One of the many reasons why the DRC is where it's at now.... And Monday mornings every single employee for whatever company were mandated to spend about a half hour singing Mobutu's praises in the front of the business....

During elections then he was the sole candidate and people there were voting for either fidelity to Mobutu (Green card) or for "Trouble et désordre" (red card). If you selected "Trouble et désordre" you were most likely detained on the spot.

And the end is always not good for these self serving leaders. Another example is Nicolae Ceausescu, led Romanians with an iron fist but when the time came he was assasinated in on live TV by the same people who used to sing praises of him.

Mugabe used to do the same when i was in school.He used to commandeer school us in school line up the roads where he was passing and sing praises.Most of the time i ended up going home it was near the main road .I would make sure i stay indoors till he passed and the other kids were told to go home.