Ivoriens appealed but he was already deaf. ECOWAS followed suit but he threatened to convert millions of West African people residing in Ivory Coast into human shield should they follow through with their threat to use legitimate force to remove him. African Union sent a high powered delegation to urge him to cede power but he bluffed them, making a reference of other sit-tight African leaders and asking why his case should be any different. Paris called but he would not take their call and so was Washington DC. Then it was European Union's turn as well as the United Nations to plead with him to just go; but unfortunately they were talking to an already dumb and deaf power drunken African idiot, who has become another statistics of those who the gods want to kill that he first make mad. So it became a waiting game between the rest of the world who long since recognized his rival Alassan Qattara as the duly elected president of Ivory Coast and the lone ranger Gbagbo.
After about four months of Gbagbo's illegal hold-over of the presidency of Ivory Coast, forces loyal to the official president Qattara supported by both United Nations troops stationed in Ivory Coast and the French made a putsch against the "strongman". Less than a week into the struggle, the former strongman of Ivory Coast scurried into hiding in a bunker at the presidential palace from which he was captured today. Like all common criminal, the former president looked dazed and confused as he was dragged out of his bunker and paraded before the world to see what has become of another African wanna-be sit-tight despot. His floppy bloated overhanging belly was a sorry sight to behold of a once edifying president of ivory Coast who bluffed every world leaders' attempt to make him see the futility of his lone position.
The rest as they say is now history and Icheoku prays for a speedy processing of this human garbage through the Ivorien judicial system or better still the world court at The Hague in a timely dis-positive manner. Icheoku says Laurent Gbagbo and his band of criminals including their wives should be brought to justice and immediately now that their "illegitimate claim to power has finally been brought to an end" according to President Obama. What an end to a chapter that should never have happened according to United Nations' Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. And in the words of Hillary Clinton, Gbagbo's arrest sends a strong signal to dictators in Africa and other regions of the world that they may no longer disregard the voice of their own people expressed in a free and fair elections.
Icheoku says what a good precedent that has been set by the removal of Laurent Gbagbo; except that it was after Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe's hold over as well as Kenya's Mwai Kibaki refusal to cede power. But better still late than never as henceforth any African leader thinking about the idea of a possible hold-over presidency should just forget about it as the world would always point at the example of Laurent Gbagbo. Icheoku also learnt that Gbagbo was slapped by one of the arresting soldier and we are happy to say that the slap is from all of us too! Another bad ambassador of African leadership put out of circulation for good. The curse of Africa - a leadership that is both shameless and despicable!
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