The
fury of the people descended on Burkina Faso, and the “Tower of Babel”
built by Blaise Compaore for 27 years crumbled. The furnace did not get
combustible in a day, it took remote and immediate causes before the
conflagration. Compaore seized power in a coup which ousted his friend,
Thomas Sankara, who was assassinated in unclear circumstances. He ruled
for 27 years with iron fist, and sought to extend his inglorious rule,
through an amorphous constitution amendment. After months of tension,
the dam burst on October 30, and the masses swept through parliament and
sacked him. They overwhelmed security agencies, and the tower came
tumbling. Compaore fell from grace to grass. The army, always in the
wings, have taken over. Lt.Col. Isaac Zidi now leads a transitional
government. We had the Arab Spring, now, it is the Black Spring. It is
not Eureka yet, as the Army, ever treacherous, cannot be trusted as
happened in Egypt!
Chief Imam Taofeek Sanni
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