2024-03-19 19:11:48
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Obviously, the self-appointed rectifiers and vigilantes are struggling to properly maintain the common house of which they have by force, on September 5, 2021, monopolized all the management levers, in particular the state apparatus.
Their profession of faith, the scathing indictment of the old regime, will have left public opinion naively believing in the arrival of a savior prophet. Alas, it was just another dose d’opium served to the people to lull them back to sleep, like a community of eternally apathetic individuals.
Two years after their emergence on the public and political scene, put to the test of the daily management of the State, with all its constraints, pressures, and challenges, we realize that the CNRD at each sunrise, turns increasingly with its back on its own commitments, taken nevertheless on oaths sworn on our ”holy books”. Oaths which, in hindsight, should have been made without our holy books.
Than to take advantage of each glimmer of the rising sun, to show us the horizon illuminating our faces with hope, the tomboys of Alpha Condé announce to us with signs that do not deceive, the great despair, in short, dark days.
For more than 24 months, the daily life of the Guinean in all areas of public life has constituted the perfect illustration of his progressively degrading situation. So I won’t dwell on it.
However, I would focus on the two categories of actors in the city and public life of our country that the CNRD, with rage and hatred, has chosen as adversaries. The significant political class, and the press which sticks its finger in their wound. Like a leviathan, it (the CNRD) vowed to defeat them. But worse, to crush them, outrage them, and humiliate them.
The two great figures of the political class (SidyaTOURE, Cellou Dalein DIALLO) humiliated and driven out of the country, the leviathan turned to the disturbing press. However, to this press, we promised in the transition charter: Freedom of the press and publication.
The phenomenon of jamming of radios, restriction of television channels and information sites for several months, is the complete opposite of the commitments made, of the oaths made. And the sadly bleak assessment of the CNRD on this fact today is, at the very least, 500 jobs mortgaged in press companies. 500 workers who had a salary before September 5, 2021, who today have become unpaid, unemployed, therefore the laughing stock of their families, of their living environments. Men and women that the CNRD is gradually transforming into destitute because they are unable to pay their rent, ensure their children’s education, or even provide meals. Meanwhile, the new leaders of two years ago have become the nouveau riche, the new aristocrats of the country sheltered from all social risks, unconcerned with all basic social needs. But more serious and cynical, insensitive and impervious to the hell they put us through. But for their information, individuals in this corporation are certainly suffering today, but it continues to show them that of resign themselves, these media will resist to continue to exist by other men and women long after the CNRD is in power.
The missed opportunity to rectify the transition
While the dissolution of the government led by Dr. Bernard GOUMOU gave the impression of a renewal of hope among the people, it was simply a gallery show. Than to propose a government of broad openness towards political entities and civil society hitherto left in margin of the transition, the CNRD will renew almost half of its criticized and dissolved government. New entrants made up of people drawn from the bottom of the CNRD pyramid and inveterate propagandists. While it delivers this kick to these aforementioned classes, the CNRD, as if to taunt them further, decides to unilaterally continue its transition until 2025.
Let us wait to discover a tomorrow that they guarantee to be peaceful, but which promises to be not at all reassuring.
Mamadou Oury DIALLO