EDA should know that all the great jobs done by the party will remain written in our golden history only when they will hear the mass and be ready for change.

FORGING AFRICA’S CHAINS
by FRANCIS E. MAHAFFY
(an Orthodox Presbyterian missionary in Eritrea)

wedhanka

My take home from your article is the following: “Despite the realisation of the fact that no single opposition organisation by itself could bring about any change, was the reason d’être for the EDA that has now been upgraded to ENCDC, but still a collective institutionalised work culture under the umbrella of a national alliance is absent. Practically, each organisation works separately for its own narrow organisational interests, continuously squabbling about petty differences and bitterly engaged in an untimely power struggle”.

EDA is resisting to be “upgraded to ENCDC” as in your own word or to be “transform to ENCDC” as in my own word (see my recent article). What can be done ustaz to change them? The public is really frustrated.

As your pen name indicates you come for “zeray.” But in case, just to show you that it is not only me who is lamenting. Here is from a wise, educated, experience veteran and I quote “Despite the realisation of the fact that no single opposition organisation by itself could bring about any change, was the reason d’être for the ‘EDA that has now been upgraded to ENCDC’, but still a collective institutionalised work culture under the umbrella of a national alliance is absent. Practically, each organisation works separately for its own narrow organisational interests, continuously squabbling about petty differences and bitterly engaged in an untimely power struggle.d veteran as quoted “[Ustaz Mahmoud in his recent article]

From Staz Mahmoud’s comprehension, when he said “EDA is upgraded to ENCDC” he means thst EDA is transformed to ENCDC. He is not seeing the parallel existence of EDA and ENCDC.

A lesson still unlearned.

You are saying too many things and it is hard to grasp the substance. If you expect politics to equate to physics you are not real. Politics is a social science and as imperfect individuals are so is the system they create. May I add any system is a process, even constitutional implementation is a process full of debates and activism which can take many years to evolve. You have to understand, when opposition rises up they may not be perfect and certainly they don’t have an answer to all the questions. They know however, the current system is a failure, because of what was given to us in the last twenty years, and they are crying out for somebody to come for a rescue. If you are writing this from an outside fence, I urge you to join this process and help construct democratic Eritrea. Otherwise, stop throwing stones at those who are trying.

wedhank

I still stick with my gun, not for the sake of sticking. EDA is the source for all the problems we are facing. It is not a new scenario. EDA has never changed their front gear for decades. For the last six months EDA were doing their own business meeting after meeting, and you know why they were doing it. Just to hold hostage to ENCDC. For me it is a good experience to evaluate them retrospectively for what they were doing the last 2 decades. We have lived for so long to push them and ask them to be transformed from the unworkable EDA umbrella.

Dear Mahmoud, I don’t think you know what attempt we are doing, at least to make them move. There is no frantic demonizing campaign my friend, while yourself agreed that EDA has the responsibility in the current stalemate. You know the ENCDC offices of the executive are occupied by EDA members……and nothing tangible things are done so far.

Don’t blame to the council members. The congress has given them the three document to be guided with, and the rest is the work of the executives. The base of the ENCDC institution is precisely reflected in the document. I don’t know why you brought this argument The council has no authority to delineate the power of EDA and ENCDC. When ENA transformed to EDA, ENA didn’t ask to retain ENA status within EDA. The same is my argument if EDA is leading ENCDC there is no need EDA to exist within ENCDC. If this is not resolved, I will assure Mahmoud that ENCDC will not be a functioning umbrella for there is always a conflict of interest Between EDA members and the rest ENCDC members. Count my word as we go foreword. EDA’s primary interest is EDA and not the nation and it’s people as I see it now.