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[RCM.13.05.2008]
In the name of Allah!
Welcome to you.
I have previously met with the General People’s Committee
for Higher Education, and you must have heard what I said to
them.
Anyhow, it is the same subject based on the fact that the
people's management which is without another agent is to
take the oil money which is the only source of wealth in
this country because - praise be to Allah - we do not
produce any thing except oil. This oil is owned by all
Libyans and none other than them owns this wealth.
In other countries oil is owned by ruling families... in
Arab countries and in other capitalist countries where oil
is the property of private companies that explore it. Here
in Libya, supposedly oil is the property of Libyans, the
people's management and before it governmental management
before the revolution own oil revenues, accordingly it is
supposedly to provide services and take care of production
for the people with their oil money.
This people's management - or whatever you name it, state or
people's management or in the end even the General People's
Committee and its another affiliated administrative bodies
want to give up this responsibility, perhaps because it
failed or because it has no right to win the country's
wealth and spend in under justification that it serves and
provides services and production to the people.
The state or the people's management or the government in
the traditional system, carries out agriculture, industry,
marine and livestock wealth, education and health... from
poultry breeding to running and constructing airports, all
that is done by the state.
Even food and drinking, it provides food supplies, medicines
and others, it creates an administrative body to carry out
this service and production operation. This administrative
body naturally when everything is taken care of by the state
and owns all the wealth will become very huge.
A small country, like Libya, with one million employees; at
the same time, there are five millions others who receive
their salaries, in a way or another, from oil revenues.
There is cheating to get this wealth by various means and
possibly three quarter of it is illegal.
Everyone is working to get a part of this oil by any means;
"The end justifies means”... the end is to get this money by
any means even illegally... prohibited or not... this is
what going on. We know of all these things.
Therefore, such unique wealth, which is very important and
precious for the people, can never be left in the hands of
this administration; oil wealth must be directly delivered
to the people; it is theirs; this is unquestionable issue.
You gave money to somebody; and you asked him to take your
money and spend some of it on you; later he would come to
you and say no! Take your money; I can't spend on you... go
away! How will you discuss with him? He might say "I will
never spend on you; I don't want to take your money; take
your money and manage yourself. You know how to spend on
yourself; especially, you distrusted me after you had given
me this money and asked me to spend on you. Each time you
say to me: you stole it; you did not spend it in the right
way... you are not capable... you squandered it... take your
money... I have nothing to do with this matter!"
Of course, this was called the source that had been
irrigating all corruption, parasites, and all problems and
spoiled the society.
The country failed... the country did not fulfill that
thing... the people's committees failed... the people's
committees steals... the people's committees makes fun of
us... the people's committee have not implemented our
resolutions .. They sent this person to study abroad at the
expense of the country, because he has connection; this
country is for all of us; give us oil; oil is for all of us.
How come you son is studying abroad and my son is not? This
person has received medical care abroad; why not me? They
gave this person a farm; why not this one? The state gave
this person a house... this person has not been given any
yet. They employed this person, but they have not employed
this. What are the reasons behind all of this? I believe the
reasons are bribery, favoritism and connections... all of
these are corruptions; yes they are.
In their recommendations, the people’s congresses always
condemn the people’s committees. At no session regardless of
its level, had any people’s committee been commended. The
comments are always "negligence", "not doing the job
probably" and so on.
This negation is always the case in all sessions of the
people’s congresses. Given that the authority is in the
hands of the people which irreversible, now that the whole
world is shedding the governmental authority in favour of
the popular and the jamahiri society.
Given that all government systems are distrusted, therefore
the government should be abolished and the whole society
becomes a civilian society and this is what should have been
done... but we are yet to reach such level.. We are not
serious... this has nothing to do with ideology or theory
which the whole world moves toward.
From the time we declared in Libya that all secretariats and
official administration must be cancelled which in Libya is
people's administration... All governments, newspapers,
intellectuals and writers from Egypt to France have said
this is the right thing.
The French president himself said, it is right… how did this
government come about... This an old heritage, why do not we
reconsider it? This administrative apparatus, what can we do
with it? This, we inherited and shoulder, why should we be
quarrelling about it?!
In Kenya about one thousand people died for power to be a
minister for agriculture or for education or for health? All
this should be cancelled, so that people do not fight each
other.
