PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SACKED CABINET!

With an over-dyed hair and a French suit masking a wrinkly frail 82 year old skeletal body, the despot of Cairo and the man who sees himself as the modern day Pharaoh of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, addressed his raging country men and women. To placate their anger, the old pharaoh pawned up his cabinet - the sacrificial offal and bargain for their demand that he quit power? But Mubarak refused to throw in the towel and has so far refused to really comply with the Egyptian masses demand that the era of Mubarak's despotism came to an end in Egypt.

Instead of complying with the peoples demand that he relinquish power and leave office for good after 30 long years of no meaningful impact on the society's economic and political well-being, the modern day pharaoh arrogantly proclaimed himself as 'destined to take responsibility for Egypt?' Icheoku queries, which of the gods of Egypt so destined Hosni Mubarak to see himself as indispensable or is it his aging old faculties that is deluding him as to his "irreplaceable" role in Egypt? Icheoku says Egypt can do and even thrive without Hosni Mubarak and hereby call on the living sphinx to stop being delusional about his place in the Egyptian society. Icheoku therefore reiterates that President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is the problem of Egypt which the Egyptians are protesting and wants gone; but not the cabinet which he appointed, dictated to, tele-guided and now forced to sack as a bargain for his own political survival. Hosni Mubaraka should therefore hearken to the outcry of the Egyptians and go NOW! 

Icheoku expects that after 30 years in office that Hosni Mubarak would have exhausted his all and have nothing else to offer which he has not yet offered to the great people of the River Nile; with the only sensible and rational thing left for him to do being to let another Egyptian try. But none of that happened so far, leaving the raging Egyptians with no option but to increase the decibel of their protesting-voices such that the seemingly dumb and deaf Mubarak can really hear them, loud and clear. Their cry is that Hosni Mubarak should just leave and leave NOW; and Mubarak's willful pretension of not having read the hand-writing on the wall is rather very insulting to the psyche of all average Joe-Egyptian. Icheoku once again restates that Hosni Mubarak is the problem that needs a solution which the ongoing revolutionary protest intends to solve. As long as Mubarak remains adamant to the call for him to quit with his expressed intention to cling to power at all cost and in defiance to the will of the Egyptian people, that long will his over-made up face continue to insult the eyes of many Egyptians and their sympathisers all over the world; who are wondering what the old grandpa still desires in office. Hosni Mubarak your time is up, just go and NOW!

However the good news is that at last the fog of fear which has been holding Egyptians down and cowered all these past 30 years of Hosni Mubarak's despotic rule has finally been lifted; as they have come to realize that Mubarak is not the pharaoh he claims to be. Icheoku says fear is man's greatest problem and the biggest obstruction to achieving anything including removing a despot from power. So with this problem now solved in Egypt, their greatest fear-inducer shall soon be gone and Egyptians will be free to articulate their future unhindered and uninhibited. In addition to dissolving his cabinet, Hosni Mubarak promised a hell lot of other reforms just to offer a candy to the cry-baby Egyptians; but Icheoku would be greatly disappointed if the Egyptians prove so gullible as to swallow their embattled president's hollow offer which the last 30 years was not enough for him to bring them to fruition. The bad news is that no one knows whether this time around, the modern pharaoh of Egypt will give meaning to those words he uttered while addressing the Egyptian people, begging for his political life and power. Icheoku says Egypt belongs to Egyptians and not Mubarak and his family, hence the current intifada must continue until they get rid of him and take their country back.

The genie is already out of the bottle, the momentum is on their side and so those brave protesting Egyptians will be so naive to fall for their despotic president's cajoling, believing him that things will be any better this time around than it has been the last 30 years of his absolute maximum supervision and control. So the solution is for them to continue to protest Mubarak until the maximum ruler turns tail and runs into exile in Saudi Arabia and joins his Tunisian co-despot, Ben Ali, who is already cooling off from the hot chase that drove him out of power from Tunis.

It is indeed regrettable the negatively charged DNA that all these African leaders are wired with, that make them to so hate their people that they could care less about their welfare and well-being just like Hosni Mubarak, whose policies have impoverished nearly half of Egypt's 80 million people who today live below poverty line on about $2 a day. These people have had enough and today, Hosni Mubarak's cup runneth over as some middle class disenchanted Egyptians have now united with the have-nots in a rage against a regime that is corrupt, abusive and neglectful of the average Joe-Egyptian and they are so many of them. Icheoku  also debunks Hosni Mubarak's claim that the ongoing Egyptian peoples power protest is "part of a bigger plot to shake the stability and destroy the legitimacy" of the Egyptian political system as fantastical because the protest is entirely home-grown and Egypt has no political system other than the Mubaraks. Further Mubarak's assertion that "we want more democracy, more efforts to combat unemployment and poverty and combat corruption" is hollow, since he had ample time of over 30 years to address these issues but he did not; instead he chose to muscle the people of Egypt down repressing them with a paralysing fear induced by his vicious state security apparatchik.

Icheoku hopes that every Egyptian is today the 36 year old journalist Faiza Hendawi who rightly articulated what the world is thinking, that a revolution is afoot in Egypt. According to this guy, "Mubarak didn't meet any of the demands of the people and they will continue to demonstrate. He thinks by speaking to us he will calm it down. What he doesn't understand is that this is a revolution." Icheoku says, VIVA REVOLUTION OF EGYPTIANS! Reechoing 21 year old Ahmed Sharif, Egyptians re the ones to bring about change in their lives and if they do nothing things will only get worse as the rest of the world will only hope and pray for a successful outcome for the revolution while wishing them the best. Debunking Hosni Mubarak, Icheoku affirms that the revolutionary protest will solve the problems Egyptians face and will also realize the objectives they aspire which is to see Hosni Mubarak gone from power.

Finally Icheoku says however the current impasse ends or is resolved, Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei is not the answer for Egypt going forward as he too is too old and belongs to the same old school as the soon to be gone Pharaoh Mubarak. What a futuristic Egypt needs is a young Turk in the mold of America's President Obama or British Prime Minster Cameron to energetically drive the Egyptian agenda forward. ElBaradei is simply too old and does not possess the necessary panache to replace another aged and soon to be gone Mubarak as the leadership of Egypt is not and should not be gerontological skewed. Admitted no one knows what the revolution might throw up or the nature of the bargain to come as Mubarak's replacement; but hey whoever or whatever comes would have a way of dealing with it. The  world must also insist that Egypt does not go backwards or be turned into an Islamic Republic; and should be prepared to go to war if necessary in order to maintain Egypt's current secular status. Lastly, provided the  successor of Mubarak will not be a stooge in the hands of the Iranians who might be engineering the current putsch as a payback for WikiLeak's leaked Mubarak's push for Iran's snake head to be cut off; anyone but Mubarak is ok by Icheoku going forward. Admitted Icheoku is not buying the conspiracy theory or as suggested by Mubarak himself when he cautioned that the protest is part of a bigger (Iranian) plot? So Pharaoh Hosni Mubarak, set Egyptians free - just go and NOW!