Thanks for your email, Opanin. Yes, how very typical - and isn't it a hoot? It rings so true too, doesn’t it? It really is just the sort of thing a 419 fraudster operating out of some dingy little internet café somewhere in Lagos would dream up: and shame the rest of the mostly honest and hardworking compatriots of his/her's, who unfortunately, invariably get lumped together with online crooks like that!
Incidentally, I have actually been mulling over an article I intend to write, entitled: "Letter to Michelle Obama" - and in which I will ask her to make sure that her husband keeps Africa and her leaders at arms length: if they do not want to be embarrassed by our political and business elites.
In that email, I will point it out to her that the best thing (and the only thing!) that they can do for Africa, is simply to let the CIA fish out the details of the secret bank accounts of the opaque offshore companies through which Africa's ruling elites launder their stolen billions: and publish same to disclose what they actually hold to the whole wide world, on the internet!
Wouldn't that change the face of African politics, overnight - and for the better, permanently? Africa does not need more financial aid - the ordinary people of Africa only need help to enable them close the overseas bank accounts of their rulers: and the return of the stolen monies they contain to the nations of the continent. Period.
Can you imagine the zillions Paul Kagame and his crowd in power in Kigali, have probably made, thus far, from the misery being inflicted on the citizens of Eastern DR Congo, on Rwanda's behalf, by the self-styled and narcissistic "General" Nkunda, coming to light in such a manner? Wouldn’t that help loosen their iron-grip on their country - the only apartheid state left in Africa, today: and an injustice a world enfeebled by political correctness, has closed its eyes to?
Just look at how over the years (ever since Paul Kagame made a beeline for the mines of DR Eastern DR Congo, instead of pursuing the remnants of the Hutu-dominated Rwandan army that his Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) forces had routed, in 1996), they have callously used the insecurity they have created through Nkunda’s rebellion, as a smokes-screen: to enable them loot the mineral wealth of Eastern DR Congo with total impunity.
They have not stopped once to think about the plight of the millions of helpless innocents whose lives their unfathomable greed has destroyed. Kagame and Nkunda have acted without a care about the untold misery and abominable acts of cruelty that the ordinary citizens of the Kivus have to endure, on a daily basis.
O, Africa, what a curse the greedy and callous ones, amongst our leaders, are!
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