… And God came to Tahir Square 18 days after to wine and dine with the people who felt enough was enough. It happened in my own time. Yes it happened in my own time that the tyrant called Saddam was brought down. Ben Ali took to his heels. It happened in my own time that certain snuffs were used to clear the nostrils out there in Tunisia. The wind of revolution has started blowing and the Egyptian Pharaoh in person of Hosni Mubarak fell. In my time, it did happen that all sit-tight presidents will fall yaakaataa. Algeria is waiting. The wind is even blowing across the Arabian Peninsula. Yemenis are protesting. Jordanians are complaining too. The Arab world is turned upside down. Things are falling apart.
As drama as it seemed, I will tell my posterity of how it happened. For 18 solid days, the sons and daughters of the Nile refused to go home. In fact they turned the square into their place of solace. They made sure that it was worth fighting or should I say revolting for. Just as the tune wanted to be sweet by Hosni telling the world of how he will step aside, the old man change plans o. he said he will sit in power until September; low and behold, the people abused him so madly by showing him their sandals’ back – this I hear is the highest insult in the land. Haba! Brother Hosni. Well the good news is that the old war horse has been sent packing to his base around the Nile.
To me when this whole drama begun, I felt it wasn’t going to be possible because the case of Cote d’ Ivoire is still lingering. Tunisia came to overshadow issues but here we are. Story don change. I have come to understand that a hungry man is an angry man. North Africans have shown the way. In Tunisia the people defied the police. They defied nature. They defied the law of self preservation. They set themselves ablaze. Algerians did the same. Egyptians followed suit by calling theirs self immolation.
Even America and their Obamaism couldn’t stop God to visit Tahir square. Not even the European Union with their big grammar could stop God to visit Tahir square. Not the African Union could stop God from visiting Tahir square. Not even the Arab league could sniff and stop God from coming to the Tahir square. For a fact, a hungry man is an angry man.
Abdelaziz Bouleflika of Algeria, Jose E. DOS SANTOS of Angola who has been president since 10 Sept; 1979, Benin Republic’s Yayi Boni, Botswana’s Seretse KhamaIian Khama who has been ruling since 1st April 2008, Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaore, Burundi’Spierre Nkurunziza, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, Cape Verde’s Pedro Verona Pires, Central African Republic’s Francois Bozize, Chad’s Lt Gen. Idriss Deby, Comoros’s Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, Congo, Republic’s Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Congo, D.R.’S Joseph Kabila , Cote D'ivoire’s Laurent Gbagbo, Djibouti’s Ismail Omar Guelleh, Equatorial Guinea’s Brig. Gen.(Rtd) Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Eritrea’s Isaias Afworki, Ethiopia’s Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Gabon’s Ali Bongo Ondimba , The Gambia’s Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh, Ghana’s John Evans Atta-Mills, Guinea’s Sékouba Konaté - Acting President From 3 December 2009 – Date, Guinea Bissau’s Malam Bacai Sanha, Kenya’s Mwai Kibaki, Lesotho’s King Letsie Iii, Liberia’ Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, Libya’s Col. Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi, Madagascar’s Andry Rajoelina, Malawi’s Bingu Wa Mutharika, Mali’s Amadou Toumani, Mauritania’s Ba Mamadou Mbare , Mauritius’ Sir Anerood Jugnauth, Morocco’s King Mohamed Vi, Mozambique’s Armando, Namibia’s Hifikepunye Pohamba, Niger’s Salou Djibo, Nigeria’s Dr Goodluck Jonathan President, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Sao Tome & Principe’s Fradique De Menezes, Senegal’s Abdoulaiye Wade, Seychelles’ James Michel, Sierra Leone’s Ernest Bai Koroma, Somalia’s Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe, South Africa’s Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, Sudan’s Field Marshal Umar Hassan Al-Bashir, Swaziland’s King Msati Iii, Tanzania’s Jakaya Kikwete, Togo’s Faure Gnassingbe, Tunisia’s Fouad Mebazaa, Uganda’s Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Zambia’s Rupiah Banda, Zimbabwe’s Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Enough of this pranks. Leave the seat of power and allow the young minds to operate in their own way of bliss.
After God came to that square I have not stop wondering why Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had promised not to run for a second term. However, she recently changed her mind; I want her to know that a hungry man is an angry man. Soon God will visit her in her own square. With her, her case is that of betrayal to the people of Liberia. She does not come from a background of scarcity having had a good international career working with the World Bank. Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, has made plans to retire willingly even if many suggest instability will occur in the nation.
He will run for re-election - after elected for three years; I want him to know that a hungry man is an angry man. He will soon be visited by God in his own square. In 2002, Mwai Kibaki of Kenya had made a similar promise only to renege on it immediately after his election. He will soon be visited in his own square.
If God can come down to visit the hungry and angry men of Egypt at Tahir square, then I think Namibia, Cameroun, Gabon, Togo, Angola, Congo Brazzaville, Chad, CAR, Zimbabwe, Niger, Mauritania, Djibouti, Algeria, Burkina Faso and Uganda where term limits have been removed will soon been visited by God in their own squares. Only time go tell. If you have ever heard Mugabe speak, he calls Zimbabwe ‘his own’, arrant nonsense! Imagine Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, in 1986, he promised to be in office for only four years. In 1989, he extended this period for five years in order to finish writing a new constitution. In 1996, he promised he was running for only one term. In 2001, he promised he would retire after his second term. In 2005, Museveni amended the constitution and removed term limits. God must visit him at his own square.
