THE FRENCH DIRTY SLAP: A FAILURE OF PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY.

ICHEOKU says it was an unpardonable failure of a presidential security that French President Emmanuel Macron was held and slapped by a bystander, without a timely reaction by his security details. What if the guy who held and slapped the president had a knife or any other weapon. Although such was not easily expected, but a presidential security details should anticipate every possibilities whatsoever which could endanger a president and should have guarded against it. Throwing something like an egg from a distance is understandable, but to hold and then slap a president, crosses the boundary of tolerable behavior and it must not be excused.

It was an unfortunate incident which calls for a total overhaul of the French presidential security detail and of course, whoever leads it should resign his appointment or be fired for such an egregious failure. It does not matter what excuse might be given because no excuse is acceptable, heads ought to and should role. The slap was on all the entire French people as well as on every world leader and should not be tolerated nor excused or pardoned. Imagine slapping someone like Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari and what it would have meant for the person who slapped him. It might have resulted in the wiping out the guy, his family as well as his extended family, admitted the Nigerian president deserves more just a resounding slap. Some other country like North Korea would have fed the guy alive to a bunch of famished wild dogs for dinner. It is sad.