Opinion:  Why kicking Guinea out of AU, ECOWAS makes absolutely no sense

• Conde wanted to become Xi Jinping of Guinea. He didn’t respect the constitution.  Col. Doumbouya didn’t, either.

• A message for Col. Doumbouya:  Please do not cave in to the pressure by AU, ECOWAS.  You are doing all of us a seismic favor.  

• It is about time AU, ECOWAS start to pay attention to the pain and suffering of African men, women, children and the unborn.  Enough of this Bull S…

• The third President of the United States Thomas Jefferson said, “An insult unpunished is the parent of many others.”  Apply that here, and it fittingly becomes:  ‘An assault on the constitution of Guinea unpunished is the parent of many others.’ 

Onumba.com — Tossing out a country from the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is typically expected after a coup.

So, when Guinea was suspended in response to the recent military putsch by Col. Mamady Doumbouya which ousted the government of Alpha Conde, it came as no surprise.

But what’s flabbergasting was the irony of it all.  Kicking Guinea out of AU and ECOWAS is much easier to stomach, but to muster up the gall to call for “an immediate return to constitutional order” is super unhinged.  It makes no sense.  It is either ECOWAS forgot or could care less that it was the same damn constitution that Conde arrogantly trashed looking to prolong his stay in power.

Apparently, Conde was swooning to become Xi Jinping of Guinea, failing to respect and honor the constitution.  Well, Col. Doumbouya didn’t, either.  So there you have it.

It is easy to kick Guinea out ——– some guffawed and applauded the decision.  Sadly, in Africa, most of us are innately primed to roll with the flow, but realistically, suspending Guinea is a staggering copout.  Of course, no one condones coups in Africa, I certainly don’t, but at the same time, always rushing to lash out at coups while foolishly and cowardly ignoring the deepening plight and deafening ululation of the people, overlooking the smorgasbord of constitutional atrocities, out of control corruption, knaveries of all kinds and other load of codswallop stoking coups in African countries is profoundly disingenuous.

Col. Doumbouya couldn’t have said it any better when he told a cabal of West African leaders who visited Conakry to pressure him to hold elections in six months and release Conde:  “It was important for ECOWAS to listen to the legitimate aspirations of the people of Guinea.”

The junta leader was right.  As a general practice concerning response to coups in West Africa, AU and ECOWAS do not consider the pain and suffering of the African people.  Their rote posture is always one of cowardice detachment from the apocalyptic despair of our people.  That has to stop.  In short, my beef is primarily the failure of ECOWAS and AU “to listen to the legitimate aspirations” of the African people.  There is always the mindless and maddening proclivity to offer support to these bumbling duffers and evil charlatans shepherding floundering and feckless governments …………. deliverance absolute pittance to the people.

Why exactly should Conde be restored to power?  Why?  I see no reason to bring him back as president.  None.  Heck — it is not as though he was accomplishing diddly-squat.

Col. Dombouya:  Please do not cave in to intense pressure by AU and ECOWAS to restore Conde to office.  Put him back in charge, for what?

It brings me to one simple, relevant question.

Guinea was booted out.  Cool.  That is a given after coups.  Col. Doumbouya himself probably expected that.  But the questing is, why wasn’t the country suspended by AU and ECOWAS after ‘Emperor’ Conde altered the constitution for the self-seeking agenda of entrenching himself in power?

Yeah —— to hell with the deafening choir of Guineans crying foul.  To hell with the downpour of criticism.  And to hell with everyone.

Well —— to hell with Conde.  He absolutely deserves the pickle he is in.

Perhaps, going forward, leaders who meddle with the constitution to keep themselves in office ought be tossed from AU and other applicable regional bodies.  Put these clowns on notice ——– If you illegally tinker with the constitution to elongate your time in office, you risk being thrown out and punitively ostracized.

It is way past time to put a kibosh to this flagrant BS now playing out in a number of African countries.

We have seen burgeoning maturity of African countries concerning the bygone proclivity for military coups.  Undoubtedly, vast progress has been achieved, and seemingly Africans appear resolved never to glide back to the depressing era of military hegemony.  Military coups are extremely rare, actually almost nonexistent now in Africa.  We have come a long way.  And that’s profoundly remarkable.

But on the other side of the coin is something appalling.  And that is the emerging trend of a growing number of African countries swapping military dictatorship with democratic totalitarianism.  Africans must fiercely reject both forms of despotism.  And hopefully, AU, ECOWAS and similar groups would lend a much needed helping hand in that effort.

Tyranny nicely veiled and dangled as democracy amounts to perpetuating epic fraud and skulduggery on African people.  It is that simple.

As African people increasingly favor democratic system of government over military regimes, it appears glib and power glutinous African political leaders are swooping in to become the gleeful beneficiaries of these laudable efforts.  While Africans see the deepening embrace of democracy through the lens of effective governance for their own social and economic improvement, these leaders on the other hand see the trend through the prism of its value as a subterfuge with mischievous aims.  These slick leaders operate under the protective veil of a coup-less continent, believing they now have free rein to behave as they please.  Phrased differently, with coups vanishing into anachronism, they now feel emboldened to behave recklessly, to cling on to power beyond their lawful duration, super confident the military, which is supposedly politically mature as well, would stay taciturn in the barracks where they belong.

Unfortunately, AU, ECOWAS and other regional groups are often passionate and willing enablers fostering this burgeoning scheme.  They offer themselves as perfect agents assisting these foolish leaders to achieve their selfish aims.  They have erected a perfect refuge for rogue African leaders, clowns, who ignore the wishes and laws of their nations in pursuit of selfish political agenda.

African countries with feeble political institutions, fragile judicial bodies and wobbly guardrails to ensure effective checks and balances are not able to tame brutal, buffoonish democratic dictators such as ‘Emperor’ Conde.

So while we all should reject coups, equally worthy of discard are these pathetic African leaders who, for some bizarre reason, believe they have been ordained in heaven to behave as they please.

For now, military coup is one way to accomplish that.  Hey, suggest a better option if you have one.