African leaders have various ways of extricating themselves from any harm they may cause their peoples while in power. Sometimes they concoct constitutions that explicitly says that they would not be held responsible for any action they took while in office, like Paul Biya has done in Cameroon. At other times, they just hang on to power until they die, making the whole question of answering for their actions moot. This time, however, it is the African Union that has taken a sweeping action intended to ensure the irresponsibility of leadership in Africa. The Assembly of the African Union (AU) has decreed that all sitting African leaders have immunity from prosecution against any genocide or war crimes they might commit. A group like the AU assembly that is made up of people of suspect political activities such as Paul Kagame, Omar al-Bashir, Paul Biya, Blaise Compaore, Yahya Jammeh, and Robert Mugabe, among others, can only come up with such convenient extrication for their crimes.
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