WHAT DOES ECOWAS STAND FOR? I DO NOT SEE THEM UTILISING THIER TRADE STATUS OF BEING INCLUSIVE WITH ONE CURRENCY NO BORDERS WHAT ARE THEY GOOD OFR OTHER THAN NAMEAND TALK. TO EVEN CONSIDER A REGIONAL BODY TO GO INOTY MALI TODAY IS USELESS. THE ACTION SHOULD HAVE TAKEN PALCE FROM THE VERY FIRST COUP THAT OUSTED THE PRSEIDENT POPULAR OR NOT. HOW EVER THE AFRICAN BLOCS HAVE NO POWER NOR DOES THEW AFRICAN UNION. WHAT I HAVE SEEN IS THAT THE AU IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TALKING SHOP BEING PULLED BY THE WEST. LET US EXAMINE THE POWER OF THE 'AFRICAN UNION' FIRST AND FORE MOST , WE HAVE CERTAIN COUNTRIES THAT ARE MORE ALLIGNED WITH THIER FORMER COLINIAL MISRULERS THAN THEY ARE WITH AFRICANS. THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER SET WHO WANT TO BE ADORED BY THIER FORMER MISRULERS AND THEN YOU HAVE ON SET THAT HAS SOLD THIER SOUL STRAIGHT OUT TO THE MISRULERS; THOSE WHO BOW AND SCRAPE THE BOTTOM OF THE POT EATING ALL THE DREGGS!!! HOW DOWE AS THIS STRONG CULTURED PEOPLE REASSERT OUR INDEPENDENCE OUR STRENGTRH OUR PRIDE??? HOW DO WE RECOVER FROM THESE DYSFUNCTIONLA PERSONALITIES?? I FIND IT HARD TO MENTION THAT THIS YEAR IN THE SUMMER MOSTLY ALL OF THE CARRIBEAN THE AFRICAN CONTINENTIS CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE ' WHAT THIS MEANS TO ME IS THAT WE SHOULD ALL HOLD A CELEBRATORY , COMPLIMENTARYOBLIGATORY 50TH ANNIVERASRY THAT SHOULD LAST THE WHOLE SUMMER EACH OF US GIVING THANKS TO "OUR LORD" FOR STRENGTHENING OUR HANDS". WE MUST ALL SALUE EACH OTHER AS ONE PEOPLE THOUGH WE ARE IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES NOT ON OUR CONTINENT BUT OUR HEARTS ARE STIL ONE. WE MUST USE THIS AS A FORM OF TOTAL EMPOWERMENT. WE SHOULD RECOGNISE AND EVEN ENLIGHTEN OUR CITIZENS THAT WE ARE TRULY FREE NO ONE HAS ANY CONTROL OR PHYSICAL CHAINS THAT HOLD POWER OVER US. WE MUST FREE OUR MINDS AND THINK FOR OURSELVES. MY THOUGHTS MUST BE FREE IN ORDER FOR ME TO DO THE THINGS THAT FREE MEN AND WOMEEN DO. THERE ARE NO METAPHYSICAL FORCES THAT HOLDS US UNDER THE SPELL OF DISUNITY DISORGANISATION AND UNDER VALUING OF SELF. IN AFRICA TODAY MALI A WEALTHY HISTORICAL CULTURED LONG IN EXISTENCE WAY BEFORE THE IDEAS OF ANY MODERNITY. AFRICA THRUOUT WEST AFRICA OVER MILLINIUMS HAVE HAD CITIES IN EXISTENCE. WE MUST REMEMBER THAT THE LIBRARY OFG TIMBUKTU WAS BURNED OVER 1000 YEARS AGO MUCH BY THE SAME SORT OF IGNORANT SOULD WHO CAME INTO MALI TIMBUKTU TRYING TO TEACH THIER WAYS. THESE SAME SORTS OF PEOPLE ARE WHOM THE WEST TODAY GIVE CREDIT TO BUILDING THE GREAT ARCHITECTURAL MARVELS WE HAVE LEFT IN EUROPE. I HAD SAID EARLIER IN SOME OF MY WRITINHGS THAT THESE WERE THE DESERT PEOPLE WHOM HAVE NO IDEA OF THE DEPTH OF CULTURE AND SENSE OF BELIEF THAT