KEREKOU:DEATH SPARK UP MEMORIES OF FAILED COUP
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
IN HUMILITY ,PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND PRESIDENT THOMAS YAYI BONI PAY THEIR LAS RESPECT RECENTLY A HE FUNERAL CEREMONY OF LATE BENINIOSE LEADER:MATTHIEU KEREKOU
……………………………………………MEMORIES OF ATTACK ON KEREKOU BY
MERCENARIES FROM GABON,CONGO KINSHASA,GUINEA CONAKRY
…………………………………………..DEAD BODY OF A MERCENARY STILL UNCLAIMED
……………………………………………..LAW MADE BY GOVERNMENT O FAVOUR KEREKOU’S
SON ON IMPORTATION OF VEHICLES LED TO A RIOT.
……………………………………………..ONE OF KEREKOU’S SON’S DIED TWO YEARS
AGO.
…………………………………………….THOMAS YAYI BONI IS KEREKOU ‘S STOOGE IN
OFFICE
……………………………………………….COMMUNIST PARY OF BENIN REPUBLIC PLANS FRESH
OFFENSIVE O DISLODGE “KEREKOU” FROM POWER
The recent death of Beninoise ‘s Former President ,Mattieou
Kerekou at the age of 82 years has brought back memories of a failed coup
against him while still in power as a military Head of State before transmuting to a civilian President.
In an exclusive interview with the News Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria
,an indigene ,Mr Francois Tanjo Latun –Noney from Naragetu Tangenta in Materi
Province of Benin Republic said he was no doubt the most respected of all of
Benin Republic Leaders.
He explained that the deceased states man actually came to
power in 1972 after overthrowing a civilian regime hen in power but it was the
16h January attempt on his life that showed
his greatest in character.
His words:”He had a lot of foreign enemies who were not
happy with him because he refused to allow them to loot Benin Republic, so one
day they tried to remove him from power but he got wind of it and moved
ahead of them”
“they killed five soldiers but I think one of the
mercenaries was killed and from what I heard his body still lies in our morgue
except if he has been buried without my knowledge, we do not know for sure who was behind the failed
coup but the plane that brought the mercenaries left Cotonou and later was to
land in Libreville ,Gabon and this led to a major diplomatic warfare between
both nations”
“a lot of people died due to the differences between both
nations on either side and I can recall that
there was a meeting of the African Union that year and Kerekou publicly accused
Omar Bongo of trying to remove from Office”
“Late Omar Bongo travelled to the West to inform them of
what happened between him and Kerekou at an A.U meeting and he was urged to
server ties with Benin Republic diplomatically”
“in the process a lot of our women who lived in Gabon at the
time were raped and killed and the chaos continued for a whole year before
there was a truce”
He noted that he saw Kerekou physically for the first time
on April,1st,1978 when he came for a military parade to commemorate
the one year anniversary of a Governor of a province that was killed during a
road crash a year earlier.
He praised Kerekou for some of the reforms he carried out as
a leader,saying he helped in the name change from Dahomey to Benin Republic.
According to him current President, Thomas Yayi Boni owe his
ascension to power to Kerekou while adding that Kerekou hails from a village
called Kotompuka while Boni is from
Borgu Province with the capital in Parakou in the Northern block of the nation.
Late Mattieu Kerekou is believed lived in highbrow Abomey
Calavi in Cotonou in Benin Republic until his death after an illness.
Some hard core critics of Mattieu Kerekou especially in the
nations left wing ,The Communist Party have also blamed him for the downturn in
that nations economy insisting that he was very corrupt while in power.
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