We Stand With The Sudanese People – And Lessons from General Abacha

I write to stand with the good people of Sudan after the military punted their evolving democracy with a coup. I stand with the oil workers, doctors, pilots, carpenters, market women, and all Sudanese as they oppose these soft-target soldiers. Africa has security issues, and if these soldiers are bored, there are many battlefields available to engage them. Yes, government houses are not the destinations in this age.

Coup is evil. It remains like yesterday when Prof Obah, a Vice Chancellor when I was in FUTO, sent a directive to me that the Students FM Radio Station (just an engineering students thing) we had designed and installed to communicate within campus, has been mandated by General Abacha to be taken down. I could not believe myself. Imagine if they have done the unthinkable: came in and arrested us with no trace. That was my campaign manifesto as Director of Research: I will give FUTO a radio station – and we delivered. The finest Director of Social, Osita Njokubi, P.Eng, C.Eng, made it more popular than the state radio station that non-students were tuning in.

So, khaki boys are NEVER the solution irrespective of the mess from politicians. Sudan took down the last leader, Omar al-Bashir, because of a loaf of bread. These coup plotters should expect fire because this is more than bread – and they will be down.

We stand with Sudan – and peace in the land.

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