Wednesday 26 June 2013

Re: [wanabidii] The Power Madness




On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Emmanuel Sulle <esulle17@gmail.com> wrote:
This Prof knows what he is talking about...


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Faiza Hassan <antihongo@gmail.com> wrote:

This article by Professor George Ayyitey.

Italic and colored are mine.

 

The Power Madness

The lust for or obsession with POWER has been the bane of Africa's post colonial development. They will use every means – fair or foul – to secure it. And once they grab it, they will never let it go da. They will kill or maim to maintain their grip on power for 10, 20 30 or 40 years. Not even bulldozers can dislodge them from power. This is happening in Kenya tyranny of numbers

And what do they do with that power? To develop their countries? Noooo! Ask them to develop their countries and they will develop their pockets. Ask them to seek foreign investment and they will seek a foreign country to invest their loot. Only 3 things they know how to do very well: Loot the treasury, steal/rig elections to perpetuate themselves in office and squelch all opposition or dissent.  Is this not true to former president Arap Moi?

So lucrative has the presidency become that they have transformed it into their family property. Accordingly, they groom their wives, children, cats, dogs and even goats to succeed them. Power sweet them bad.  Is this not true that Museven is preaparing son to succed him

In many countries, we cannot change our rulers without destroying our countries, We would have been able to save so many African countries from implosions had their leaders been willing to relinquish or share political power: Liberia (1990), Somalia (1991), Rwanda (1994), Zaire (1996), Sierra Leone (1998), Ivory Coast (2011), Egypt (2011), Libya (2011), etc.

Even then, after removing that cockroach from power, the next rat comes to do the same thing: From Samuel Doe to Charles Taylor of Liberia; from Mengistu Haile Mariam to Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia; from Hosni Mubarak to Morsi of Egypt, etc. This is what happened when Moi was removed from power

Until we set up a mechanism for peaceful transfer of power, there will be more instability, implosions and failed states. This mechanism exists in only 13 of the 55 African states and in some, it is being debauched or corrupted.

Here are the candidates for implosion: Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe. What about Kenya?

The wise learn from the mistakes of others while fools repeat them. Idiots, on the other hand, repeat their own stupid mistakes.

 

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