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African leaders should treat their former presidents with more dignity because currently “we are being seen as animals”, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has said.

Obasanjo told a tale of how Zambia’s independence leader and first president Kenneth Kaunda, who is now 93 and was hospitalised on Wednesday, was treated by his successors over an apparently trivial matter involving books.

Obasanjo was speaking at a French Embassy event in Pretoria on Wednesday night at the launch of the French translation of a book he co-authored with three others, including writer and consultant Greg Mills, called “Making Africa Work”.

“I came to Zambia when president Kaunda was being harassed, and I thought in Zambia, or any other country in Africa, we should treat our past presidents with a little bit more dignity,” he said.

Kaunda’s successor, Frederick Chiluba, was unhappy with Kaunda during the handover of power after Kaunda’s party lost in a snap election, and Obasanjo asked him what the matter was.

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“If president Kaunda had done anything that is wrong, deal with it humanely, but let me know what exactly he has done so I can go to him as my elder brother. And what he said to me, is president Kaunda removes all the books from the shelf in the State House, and I said: ‘Is that all?'”

Obasanjo said he went to Kaunda and asked him what was the matter. Kaunda said there was “not a single book” when he moved in, and all the books in the shelves were his.

Obasanjo said he went back to Chiluba and offered to “go around the world and collect more books” from the printers and publishers he knew to fill up his shelves.

Obasanjo said he told Chiluba to treat Kaunda well, because he was the first president to have the opportunity to treat a past president well.

Obasanjo said he also spoke out when former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was “being treated like an animal in a cage” when he had to face various trials in Egyptian courts before being acquitted earlier this year.

Mubarak was deposed in 2011.

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Look at this old man that's suppose to be in prison by now. A black man naturally is backward nd unintelligent. F*cking out of here smh.

The presidency is not a chieftaincy issue, it a constitutional office.

The problems with most Africa leaders is that they think Government should be run like a village where elder have the final say as if there is no constitution.

shut the fuckup you corrupt man of steel

Amongst these ex leaders, whom should I dignify??

Obasanjo
Jonathan
Buhari
Abacha
Abdulsalami

And why??

They all ruin Nigeria

I believe there will come a leader that will bring all those past leaders to justice, they can't get away with all the evil they have perpetrated.

If you performed well, you will be treated well. Treating an under performed ex president like animal is fair enough. OBJ you are a failed leader, you are suppose to be treated like a millipede.

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If you are expecting a Job, you will find one.

If you are hungry, you will be filled.

I bless you Day and Pray that you continue to grow from strength to strength.

To the Downtrodden, I encourage you to get up and fight for your life. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

To the Heart Broken, Cheer up! There is more to life than a failed marriage, relationship and business.

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