In Egypt - our brothers in Egypt are good at making jokes-
newspapers said it is right, we wish we could do like what
they did in Libya. What is the use of government other than
to receive the president at the airport... the Prime
Minister gets mad when ministers do not receive or see him
off at the airport. You can see jokes about government, it
is rejected.
Power is disliked, despite that when people are given that
power, they do not care about it, like what is happening in
Libya Authority is available for all, while in other
countries people fight in order to reach power. Masses march
and topple the government and another government comes and
does no thing, so they say it is a rotten one, it is our
fault and it must be removed, carry out another revolution
or coup or even assassinations, then form another
government, so the world stays in a vicious circle; struggle
for power is an existing political crisis worldwide.
So long as the authority is in the hands of the people, the
wealth must also be in the hands of the people... we have
tried all these; the popular administration made by the
people was not able to fulfill the demands of the masses.
The people took up the authority and set up popular
committees to implement their decisions and provided them
with oil funds entrusting them to certain tasks, but at the
end of the day they were accused of not doing what they had
been tasked with and blamed for robbing public money like
what happened in Benghazi where a man embezzled 600 millions
just because he runs the Peoples Committee for Finance…
whatever audit bodies you set up it's no point particularly
when you have a public sector with a million employees. The
CEOS of banks had been tried because they granted loans to
their clan relatives... these banks belong to all Libyans...
they failed... let us get rid of them.
There are clan favoritisms in education… some are granted
scholarship to study abroad some could make it... even when
criteria's are made, one who obtained 60% goes abroad while
another with 90% will not. These practices are still there.
In election for the committees some bribe the masses in
order to be elected... election in this manner has no
meaning. There is a need to tackle the hotbed of these
decadence and evils that's to place the wealth in the hands
of the people.
People's administration that represents the state has
specific responsibilities... masses select a people's
committee for foreign affairs and international cooperation
and so forth. All international relations are distributed on
a number of people's committees; it must all be under one
hand... that is foreign relation.
Security, masses are in need of security... yes, we have to
establish a security apparatus, so you feel secure when you
leave your car in the street or you leave your house or shop
opened and no one break them down. If some one attacks you
will find security to arrest and punish the attacker, all
people must feel at ease and secure because there is
security.
Defense is also the state responsibility that involves all
people, but there must be a people's committee to set up
defense plans and people must be trained on how to use
different arms in order to carry out these plans to defend
this or that place or area.
Justice; people must feel that there is justice, that there
are courts and prosecutors to carry out the law which must
be issued by all people and be subjected to it , sacred law
because it is issued by all people.
I believe that the entire world is heading in this
direction... This is the era of masses and the predictions
of the Green Book will inevitably become true, the Green
Book is not for Muammar al-Qathafi... It is the digest of
study, analysis and deductions of the history of the world,
humanity and peoples…
Why wars are waged? Why revolutions erupt? Why some people
are happy and some are not? The need is a reason... the
power... that is weaker? Who is stronger? Who rules and does
not?
Fighting for power has been in existence since societies
were formed. Fighting for power will end when power becomes
in hands of all people. When power becomes in the hands of
all people, there will not be anyone to be deprived from it;
fighting will automatically end; there will not be any
possibility for fighting; who fights who! Who opposes who
when we are all in power?
Therefore, we want to feel this power; we want our
performance to be good; we talk to each other; there is no
one to govern us.
The word "government" is undesirable, the ruler and the
ruled, government and people; these are very old expressions
and are hated; even their mention is disgusting. The people
should assume responsibility and build the society they
want.
As we said, there might be other sides, like public
utilities, which can be left to general administration. For
example, people cannot handle sewage system works, even if
they are given money. They cannot make irrigation system for
Great Jamahiriya similar to the great man-made river; or an
irrigation system for any country; we can't; this can be
done by the country or a sewage system of a city… any city
of Great Jamahiriya. Perhaps people cannot at the moment,
maybe in future. They collect money and establish
joint-stock companies; or they call a foreign company and
collect money to carry out such works; this is possible.
There are utilities like seaports, airports and roads that
can be handled, for the near future, by the administration
or can be left to it and the rest must be abolished, since
we do not need them anymore.
Afterwards, the prices become real, spending become real so
is the economy; that means how individuals and families
spend their income to be real.
