Kibwe Chipo
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Kibwe Chipo | |
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 Chipo at Omamiri International Airport in 1988 | |
| President of Tiwura | |
| In office October 1, 1986 – July 28, 1994 | |
| Preceded by | Alichie Uchey |
| Succeeded by | Mowiya Sekoni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 3, 1952 Omamiri, Tiwura |
| Died | October 5, 1995 (aged 43) Omamiri, Tiwura |
| Cause of death | Execution |
| Nationality | Tiwuran |
| Political party | Tiwuran Preservationist Front |
| Spouse | Azuke Ngwo (m. 1975) |
| Children | 5 |
Kibwe Chipo (3 July 1952-15 October 1995) was a Tiwuran politician and President of Tiwura from 1986 to 1994. He came to power in the controversial and disorganized 1986 Tiwuran Presidential Election, and would instate Mwo nationalist policies. The actions of his government would result in the Second Tiwuran Civil War, and would eventually be deposed by the Military Council, and eventually captured and executed by rebel forces.
Chipo was born to a poor family in 1952 in Omamiri. He was the son of a fisherman, and was the first of his family to attend university at Fairmaidenton University. His two older siblings were killed during the First Tiwuran Civil War, and his family was forced to flee Omamiri until 1970. At university he would change his educational pursuit from business to law, and would found the politicial newspaper The Fairmaiden Society. Many articles would praise Obie Chinwe for his actions and also showed his prejudice against the Gundaya, attacking Ndulu for his attempts to appease Gundaya nationalists. He was imprisoned until 1975 by the Ndulu government. While imprisoned Chipo would sneak out letters to his peers, these letters would become organized into the National Call to Action, which Chipo establishes his political complaints against Ndulu and calls for Mwo students to protest Ndulu.
In 1976, after his release, Chipo would lay low politically and stayed at new home in Gafobodo in Okwuta, where he would study polticial ideology and read biographies on historical figures from Rafael Duclerque to Marta I. In 1979 and 1970 Chipo would attent two socialist conferences, where he was eventually kicked out for his remarks. After this rejection by the TSO, Chipo would begin writing the Preservationist Call to Action, and establish Preservationism. He would also utilize the growing economic crisis of the 1980s to call for revolution, and in 1984 he would found the Tiwuran Preservationist Front after Alichie Uchey announced elections in 1986. His party would gain the favor of several military leaders, who used their forces to influence voters and coerce polls. In 1986, on election day, Chipo would win barely.
Upon rising to the presidency, Chipo would immediately purge the government and military of political rivals. He would also outlaw local government, centralizing power to the Tiwuran national government. This decision came out of accusations against local leaders that they supported insurgent operations. This lead to massive outcry amongst the wide array of political opponents he had, but dissent would be heavily cracked down upon with mass arrests against former local government rulers, professors, and activists who disagreed with the Preservationist Front. Chipo would immediately face international backlash, and saw relations sour between Euclean powers and Tiwura, most importantly Estmere. These came out of increasing expulsion of Eucleans from Tiwura if they criticized the central government. Estmere also saw less involvement in Tiwura as well, which led to less military cooperation and economic ties. This heavily included lack of foreign investment into the oil industy, which was a major eocnomic cause for the crisis of the early 1980s. This all led to Chipo cutting ties with Euclean, and Coian, powers, declaring self-sufficiency and isolationism. Chipo's domestic policy then got more brutal with the creation of the State Preservation Bureau, which would assassinate and torture major political rivals and activists. In the late 1980s, Chipo began instating several laws severely limiting Irfanic religious practices and instated martial law in Gundayaland and the west. These factors led to the rise of Ashavazdaru Haroun and Mowiya Sekoni, who would form the Tiwuran Alliance of Peoples in 1990 and launch a rebellion, beginning the Second Tiwuran Civil War.
Chipo relied heavily on experiencesd commanders to conduct military operations, and was able to hold a stalemate from 1991-1992. With supplies running low and morale dwindling, Chipo would order a large chunk of the TAF north to carry out a plan to eliminate the capacity for the Gundaya People to wage war. This would be the Gundaya Massacres of 1992, where around 800,000 civilians would perish over the course of a few months of the TAF's invasion and reoccupation of Gundayaland. This saw a large international outcry, mainly with Asase Lewa joining the rebel forces and intervening in the civil war, pushing the TAF out of Gundayaland. In 1994, Chipo's Military Council belived he was too incompetant to fight, and put him under house arrest and deposed him from office. By the end of the war, Chipo was captured, tried, and executed by the new Tiwuran government led by former rebels.