President Omar Bongo of Gabon, Africa's longest-serving despotic-dictator since 1967, has at last, eventually died! He was just 73 years? What an end to an era, which everybody cannot wait to see come to pass? He was a mean midget dictator and absolutely corrupt.
Icheoku does not mourn his death but let it be a sign to other African henchmen, that there is always an end to everything under the sun. With Omar Bongo now gone, Africa should continue to pray hard that the good Lord will take care of other remaining madmen of Africa, who are holding a death-grip on power and for too long now! The list include Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, Lybia's Moummar Ghaddafi, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo and Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea; as well as other emerging petty-dictators and anti-democratic elements in Africa especially Mwai Kibaki of Kenya?
Fearing arrest for corruption in France, Omar Bongo has sought treatment in Spain, where he was receiving treatment at a clinic in Barcelona before he died. Omar Bongo had cancer and probably died of it? It will be recalled that his wife Edith Lucie Bongo, had passed on in March 2009.
His son, the current defence minister of Gabon, Ali-Ben Bongo, is likely to succeed him as president; except the Gabonese people rise up to the occasion to put an end to the madness and nip in the bud, a disastrous dynasty?
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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