Bernard Volker wanted to watch in advance all
interviews that I did and he also never wanted my show, “La Grande Interview”
to be live anymore. For he was afraid and I think or suspects, he sensed that I
was not only very independent minded, I had and still have a strong aversion
for African dictatorial regimes. And in combating them, I am of the opinion
that, diplomatic languages must not be used with them, for they are seldom
diplomatic or economical when it comes to the violation of the human rights of
their citizens or in exploiting them. In some cases, I support not only the
overthrow of dictatorial regimes but also the killing or assassinations of
violent dictators such as Saddam Hussein Abd al Majid al Tikriti or Muammar
Muhammad Abu Minyar al Gaddafi. According to the online dictionary Wikipedia, the
first was who was the fifth president of Iraq, was born in 1937 in Tikrit. He
served as President of Iraq from 16th July 1979 to 9th April
2003. The second was born on the 7th of June 1942 and ruled Libya as
its second ruler from 1969 until he met his violent death in Sirte on the 10th
of October 2011. No matter what people may say, the killing of any dictator is always a nice thing.
My style and inspiration was Tim Sebastian of the BBC,
the former host of the programme Hard Talk now hosted by Stephen Sakur. But I
started becoming bold and blunt like Bill O’reilly of Fox News. According to the online dictionary Wikipedia Bill
O’Reilly or William James O’Reilly was born on the 10th of September
1949. He is a US syndicated commentator and author. He is the host of The O’Reilly
Factor and has worked for several US news organizations such as ABC and NBC. And since I was longing to carryout
investigative journalism, I sensed that Telesud under Bernard Volker was no
longer where I could excel my profession independently as I have been trained
and was equally used to under Jean Philippe Kabore. I also wanted to be close
to people in French-speaking Africa, particularly those in the majority
French-speaking central African sub region. These is a region, I viewed as not
having been given the opportunity to express their democratic will and it is also peopled by people who were not
willing to sacrifice their lives for free speech or multiparty democracy as it
was and still is the case in West Africa.
However, it also true that, there are some French-speaking
African countries that were experiencing free speech and real democracy, however,
these ones were largely found in West Africa. The hideout of oppressions and
violent regimes was and is still the central African sub region. It is a part
of the continent that was and is still harboring the most violent and most
corrupt long standing African leaders such as Paul Biya of Cameroon, who has
been in power for 32 years Obiang Nguema Mbasongo of Equatorial Guinea, who has
been in power for 36 years, Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola, who has been in power
for 36 years, Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo, who has been in power for 30 years
and also the likes of Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Idriss Derby Itno of Chad. The paradox is that, all over the continent,
democracy is making progress. And when
taken specifically according to regions, one sadly discovers that, it only
within the Economic Community of Central African States abbreviated in French
as CEMAC where there is little or no progress in term of democracy.
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