Today marks the 7th anniversary of the killing of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi on October 20. Deposed in 2011, Gaddafi was labelled as a tyrant, terrorist and a unrepentant dictator, and his legacy is contested. Was he really a bad leader for Libya?

Gaddafi remains a divisive figure, on one hand he is considered as one of Africa’s widely respected statesmen, an anti colonial hero and a proponent of African unity and economic empowerment. Gaddafi won plaudits from many Africans for his stance on the West and socialist ideas.

I did not know him personally
But respect in peace General.

Ever since his death Libya has never been the same.
The country has been suffering the repercussions of the Arab spring in one of the worse ways.

An Ode To Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (Copied)

A wildly and spotlessly popular among the Libyan masses, the earth's wretched, and even those in the rest of the revolutionary world, till the eyesore of his brutal murder, the tragics and haunting episodes, of his life points clearly to the truth of truth:

Depicted and portrayed as a tyrant and dictator by the western media. All sorts of media scoops were ceaselessly hatched and all kinds of media blitzes were mercilesly launched to create Muslim helots who overthrew Gaddafi, and pursued him in armored cars and trucks to his hometown Sirte deep in the Libyan Desert.

Western powers moaned and yelled doggishily, for cheap Libyan oil well and item markets, for construction and drilling projects, English and French origin companies as well as American multinationals, moaned daily like female hyenas when they stood to lose monetary gain, if Gaddafi remained entrenched in holy life and in power as the arbiter of Libya's destiny.

Gaddafi bleeped the French presence in Chad, as he did roundly criticize the United States over its foreign policy of Bullish syndrome, as he gloriously shielded the two Libyans who were accused without forgiveness of plotting and carrying out Vietnam like bombing of an American passenger jet over Lockerbie in Scotland that led to Kissinger-like killings, of hundreds of innocent civilians like in Vietnam.

Gaddafi's antics inspired acts of conscience and a genuine and fitting response to a life lived under mortal fear and terror of terror the fear of being tracked and hunted down by Western agents who were out to eliminate him with full backing from their governments.

Killed with such horrible cruelty with bayonets and gunshots, pumped into his royal head. And what were Gaddafi's last pearlish words to his assailants when he lay writhing in pain of death on the ground unable to move because of the mayhems
of his injuries and wounds:

WHAT DID I DO TO YOU?

Gaddafi had died like a Muslim Christ
on the American cross with no words of abuse or blame for his enemies, as they knew not whatever the folly they were executing.

History will have to wait for generations
before another soldier and such a leader
of Gaddafi's ilk and human mettle surfaces
again in the poor man's world to bravely taunt the West for its imperial perfidy and cowardice.

AmazonHippolyta:
Ever since his death Libya has never been the same.
The country has been suffering the repercussions of the Arab spring in one of the worse ways.

you are absolutely correct, things became worst for Libya after Gadaffi was killed, same with Iraq after Sadam was also murdered.

Libyans rebels were not happy to be fortunate. They are like a cursed who burns down his own house on purpose to be a starving homeless.

panafrican:
Libyans rebels were not happy to be fortunate. They are like a cursed who burns down his own house on purpose to be a starving homeless.

those Libyans no get sense at all, they allowed the white men to ruin their country.

omololu2020:
those Libyans no get sense at all, they allowed the white men to ruin their country.

They're doing the same here, while we're busy fighting over PDP & APC.

I remembered my Boss then telling on that day that Libyans will suffer more Somalians and Yemen becos Unlike those other two countries.
Libyans has never paid for anything in their life.
Gadaffi always provides them with basic things.
Free housing, 50% payment of any cars and free schools.
All other Arabs nation are so jealous of Libyans.
The Moroccans,Tunisians etc are always mad that Libyans don’t work yet get everything for free while we foreigners will do all the works.
UAE and Saudi supplied almost all the weapons for war against Gadaffi.
AJ, CNN and BBC killed Gadaffi and now they don’t report the worst news going on there now.