrary that it is to rise to the highest peak of the stupidity that will linger there for a moment. As for tribal inclinations, they rub shoulders too closely with the herd instinct of animals: we don’t want to say anything more. Trialist, ethnocentric and regionalist discourse is the most dangerous of all, because the smallest embers can set fire to all the forests of the world. Let us not wait for the radios and other websites of the Thousand Hills to set up before we get indignant, because each madman is named by the number of hills he has; and even a hill is pretty scary.
However, it must be recognized that enormous disparities exist, persist and are often maintained between our regions, our towns and villages; between our localities and hamlets, between our families too; and above all, within the different entities that make up the immediately encompassing entity. Likewise, filthy practices of injustice, of discrimination of all kinds are perpetuated day and night before our eyes, to say the least annoyed, without today neither the force of words nor that of arms can do anything about it.
However, we must work hard to remedy these evils, which constitute so many time bombs, so many mines hidden on thousands of tracks. Internal wars have never been able to fulfill a construction mission.
On the contrary, they make everything fly in an infernal crash and infect the future with feelings of hatred and destruction. They give us trouble in inexhaustible stocks. National building requires intelligence and the generous service of the men and women of the country. The success of the work will flow from our competence and our love of the fatherland; but never of our shared collective savagery.
So all, wherever and whatever hours of the night or day we are, we must discern, denounce and fight with all our strength, the slightest circumstances, situations, attitudes and languages that help consolidate tribal and regionalist feeling, for these expressions have the merit of exposing the stupidity of their authors to the light of day, they put everyone at risk of destruction.
A sharing society based on functional complementarity and contractual relationships between actors.
The project of society of the Republic of Djibouti must carry several senses through the conquest of dignity, the restoration of ethics and the spirit of responsibility in order to prepare the bases of the Djiboutian society of tomorrow. A society governed by such noble and innovative principles as: economic efficiency in the service of social cohesion and confidence in the service of stability.
These values only take their full meaning through the organized and active participation of all.
Thus, participation is, today, a lever for a strong and lasting growth of, an instrument of social emancipation and a means of consolidation of the daily democratic practice.
The global configuration of the Republic of Djibouti of tomorrow is based on the redefinition of the roles of the actors in this process: the State, the local communities, the Enterprise and the Civil Society.
Such a redefinition presupposes a prior change in behavior and a precise identification of the intervention framework while respecting ethics, transparency, trust and efficiency.
The involvement of stakeholders in a change in Djiboutian society requires respect for the law and adherence to the principles of functional complementarity and contractualization.
These principles presuppose first of all, the establishment of an institutional framework defining the respective prerogatives of the actors and the spaces of their complementarity.
They then demand a new approach to relations between the players, based on a contractual agreement which defines their respective rights and obligations, thus elevating them to the rank of partners.
Lastly, they imply a convergence of the actions of economic and social partners towards objectives of collective interest generating solidarity development.
The redeployment of the State, decentralization and a new status for Enterprise in society, give Civil Society a central place in the new dynamic of change.
Thus mastering change is inseparable from the emancipation of Civil Society. The organization of this one through an effective associative movement constitutes, in fact, the complement to the actions of the State, the local Collectivities and the Company.
The construction of the Republic of Djibouti in the 21st century depends, finally, on the participation and mobilization of young people and women around these principles.
The enhancement of the strengths of young people and women represents the pledge of the success of change while respecting better mediation between national authenticity and modernity; mediation in which the family and the school are the main levers.
The active participation and real involvement of women at all levels of economic, social, political and cultural life are an essential key to this success.
Accountability, membership, mobilization, and participation are the terms of a new social contract essential to consolidate the foundations of the project of Djiboutian society of the 21st century
When we demand the deep cleansing of public and private mores as part of the process of building and spreading our countries, it is not so much by moral and civic devotion as by a basic necessity on which the very physical preservation of our nations. The moral and civic references, whose strength compels the average individual to contribute to the strengthening of the social body, could vanish, and leave room only for savagery and arbitrariness, and we would not be further from our apocalypse
Everywhere, the foundations for a useful accumulation of community work must be based on relentless rigour in the management of resources. Thus, that a muddy soil cannot receive without a preliminary sanitation work the best conceived technical and architectural work, in the same way the best development program cannot be established and be maintained in a context of moral decline and general civic. However, this is what the state of play reveals today.