THESE PEOPLE HAVE . AGAIN, I WILL STRESS THAT MONOTHEISM IS IN FACT A PURE AFRICAN IDEOLOGY AND THE NEED TO RETEACH OR EXPLAIN WHAT IT MEANS TO OWE ONES ALLIGIANCE TO "ONE ALL MIGHTY GOD" NOT NEWS TO THE AFRICAN!!!". WHAT WE NEED IN AFRICA IS FAITH !! FAITH IN "OUR LORD OUR ONE GOD" AND FAITH IN EACH OTHER IN THE IDEA THAT WE LIVE FOR EACH OTHER WE ARE NOT FRIENDS WE ARE INDEED BRETHREN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. "WE NEED TO ACCPET THAT WE ARE OUR BLOOD IT IS ONE IN ONE AND ONE" WE MUST GRASP THAT WE ARE ON THE SAME SIDE AND THE ONLY WAY TO MOVE FORWARD IS TO STAND TOGETHER GIVING OUR HEARTS AND SOUL TO OUR ONE GOAL AND ONE DESTINY. WHEN WE FIGHT AGAINST EACH OTHER WHEN WE SEE K TO GO SEPERATE WAYS TO REACH THE SAME DESTINATION THENWE HAVE A PROBLEM. FIRST WE MUST RECOGNISE THAT YES WE ARE ONE !!! WE ALL BELIEVE ""!!!! WE KNOW THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH AND THE GIFT OF OUR LORD IS ETERNAL LIFE"""THESE THINGS WE ALL BVELIVE WHAT WE DONT SEEM TO AGREE ON IS HOW WO IMPLIMENT THIS IN OUR LIVES?? WE DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE THE SAME FAITH WHEN THE TIME FOR UNITY IS AT HAND WE MUSAT BE LIKE THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT THEY ALL CAME TOGETHER REGARDLES OF SEWCT OR FAITH , THEY PRAYED TOGETHER THEY PROTECTED EACH OTHER THEY FOUGHT FOR EACH OTHER""" THIS IS EVRY IMPORTANT FOR AFRICANS TO USE AS A WAY FORWARD, THEY ACHIVED THIER OBJECTIVES BY UNTIING AND STANDING AS ONE. SHOULD THEY DECIDE THAT THE PROVEN WAY IS WRONG THEN THEY WILL FAIL AS LONG AS THEY MAINTAINTHIER BELIEF THEY WILL PREVAIL!!! THIS A SOMETHING THAT IS NEEDED IN THE AFRICAN UNION WHICH IS A MUCH SMALLER BODY THEN THE MILLINS OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN EGYPT. ECOWAS IS EVEN SMALLER STILL. WHAT I RECOGNISE IS THAT YES THERE WAS A CONCENSUS AMONGST THE ECOWAS LEADERS BUT THEY STILL HAVE TO SEEK UN SECURITY COUNCIL APROVAL ; WHY? IS THERE A TREATY OF SECURITY THAT IS SIGNED BY EACH OF THESE BLCS AND IS THERE ATREATY THAT BENIFITS THE ENTIRE CONTINENT? IS AFRICA JUST OUT THERE WAITING ON THE FORMER MISRULERS THE IGNOBLE ONES TO RESCUE US?? WHERE IS OUR FREEWIZENESS?? SHOULD ONE BROTHER BE IN A PROBLEM WE ALL FACE DANGER WE CAN NOT HAVE OUR STABILITY OUR STATE OF MIND OUR FUTURE BEING TAKEN FOR GRANTED OR BEING IN THE HANDS OF STRANGERS. EITHER WE HAVE PLAN THAT IS FOR ALL OR WE DO NOT!!! WITHER WE ARE MAKING MOVES THAT IS BEING IMPLIMENTED THAT IS NOT JUST GOOD FOR ME BUT GOOD FOR ALL MY NEIGBOURS. ARE WE NOT ALL SHARING THE SAME ASPIRATIONS DO WE SEE EACH OTHERS DREAM AS OUR OWN?? ARE NT WE SHARING THE SAME INDEPENDENCES?? WHAT IS OUR TRUE IDENTITY ? ARE WE JUST TALKING JUST TO LOOK LIKE WE ARE SAYING SOEMTHING ,BUT THE REALITY IS OUR JAWS ARE MOVING BUT NOTHING IS BEING SAID!!!! WHAT IS THE POINT IF WE CAN NOT BE AUNIFIED BODY THAT HAS ONE UNIFIED POLICE STATE AND REGIONAL BODY THAT NEEDS NOT THE PERMISSSION OF THOSE WHO WANT TO RECOLONISE US AND REMAIN OUR PERMANENT RULERS. THESE THINSG MUST BE OBJECTED TO . IN ORDER TO CIRCUMVENT THESE FOOLIES AND INTRUSIONS WE NEED TOO UNITE OUR MILTARIES WITH A NATIONAL FORCE AND AN ECOWAS FORCE THAT IS MADE UP OF THE BULK OF ALL TROOPS FROM ALL THE STATES. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO HAS MORE OR LESS MEN. WHAT MATTERS IS THE QUALITY THE PROFESSIONALISM THE COMPETENCE" AFRICANS ECOWAS NEEDS TO TRULY LOOK AT THE WORDL CRISIS WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND YOU. AT ONE STAGE IN AFRICA THERE WAS MINIMAL CONFLICT AND THINGS LOKED TO BE HEADING FOR STABILITY AFRICA SEEMED TO BE HEADING FOR TOTAL UNITY THE DIASPORA ROUND THE PLANET WERE CHATTERING THEY FELT OPTIMISM THEN OUT OF THE BLUE OUR ENTIRE CONTINENT IS UP IN FLAMES. I AM SURE YOU SEENTHE FFORT THE WEST USED IN PROVIDING CONFLICT IN IVORY COAST THEN LIBYA . THE TIDE OF CONFLICT IS BEING PUSHED BY THE US IN SYRIA AND INTHE ENTIRE CONTINENT HWERE WE HAVE INSURGENCIES. LISTEN TO THE WORDS THEY USE AND HOW THEY SPEAK THEY ACT AS IF THIS IS THIER WORLD ADN EVERYONE IS UNDER THIER RULE. THEY EXERCISE NO RULE OF INETRNATIONAL LAWS THEY DO WHAT THEY FWEEL LIKE AN ARE RESPONSIBLE TO NO ONE. THEY ARE WHO THEY CRITISES EVERYONE ELSE OF BEING A RROGUE STATE. THEY SPREAD DISSENT AND CHAOS EVERYWHER, WHEN WE LISTEN TO THEIR RHETTORIC IF ANY ONE DOES NOT LIKE THIER GOVERNMNET THEY SHOULD HAVE ARMED REVOLTS AND BE PREPARED FOR EGIME CHANGE. THEY ARE NOW DECIDING ON THE MAP WHO SHOULD HOLD OFFICE AND WHO SHOULD NOT""" THIS A VERY WORRYING DEVELOPMENT THEY ARE CIRCUMVENTING ALL FORMS OF DEMOCARCY AND NOT GIVING PEOPLE IN SOVEREIGN NATIONS THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHOICES FOR THEMSELVES. THESE ARE ENSLAVERS THIER MAHCNIATIONS HAS NOT CHANGED THEY A CALLOUS AND DISRTUPTIVE PEOPLE, THEY HAVE ALLIED THEMSELVES WITH OTHERS SIMILAR IN CHARCATER AND PERSONALITY AND HAVE OTHERS BEING COMPLICIT AND SUBOURDUNATE WHICH IS HWERE THEY WANT TO HAVE THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. HOW IN A WORLD THIS 21ST CENTURY WE HAVE PEOPLE TELLING US WHO WE SHOULD BE FRIENDS WITH AND HO WE MUST SPEND OUR MONEY WITH. SUPPOSE WE DONTWA NT TO SPEND OUR MONEY WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE ??? WHAT ARE THEY SAYING WE MUST!!!! WHO SIAD THAT SUPPOSE WE DONT WANT TO PENALISE OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE THIER NATIONS CITIZENS WILL FELL THE WEIGHT OF SUCH AN TRAVESTY THEN WHAT WQE MUST BE COMPICIT? ARE THEY USING