Seb Dehai:
It is appropriate for honest and country loving citizens to
peacefully express their concerns, & ventilate their anger everytime
a government decree or directive fails to add up or make sense.
In a situation like this, both the Govt. & the citizens win.
Unlike in most other cases, this time, it is obvious that
the government at home was not showing its best side when it let a
faulty directive, such as the one inquestion come out of its good offices.
Limiting government help only to citizens who have
updated themselves with their 2% annual obligation, may
be debatable but it is O.K. I once (more than 2 years ago) had a property
related situation & the '2% ' was standing on my way like what people in
'Management' call it the CPA or 'Critical Path Analysis'...I had to do it,
because not doing it was certainly not to my advantage. That is what CPA is
all about...there is no other way arround except that way..the only way.
I joined this discussion mainly because I failed to see the
'linkage' or the rational of puting the 2% as an elligibilty factor.
Elligibility factor for property or service related matters may
be understandable, but to bring it in this historic chapter of
our life and use it to sift the good from the bad and the ugly, still
does not look right to me. Personally, I would have been more pleased
if the communities were left alone to do the sifting on their own, based
on who they believe will represent them best.
However, as one or two of our Dehai members said it yesterday, at least
for now, since it appears like it is the law of the land, we have
no choice but to comply with. Boycotting or refraining from part-
icipation will not help. This is a historic moment..let's grab it. There
will not be other moment like this. There will be amendments to the consti-
tution from here to eternity, but the constitution is only made once.
I for one, no matter how much I disagree with the way the directives
were crafted, in about 10 days from today, God be willing, if the
weather permits I will drive for 2 1/2 hrs to Rochester, N.Y., join my
fellow Eritreans and do whatever is required of me.
T. Kflu
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