Brother Beran Jeng
It may be true that his wife was power hungry but if he really hhad the intereest of the nnation he would
have told his loving wife "sorry honey, I cany go on in these condition" period
It is easy to blame wife now but it takes two to tango. He was not forced to do what he did.
best regards
Habib
"Jeng, Beran" wrote:
> 2000-10-25
> COTE D'IVOIRE: "POWER-HUNGRY" WIFE THE RUIN OF IVORY COAST'S GUEI.
>
> By Silvia Aloisi
> ABIDJAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A former member of Ivory Coast's junta blamed the
> wife of ousted army ruler General Robert Guei for the military chief's downfall
> in a people's revolt on Wednesday.
> "It's his wife who ruined him," Henri Cesar Sama, who was Guei's communication
> minister before resigning in the face of unprecedented mass protests, told
> reporters.
> Rose Guei, in her mid-fifties, was often seen campaigning with Guei before
> Sunday's presidential election, wearing expensive clothes and sophisticated make
> up.
> She even campaigned on Guei's behalf upcountry when he dropped plans to travel
> across the country for security reasons.
> "She is greedy for power. We tried to persuade her to let it go but she wouldn't
> listen," he said.
> When the wife of junta number two Mathias Doue asked Rose Guei to persuade her
> husband to concede defeat after the election, Rose called her "vermin", Sama
> said.
> He was speaking at state radio headquarters in the main city Abidjan after two
> days of protests drove Guei from power.
> The protest started on Tuesday afternoon when the junta declared that Guei had
> won Sunday's presidential election, despite early results putting socialist
> Laurent Gbagbo ahead. Gbagbo is now deemed the winner and he has said he is
> president.
> "Guei asked us to fiddle with the results. He asked us to annul the election. I
> told him we couldn't do that," Sama said.
> "He didn't want to tell us what the true results were. But everybody knew that
> Gbagbo had won with 67.42 percent. It was just a bluff."
> Sama added that during a meeting with Guei on Tuesday morning, Gbagbo had given
> Guei "all the guarantees he needed for himself, his family and even the people
> working for him" if he conceded that he had lost the election.
> But Guei had decided to hang on to power at all costs.
> Guei, put in power by soldiers who staged a coup last December, had initially
> said that he was not interested in power and only wanted to "sweep the house
> clean".
> "But there were all these civilians around him who led him to believe he had the
> people's support," Sama said. "People who had privileges and who, yesterday
> still, were telling him that he should stay on."
>
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