Leaders flirting with MRC are nurturing a monster

By Otuma Ongalo

The revered Nelson Mandela is not a great man for nothing. He towers above other leaders when it comes to stating what he believes in. He is not swayed by mob mood and neither does he seek cheap popularity by telling an emotive crowd what it is eager to hear. At a time when the western leaders had poisoned the world’s mind against then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Mandela acknowledged the self-declared king of kings’ weaknesses, but told the Western leaders off when they protested his visit to Tripoli.