Brother Habib,
I'cant agree with you more.
Beran
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Subject: Re: FWD:"POWER-HUNGRY" WIFE THE RUIN OF IVORY
COAST'S GUEI.
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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