Re: El-Sisi, a president after my heart

My people, the Hausas, have a saying: “albarkacin kaza kadangare kan sha ruwan kasko”, literally meaning “It is because of the fowl that a lizard gets the honor of drinking from a container”. Thai coup came at a time al-Sisi conspired and manoeuvred to perfect his folly. In the full acquiescing glare of the world, […]

My people, the Hausas, have a saying: “albarkacin kaza kadangare kan sha ruwan kasko”, literally meaning “It is because of the fowl that a lizard gets the honor of drinking from a container”. Thai coup came at a time al-Sisi conspired and manoeuvred to perfect his folly. In the full acquiescing glare of the world, el-sisi shamelessly stripped off his Khaki, put on Babbar Riga and threw his hat into the ring wanting to occupy the very saddle he illegitimately unseated Morsi from Before that, the Army under el-sisi mercilessly saw to the heartless massacre of hordes of Brotherhood members in Rabiat-al-Adawiyah and other sit-in circles. That is beside the recent unbeatably unenviable record of mass sentencing of hundreds of Brotherhood members to death in a summary trial. All these were to the conspiratorial inaction of the international community, human rights groups and organisations like the noisy International Criminal Court (ICC)! Compare this with what late Muammar Gaddafi did to protesters in Benghazi which spurred a certain Good Samaritan called NATO to militarily intervene to “save [Libyan] civilians from the brutal regime of Muammar Gaddafi”. Similar scenarios, dissimilar responses; and who dares ask why!
As you read this, el-sisi revels in his ‘victory’ as a ‘democratically elected’ President of Egypt! The ‘election’, if you could pardon my use of the word, perfectly epitomised sham and charade. The turnout was so low that the desperate junta had to resort to desperate measures of cajolery, coercion, time extension and blandishments to window-dress the election enough for BBC, CNN and associates to get the perfect scene to do what they are professional in doing. For the European Union to have even contemplated sending a team of observers after the brazen crimes against humanity (that is if they believe in the humanity of Brotherhood members) committed by the Egyptian military under el-sisi, it simply smacks of irresponsibility or hypocrisy. For the sent EU Observer Mission to have described the election as, barring some hiccups, generally free and fair, it smacks of both irresponsibility and hypocrisy! And, you see these irresponsibility and hypocrisy clearly when you read the following excerpts from the “Handbook for EU Election Observation” pertaining to the issues its observers are expected to consider in their assessment:
“Are any candidates, or persons who were likely to be candidates, in exile? Have any prospective candidates been prevented from running because, for example, they are held in custody or are subject to administrative sanctions or a criminal investigation?… Have any campaign rallies, demonstrations, political gatherings or other activities been prohibited or obstructed by the authorities or security forces? Have any individuals or groups been subject to threats or intimidation, in particular by state authorities? Have any journalists been harassed or have any media outlets been closed or otherwise obstructed?”
So closely, you would say, all five questions fit in to scenarios in Egypt that one would naturally be tempted into believing that the author[s] of the Handbook for EU Election Observation actually had today’s Egypt in mind when they wrote the above lines! For instance, Abdullah El-Shamy, one of Aljazeera’s reporters who have been languishing for almost a year in one of al-Sisi’s gulag said this of EU in a letter he sent from jail recently:
“It has come to my knowledge that the European Union wishes to monitor the coming elections and that its foreign policy chief Baroness Ashton is happy with the steps taken by Egypt toward democracy… How can Ashton, I wonder, trust a democracy without a free press, at a time when I am facing a slow death alongside other journalists like Peter, Baher, Mohammad, Aladily, Sameh, and Shokan?”
But does the EU care? AbdulFatah el-Sisi, has after all practically demonstrated all along the extent, in crude brutality and crass heartlessness, to which he could go to act on the long-drawn script to wipe Muslim Brotherhood off the face of the earth. And, to be fair to el-Sisi, he didn’t hide this mission from day one; in fact it was the thrust of the manifesto of his campaign! World leaders mischievously choose to play deaf, dumb and blind to events in Egypt as if that is not a message in itself — acquiescence and approval of the nonsense in Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood members are left in the lurch, deserted, vilified and isolated for no just cause. If there was one offence they committed, it was contesting and winning a mandate in an election globally acknowledged as “free, fair and credible”. If there was another, it was adopting an Islamic religious manifesto/party upon which they were duly elected by Egyptians. And, thankfully, they were not the first (nor the last) to adopt such a religious manifesto/party. The Christian Democratic Party in Germany, for instance, brought Angela Merkel, the current German Chancellor, to power! And, perhaps taking her cue from the manifesto of her Christian fundamentalist party, Angela Merkel allied with the West to militarily invade certain Muslim countries like Iraq and Libya with the resultant loss of lives of thousands of Muslims.
Now, with impregnably fantastic global diplomatic shield/armour and millions of dollars ceaselessly flowing from the pocket of some Good Samaritan under the guise and guiles of ‘aid’, the world is surely the oyster of el-Sisi. But, as an interested onlooker, let me graciously offer this crucial advice to AbdulFatah el-sisi: Your Excellency Sir, the work you set about doing would better have been done by a certain man but unfortunately the man went the way of all flesh many centuries BC.
However, because of my firm belief in his expertise in the field you are venturing in, I would still recommend you, perhaps through necromancy, engage the consultancy services of his lifeless body which, fortunately for you, is kept in a place just a stone’s throw away from your villa; in The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. The name: Pharaoh Ramses! -Hamisu Hadejia