African Leaders Still Following

WHEN America, the United Kingdom and France support opposition leaders in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, no other world leaders make noise, but now, the United Nations (UN) leader Ban Ki Moon has said that “foreign countries (who) are still backing rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo must face consequences (The Namibian Friday 01 March 2013, p. 28).”

Ban Ki Moon barked at Rwandan President Paul Kagame who attended the summit in Addis Ababa. Instead of giving a concise lecture to Ban Ki Moon about Western and European countries which are destroying African countries for their own interests, African leaders were quiet and still called themselves African leaders who attended as listeners from Africa.
I should be the first to call on all African leaders to call ambassadors of those Western and European countries to order and tell them to behave and/or change their negative attitude towards Africa, or else they should pack and go. We can’t keep ambassadors in Africa while their countries are destroying the continent.
Africa has a problem. There was a time when Africans were stolen from Africa as slaves. Now Africa is stolen from Africans on a development ticket in the presence of ailing, ageing, so-called experienced, hungry, deceptive and pretender African leaders. When a person is stolen from a house, few people take notice of it. However, when a house is stolen from inhabitants, anybody can notice it. It is time to take a stand like President Robert Gabriel Mugabe has tested hardship that Western and European countries have been imposing on him. My leadership principle is: If you can’t lead, please follow!

Djaupyu Siteketa
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