For now, we are counting on the state; the state is not God,
who gives abundantly; and whenever we are in need we ask Him
for help, but the state cannot afford more than what is
possible... that means we have nothing, but oil. We you say,
for example, the income is ten billion dinars per year, in
that case the state cannot afford any extra demands, but God
is able to give you ten or twenty billion dinars.
We come to education... as we said about higher education,
the educational costs are very high and the yield is poor...
pupils go through the process from nursery up to university
at the states' expense, then many drop out because of
failure of the system… having enforcing mandatory education,
though some do not have a desire to be educated.
As you know there many genius peoples who had no education…
some make inventions like electricity automobiles phones
etc. The forcible education made the students go in the same
path and some drop out at the earliest possible chance.
When the state is free of responsibility towards education
some could decide not to go to school and excel in different
profession. As I told you I know a colleague who was not
doing well at school he often was subject to making fun of.
He became the best director.
So we should not force students to go school if they choose
another profession. If someone wants to become bee-keepers
let them be so. This can happen when the money of the
education is in the hands of the people.
Once I entered an auditorium at the Faculty of Medicine in
al-Fatah University and sat on a chair beside students; I
saw a teacher from Bangladesh who was teaching in English;
there was a student beside me, who was trying to write and
follow the teacher just like the other students doing; he
wrote a word or two then he stopped; perhaps there were
students who continued. After that, I asked him why he
stopped. He said that he couldn't understand anything.
Should I tell the teacher that I couldn't understand
anything, he asked. Will he repeat for me, given that some
other students understood, he said. In order to continue
studying, he started to have private lessons.
Now, we are referring to the fact that the number of the
private teachers is more than that of those in our
educational institutions. The teacher gives you lessons at
school, university or institute, then he gives you lessons
at home; we bring teachers at home to teach our children in
the evening. They do go to school; after they return back
home, we bring them a teacher for private lessons.
The teacher receives a monthly salary - I don't know how
much it is - then he passes by our houses to teach our
children for money… He collects two or three salaries
instead of one, but we are forced.
Since the matter is like this, why you don't let it to be
the solution. All of you can go home, and take money and let
the teachers come to you at your houses; then we agree that
we can manage ourselves in this street or village.
Then you will be in need to form true people's committees.
The people's committees must be true, but now they are
distrusted, because this person was supported by his tribes;
this person by connection; the Liaison Office at the
Revolutionary Committees behind that person because they
know him.
After all, this will end... When we need a people's
committee, which is not related to the state's official
administration, we have to make it true people's committee
that belongs to us. We need somebody to manage education
affairs in this street... to arrange how to bring teachers
to our children; how our children go to teachers; at that
time we select that person. In this way, true people's
committees are possible.
We take the money to the store, but we discover that the
prices are very high... as they now say, you give us money
they hike up the prices... you are not obliged to buy from
them... Every group of people may set up a cooperative or a
special committee for importing goods from abroad thus a
real popular committee if formed.
We say to the committee go and buy goods that our
neighborhood needs, or you can just do it online... where
you will be able to know the real prices... let the store
keepers close down... thus we will have a real popular
committee.
I think the world will at some points come to this… all
traditional outlets will be brushed aside in the face of the
modern age… and individual consciousness of human activities
and needs require new flexible and popular frames.
Now, we have about one million students at the
basic-education level and 50 thousand classes; that means a
class for each twenty students; this is Ok and comfortable.
We have 85 thousand basic-education teachers, who are
staying at home and receiving salaries as well as twenty
thousand intermediate-education teachers, who are also
receiving salaries; perhaps we don't need them. Together are
more than 100 thousands and they will increase, of course!
The total basic-education teachers is quarter million; when
we divide one million by quarter million, we find out that
there is a teacher for each four students; this doesn't
happen in the world.
This rate cannot be believed, anybody in the world may say;
the rate should be a teacher for thirty students; it is
reasonable rate. In other societies, the rate is 50 or 100
students for each teacher. Four students for each teacher
are not acceptable. If each four students have a teacher,
then they will understand everything; in one year, they can
complete their study in the university or in the secondary
school. The total number of students in the intermediate
schools is about 100 thousands and the number of teachers is
80 thousands. This means 8 teachers for 10 students; how
does the result look like? The students are weak; they don't
understand the Arabic language; they succeed by cheating and
connections; on the other hand we import thousands of
teachers from outside and pay millions for this education
system. No! No! We don't want it! You, the guardians, take
the budget, take your money; you can bring a teacher from
outside or inside; you can provide a teacher for each
student; or you can bring a teacher for each 50 students;
you can do whatever suitable for you... you are absolutely
free.
