Fear, Life, and Death in Power
According to Mr. Brice Nitcheu, the Executive Secretary of CODE, an organisation in the Diaspora regrouping, amongst others, former members of the parlerment (pro-multipartyism organisation at the University of Yaoundé in the early nineties), President Biya intends to change the constitution and die in power because he is afraid of answering to his political and economic crimes. Because of President Biya's fear, only the office of the presidency can offer him the type of active protections required against his allege crimes, Mr. Nitcheu implies.
Kenya is in a meltdown because Mr. Mwai Kibaki, voted by popular will in 2002 after decades of Daniel arap Moi's rule, to tackle the institutional corruption under the previous regime, refuses to leave power after apparently losing that same popular will that brought him to power
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Imagine that one spends all season working hard on the farm: tilling the soil, planting, weeding, praying for rain and sunshine in appropriate quantities, cultivating the crops and then finally harvesting them.
One week to market day, the well-tended tuberous cassava roots, for example, are harvested, peeled and prepared; they are well ground; the best garri in the world is crafted; the garri looks nice and smells even better--the yellowish one fried with palm oil, and the white one too; the type of garri that will go down even without sugar well , well .
On market day, the journey is made to the market; the garri is sold for say 10,000CFA francs. Now one begins to consider what can be done with that money: buy bread and eggs for breakfast, pay for school uniforms and fees, purchase medicines etc. One can even imagine relaxing with some nice palm wine at night. Honest work, honest money earned.
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