The Legislators Outfit
More recently President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, Paul Kageme of Rwanda have all manipulated their constitution, joining the likes of Paul Biya of Cameroun and Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.
Does this compromise by these parliamentarians not weaken democracy in Africa?
The main reason is that most of the parliamentarians don't know why they are elected. More so, due to selfishness and greed, they are easily manipulated as majority of them do not know why they are there.
We actually don't operate democracy in Africa instead, we are operating 'monetocracy' where corruption does all the job for the person at the head. Except for very few African countries
Again, all the sit - tight leaders mentioned above are not sitting there because of their brute physical strength, but there, because they can bully whoever questions their authority.
