The number thing the military needs to do is to go back in the barracks. They need to get out of the peoples houses -parliaments and other such legislative fora - and become accountable to the taxpayers: the citizens that they are supposed to protect and serve. These shrouded and secretive kinds of meetings only serve to reinforce the view that they are venues for exchanging ideas on how to rig elections through orchestrated violence, torture and terrorising the citizens usually at the behest of the sitting governments and life presidents. The armed forces who are bankrolled and paid for by the citizens rightly belong to them: the people. They certainly do not belong any one person be they president or not. It is certainly unconstitutional and simply unacceptable and unprofessional to witness military forces aiding and abetting in subverting the electoral process thereby helping steal elections from the people; like they just did in Zimbabwe and Mauritania. Also, evidently the armies are unnecessarily too huge. They are a drain to economies especially when their budgets are not vetted. And so they should be reduced and those soldiers who remain should be deployed to work to help build the infrastructure that is so lacking in most of Africa. The armies should be encouraged to have employable skills besides fighting skills. And that shouldn't be restricted only to just doctors and engineers. There are skills besides these that army personnel should be asked to acquire and utilize.