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A few hours ago, Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, the National Director of Security of Mauritania, launched himself into power and shut his boss, President Maaoya Taya, out of Nouakchott.

This action, brought the 21-year rule of Taya to a dramatic and calculated end, in this 3 million peopled desert of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

It must however be early, quickly and clearly pointed out before the euphoria subsides, that Colonel Vall and his 16-member Military Junta for ‘Justice and Democracy’, have arrived a little too late, on the stage of political history.

Much as the people of Mauritania may have been wearied by the lack-lustre regime of Taya, as it was begining to show through an unprecedentedly free and fair elections of 2003, the unconstitutional overthrow of this elected government is nothing but a hijack of due democratic process by an ambitious self-appointed messiahnic group of the specialized paramilitary gendarmerie, known as Presidential Guards, headed by Vall.

Though, Taya’s Democratic Social Republican Party (PRDS) still holds sway with a 79% majority in the legislature, the begining of real opposition by about 15 political parties that contested the last elections with growing sympaties amongst the populace, has dawned on Mauritania. There is no way Taya and his party would have won a fourth straight victory at the next elections using the yardstick of the last polls of 2003.

It this growing popular democracy that the ambitious elements in the Mauritanian Army attempts to abort. It is very probable that colonel Vall and his junta would try to seek popular base of support by anti-western sentiments, but this political line, if towed, would spell untold disaster for the new regime. Ask Sadam, who tried it in 1991 and was humiliated for it.

The questions which this self-styled ‘Justice and Democracy’ Messiahs of the 3 million poverty-sapped people of Muritania could not or ever answer in the days to come are: What happens to the legislative elections due next year, 2006? What happens to the 20 seats- 21%of the National Assembly and the Senate, controlled by the opposition parties? Is the 2-year time-table of restoration of ‘true elections’ by the junta not a ploy to gain a breathing space and legitimise its own rule? After 18 years in the saddle as National security Director, Is Colonel Vall just realising now that Taya is ‘dictatorial and repressive’?

Could it be that the real lure for the junta to take over power is the recently discovered one billion barrels deposit of crude oil? Can we be assured that junta greed for self-enrichment is not traceable to the 30 billion cubit feet of natural gas just discovered? Wont this make the junta to prolong and postpone the promised ‘true elctions’ like in the case of its Nigerian counterpart which plauged and devoured national and peoples resouces for 30 years before being forced to abdicate power? Can Colonel Vall boldly tell the world that this coup was not the climax of his carefully planned ambition of 6 years ago that got a fillip when he travelled to all the 12 regions(Wilaya) of Mauritania in 1999, as the commander of the militarized police force, to inspect and reinforce (prepare) them for this day?

One thing though is certain, our people in Africa are tired of the musical chairs of dictators. We yearn for true development and progress. We are not ready for another experimental adventure in failure in the hands of some opportunistic leaders.

Aderemi Ojikutu (Aderaskeey) is a Motivational Author and Youth Mentor. He is a minister of the Word of God. A political economist and political leader. He is President of the TREASURE WRITERS CLUB in Nigeria ( ryze.com/go/Aderaskeey ryze.com/go/Aderaskeey). He is also the current President of the National Democratic Forum (N.D.F). He was National Mobilisation Officer of the National Association of Nigerian Students (N.A.N.S) for several years. A revolutionary of over two decades, he was also the political secretary of the defunct Nigerian Labour Party in 1989-1991.

I coined a new word. I coined it because it is necessary to put a difference between the people who hold to the fundamental tenets of any faith and those who hold to corrupted tenets of any faith. The latter have given both religion and fundamentalism a bad name. We might not find anything funny about the corrupted and their corruption but it would be a great blessing if we could. It is not that funnymentalism is without its own twisted logic. Surely if it is our duty to care for widows and orphans, we should be busy creating more of them and we love this part of the job. If we can’t convince others to serve God as we do, we can kill them off until only us true believers remain. Let us not be so restrictive as to apply the rules of infidels and scofflaws to those within the body of believers, but to everyone on the planet. The Christians who brought the gospel to the new world as their mission, were slaughtering natives who rejected the gospel and the people who brought it. This, within a few generations.

Therein lies a lesson. The best intentions may not necessarily be passed on to successive generations. Not unlike what happens to governments every election. The new government promptly reverses most of the progress of the previous. This we know from experience. This is why we make so little social progress in the course of an entire century. The concerns of my parents are not my concerns. The concerns of my children are not my concerns. The same goes for those nebulous family and social values we hear so much about. Nothing remains constant, not even the ignorance which unites us all.

No people on earth show more contempt for God than the funnymentalists but they have been raised on a diet of denial that will never allow them to admit to the reality or make any change in their thinking. It is their commitment to mental stasis as keepers of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help them God, that makes them the most disgusting and obnoxious creatures on the face of the earth. If God helped them they would change. Instead they love no one, including the God above all gods they pretend to serve. The only purpose they can conceive for their lives is quick and easy sacrifice. Growing old helping others is disgraceful – a wasted life.

You cannot say to them “come, let us reason together” because they know reason has nothing to do with anything. Belief is their currency. All that can possibly matter to me is what someone told me to believe. Reason has appeared too late in the radicalizing process. The lack of reason is their proof of faith. By talking the talk, the more ambitious funnymentalists appeal to the funnymentalism in enough of us to rise to positions of power and influence. Though they be the puppets of corporate power, they are in a position to kill thousands and hundred of thousands of infidels, so they do. They do it with such appearance of civility, few notice its being done at all. They will kill no small numbers of their own to do it. In the West, it is all called collateral damage, which means they apologize for yesterday’s murders as they commit today’s. It appears the rest of us only have two choices. Support them or withhold support. Praise them or curse them.

Many of us choose to ignore them as we support them. This is the rough equivalent of cloning Adolph Hitlers and Idi Amins. We then pretend as long as they don’t operate in our neighborhood, everything will be all right. This is that insularity we hear about. If we are not totally isolated by our entertainments, we are at least insulated, comfortable. It is no easy thing to argue against this approach. It’s cheap and readily at hand.

The truly righteous among us see no resolution to the funnymentalist problem, save the fulfillment of prophecy, whether its origins are scriptural, from Nostradamus or modern psychics. I tend to see it this way myself. How about you?

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