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[Somaliman]

Did you know that ExxonMobil was giving just 12% of the oil revenue to Equatorial Guinea, way less than the norm, which is 60%, and that the tyrant president of the country didn't care about this and was using the 12% to live in luxury while his people were starving!

[Somaliman]

Did you know that ExxonMobil was giving just 12% of the oil revenue to Equatorial Guinea, way less than the norm, which is 60%, and that the tyrant president of the country didn't care about this and was using the 12% to live in luxury while his people were starving!

The West is the mother of all corruption!

Could you imagine that the US is giving a red carpet treatment to this tyrant corrupt to the bone marrow, who is living an extraordinary luxury with the 12% of the oil revenue of his country that ExxonMobil give him, as they keep the remaining 82% for themselves, while his people are living at abject poverty in slums!

[kerenite]

Did you know that ExxonMobil was giving just 12% of the oil revenue to Equatorial Guinea, way less than the norm, which is 60%, and that the tyrant president of the country didn't care about this and was using the 12% to live in luxury while his people were starving!

The West is the mother of all corruption!

Could you imagine that the US is giving a red carpet treatment to this tyrant corrupt to the bone marrow, who is living an extraordinary luxury with the 12% of the oil revenue of his country that ExxonMobil give him, as they keep the remaining 82% for themselves, while his people are living at abject poverty in slums!

Greetings bro Somaliman,

Are you familiar with the famous egyptian adage? Well it goes as follows:

The people asked the pharaoh or pharoon: ya pharoon eh alli pharanek kida and he replies there was no one there to stop me.

As such......

The subjects have to be blamed here. Instead of confronting the dictator who eats and shiiits like them, they revere him.

For instance you mentioned Gabon, I believe 2 days ago. It is blessed with oil but the revenue ends in the hands of the corrupted officials.

Finally,

What I don't forget about Gabon, its dictator was a good friend of Gaddafi and in order to satisfy him he converted to Islam and he opted to use the name OMAR BONGO.

So is Africa, people are scared of their dictators.

Cheers!

[Somaliman]

So, in Africa, people are scared of their dictators.

Greetings to you, too, bro, Kerenite.

Well, people in some countries, like in Equatorial Guinea, are scared of their dictator, as a few of these dictators are ruthless, while others in many other countries have a laissez-faire attitude, leaving things to take their own course without interfering and prefer to live in hope, fearing that they might lose the little they've got. There are also cases in which the population in a country is fragmented and divided into groups/tribes/ethnics and do not share a common goal or interest, as some represent a backbone of their dictator. There are also a few other factors, including the West helping dictators crush their opponents and/or portraying opponents of repressive regimes as a mortal threat to the West, and the fact that there's a general lack of alternative serious leadership in Africa, as most of those in the opposition are simply a bunch of power-hungry politicians itching to just take their turn.

As they say, "every people get the government they deserve". If we keep having dictators and incompetent and corrupt so-called heads of state in Africa, I believe it's because that's what we deserve, because we're not doing much to change this protracted chaotic status quo.

No, I haven't heard of the Egyptian adage before, but it's spot on.