A call to ECOWAS to make some loud noise about poor, poor, filthy, absolute filthy baaaad governance in the region

A call to ECOWAS to make some loud noise about poor, poor, filthy, absolute filthy bad governance in the region.

My God! Corrupt and incompetent African politicians have succeeded in making military coup d'etats ever so acceptable to citizens, again. What a shame...mansa musa writes ✍

Now, those short video clips circulating on media networks across the globe, which shows large sums of monies packed in suitcases, found in a private room, which allegedly belonged to a former chief of staff in Gabon. We now have to understand why the people in that country have come out massively to jubilate and celebrate with the junta members.

The large-scale outpour of emotions on the streets of the Gabonese capital, Libreville, is simply a release of pent-up pressure, of anger, and of frustrations of long-suffering and oppressed people. The citizens, the civilians in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and now Gabon are not naive to think that soldiers will be any good in governance. We know that the solja buga buga governance is not the answer, but that's not the concern of many in West Africa anymore, given the mostly abysmal performances of civilian rulers. When it is an open secret, when it is clear to see that most of the leaderships on the African continent have become puppets of Western powers, African rulers who are readily available to serve only their personal interests and the interests of foreign actors.

Our leaders and governments are serving as a conduit via which the neocons in the west, from the west, who have for centuries used and humiliated us for their own survival. We, our people, struggled and perished, this, to augment and guarantee the oppressors' good living. The overwhelming majority of our people don't see much advantage in this cherished democracy. Corrupt politicians are using this democracy to steal too much from the people, and that's the bottom line.

We know that from Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, La Cote d'Ivoire Ghana French Togoland, French Dahomey( Benin) Nigeria and elsewhere, moneys have been stolen in billions by civilians in power. The sad and worst part is that the stolen wealth is sent back to Western banks for safekeeping, leaving the locals with nothing. As a result, ordinary people are being subjected to a perpetual life of misery. So, to we ordinary citizens, it does not matter anymore, which one is inferior, be it military or civilian governance. It's sad. it's wrong, but this is our reality.

Fact is, over three decades of civilian pluralistic democracy has not brought any joy to hundreds of millions of Africans. This has to change. Otherwise, the occasional clean-up exercise, an interruption in civilian democratic governance, must be seen as a welcome and necessary requirement. Until our African rulers begins to live by and govern with two virtuous commands, honesty and Integrity, military takeovers or civil popular uprisings will come as natural cohabitants to the adopted Western class democracy.

Now we have Mr Ali Bongo sitting in his bunker asking boys boys and girls girls, in clear english ,to make some noise. Well, in his earlier life, we are told he was rapper. Now, he has become a DJ as well. Now he wants us to make some noise. Interesting

Not long ago, a mere mention or a suggestive discussion about coup d'etat would attract revulsion, disgust, and absolute disapproving reactions from bystanders. Today, due to gross incompetence, wanton mismanagement in public institutions, total misrule, and not by military coup rulers but by elected civilians. Added to this is the plundering and pilfering of national coffers. All these have now made coup d'etats more appealing and welcoming to many. My God! Civilian politicians in Africa have succeeded in making coup d'etats look good again. What a shame.

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