Old frameworks did not work. It is irrational that there is
one teacher for every four students, and for every ten
students there are eight teachers. The number of schools in
the primary education number 3000, and 800 in the
intermediary. Upper institutes have 3000 students and 300
teachers or one teacher for every 30 students which is in
line with international standards. But we are accustomed to
having one teacher for four students.
The number of universities is 12 with a quarter million
students and 9000 teaching staff or one professor for every
10 university students.
But in real terms, this does not exist we have 1000 students
with one professor, where is fault. It could be the people’s
committee... it changed several times but the problem isn't
the people... it's the system which does not work.
The state is sending thousands to study abroad only a small
number return... maybe each has a reason to stay over, but
should Libyan education pay for teaching these students for
the benefit of Italian, American or Canadian peoples. May
that those who stayed over found things they could not have
here... but those who returned deserve reward.
Therefore, what is the advantage; we are loosing... we sent
our sons to societies that keep them... attractive
societies... or attraction society... we are repulsion
society. We are getting tired and paying millions of the oil
wealth to other societies.
Of course this is the faith of the third world; a person in
Chad studies atom! What kind of atom in Chad? He must stay
in a country where there is atom. Another person from
Djibouti studies space! What kind of space in Djibouti? He
can go to NASA to employ him.
But when you spend on your family and on yourself and
already you have taken your share of oil, you can decide
whether you study inside or abroad... you can take your
family along with you if you like, or you go alone to study
and to return back to them when you finish.
But the question is: Will he return back to his family? Will
he return back to the country? The country! What can I do
with it! I took what I wanted from it! After all, the
country can go on without me. I better stay abroad.
But the matter is completely different when your family
spends on you; you will return to your mother and father who
spend on you. It is supposed that you will hand over four
thousand schools to people... to their teachers; you have
404 thousand teachers; all people have money and can deal
with these teachers and these schools; the state or the
society will give, for free, these buildings and their
equipments as well as these teachers, who have been
qualified at the expense of the society. This is the right
of the people... They studied by the virtue of their oil;
the schools were constructed by their oil and so are the
universities. No one can ask them to pay since they become
private as some people may say.
No! If we wish to hand over this school to people... i.e.
the teachers, who have been teaching in it; then it becomes
private; they have to pay its price to the society, No...
No... The society built this school from oil revenues... it
doesn't matter; you take the laboratories, auditoriums, air
conditioners, furniture and electricity as they are.
I think that the General People's Committee, after studies
carried out by the General Planning Council and the Planning
Councils in the Shabiyates and experts, is working to hand
over these educational institutions in good conditions; if
classes are not enough, we have to tackle this thing; we
have to repair the educational institutions if there is any
to be repaired in order to hand them over to the people in
good conditions.
We, in this group, will teach our children in schools that
belong to us... or this faculty; we will take care of it
because we have money... oil money used to be managed by the
state in exchange for the service; it was not working so it
gave us the money to run these schools properly. These
schools will function right because they will be our
possession, where our children will learn. Right now, they
are state-schools; who is going to care for them; who is
going to maintain them; who is going to fix conditioners,
electricity or toilets. We say we have allocated money for
them; so where is the money; they say they are gone.
When one looks at oil money, one would find it is stolen in
billions because of actions pursued by the official
administration. This people's administration is considered
official; disposition of this money is the mistake; it
should not dispose of this money, because it will spend it
on papers, stationery and cars, which are used for personal
needs.
This fleet of cars devoted for employees is huge... If you
ask one of these employees: Where are you going? He might
reply: I am going to work. For sure, he is not doing so.
Streets are full of state-owned cars. Streets are not
supposed to be crowded during the working hours. Why are
they more crowded in the midday; in the working hours? That
means all employees are in streets. Similarly, all telephone
numbers are busy in the morning. This person is talking the
baker; that, with his family and so on... Work telephones
are used for personal purposes; this shouldn't be allowed.
But, who can prevent this thing? Who can enter into your
office and prevent you from using its telephone, but only
for work needs. The society provided you with this telephone
to carry out your work in the interest of this society; not
to use it for your family and your own good. In other
countries, office telephone is only used for work; but here,
does any body care about this? Who can force you to do so?
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