BENIN
BENIN: Kémi Séba responds to Egountchi Behanzin through a video
Beninese pan-Africanist activist Kémi Séba posted a video on September 28 in his social networks, a video response to Ogounchi Behanzin, who heads the Black African Defense League (LDNA). “Kémi Séba decrypts the discredit campaign against him organized by Egountchi and the other manipulated” is the title of the video which lasts 1 hour, 8 minutes and 34 seconds.
From Fred Hampton to Malsom X facing his detractors like James Shabaz and Jone Ali, from Stockely Carmichael, historic leader of the diasporic and continental black cause, historic leader of the Black Panther Party who was the most influential black leader in the late sixties , described by John Edgar Hoover, former director of the FBI as a threat because he had the capacity to reach the masses of the people. The activist Kémi Séba has done a complete decryption to explain and express his views against Ogounchi Behanzin. According to him, throughout the history of the Pan-African struggles, internal jealousies have been created by the opposing camp to destabilize the leaders and question their leadership position. “For the Western ecology a black leader is a danger when he has the capacity to reach the masses,” he says, paraphrasing the American philosopher Will Durant.
After an enumeration of all the African-American leaders assassinated because of the frustration of a third party who is sometimes close or who belongs to the community, it is the leaders of the assassinated continent who were also listed: Patrice Lumumba against Mobutu Sese Seko then Moïse Tshombé, a conflict that culminated in a civil war in the Congo. In Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara facing Blaise Compaoré, among other stories as well incredible as burlesque.
Some excerpts from the video:
“Peace be with you… This is the first time in my life that I make a video to respond to slander, but I do it not to respond to slanderers, but to educate the population about the strategies of the enemy. “
“At all times, as soon as a leader or a black leader emerges, the West when it does not have the capacity to beat him on the ground of the arguments, tries to discredit him by using the jealousy which exists in the within the community, frustration of people who would like to unite as much as the emerging leader and hostility because our people were so alienated, our ego was so destroyed that as soon as one of us emerges there are always people trying to drag the person down. that’s always been how the Western oligarchy worked. The story with Malcom X is that. When Malcom X emerges, we say why is he the one in front of the media? Why is he the one who always has the microphones? Why is he the one talking to the masses? He is no better than us! Why is it him and not us? He’s a dictator! Why doesn’t he let others have their say? Looks like he wants to run everything in the Organization. And it is this climate which contributed, thereafter, to ensure that he was always assassinated in the capacity to manipulate of the Western oligarchy which afterwards, tells you, you see, it is the blacks who kill each other, black people are fighting. ”
“The Western Oligarchy uses the most out of line, the most unbalanced, the most frustrated people to destabilize the dark cause and the most influential leaders. Remember that because it is history that keeps repeating itself. “
“I assume that every human being has to be educated. When I say training, it’s not just going to college or school, but picking up books and reading, getting plenty of information, not just staying on google quotes sites etc. I have spent my life studying. The Kemi Sheba that I am is not the same Kemi Sheba that I was 20, 25 or even 30 years ago. “
“If you say ‘Black Power’ you scream, you put on a beret, just because you say that doesn’t mean you are disturbing the Western oligarchy. As long as you don’t bring anyone together, you won’t disturb anyone. It’s when you start to put the masses together that you become a problem. “
“Back to the slanderers in question. There is a certain Sylvain Afoua who took the name of GUCCI, who took the name of our king Behanzin, peace to his soul, may the king be preserved from this character of whom I am going to speak, who for three years, with d others, dates on which our fight took on a historic scale against French neocolonialism. For three years there has been an increase in slander and slanderous propaganda and you will notice that I never responded. “
“This is an individual who was arrested for rape of a disabled woman. This is the psychological profile of this person who was incarcerated in France who had a life of a fallen rapper. “
“I never spoke about you, never, in contrary you.”
Watch the full video here:
Rosine Vieyra Soglo, former first lady of the Republic of Benin, died. The information was confirmed on Sunday 25 July by many local media, citing sources close to the family.
According to the first information available, Rosine Soglo died today at 11am, in a private clinic where she was hospitalized. Active for many years, she had not made a public statement for several months.
The former usher, wife of former president Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo, held an important place in Beninese political life. Part of the generation that led Benin to democracy in the 1990s, she had been elected several times before retiring in 2019.
