first of all I'd like to thank the Oslo
Freedom Forum for inviting me here to
speak to you and I also would like to
thank you for finding some time to tell
me listen to me I'd like to dedicate my
address to the cheetah generation of
Africa they are about to take back
Africa one village at a time they've
taken back in chicken suit Tunisia and
they're going to take back more African
countries also led to a dedicated speech
- Ali Abu Salim
he was the viremia journalist who
couldn't make it because he has
disappeared I also would like to
dedicate this to all that babbling of
Belarus - you see a bow of China - Meeta
agha-soltan of Iran and I'd like to
dedicate this to Mohammed Bouazizi of
Tunisia and I'd like to dedicate this to
judge Maria uni of Venezuela and also
elected dedicate this world of
pro-democracy activists in Cameroon Chad
Burkina Faso Yemen Syria Zimbabwe who
are fighting for freedom fighting for
freedom it's a very daunting task
it's not easy there are many people who
pay the ultimate price now with me they
threw me in jail in Senegal in 1994 they
banned me from the state-owned control
that television
they impound my books and security
agents raided my hotel room in Kenya in
Nairobi in 1994 now even in Washington
DC they firebombed my office but I did
not back down and I won't be deterred
because freedom is not negotiable the
day that I'm talking about are the usual
suspects murderous dictators they cross
all the world's West problems all the
collapses devastated economies because
my dictators all the humanitarian
catastrophes caused by dictators and all
the black cases of corruption grand
theft naked plunder of the Treasury
caused by dictators Africa has more
dictators per capita than any other
continent Africa also booth of the
largest collection of coconut republics
now here the bandits don't eat away
don't steal 1 million here and 1 million
there be cut away the entire Treasury
plus the kitchen sink after a mere four
a half years in office
the late dictator of a nigeria sandy
about you managed to accumulate a
personal fortune of five billion dollars
Omar Bashir of Sudan aside one out of
five sit on the country seven billion
dollars and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt
managed to accumulate a personal fortune
of forty billion now let me put that in
perspective the net width of all US
presidents forty-three who has
presidents from Washington to Obama
amounted to 2.7 billion which means that
Africa's commit has abandoned each stole
more than the net worth of all US
presidents and then some now dictators
have left a trail of wanton destruction
horrendous panic and he was debris India
India India week I guess who cleans up
after them
the West has spent trillions of dollars
trying to persuade her Jodie's dictators
to reform the abominable political and
economic systems
there was even tried a peace manner
across small enough dictators are
allergic to reform they are stoned death
and impervious to reason they're not
interested in reform period I mean if
you put pressure on them to reform they
perform the coconut booty one swing to
the right one three swings to the left a
jerk in the urn and a tumble to land on
the frozen Swiss bank account
Switzerland cruises the bank accounts of
Bernardi Hosni Mubarak and Laurent
Gbagbo the reform process in Africa has
been stored by vexatious leak Henry
Wilfred deception and vaunted acrobatics
see back in 1960 and 1990 out of the 54
African countries when he followed them
way democratic now 21 years later this
small group is increased only 15 meaning
that the vast majority of the African
people still live under tyranny and
oppression the number of economic
success stories are fewer than 10 and
also fewer than 10 have free and
independent media some people call this
progress some progress now angry
Africans are fed up with the antics of
these dictators are taking the heat to
the dictators banana fled Hosni Mubarak
was shoved aside and more coconuts would
tumble but I must caution you that the
noisy rah-rah street demonstrations
alone aren't enough to ask the dictator
to remove a dictator three kid cardinal
principles might be followed the first
one is that you gotta have Texas
oh listen to out the dictator because
their coalition to organize and also
coordinate the activities of the various
opposition groups and second you gotta
know the enemy you gotta know his modus
operandi his strengths and weaknesses
you don't find a dictator on the turf on
which is strongest you find its
weaknesses and exploit it and third you
gotta forget the recipients of reform
correct if you look it is imperative to
have a small group of people to
coordinate the activities for this group
of people and elders counsel this this
council must be made up of eminent and
respectable personalities who have no
political baggage they must be able to
reach out to all the opposition groups
we formed one in Ghana we called it the
Alliance for change we set up a
corresponding group in North America's
world to coordinate the activities now
historical examples will include the
gathering in Sudan in 1985 the Danube
circle in hungry in 1988 the charter 77
in Czechoslovakia in 1989
now these group this well this council
is the one which is supposed to organize
and collate the activities of the
disparate groups now in the dictator
calls an election this group has always
been in place in particular cause an
election the council must grow powerful
opposition parties together into an
electoral alliance
see last year there were 10 elections
and they take care us want all those
thin elections why because the
opposition was divided take example in
Ethiopia for example there were 92
political party trying to challenge the
dictator melons in our win an election
and in Belarus is not December it to
2010 elections there were 9 opposition
