Xi Jinping copying Gheulleh - Changing constitution to extend stay in Power

[Old_Observer]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43188739

 

 

Oodweyne,

Super power China wants continuity so does everyone else. It is easy to change Prime minister when the Bank is private and MPs are half working for other countries. Not Premiere that controls everything from the Bank to the slums.

 

This make Ghuelleh look like a family elder.

 

[Dahireeto]

According to Wiki, a benevolent dictatorship is a form of government in which an authoritarian leader exercises absolute political power over the state but does so for the benefit of the population as a whole. 

 

Few of them come to mind: 

• Mustafa Ataturk - Turkey
• Lee Kuan Yew - Singapore
• Meles Zenawi - Ethiopia
• Paul Kegame - Rwanda
• Ismael Omar Gheele - Djibouti

 

[Dahireeto]

Agreed. But none of them were close to the Siyads and Saddams of the world, massacring their own people and leaving office with country in ruin. In the case of Meles, it is tough to take over a failing African country with 100 million people, full of illiterate tribal groups and turn into an economic powerhouse in the standards of the region, with minimum loss of life.

 

Gheele has transformed Djibouti, a tiny nation, with Khat-addicted population, with no resources, and situated next to a failed, violent state. 

[Old_Observer]

15 minutes ago, Oodweyne said:

 

There is a large claim there, in the sense that some of these guys were in it for the larger interests of their country.

 

In other words, Ataturk, Lee, undoubtedly were in it for their respective country. As for Meles, I am not sure he was that sort of intellectually minded to do it. But he may have seen this political model as a means to hold on to power while doing the bare minimum to bring Ethiopia out of poverty.

 

As for Kegame, the jury is still out on him, in-terms of what is intended goal is in "hitching" his political wagon onto this template of state power.

 

As for Ghuellleh of Djibouti, I am not at all convinced that he does any larger philosophical debate within himself. And therefore, after going through process of thesis, antithesis, or through dialectical synthesis of the "political templates" that is open to Djibouti, he came to conclusion to do this "version of state's governance", which in turn he chosen to be the basis in which he does the ruling of his country.

 

And I think his is an "old fashioned dictatorial power" (pure and simple) without having any larger intellectual pretension on his part to justify his view of the world and the manner he choose to govern his nation. 

Kagame and Meles might have chosen this after 5-7 years in power. Meles wanted to be a professor in a specially made for him univeristy where only candidates for generals and ministers would graduate. He had enough people to run the show and make him Mao. He really wanted to retire.

Kagame: Get this. He agreed with Israel for it to return all Eritreans Tigray to Ruanda with 4,400 cash in hand to each and also work with UN, EU agencies money raining with full support of jewish media and banks...what a business

 

Gheulleh as you said is traditional, but this is where all the most sophisticated and deep pilosophy has to meet the road. He is on the road. He has perfectly balanced the Afar, Somali and Ethiopia. Of course he skeems from everything especially the lady from Somaliland is capable one, smart and polite not acting like these kenyan and ghanian wives rude, crude and ignorant village embeciles.

 

 

[Old_Observer]

12 minutes ago, Dahireeto said:

Agreed. But none of them were close to the Siyads and Saddams of the world, massacring their own people and leaving office with country in ruin. In the case of Meles, it is tough to take over a failing African country with 100 million people, full of illiterate tribal groups and turn into an economic powerhouse in the standards of the region, with minimum loss of life.

 

Gheele has transformed Djibouti, a tiny nation, with Khat-addicted population, with no resources, and situated next to a failed, violent state. 

Absolutely and fair

 

Oodweyne has tinted glasses that give him different colour when seeing Gheuelleh. All fairness goes out the window.