Kibaki, an Imposition of the West, Says Rawlings
01.19.2008

Former Ghanaian Presid-ent, Jerry Rawlings, has said
that the violence that erupted in Kenya over alleged
rigging of the election by the incumbent President,
Mwai Kibaki, is a protest against neo-colonialism and
the imposition of leadership by the West. According to
him, Kenyans do not want to go through the same kind
of experience again hence their insistence on change.
Speaking to journalists yesterday at the Murtala
Mohammed Airport Lagos, Rawlings said: “Kenyans are
demonstrating that enough is enough in
neo-colonialism. If we have done away with coup
d’etat, then let us preserve the integrity of the
electoral process. And if we cannot count on the
integrity of the electoral process, where do we go?
This is happening in many countries in Africa,
including my own country.”
The former Ghanaian president said that the electoral
process in many African countries is so weak, which in
turn weakens the relationship between the African
governments elected in such doubtful electoral
process.
“Since the collapse of the bi-polar power, I have
always been saying that the uni-polar power has been
displaying some very unethical and immoral political
standard and that is a price they (African leaders)
had to pay. I keep repeating this.
It does not surprise me the way economic affairs are
handled, it is always as if we are living in the days
of mercenary tendencies,” Rawlings said.
It does not surprise me that a country like Venezuela
should swing 180 degrees south of the US, when the
Soviet Union has collapsed because the economic
philosophy has just swung to one extreme with
government just selling all national assets to
themselves and to their families. So where is this
going to lead us to? It is going to lead to arson.
People are being violated and there is going to be a
reaction,” Rawling also said.
He remarked that if the African Command that United
States is proposing is going to complement the efforts
of African forces let it be established so that it
would help to stop the situation in Darfur, Sudan, but
“if it is 21st century form of trying to colonise the
continent, then it is absolutely wrong and I think
African Union (AU) should have a position on this.
Also speaking to journalists, the former Ghanaian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Victor Gbeho, who arrived
at the airport with Rawlings, said unless the
electoral processes in Africa are reviewed, the kind
of crisis happening in Kenya would not end.
He said the crises in the African region were due to
the failure of electoral processes which are usurped
by malpractices and urged the AU to take wade into the
political turmoil in Kenya by forming a coalition and
organising a re-run of the presidential elections in
that country.
"The Kenyan situation is regrettable, no African
country is proud of what is happening now especially
now that we are trying to earn an international
reputaion as a democratic continent, what is happening
there is due to the fact that the electoral process
has failed and what they called rigging was put in
place. Those who are in the office in Kenya know that
they did not win.
This is a challenge to the A.U, they should get
involved and organise a re-run election, otherwise the
opposition party will never agree, they are prepared
to shed more blood", he said.

Ras Marcus writes: Much has not change in Mama Africa since African countries acquire Independence, except that some black people move over into the houses and seats of the white colonisers, but colonialism remained and continued to be practiced by black heads of State, wearing the white people's Jackets and tyes instead of their own African notional Robes.
If any thing had changed, Africa and Africans just could not be in the State that they are today, where a small gang of politicians, adopt the luxurious life style of the white colonial slave masters, and sqaunder the people's moneyv and natural resources among themselves and their families and friends, and carelessly leave the massses of the people, to livein abject poverty, sickness and homelessness. It is indeed a burning shame.
Again I send many oceans of blessings and self determination to African people everywhere.
ONE BLACK HEART ONE BLACK LOVE
Baba Ras Marcus.