His outspokenness and his role as a pillar of his political family had earned him the nickname of an iron lady. For the time being no details have been provided concerning the future tributes to be paid to this true monument of the political scene of ancient Dahomey.
Source: Agence Ecofin / Par Moutiou Adjibi Nourou
The Beninese opponent, Joël Aïvo, faced the judge of the Court of Repression of Economic Offences and Terrorism (Criet). The trial opened this Thursday, July 15, 2021. In detention since 11 April, the day after the presidential election, the constitutional expert is being prosecuted for “undermining state security and money laundering.” Accusations that the opponent has always challenged despite his detention. The trial was postponed until August 5.
The trial of the opponent, Joël Aïvo, began on Thursday 15 July 2021. Arrested in the street the day after the presidential election in April, the professor, renowned in the African continent for his knowledge in the constitutional field, will be tried for “undermining the security of the State and money laundering”. He was presented to the judge with his co-accused: a retired soldier, a non-commissioned officer still serving, and the one who manages the finances of his political movement, Dynamique Aïvo. A group of Beninese and European lawyers has been hired to defend the opponent who totally denies the facts that are alleged against him.They are former President of the Bar Robert Dossou, Professor Barnabé Georges Gbago, French Christophe Bass and François Mazon, as well as their Belgian colleague Ludovic Hennebel. These black dresses, according to the information provided by Rfi, are allowed to consult their client’s file.
Joel Aïvo appeared and his trial was dismissed. His lawyers have filed an application for parole, which will be reviewed by the Cree on August 5, 2021. Created in 2018, the legal institution is, for opponents of the regime of Patrice Talon, an instrument of liquidation of potential presidential candidates.
The former Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the National University of Benin (UNB) will be in prison on July 18, 2021, until his 48th birthday.
BENIN
[URGENT] – Patrice Talon publicly pledges not to run for a third term and to hand over power in May 2026 to his successor!
This is probably the highlight of the second day of the West African Citizens’ Summit on Good Governance, Alternation and Democracy in Cotonou. As announced yesterday (Pan-African on the limitation of the number of presidential mandates.), the Head of State of Benin Patrice Talon honored his presence on the second day. And beyond a mere presence, the good surprise is that the President of Benin made a public commitment, this Saturday, July 10 in the blue room of the Cotonou Congress Palace, to hand over power in May 2026 at the end of his second mandate in 2026.
“(…) I measure the scope of the relay and before you how much I will commit myself, take you to witness to pass this relay, on the third Sunday of May 2026, to the one who will have the confidence of the Beninese people,” solemnly declared Patrice Talon, in his speech for the occasion. An announcement greeted with ovations fed by the assistance made up mostly of young people. Moreover, he wants to pass on this relay to his successor to perpetuate the tradition of alternation. “I would like to assure you that I will ask for a derogation from the State Protocol so that the symbol of alternation that you have just handed over to me becomes part of the elements of the charging ritual,” he said, adding: “I will take good care of it and pass it on to my successor and tell him to read the number 2 carefully.”
The relay of which the Beninese President speaks, is a sceptre symbolizing the alternation given to him by the Social Universities of Togo (UST), by the hands of their Coordinator, Prof David Dosseh. This witness is made of two materials, ebony and gold, produced by two craftsmen, a Togolese cabinetmaker and a Senegalese jeweller, and contains 20 grams of gold. The 2 symbolizes the maximum number of mandates defended by the civil society present in Cotonou.
Patrice Talon in fact responded favourably to a request from the latter asking him to be the embodiment of political alternation in the ECOWAS area, the central issue or the finality of this meeting of Cotonou, while refusing to be cited as an example or lecturer in the promotion of this ideal in West Africa.“Excellency, can your country produce a vaccine against this pandemic?” created by the “3rd mandate virus in Africa?” “Could you then accept this symbolic witness so that Cotonou becomes the mandate-limiting capital of Africa?” , these are the questions asked by Prof David Dosseh.
In other words, Patrice Talon undertakes publicly and solemnly to respect the Constitution of Benin, the limitation of the presidential mandate inscribed there in golden letters, not to run for a 3rd term and therefore to transmit the 3rd Sunday of May 2026 to his successor who will be elected. This commitment by the President of Benin to the youth of ECOWAS seals the total success of this citizen summit organized by the UST, the Centre for Research on the Rule of Law in Africa (CREA), the Tournons La Page Coalition (TLP) and other partners.
We’ll come back to that.
Source : Le Tabloid
