More chilling is the relationship between ousted Gabonese leader, Ali Bongo who could only trust his cousin, Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema to head the presidential
guards’ unit. That trusted cousin is the officer who on August 30, 2023 detained him in a bloodless coup just when he thought he had won another term in office.
“Giving the wave of coups we are seeing now within the francophone countries which I refer to as the francophone spring, one cannot vouch for any country today in Africa that this thing cannot happen”. “We too have presidential guards, who administratively report to Army HQ. The guards brigade commander is answerable to the chief of army staff. Like we have seen in these countries, it is that nucleus element brigade of guards who we expect to show so much loyalty to the number citizen and protect him. Yet, those are the ones who are carrying out these coups.
On a larger scale international organizations have also condemned the anti-democratic interventions in the political system of the affected countries. Pearse said, “On approach of African leaders to the situation, when we had our own coup, did any African leader say they want to interfere? You see there are somethings you don’t have right to. It is only those developed economies, because of their own economic interest, they want to interfere.”
You see the series of ties they have with France, they have to pay so much to dance. They can’t do anything without France, all their natural resources will have to pass through France, and so on and so forth. So, they are breaking away. They are at a stage where we were about 30 years or 40 years ago.
The position of the Nigerian opposition lawmakers came on the heels of the military coup in Gabon earlier in the week which ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba. “Confronted with the pains and miseries foisted by these sit-tight leaders on hapless citizens, who have been going through years and decades of bad governance, collosal economic hardship, serial social deprivation, deep-rooted poverty, deliberate intimidation and corrosive lack, military interventions of any guise will not only be welcomed but celebrated by citizens of these countries.
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