The Way Out Of Africa Is The Way Out Of Middle East

The Way Out Of Africa Is The Way Out Of Middle East

Farouk Martins Aresa

Majority of American people want a way out of Iraq and they will eventually have their way no matter who becomes the President. There may be no easy way out; the most probable solution is by contract or outsourcing. Some people still do not realize there are military contractors working in Iraq performing almost the same functions as the Coalition Forces. They are mostly bodyguards for big corporations. In Africa we call them mercenaries, pure and simple. They are planted by various colonial and religious masters. Our Armed Forces exist not to fight foreign invaders but trained as contractors.

There are two ways American can go about it: the way they built Europe after the war or the way Europe outsource Africa to the Military. We do not need to spend time on how Americans rebuilt Europe after the War, a blind man can see that. It is the way Europe and Religions contract out European and African mercenaries that are worthy of note based on the loyal addiction of these African mercenaries, leaders or godfathers. Not only do they plunder Africa’s wealth out, their masters can not stop them even if they try to. Foreign laws and stiff penalties against cash laundering are their price of doing business.

Since these solutions out of Iraq have not been made explicit by the two US Presidential candidates, Americans have to change their laws to make one of Nigerian militricians the Czar of Iraq surrounded by his cliques. That is not too much of a price to pay as Ancient Egypt did the same with Joseph when he found solution to famine. As the US Presidential Czar in Iraq, it will be “sanitized” for the benefit of US by remote control, like Nigeria. One more contradiction is, this must be kept secret from American people and the Press.

Most of the African contractors became General in their 20s after been decorated in many internal civil wars: The Great Battle of Maitatsine in Kano, The Great Battle Zaki Biam, The Great Battle of Operation Wet E in Ibadan, The Great Battle of Nsuka, The Great Battle of Asaba, that of Port Harcourt, Odi etc. It took the Europeans and the Arab some years to prepare them for this training. But all the modalities and techniques can now be accomplished into a crash planning for the benefit of Americans in Iraq. Unfortunately, this generosity may be misunderstood by some as looking for jobs for our retired generals to keep them out of Nigeria. Oh, no, no!

These corporate contractors, mercenaries or militricians are more feared by the warring factions in Iraq as in Nigeria than the Coalition Forces who have to obey and stick to rules or Geneva Convention. 60 Minutes and the Embedded Press have already reported on many of their roles. In Nigeria, we call them – Kill And Go. It is the culture our leaders graduated from, but some nation building courses were included at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, England. They are nothing like the graduates of Mandela University, Robben Island Prison, South Africa.

Moreover, they are highly paid one way or the other. So it is not surprising that many of the coalition troops, at the end of their service, could not wait to go back and work for a handsome mercenary pay without hindering them with bureaucratic rules and regulations.

Just in case US wants to hire Nigerian leaders to pursue this route in Iraq, they need to study how the Europeans and Religions still maintain their grip on Africa after colonizing the Continent and giving it political independence for 50 years, but economic freedom is still at bay. There are people there who will argue that Government had their puppets in the Middle East, but they are not as sleek as the Europeans in Africa. If they are, how did they loose the Shah of Iran or how did Castro gained power in Cuba? They must learn from the masters who had adequate manpower on the ground.

But if you are in doubt, and wants to know if Europeans also trained a Christian, Mugabe, the answer is simple. Mugabe got stuck in the throat of the British because they dragged on with solid agreements to facilitate the transfer of arable lands from the Settlers to the Natives amicably. Mugabe used that to hang on to power for life. There is no better place to replicate how United States rebuilt Europe than Zimbabwe and South Africa. Sooner or later, South Africa will fall just like Zimbabwe because all their hopes for economic justice after Apartheid have turned into mirage. Later Settlers still hold economic power and the recent assaults on Africans is a peep of what is coming.

If anyone is interested, the whole of South Africa will turn out to be a boiling keg waiting to explode not only in the face of Africans but also in the face of the world. The people still have not achieved what they fought for 50 years ago. They are told to wait, be more patient while minorities either as leaders or settlers feed on cream of the land. Working together to save them from tyranny and economic injustice the same way Africa fought with the rest of the world against the yoke of Hitler is forgotten. For 50 years, full belly is telling hungry belly to take heed.

This is why Mandela, a very long sighted leader, refused to condemn Mugabe as we all forcefully want him to. Mugabe is a disgrace to Africans, no doubt, but he is no stooge of the British that could be easily bribed and manipulated as other African dictators. These former colonial masters still insist on a privilege position and class for African Settlers above the Natives or else let Africa live in hell. If we refuse to accommodate a privilege statue for their class, many more of us must suffer the consequences in squalors.

In Guinea, the French, out of spite, took their ball home with them when it became clear they had to leave. They sabotage and almost destroyed every institution because the people cried for independence. When Nkrumah proved too stubborn, they called him corrupt and used African mercenaries to overthrow him. In the same way Lumumba was humiliated in the street and killed like a dog in order to be replaced by a mercenary dictator called Mobutu who looted as much as his counterparts in Nigeria, while the colonial masters looked the other way. They know their loyalties were not to Africans but to their colonial masters where they keep African capitals.

Now these looted funds are becoming too hot to handle in view of the threats posed by men of terror worldwide. But our own men of terror are men of influence, affluence and opulence installed in Africa. They are still useful to our colonial past where their values are grounded. If American can do the same in Iraq, there is no reason to spend trillion on the war when the same amount can come out of Middle East into America while they pretend they are helping to condemn, disgrace and expose corrupt leaders.

By this solution of replacing American troops with corporate mercenaries, US will get a clean break from Iraq. Any American, who decides to go to the Middle East, will be doing so because of good mercenary pay they can not make at home. It will also be difficult to blame the Government in a Country where individuals are free to take any job he or she wants anywhere. These mercenaries are so good at what they do, they hardly get killed. The only time their countries hear about them is when they get captured, as the son of Margaret Thatcher. Then you will hear cries for saving them from barbaric treatment abroad. As for their Africans contractors, when they get in trouble by the Act of God, they are rushed to their sponsors for the best medical treatment abroad.