USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Today's Quote

Chidi,

Indeed, "The fight should be deep rooted if it must succeed."

You haven't forgotten that our two-termer Muhammadu Buhari campaigned on a platform named change? .He was going to do what you said, he was going to " fight the systemic rot" 

How far have we come in that fight?

 As the saying goes, "The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention"

For the umpteen years from Independence till now, wannabe presidents and military coupists of nearly all the African countries South of the Sahara, have declared like USA's  Obama "Change" and Trump, "drain the swamp in Washington" and now the swamp is trying to drain him, which means that he didn't drain them, at least not completely. So he wants to come back to complete the job, to finish them off and make America Great Again, Forever ! 

Before and just after taking over, nearly all the wannabes in African countries South of the Sahara have declared their intention to wipe out corruption, you name them and we can count them on all our fingers and our toes all day long : Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, fast forward from Thomas Sankara's Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe , Kenya, Jacob Zuma's South Africa, Gabon, Sudan, Central African Republic, in Cameroon (no laughing matter) 90-year old youth man Paul Biya is still sitting tight in spite of Dr Kofi Dompere's diagnosis that potentially the man could be shuffering from "Cognitive Imbecility ''..

We could start the list again, in alphabetical order.

In Rwanda,

No flabby phallus

The turgid and randy 

Paul Kagame

Is going for a fourth round

As you say,  "The fight should be deep rooted if it must succeed." 

So, where does the fight begin?

All I can remember is this part of the song

" Let It All Fall Down"

 the part that goes 

"So we bring it to a stop

Then we take it from the top"

On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 08:31:22 UTC+2 Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA wrote:

The solution to the systemic rots in Nigeria is not just about removing a purported sinner and replacing with a purported saint. That obviously is shallow and of course would engender a backlash in the long run. The fight should be deep rooted if it must succeed.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

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