Gabon is doomed! Yes, their chief is gone. He was the only one capable of keeping the country together. He was the only one who could grantee peace and stability. Please don't you see what her neighbours like the Congos, Chad, and Central African Republic have been through and are still going through? What are they going to do now? The son of the chief is going to take over. Without a Bongo on the throne there will be no Gabon. Did I say throne. Yes throne. It is a new wave that is sweeping over Africa. The presidents are chiefs and their children are expected to take over the throne when they die.
It is advanced democracy. Democracy made in African and specially tailored to meet our need for peace, stability, economic growth and harmony. Qualities that the continent of Africa enjoys more than all other parts of the world. What a lie. A very "FAT LIE" Advanced democracy has failed miserably and the notion that a strong man is all we need to keep the peace does not work. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. How much have we given up in the name of peace and stability? Has this actually brought the peace and stability? I wonder. How can there be peace when most of the people live on less than a Dollar a day. When there is no portable water. When the roads are death traps. When hospitals and under staffed and stocked. When the strong man and his collaborators have to fly out of the country for treatment. Ironically these countries do not practice advance democracy, but are better places to die in
The need for a strong man has led many countries to amend their constitutions so that the "presidential term" can be extended indefinitely. Nobody is indispensable. The country will do without you when you are gone. Like it or not. Death comes to us all. God save us and God save Gabon
(CNN) -- Gabon's President Omar Bongo, Africa's longest-serving ruler, is not dead, the country's prime minister said Monday, contradicting reports from Gabonese and French media.Omar Bongo is Africa's longest-serving ruler.Omar Bongo is Africa's longest-serving ruler.Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong "deplored" French media reports that Bongo had died, saying he had met the president Monday morning.He vowed to lodge a protest with the French authorities about "repeated leaks in the French press."Bongo, 73, has been receiving treatment for intestinal cancer at the Quiron clinic in Barcelona, Spain, according to the Gabonews agency, which also reported Bongo's death earlier.Spain's Foreign Ministry confirmed to CNN that Bongo is alive.
He is in Quiron hospital in Barcelona, Spain for a "comprehensive health check," the prime minister said in a statement.
"This morning I visited the President, accompanied by the President of the National Assembly, the Foreign Minister, the head of the President's cabinet and senior members of the presidential family and after a meeting with the medical team we can confirm that the President is alive," the statement said.
Bongo took power in 1967, seven years after the West African country's independence from France.
He imposed one-party rule a year after succeeding the country's first president, who died in office. He allowed multiparty elections after a new constitution in 1991, but his party has retained control of the government since then.
http://edition. cnn.com/2009/ WORLD/africa/ 06/08/bongo. gabon/index. html
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