The irony is that after 4 decades in power Eyadema failed to put in place one
health facility to which he could be taken "in case he got a heart attack",as
indeed happened. For how long are our leadrs going to die, "While being taken
for treatment", "While on treatment..." "while preparations are being made to
take him for treatment...." in some European/American/foreign country?
Supposing those countries also took health care as the joke most African
leaders think it is where then would our life presidents (and their pregnant or
otherwise relatives fly to?)
And yet the Bagwere admonish us against the stick that's far away "Omuiggo
gweyala tigwiita ompiri". Were the French hospitals a stick-too- far for
Eyadema's snake that was the heart ailment? I hope those who have ears are
listening, and those with eyes seeing, for such is the cruel reality in the
game o f life.
On the life president's death, I can only repeat what one wise philosopher has
already said - "the death of every man diminishes me............"
Best regards,
Yoswa
> It should be said that in his 38-year rule,
> Togo has been duly going through the democratic
> process of voting into power the person of their
> choice, and it has always ostensibly been Eyadema.
> There is no other African leader who has perpetuated
> the legacy of overstaying like him. To all intents,
> Eyadema was a life president - he lived, worked, and
> died in office.
>
> Luckily, such negative legacies are becoming
> unfashionable, even in Africa.
>
> While we mourn his passing, we should also
> take virtue in short ruling practices which are
> constitutionally brought about, devoid of military
> pressures that normally compromise the rule of
> constitutionalism.
>
> Governments need to change hands.
>
> Africa also needs strong administrative
> institutions to ensure peaceful and expected change.
> Failure to put in place and respect the said
> institutions always leads to chaos. It is the
> bounden duty of our leaders to desist from
> manipulations and machinations to perpetuate
> themselves in power.
>
> This is counterproductive, as the social,
> political and economic order certainly falls with
> the strongman who elects to single handedly guide
> his country's destiny, when that leader falls. It is
> not a praiseworthy epitaph by a long shot.
>
> Eyadema should be the last ruler from this
> malaise-prone continent to rule this long. It is
> neither healthy nor politically desirable, and the
> time is ripe to change from being rulers to leaders.
>
> There is no doubt that Eyadema had done some
> good for his countrymen and women, but this is going
> to be permanently interred with his body, to leave
> the ugly head of 'dictator' reigning on earth, long
> after he is gone. Not that people are uncharitable,
> but when they get robbed of their human rights and
> then gagged - either with juicy morsels or the most
> common manner of threat to life - they tend to
> remember this more vividly than chance developments.
>
> Like the rest of Africa, Uganda should work
> towards not beating Eyadema's record as overstayers,
> but to become selfless abstainers, for the love of
> law, even when the whole nation loudly professes
> undying reverence for our great leaders, and would
> surely force them to rule until they become like
> Eyadema.
>
>
>
>
> © 2005 The Monitor Publications.
>
>
>
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