A sad parade of Bemedalled Clowns

Aug 22, 2023

Sorry to revisit this. But it is simply impossible not to be angry when one looks at the pictures of these bemedalled CLOWNS.

These are ECOWAS Defence Chiefs who cannot think about how to meet and plan how to get rid of all the civil and uncivil wars plaguing the sub-region.

Yet, they hastily organized meets where the only agenda was how to return a French puppet who sold his nation’s patrimony for a paltry 5%.

The anger is compounded when one looks at how the rest of the world is currently trying hard to regain its sovereignty and build a more equitable World Order.

These clowns failed to see anything ironic in heading organizations that have not managed to set up indigenous arms industries in the six decades since independence.

We must wonder what goes on in the minds and heads of these military honchos in West Africa as they watch Russia (population 149 million) bravely and single-handedly defeated the combined armies of NATO in the crazy proxy watch that the West launched in Ukraine.

What do they say when they meet with their counterparts in, for example, Iran and see the competence and the professionalism of the Iranian Armed Forces, plus arrays of advanced weapons they engineered to guarantee their country's safety and sovereign independence, or do these people imagine that the West would not have attacked Iran if they think that they can win?

Do they teach Geopolitics in African Military Academies?

It is beyond belief that this sad parade of military leaders has not thought it fit to plan how Africa, the only continent to have survived the twin carnage of slavery and colonialism, will never again, experience such calamities.

To those who find my tone harsh on those who misgovern(ed) Africa, I reply that, after six decades of indulging these reprobate misrulers, I am tired of watching a sad parade of misrulers misgoverning the continent of Africa. I think that it is time every African makes it clear that she has had enough of the shameless corrupt misrulers. Those who feel comfortable with the current situation, or believe that the political elite, which appears to be irredeemably corrupt, deserves our praises and reverence should consider themselves as part of the problem.

Let me end with these important quotations: “O! Had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” - Frederick Douglass

August 20, 2023

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