End of impunity: Gbagbo Capitulates

Ivorian strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, and his inner circle, including
Simone Gbagbo and Ble Goude, the vocal leader of the militant youth
wing of Gbagbo's party are all under arrest.

Gbagbo is the lates of Africa's dinosaurs yet to fall. It took five
and a half years, French Special Forces in Cote D'Ivoire known as
LICORNE, The United Nations Peacekeeping Force known as UNOCI, the
economic community of West African States, ECOWAS, Five African Heads
of States mediating, US president Barack Obama, French President
Nicolas Sarkozy, UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon, and thousands of
civilian lives for Laurent Gbagbo to understand he had overstayed his
welcome.

Irrespective of the results of the elections, and just for
humanitarian reasons, the right thing for any great statesman to have
done would have been to gracefully put the interest of the nation
above individual quest for power, and to resign.

Instead, he went rogue, and was fished out "a la" Saddam Hussein from
his bunker.

Now, he will be paraded infront of the world, and the trioka, Laurent
Gbagbo, Simone Gbagbo and Ble Goude at the very least bear direct
responsibility for the atrocities committed during their watch.

Leaders of other African countries like Paul Biya of Cameroon who have
elections this year should learn from this experience. The era of
impunity in Africa is over.