Maummar Gaddafi's Contribution To Libya

Maummar Gaddafi became the leader of Libya in 1970 after he planned a coup which succeeded him to overthrow King Idris, the former ruler of Libya, and his government thus leaving Gaddafi in power. Gaddafi rejected modern democracy and favoured more a ‘direct democracy’ he went about leading Libya as a dictatorship where he had absolute power and control over the country and its people. Advice from other people concerning Libya would not have taken any preference to Gaddafi as he was known to be the ‘top guy” therefore he knew as well as the public that he was the only one who had the ability to call the shots. Gaddafi aided to Libya in many ways, which hugely impacted Libya, such as trying to reconstruct and transform Libya as a whole and to

Gaddafi contributed a lot into to the development of Libya and played a pivotal role in being politically involved but his impulsive, reckless and inhuman behaviour supports the idea that Gaddafi was to an extent indeed the villain people perceived him to be.
Gaddafi was and is still being judged to be a “tyrant” as well a negative iconic leader. This judgement arose from his acts of greediness, violence and selfishness. The word tyrant is used to describe an unfit leader, this term is usually used from the public whom is suffering under the leadership or other people who have been exposed to these tyrannical ways i.e. the outside world through means of media. This suggests that when the term was directed toward Gaddafi it came from the voice of the public. This implies that the public had negative views of Gaddafi as a leader and they did not favour the

Libya under Gaddafi’s rule achieved great things, “Gaddafi had turned Libya into Africa’s wealthiest nation. Libya had the highest GDP per capita and the life expectancy on the continent”. Gaddafi offered countless propositions which helped the country’s reputation as Libya was noticed to be revolutionized enough to compete with other countries which also helped better the lives of the people, “Under Gaddafi’s rule, Libyans enjoyed not only free health-care and free education, but also free electricity and interest-free loans”. Gaddafi’s interest and attempt in introducing new policies benefited in the public’s interest which worked in Gaddafi’s favour as the public started to support his ideas. Gaddafi showed interest in outside world activities concerning political issues, this created a sincere image of Gaddafi as he had the ability to focus on issues outside of Libya, it also exposes his support toward freedom as well as freedom fighters (G), “Muammar Gaddafi also went onto establish ‘Libyan Revolutionary Committees’ to raise political awareness amongst the people and supported a variety of freedom struggles around the world...”. In the same year that the British government branded Nelson Mandela a terrorist, Col. Gaddafi declared him to be, (G) “the only legitimate leader in South