Notwithstanding the calls of several political, traditional, religious, civil society or ordinary citizens for his total release, the former president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, remains under house arrest, surprisingly without this disturbing the movements of the human rights. On the other hand, those who are still overflowing with fervor and devotion to man, multiply meetings and media outings, to alert national and international public opinion to the abuses of the new regime, brandishing the “sequestration scandalous” by Roch Kaboré as proof. Last week, the People’s Movement for Progress (MPP), party of the former president, and the Coordination of Organizations for the Liberation of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, led by a former official of the latter, again denounced once forcefully, the homebody life forced upon their champion. And to make itself heard more, the Coordination had planned a protest march last Saturday against what it describes as a serious violation of the rights of President Kaboré, but it had to fall back on the Burkinabè Council of Chargers (CBC) where it brought together its activists and sympathizers following the refusal of the town hall of Ouagadougou to authorize its street demonstration initially planned to take place at the symbolic human rights roundabout, a stone’s throw from the private residence of the former president. The gendarmes in combat gear and the robocops who had to ensure compliance with the decision of the authority, therefore did not have much to do; the organizers of the event having contented themselves with regretting the banning of the meeting which confirms, according to them, the liberticidal character of the military regime, since the latter, only four months old, is not up to it try in the non-authorization of this kind of demonstration.
The current diet should avoid tripping and falling where its predecessor broke its ribs
One can also wonder why so much excitement on the part of the government each time the fate of the former president is mentioned. Why filter visits to his home when he is not the applicant? And for what reason do we prevent him from coming and going without hindrance? What is the junta afraid of, especially since the president has obediently agreed to leave office, and would even be ready to keep a low profile so as not to hinder the progress of the transition? Not being in the secrets of the gods, it is difficult to have precise answers to this series of questions, but one can all the same imagine that it is more for their own safety that those in power have decided to ” gag” the child of Tuiré who certainly knows a lot about the responsibility of certain dignitaries of the transition, in relation to the setbacks suffered by our army in the face of terrorists and the failure of our counter-terrorism strategies while he was to business. Revelations on the circumstances of his departure from power, on the Inata dossier and on other ultra-sensitive matters could splash some of his fallers, even if he himself obviously risks not coming out unscathed from the gust that this could cause. President Damiba would be risking a lot, in fact, if compromising things for him or for his lieutenants came out of the mouth of his predecessor, especially at a time when terrorists are in steamroller mode against civilians, especially in the East and in the Sahel. , and while the largest agricultural region of Burkina, the Boucle du Mouhoun, is in danger of catching fire, with the recently lit fuse in the Kossi. The latest reports communicated by the General Staff of the Armed Forces, reporting several dozen terrorists massacred in Bourasso and Barakuy in the Kossi and in Bourzanga in the Bam, clearly show that the army has not bent its back before the enemy. Far from it. But to win this asymmetrical war of attrition, it is necessary, we can never repeat it enough, that all Burkinabè join hands by making a clean sweep of the political and/or ethnic problems that may have opposed them. The current regime, which seems to want to combine the stick and the carrot for a definitive way out of the crisis, should therefore avoid stumbling and falling where its predecessor broke its ribs, by ostracizing those it drove out of power, believing or making believe that the latter are the basis of all the misfortunes of the country. National reconciliation, which is on everyone’s lips today, will unfortunately be in vain if the current authorities, by their actions and gestures, give the impression that they have misunderstood the aphorism according to which “the best defense is attack”, by attacking political adversaries, instead of finding the formula to bring the people to work together and to go together to “neutralize” the common enemies of the Nation who are the terrorists and their accomplices proven.
Hamadou GADIAGA