By Kamil OpeyemiFormer Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode, has said more military actions should be expected in Africa as long as bad leadership persists.
Fani-Kayode, who was responding to the coup on Garbon in the early hours of Wednesday, said he predicted in his last post that the end had not been seen to coups.
He said though many of the former French-held colonies now are tired of the holds of
France on their countries, the former Minister said poor governance is a contributor to the rising cases of military takeovers.
“With events in Gabon today it is fair to say that the hegemony of the French in Africa is almost over.
“They have been challenged, humiliated, ridiculed, diminished, demystified and rubbished by most of their erstwhile African colonies and the hatred, contempt, opprobium and disdain that they attract from the overwhelming majority of Africans is mind-boggling and unprecedented,” Fani-Kayode stated
He said unless the French submit to the will of the African people and bow down to the local population and “beat a hasty and dignified retreat back to France with at least a measure of their dignity still intact” they will be thrown out by the force of arms just as they were in Viet Nam and Algeria.
He said, “The cry on the African continent today is liberty and freedom from the tyrannical bondage and venemous yoke of the French and deliverance from their perverted, pervasive and corrosive ways and systemic oppression.
“Simply put, Francophone Africans are no longer interested in being slaves or in being ruled by a series of vicious, corrupt, perfidious and barbaric puppet leaders, pseudo monarchs and life-time dictators who have sold their bodies, spirits and souls to the devil and their French masters.”
Asking of the Economic Community of West Africa would also threaten Garbon, Fani-Kayode said he said he is not surprised at the Garbonnese development.
“This time it is in the nation of Gabon where President Ali Bongo (pictured below), who together with his late father Alhaj Bongo, had been in power for the last 53 years has been toppled and removed from office.
“It appears that the warning I gave in my last essay, titled ‘Does Killing Nigerien Babies Bring Glory To Our Name?’, was prophetic.
“I am not suprised that this has happened and frankly we should expect more coups in the Francophone countries of West and Central Africa for the reasons I stated in that essay.
“I wonder whether ECOWAS or the African Union will threaten to invade Gabon as well?”