The untrammeled exercise of power, without legal or moral restraint is the bane of many countries across Africa. That is why the abuse of power tends to manifest itself in a more grimly way amongst our peoples.
It is not that politicians in other societies are not wilful or whimsical (just look at how Tony Blair threw away his party and country to act as subaltern to Bush) but there are other institutions that can check-mate them or restrain them and control their excesses.
These will include the formal separation of powers between the Executive, the Judiciary and the Legislature and the functionaries of the State.
But outside of that are other autonomous and independent institutions and organisations that offer alternative centres of power and consensus building on values and goals of their society so that politicians and their hirelings are not the alpha and omega of the affairs of the State.
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