MOHAMMED MORSI: DEAD AT 67. ADIEU.

ICHEOKU says the Muslim Brotherhood member and former President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi is dead. He fainted inside a courtroom where he was standing trial for espionage and murder among other myriad of charges; and could not be revived and was later pronounced dead. The former Egyptian president was 67 years old. 

A hater of Israel and fundamentalist Islamist to the core, the engineer turned politician and later president of Egypt was unapologetic about his disdain for the Jewish State of Israel and at some point called it very unsavory names including blood suckers, warmongers and descendants of apes and pigs. He insisted that the Jews have no right on Palestine land and that what happened in 1947 and still continuing till today amounts to plundering and that the land belongs to the Palestines and not the Jews. The Sultanate President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in his eulogy referred to Morsi as his brother, praying that he is a martyr whose soul should rest in peace.

Mohammed Morsi was the first and only freely, democratically elected president of Egypt in more than 7,000 years of Egyptian governance by pharaohs and of course the military. But his extremism wouldn't let him govern a multi religious, pluralistic, Egyptian society, leading to more protests before the military pushed him aside and took back power. He was arrested and detained and subsequently charged for many crimes, the prosecution of which he was in the court, before he swooned and never recovered and died, despite best  effort at resuscitating him. His failed government was described by one commentator as the failure of democracy in a society that is not set up for democracy. 

ICHEOKU completely agrees that Africa is not set up for democracy and at best, is not yet ripe for democracy because of dearth of institutions which nurtures and sustains democracy; as well as the mindset of the people who are largely tribal, illiterate and overzealously religious. ICHEOKU says may Mohammed Morsi now rest and possibly get hold of his seventy virgins as soon as he makes it to their paradise.