After 43 years of inhumane rules, he is set for another regime. His rule is known to be the most corrupt and oppressive in the world, according to most domestic international observers. He sets the constitutions in his favor, became a man of sweeping powers, and decreed to himself a power to rule. Obiang is the world's longest-ruling president of Equatorial Guinea who has turned the position he got as a result of a military coup into a royal status. He accused his predecessor who was his uncle of being corrupt and brutal in his regime but similar blood runs in them as him as well continues his worst leadership as an authoritarian.
The democratic party of Equatorial  Guinea he formed in 1982 severely curtailed the freedom of assembly and association.
The mismanagement of the country's treasury has posed a huge constraint on the economic growth and infrastructural development of a country of just 1.5 million people. Obiang took control of his country's treasury in 2003 in a campaign of preventing civil servants from engaging in corruption but in the pretense of looting. He then diverted half of billion dollars into 60 different accounts belonging to himself and the family in the US at Riggs bank in Washington, DC. Likewise, his son allegedly inflated the fund for the country's construction and infrastructural development and lived an affluent life in the better part of the world.
The questions of unprecedented greediness and endless monger for powers of African leaders remain to be solved over many years in the past. The rules of strong men in the past such as Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Seko, Robert Mugabe, and many others, among them are those who are in a tussle for power with the colonial masters while most are obedient slaves or puppets serving the interest of their masters at the detriment of the development of their citizenry
A critical observation on the subject reveals that most of the heads of state in Africa who served longer terms in government such as Theodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea a former military officer ruling since August 1979 and Paul Biya a Cameroonian politician who has served as the president of Cameroon since 6 November 1982. Paul Biya is the second-longest-ruling president in Africa and the oldest head of state in the world. They both govern their nations like an old dynasty ruling system. It's quite obvious to see their citizens live below the poverty level whilst the president and their families lived a luxurious life with extravagance spending on property acquisition in Western worlds.
The 21st-century reality is that Africans are still under foreign colonization but in a different format called neocolonialism; the puppet leaders are serving the interest of their colonial masters to the detriment of their citizens. If not, why have the recent African migrations skyrocketed from a wealthy land with an abundance of mineral resources to the western world where puppets kept their nations stolen resources?
African nation's leaders are chosen directly by foreign powers and those who steal power through military coups without the consent of their masters is overthrown or assassinated. Until Africans understand this dilemma and can confront it, then the hope to live happily is not feasible till this evil ends.
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