THIER MILITARY PROWESS TO HAVE SUBJECTED PEOPLE ROUND THE PLANET. ARE WE OS IGNORANT THAT THEY CAN DICVTAE TO US WHO WE CAN TALK TO AND WHO WE CAN NOT. ARE WE GOD FERAING PEOPLE OR DO WE FEAR THE FALSE MIGHTV LITTLE MEN?? DO WE NOT BELIEVE THAT THE "ALL MIGHTY GOD"S OUR TRUE DEFENDER? DONT WE KNOW THAT" HE" KNOWS ALL THINGS AND "HE "KNOWS THAT THIER CONCEIT IS NOTHING BUT CONCEIT AND THEY HAVE NO POWER TO EXERCISE OVER YOUR MINDS. THEY HAVE NO WILL TO TAKE AWAY YOUR SOULS ,THIS HAS BEEN ORDAINED FOR "THE KING OF GLORY"." HE" KNOWS THIER EVIL WAYS AND KNOWS THIER LITTLE PLANS, YET YOU ARE ALLOWING YOURSELVES TO BE COMPLICIT WITH CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY."HAVE YOU EVER HEARD " MISERY LOVES COMPANY" "SATAN FINDS WORK FOR IDLE DOERS". SHOULD YOU BE CONCENTRATING ON A PERFECT PLAN TO UPLIFT THE ECOWAS REGION THEN NOTHING SHOULD BE ABLE TO CIRCUMVENT THAT. "OUR LORD" WOULD IGNITE YOU WITH THE POWER AND THE STRENGTH OT DO AS YOU WISHED AS LONG AS IT WOULD BE IN THE INTEREST AND BENEIFIT OF HIS GLORY AND HIS WORKS"THE PEOPLE MUST BE FREED COMPLETELY FROM ALL THE TYRANNY OF THOSE WHOM ARE ENSLAVERS !! THEY ARE STILL INFLICTING LOSS OF LIVES POVERTY MISEDUCATION MISDIRECTION THEY ARE STILL MISLEADING OUR PEOPLE. WHY IS ITN THAT OUR CHILDRNE ARE BEING KILLED INTHIER INFANTCY OR IN THIER YOUNG PRETEENS AND TEENS WHYB IS IT YOU ARE LIKELY TO SEE AFRICAN YOUNG MEN WIT GUNS INSTEAD OF COMPUTERS AND PENS. THIS IS HOW THEY DESIGNED THE PLANET TO REFLECT THIER THINKING. WE HAVE THE MOST WEALTH SO WE MUST OWN THE MOST GUNS SO WE CAN OWN THE MOST DEATHS. WHILE WE TAKE EACH OTHERS LIVES THEY SIT BACK AND STEAL OUR WEALTH. THIS IS WHAT I MEAN BY COMPETENTS AND PROFESSIONALIMS. WE HAVE SLDIERS ILLTRAINED UNEDUCATED ETC. WE NEED TO PUT OUR MINDS TO WORK UTILISING ALL OUR EXPERTISE GETTING ALL OUR PEPLS MIND INVOLVED WITH SOME TYPE OF TRADE OR ANOTHER WHAT YOU NEED TO DI IS GET MORE PROFESSORS OR TRADES PEOPLE WITH THE RIGHT TECHNICAL KNOW HOW INVOLVED WITH THE PPEOPLE. RIGHT NOWWE MUST SEEK TO BANK ORU OWN MONEY AND NOT TIEING OUR FUNDS WITH STEALTH DECEIVERS THIEVES AND CON ARTIST. WHAT WE FIND NOW IS WE STEAL FROM OUR PEPLE THEY STEAL IT BACK FROM YOU SO WHY DO THAT WHEN WE CAN WORK TOGETHER TO BUILD SOKID INSTITUTIONS. CERTAINLY YOU MUST SEE THAT CORRUPTION DOES NOT WORK THE WIZE SOLOMAN SAID " CORRUPTION IS THE DEATH OF A NATION""HOW WIZSE IS THAT?? HAVE YOU SEEN CORRUPTION WORKING TODAY WE SEE THE WEST IS P[LAYING A HEAVY PRICE FOR CORRUPTION AND WE CAN NOT GET STARTED BECUASE OF CORRUPTION SO WOULD IT NOT BE WIZE TO COME TOGETJER FORM ONE SOLID UNION WORKIMNG OF THE BENIFIT OF EACH OTHER??? WE MUST USE STRONG LINKS TO TIE US TOGETHER IN DEATH AN LIFE "ONE BLOOD ONE LOVE ONE LIFE ONE DESTINY"