Here, it's factual, that Constitutionalism has been thrown overboard
in Ivory Coast
http://str8talkchronicle.com/?p=11945
And here it's a little far fetched but not impossible that "Western
powers rigged the Ivory Coast elections":
Dr. Hassan Sisay, the writer of the article is certainly "jumping the
gun".
Above all, the legitimacy of the election results has to be
established beyond any reasonable doubt before we can be reasonable
about who is the president of the Ivory Coast. In more advanced
democracies, by-elections are held in areas in which significant
election malpractice has been verified. The Supreme Court is also an
adjudicator in some instances – and it is not ingenious enough to say
that the president has packed the Court with his own men, therefore to
hell with the constitution, let's tear it up.
A good number of good people and a good number of African countries
including SOUTH AFRICA are still questioning the legitimacy of the
Election Results as declared, in view of the allegations of massive
fraud, especially in the North, the rebel-held stronghold of Ouattara.
Among other factors that contribute to the seriousness of the
allegations, is the fact that migrant tribesman allied to Mr.
Ouattara's ethnicity and religion have been pouring in from Burkina
Faso, in particular and other ethnic enclaves from other neighbouring
countries – registered as residents or not verified, and still casting
their ballots for Mr.Ouattara and then either melting back into the
night or to their states of origin, or staying on.
Since ethnicity has been politicized to an extraordinary extent (with
Ouattara himself being accused of being a Burkinabe) it's inevitable
that ethnicity-consciousness is now at the heart of the North – South
divide, even if "winner takes all" has to establish his authority
over the whole nation.
The voter registers are obviously not that reliable and this
difficulty can be compounded by other identification difficulties,
which can be a problem where there is mass illiteracy and especially
so in a country in which there are floating worker migrations, to
where work is to be found.
(India is now compiling a register of all her citizens who will be
issued with ID cards…over a billion of them. It's the kind of exercise
that is costly but necessary in our African countries, where we simply
have to ensure the reliability of the voter register. Here in Sweden
it took me less than 45 seconds to cast my ballots, after my identity
had been certified. The results of the elections were announced a few
hours later. This is possible in Sweden which is the world's most
computer/ digitalised country.)
Abdul K. Bangura who obviously concurs with the contents of Dr.
Sisay's article and tops it with his usual mantra that the Professor
president Gbagbo should be "removed" by " Legitimate force
immediately" must also realise ( if he hasn't) that the use of the
term " legitimate force" is merely begging the question. What does he
mean by "legitimate force"? How does he define the term? Was Thomas
Sankara
"removed" by "legitimate force"?
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=Thomas+Sankara
Many Western nations were reluctant to recognise HAMAS' victory in the
2006 elections. Does Abdul Bangura believe that Fatah was using
"legitimate force" to exterminate Hamas in Gaza?
We can discuss the last presidential and parliamentary elections in
Sierra Leone, if he so desires, with a view to bringing up a number of
points that in my view would be of relevance to what we are about to
discuss here.
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