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The Naked Emperor.
The Naked Emperor.
Mo Ibrahim exposes the emptiness of Biya who for more than half a century has successfully and skilfully ring-fenced himself from all public, non choreographed and rehearsed engagements.
A man who has relied on written speeches even on the most basic of things, where you would expect a person to speak from his mind. For too long he deceived his "supposed Bilingual nation" that he could speak English, by reading speeches from scripts and responding to rehearsed questions.
Like a thief who has been stealing for 99 days, Mo Ibrahim caught him this time pants down, and in his arrogance, he tried pulling one of his old nasty habits and acting as though he was the almighty God. Sadly for him, he was with the wrong person, as Mo Ibrahim quickly reminded him, to the bemusement of the audience, that he was not in Etoudi.
For a moment I thought it was a movie, as the rogue autocrat was exposed and humiliated. When confronted with a question on the conflict he created in his home country, he pretended as though his ear piece for translating was not working. Hoping that Mo Ibrahim will move on, his nightmare came as Mo pressed on, asking a fellow panelist to help translate the question into French.
As if that was not enough, the naked emperor then tried pretending like his microphone was not working. Sadly for him, he wasn't going to run away from that question, as Mo Ibrahim pressed on and asked him to just speak even without the mic. The shameless naked emperor pleaded to yet again read from a script on a panel discussion that panelists were to contribute by freely speaking.
Biya has never faced this in his life, and he knew that so well, so much that he couldn't hide his embarrassment as he owned up himself that he was embarrassed.
Yes, you ought to be embarrassed Paul Biya, because you are truly an embarrassment.
You've had it your way for too long, and we all know that.
It's just the beginning.
Well done and thank you Sir Mo Ibrahim
E. Acha
12th November 2019.