Hon Speaker, the recent death of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi opened a chapter of looting of Libyan oil and natural gas by Western powers. The question remains: Who killed Gaddafi? Some say he was killed by the superior Nato Air Force. If the truth be told, Muammar Gaddafi was killed by African collective weakness and uselessness.
The invasion of Libya by American, British and French blood-thirsty and oil- thirsty imperialists has nothing to do with democracy, but everything to do with self-interests. Saudi Arabia is ruled by a corrupt monarch; Yemen is ruled by a discredited dictator; there is no multiparty democracy in the People's Republic of China. The West, even its wildest fantasies, never thinks of exporting and imposing Washington-brewed democracy on Beijing. They know China has teeth and can bite.
In Africa, they change regimes with the frequency that they change their dirty underwear. It is because they know that Africa is toothless and, of late, Africa cannot even bark: it whimpers like a starved puppy; sham remote-controlled African republics, sham US puppets masquerading as people's leaders; sham, hollow liberation. Even before Africa gets unified politically and economically, the continent must immediately create an African defence treaty in terms of which an injury to one African country will be an injury to all.
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