At long last Blaise Compaore,
the cold-blooded dictator of Burkina Faso, is gone, even though he has been
replaced by someone of the system that France put in place. Even so, the
ultimate objective of Burkinabes should be to dismantle the system and replace
it with a progressive one that nullifies the enslaving Colonial Pact and that
ensures democracy, freedom, liberty, transparency, economic progress,
technological openness and fiscal responsibility for the country.
Compaore came to power
almost three decades ago by killing the popular former president Sankara (he
was very close to him) in a French-sponsored coup against claims that Sankara
was a Marxist.
In most countries in
Francophone Africa, France and some Western governments have their puppets who
have been in power for decades and who during their rules have been
impoverishing their people, selling off their country's resources, saving
the wealth they loot from their home countries
in foreign banks and buying properties and businesses abroad (Paul Biya
of Cameroon—32 years, Eyademas of Togo—4 decades, Bongos of Gabon—5
decades—Sassou Nguesso of Congo Brazzaville—31/2 decades, Derby of Chad—21/2
decades etc.
It does not come as a surprise that the people are fed up with the paralysis
in their home countries that is caused by political leaderships that
don’t have a clue what good governance is all about and have no idea when it
comes to moving their countries forward into the 21st century by using the
power they usurped, power that is supposed to be used to make it impossible for
hard-working citizens to live a decent life. These puppets are in power to
safeguard the benefits France gets from its former colonies as spelt out in the
“Colonial Pact”, which France imposed on its colonies before granting them
independence in the 1960s.
While Burkina Faso would be remembered in African history and
more especially in Francophone African history as the first country
where an Francophone African dictator was forced to step down due to a
popular revolt by the masses he had been oppressing and suppressing with the
help of foreign interest groups, the event today should be looked
upon as the precedence in the struggle to free Africa from tyranny, a
liberating fervor that would see the “Power of the People” confining
other dictatorships like those of Paul Biya of Cameroon, the Eyademas of
Togo, the Bongos of Gabon, the Kabilas of Congo-Kinshasa, Sasse Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville,
Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Isaias Afwerki
of Eritrea, Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan, Idris Derby of Chad, Yahya Jammeh of
Gambia, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and other less vile figures in the African
political scene, confined to the dirt heaps of history. Hopefully, the
less vile African leaders would not transform into the leeches that the
afore-mentioned have become, while tapping on the tacit and open blessings of
foreign entities that besides safeguarding their inhuman interests through
deals with these clueless dictators, might even be gleeful that these monsters
epitomize Africa and Africans.
The day the 32-year rule of
French-imposed Paul Biya of Cameroon is brought to an end and the six-decade
old anachronistic French-imposed dismantled, would be the beginning of true
freedom, prosperity and democracy in Francophone Africa.
Blaise Compaore was
imitating Paul Biya of Cameroon when he tried to get around the two-term limit
on the presidency as spelt out in the constitution he approved hardly a decade
ago. He failed, but Paul Biya of Cameroon did not. The Cameroonian president
changed his constitution once again in 2008, allowing him to get two more
seven-year terms in office through elections that are nothing but masquerades and
a sacrilege to democracy, a farce that he has always pulled off with messages
of congratulation from his foreign backers. Even though Cameroonians protested
and 150 were killed that February 2008, Paul Biya went ahead with his plan and
changed the constitution, and then faked elections again in October 2011, after
which he promised Cameroonians another victory in 2018, when he would be 85
years old. He has continued imposing himself on the people, with the backing of
France, the corporate world and other Western governments. And today, Cameroon,
one of Africa’s most resources-rich (human and material) countries, is almost a
failed state with the worst brain drain rate in Africa and without a sense of
direction.
In a world devoid of
hypocrisy, human leeches like these psychopaths posing as African heads of
state would not be tolerated by powers who brandish human values as the corner
stone of their advanced cultures or civilization. It is about time the
leadership of the cultured world understand that their interests are best
safeguarded in a world and more especially in an Africa where the vast majority
of the people have a stake in the progress of their countries.
October 31, 2014
Janvier Tchouteu-Chando is a pro-Democracy advocate
and the author of author of “FALLEN HEROES: African Leaders Whose Assassinations Disarrayed the Continent and Benefitted Foreign Interests” , “Triple Agent Double Cross”, “The Union Moujik”, “and
Disciples of Fortune”.
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