The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 19

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 19

Black Water
The forests of Africa around
the equator are not called the
tropical rain forest for
nothing; they are
characterized by one thing,
rain and a lot of it. Tetuan
falling into this belt was not
different from the other
places that was in this
vegetation range, forest that
was green all year round and
trees that grow so tall,
thatthey almost hide the
volcanic hills that characterize
the small country which made
the terrain difficult to walk or
pass through except by
people who are used to the
country’s terrain. There are a
few roads through the forest
even though the country is
blessed with diamonds and
other precious stones.

The stones which had the
potentials to bring the country
out of obscurity and poverty
turned out to be a curse on it
like most countries in the
world. Years of blissful
leadership under a citizen
oriented military rule was
thrown away as external
influences forced the military
to relinquish power to a
democratic rule and that’s
when the problems started.

The military leaders came
from training that the people
were the most important
people in the society and
were trained to respect and
out the citizens ahead of their
own selfish interest. During
this time, Tetuan grew to be
one of the pride of West
African and although did not
exact much political authority
outside its borders, it was
acountry which had a strong
internal trade, a rich culture
and citizens who were proud
of the purple flag.

Water and electricity was
provided for its population
which was not too much and
food was grown from their
own land as the government
subsidized fertilizer and
provided seedlings for the
farmers, they wereexporters
of cocoa seeds and banana.

Tobacco was also a valuable
export and they had an
upcoming oil palm industry.

A lot of their citizens were
educated and ended up
working in the country as
they were conservative and
did not ask for much. The
military although lacked the
vision to set up home grown
corporations and companies
knew enough to give the
citizens what they need. They
ensure that the mines were
sourcing for the majority of
their employees from the local
work force and also that the
funds from their resources
were put to good use.

Corruption was discouraged
as a short drop from the hang
man’s noose made sure it was
not attractive to people who
wanted togo into it. The
military had big neigh ours
like Nigeria and Ghana
running her finances as they
did not have banks to run it.
The country was an active
member of ECOWAS and OAU
as it paid its dues as at when
due and did not have
problems with their
neighbors until the citizens
who the military government
sent outside on scholarship
came back and started
pushing for a democratically
elected government. The
protested and backed by the
imperials from outside the
continent, they fought the
military government with
propaganda, the battle
between the idealist and the
government was peaceful but
long, the companies which
handled the mines were
hoping the military
government would relinquish
power as they had t pay heavy
fines to the government and
they did not like that. They
also paid for environment
degradation and were forced
toemployed people they did
not want to as they preferred
to bring their own staff from
outside and they pitched their
tents with the so called
“progressives” and they
financed them heavily. They
paid for television and radio
commercials which sent
messages to the people that
democracy was better than
military rule and showed
pictures from foreign
countries as they said that
was the dividends of
democracy and that the then
government was
mismanaging their funds and
their lives would be better if
they had a democratically
elected government. Western
governments which were
spreading their gospel of
democracy being the savior of
the new world also joined
their pressure on the people
to reject the government.

Eventually, the government
bowed to the pressure as it
did not want to be unpopular
with the people and because
they saw the civil wars
breaking out in the nations
surrounding it as it turned the
people’s lives around and
threw countries into hell and
caused massive humanitarian
issues. The military
government organized
elections which were majorly
between the western
educated politicians with their
new ideas andthe ones who
were educated back home.

Theforeign one who had a
better understanding of how
politics work and knew that
basics of elections swept the
offices and resumed power of
the country’s economy and
resources but there was a
problem. During their
campaigns against the military
government, they made some
promises to the mining
companies and also to the
foreigncountries who helped
them out and the countries
came back to collect.