leaders trying to challenge you it
shouldn't be that way the council must
rope all opposition groups into an
alliance the cosmos also will show
that the electric emission is
independent the voters register is clean
all opposition parties have access the
state media and for funding and for
funding the council must rely upon the -
foreign community not on Western Dunas
know the enemy all dictators operate by
the same modus operandi you see they
they seized control of six basic
institutions this is control of the
civil service the media the judiciary
the security forces the electric
Commission the central bank's they
parties institutions when the Acronis
analyzed and surveyed them or did watch
them to sell their interest for a
revolution to succeed you have to
wrestle control of one or more of these
institutions from BIA from the out of
the dictators clutches if you look at
Tunisia and Egypt the game was over when
the security forces said we were not
going to fire on the on the street
protesters the same in Philippines in
1986 and also in the Georges Bruce
Revolution the three demonstrators were
able to charge the security forces with
roses and that's why was for the Rose
Revolution and also in Ukraine now 2004
Orange Revolution Street protesters were
able to secure the full support of the
Supreme Court in pakistan's 2007 black
revolution the protesters had the full
support of the judiciary it is important
they could to get control of at least
one or more those state institutions on
the side of the protesters
now we also exploit the weaknesses of
the dictator by stretching its military
did geographically
I mean you shut down the millet the
civil service and any military regime
will collapse because they don't have
enough soldiers to save replace all the
civil servants now this strategy was
very much on display in Tunisia and
Egypt and also second
the Middle East where protesters held
simultaneous strikes in almost all these
cities and towns across the country now
that's how you strain security forces
now after you remove the dictator and
you have to remember that here is also
another question getting rid of a
dictator that's not necessary establish
a free society you have to reform the
dictator dissembled a dictator itself we
didn't do this in Africa in the 1960s we
got rid of the white colonialists but we
did not dissemble the oppressive
colonial state and guess what happened
we remove the white colonialist and you
will replace by black neo-colonialist
Swiss bank socialists crocodile
liberators revolutionaries bandit
Africans will tell you we struggle there
how to remove one cockroach from power
and the next rat comes to do exactly the
same thing this is because we did not
dissemble the dictatorship to dissemble
the dictatorship you have to follow
reforms in certain ways it's like
overhauling a vehicle you don't fix the
transmission when the battery is dead
nor do you put and installed a new fan
belt when the radiator leaks you gotta
do things in order any steps to disable
a dictatorship you needs fresh
intellectual reform for freedom of
expression of free media and next you
need political reform for democratic
realism and then you need constitutional
reform to limit the powers of the
executive and then you need
institutional reform so that you can
free up the judiciary make sure that the
decision is independent the media is
independent and so forth and then lastly
you need economic reform
premature economic liberalisation from
cause reversals of the revolution that's
happening in many Eastern European
countries in many European countries
they push forward economic
liberalisation
Allah the shock therapy now the shock
therapy with a shock therapy the
nomenclature Allah was still and trained
to empower it's digital for mother
taking place and the Naaman keturah
frustrated reforms can even a few of
them use their inside knowledge the
eight oolagah use the inside knowledge
and political connections to gobble up
state assets baloney is more disastrous
for Africa was pushing economic
liberalization economic reform ahead of
all other types of reform don't get me
wrong
economic reform works but dictators
never level the economic playing field
the only implement those stops or
economic reforms are benefit then they
are family and your cronies African
countries attract economic reform before
any other type of reform feel the
political test and included.i because
cameroon zimbabwe madagascar - easier
egypt now it is important that we get
the sequence correctly not all the
sequence I eat it slow China currently
faces this particular quandary China is
done well economically but it's going to
meet the follow to protest if it opens
up the political space the Communist
Party will be swept away if it doesn't
then it will implode and disintegrate
like the Soviet Union the necessity of
beginning with intellectual reform
derives from the find that it is the
reform has to come from within is the
people who must make their own case for
reform not Western governments not
within financial institutions and for
the people to make this type of reform
they need intellectual freedom freedom
of expression remember that Mikhail
Gorbachev started with grass juice
openness we in Africa I want to start
with black news now remember that in
Tunisia Mohammed was easy the
self-immolation of Mohammed was easy was
the ultimate in the extreme form of
freedom of expression in
we were able to bring about change by
freeing the Airways establishing FM
radio stations which were able to do the
trick for us in 2000 a free media is the
most powerful weapon against all
dictatorship get the media out of the
hands of corrupt and incompetent
dictators that will unleash the freedom
that will also dearly cherish not
Western sanctions not Western sermons or
Western appeasement and we would defeat
these dictators thank you very much
you