Gambia: A Republic Need a Republican Armed Force- Burkina Faso Provides an Example

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West Africa has come to terms with self perpetuating rule and has decided to embrace the practice of term limit in executive governance.Blaise Campaore survived politically when he embraced a term limit. He was ousted when he tried to betray his promise and extend his term. A transitional arrangement was put in place. The Presidential guard tried to exploit the exclusion of certain members of the former ruling party in the Presidential elections to stage a coup.

Apparently, like most autocratic regimes weapons are always centralised in Presidential palaces. Unfortunately for them weapons do not fire themselves. Hence when the army sided with the people to prevent Campoare from extending his term limit he had to leave.

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