Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on Libyans on Saturday to endorse his proposal to dismantle the government and give the oil wealth directly to the country's 5 million people. His plan to hand oil revenues directly to Libyans had run up against opposition from senior officials, who stand to lose their jobs in a government purge. Gaddafi wants to rid the state of what he says is entrenched and widespread corruption. "Do not be afraid to take directly the oil money and the responsibility to create the right government structures that further the interests of the people," Gaddafi told representatives of Libya's Basic People Congresses and coordinators of social popular leaderships. Gaddafi said he has been working on these two issues for 40 years since the September 1 1969 Revolution, adding that the administration and the economic have failed and that enough is enough. Gaddafi estimated the oil revenues to be handed out to Libyans at $32 billion per year. He said the Libyans should take oil revenues directly and decide what to do with them, he said, calling for a comprehensive reform of governmental bureaucracy. He also affirmed that the entire cabinet had to be dismantled to get rid of corruption and mismanagement. He then added that popular committees should hand out to people schools, factories, farms, all governmental projects and oil funds before they are dismantled.
