According to poll respondents, they want to know more about what the impacts of the AEC on their lives will be. They also want the government to provide them with better language and technological skills so they can make use of new opportunities. In short, people know what they want. Yet, the country's political instabillity over the past decade and the governments' preoccupation with day-to-day politics have failed to prepare the populace for what is to come.