31/08/2023
"Make some nooooissse!"
Nope.
That's not your favourite DJ!
That's Ali Bongo. Gabon's ousted president!
I'll never justify any coup, especially with my having experienced wars myself;
I've seen and been through things many of you haven't and probably never will have to even contemplate - so before you spew any jazz on this road, think twice!
I've been wondering for a while now whether Monsieur Bongo ever heard the manifold cries and lamentations, a.k.a. "noise," of his suffering people.
And now he wants "noise" in his favour? What noise? White noise, maybe! Who knows?
Some African misleaders can no longer sleep a wink, I hear. Day and night, they are in a state of terror - and rightly so! Their evil deeds have finally caught up with them! Their day of reckoning is here!
In Romans 13:3-4 (selected portions) it is written: "Would you like to be unafraid of those in authority? Then do what is good, and they will praise you, because they are God's servants working for your own good. But if you do evil, then be afraid of them, because their power to punish is real."
The passage above, interestingly, is about obeying the "legitimate" authorities set up by God over His people (let me not even get into the "legitimacy" of some of these political leeches - these misleaders on our continent - who have employed every impish trick in the book to cleave to power). The people are to be obedient to these leaders, God's chosen rulers, and they are also encouraged to "pay taxes, because the authorities are working for God when they fulfill their duties" (Romans 13:6).
In the democratic context, you could say the people, the hoi polloi, also qualify as "authorities," as they give "their power" to a select few to manage affairs - on their behalf. Just you cast a gaze across the continent, though. Even a cursory look will tell you these blood-sucking misleaders do not give a rat's arse about their people! They heap high taxes upon their people - yet what do they give them in return? Abject misery and grinding poverty!
These misleaders, if they were of the Divine, would be "working for God" by "fulfilling their duties." But, we all know how the story goes. It's like a script of misleadership that they have all studied to the tee! It's like a broken record - everything's a whirr!
African misleaders ought to have learnt, by now, that they cannot take the people for granted forever. But will they? I seriously doubt it!
You can fool some people all the time; what you cannot do is fool all the people all the time.
Changing Generals and rehsuffling military personnel is not going to change a darn thing! It is not the antidote to this martial headwind sweeping across the continent - just as, admittedly, coups aren't the solution either.
With what most of our misleaders are doing, however, they only give impetus to the putschists lurking in the background.
Like hounds, the men in camouflage have smelled blood - and now, they are baying for it every which way we turn.
The die is cast - and there will be hell to pay!
The dark days of the 60s, 70s and 80s are upon us once more - all because of the wanton, unbridled greed of a few!
I pray these misleaders never forget the words of Hosea 8:7,8,10,12,13:
"They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce nothing to eat. And even if there is any grain, foreigners will eat it. The people of Israel have been swallowed up; they lie among the nations like an old discarded pot. I will now gather them together for judgment. Then they will writhe under the burden of the great king. Even though I gave them all my laws, they act as if those laws don’t apply to them. I will hold my people accountable for their sins, and I will punish them."
Pray, my beloved continent! Pray!
God save our continent! God help our people!
Selah!
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