We are cruelly suspended, weightless. We have taken down our original star, without having really hung up on another. We are not the result of an enriching cultural mix, as has been said to date. On the contrary, we are an unstable, atypical and fairly stupid mixture. We are off center. The cultural substratum is the support of the moral norm which drives each society. It is also our sense of beauty and our benchmark of good. Having lost these treasures of the peoples poses great risks to our communities when it comes to their very survival. But contrary to what a certain modern thought suggests, we were at the start a perfectly structured society, endowed with a moral as well as a clear philosophy, as much as those of other peoples.
The situation calls for a rescue enterprise, a series of in-depth remediation measures concomitantly with nation-building actions. But, they are only a prerequisite. The order of actions is very important; it follows from the very nature of things, and no force can derogate from it. It would be better to give up life even if one did not consent to act according to the order of things. The soil must be cleaned up before erecting a viable building; a good potion against parasites must be administered before providing the patient with a good diet; Finally, you have to chase the chimpanzees from the attic, before shouting to the children of the country: to the harvest and that its swarm!
This is why a total war against corruption and related crimes is a necessary condition for the development program that we are advocating. It then appears perfectly ingenuous to cherish the slightest dream, the slightest hope of life and radiation for the nation, if we are not ready to pay the price of sanitation, perhaps even amputation. Since the moral cleansing and the civic strengthening of the citizens is the first pledge of harmonious development and social peace, we intend to throw all the strength of the Organization into it.
We have sometimes heard confused speeches which tend to maintain that a positive effect could, in certain cases, be attached to a context of generalized corruption and fraudulent enrichment of a few, to the detriment of the greatest number. They tend to argue that a country could find its balance in the mire of corruption and build an economic and social system not only informal but underground, made of infected galleries through which transits most of the country’s resources.
Let’s look at these situations of illusions and time bombs. We will see that they invariably induce extremist and brutal political movements, made up of various forms of guerrillas, terrorist attacks, beheadings, industries of harmful products, beaten crime records and so many other plagues still. In this way, multiple tributaries of violence are formed which magnify the more fundamental one of a dictatorial state. People would lose their deep nature if they came to terms with social injustice, hunger and defilement of their leaders.
We have no choice. We now have to tackle our duckweeds of gladiatorial and stinking fluff, which we let rise to the rank of unequalled filth. We must now open our mass graves of hidden crimes, the swaddling clothes of the newborn and the shroud of the dead that the cold grips, the rags of the poor who cooks in the sun, we have stolen them all, we rascals, we who steal by incurable manias. The nausea will reach its climax. The viscera we go up to the throat, and our mouths will take care of abundant drooling. How dishonest we had been, how dirty we had been.
The cases of extreme decline, experienced by certain states supposedly modern but which in fact languish in the primitive ages of morality and good citizenship, have all proved to be unsustainable. And enormous efforts have had to be made in recent years to dissolve the incestuous marriages between state power and the underworld.
What can we ever get, within a Nation, from politicians who are gang leaders who target an entire people in the long term; ministers gnawing and pillaging; incompetent senior officials; so-called sworn agents who soil the national uniform every day; mechanics who swap the spare parts of the machines entrusted to their care; teachers who charge for the grant of a diploma in money and nature; lawyers who divert orphans’ compensation for their own benefit; surgeons who, in horror, steal the prostheses of the patients they operate on; so many other behaviors that are unthinkable, including us, if not of the common character?
All the discourses on the development of countries, whether those of a thousand theorists with no grip on reality, or our own, sitting on the economic awakening of rural and peri-urban communities as the starting point for comprehensive development , will neither be able to produce development, nor even host it, if nothing is done to counter the looting of national resources as a rule.
Producing development would consist in establishing its bases in our own contexts, in our resources, in our efforts and our creativity; to engage in practical and broad reflections on the stagnation of life on this side of the world; and finally to take courageous actions in the clear direction of these same concerns. Not by attributing to all the problems which overwhelm us, including those which are wrought by our own hands, an equal urgency, by erecting a rigorous table of priority of them, to which we conform, as if it were orders emanating from the ‘Spirit of the People. This is our least duty, and the shadow of shame is on all of us who offer less than a total and sincere commitment in this regard.
Hosting development would be tantamount to failing to produce it, to be at least able to coordinate and manage the resources made available to our country by international charity. Our outstretched hand and tear drop policy is likely to succeed. And every day, the foreigner will bring us the development in prefabricated parts.
It happened to establish and maintain a healthy management within the begging state so that the little food generously deposited at our doors, by the various foreigners passing through or in camp in our countries, follows the classic paths. from the bottomless pit of vain social benefits and senseless investments. Because, in reality, no charity action, even less those resulting from conventions and other treaties of a fraudulent nature characterized, in a free State, the conditions of internal dynamism, necessary for creativity and authentic development
EX_DJIBOUTI SEMPER ALIQUID NOVI 