Shabait.com (Asmara)
20 December 2008
Asmara — Breaking free of poverty and backwardness are the highest national priority towards the achievement of which the people and Government of Eritrea have engaged all their resources and energy. And the only way this objective can be achieved is through hard work.
Thus, the present stage of development requires that we allocate all national resources into the development campaign. In addition to channeling national resources towards the nation-building endeavors, the commitment and organization of all citizens to multiply the effect of the resources is also an imperative requirement. The Eritrean people had been able to implement various large-scale development endeavors in a very short period of time owing mainly to the efficiency of their organization. And the highest praise and credit for the progress scored so far goes to the highly disciplined and organized members of the Defense Forces, who are the leaders both to the nation-building and safeguarding the nation.
Beginning from the armed struggle period in the fields and later through the national service program after independence, the fact that Eritrea has been able to cultivate and produce a committed, skilled and goal-oriented army of development and defense is a significant advantage. Because in a world overrun by manipulators and exploiters, the only way a nation can overcome international conspiracies is to stand on your own feet and participate in the global economy as an equal partner. Thus the basic secret behind the economic success of peoples and nations is organization and work ethic that can multiply resources.
Since the Eritrean people already have the advantage of organized efficiency, one can say they possess the basic ingredient for development. Our past experience has more than clearly proven the significance of efficient organization for the success of any objective. Looking back to the near past, one can see that our success in safeguarding our sovereignty as well as our nation-building endeavors has mainly been due to the afore-mention advantage. Thanks to our unfaltering commitment to achieving food security, we have been able to lay the basic groundwork for effectively exploiting our agricultural potential and the time is not far when the traditional farming methods will be replace with modern techniques. The construction of schools, health centers, roads and the provision of water and power supply as well as communication facilities in different parts of the country have created conducive grounds for development. Consequently, the growing interest for investment in the agriculture, mining and tourism sectors is now evolving into practical implementation and production.
All the progress being scored in the different sectors of the economy is mainly a direct result of the tireless efforts of the members of the Defense Forces, who having safeguarded the nation's sovereignty with their blood and toil now continue to uphold the pledge to the martyrs in the nation building process. Extraordinary achievements of the Eritrean army of development!
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