My General, here is what I wrote on September 9, 2021, a few days after your successful putsch of September 5: “Phew, honor is safe: the Guinean army has finally succeeded in the first coup d’état in its history! She finally dared to depose a despot who believed himself to be invincible! The courage and self-sacrifice of Lieutenant-Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya deserve to be saluted. Personally, I thank him for making me spend one of the most Sundays of my life. Knowing that my country got rid of a head of state as harmful as Alpha Condé (without doubt, the worst that Guinea has ever known) is a real deliverance…”
This shows that I was enthusiastic about your arrival in power, an enthusiasm shared by the majority of Guineans as your first speech was inspiring. However, I put a damper on this enthusiasm, scalded like everyone else, by the disastrous experiences of the Kaki power: “To my knowledge, Yakubu Gowon, Sangoulé Lamizana, Jerry Rawlings, Thomas Sankara and Ali Saïbou are the only African soldiers to have brought something positive for their people. Everyone else plunged them into the endless cycle of misery and repression. Which way will the destiny of Lieutenant-Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya lie? Only the future will tell us. »
You were then only an illustrious unknown, but your destiny seemed clear-cut. Our incurable naivety as Guineans made us believe that you were the savior, the long-awaited Messiah, the miracle man who was going to get us out of the bottomless hole into which your diabolical predecessors plunged us. Three years later, we are forced to become disillusioned. You bring together in you the cruelty of Sékou Touré, the corruption of Lansana Conté, the hysteria of Dadis Camara, the notorious incompetence of Sékouba Konaté and the Machiavellianism of Alpha Condé. In short, you are 5 disasters in one! No one wants you anymore and you know it!
How, my god, can we miss such a promising destiny in such a short time? If you had kept your word, if you had been content with a brief transition while fully respecting the Charter, you would have returned to power one or two terms later, by being elected in the first round and you would have registered your name in letters gold in the glorious history of this country. But no, you have reproduced one by one the bullshit of your predecessors, encouraged in this by the hungry mouths that drool around you to cover you with false laurels and the more than dubious glory that goes with it.
We were expecting a new Rawlings, another Dadis Camara is here. It’s sad for us, it’s especially sad for you. However, I warned you: “As for our new president, he must realize the considerable burden weighing on his shoulders. I invite him to say nothing and do nothing about what has been said and done in this country since 1958. Something new! the people of Guinea need something new. If like Rawlings (I hope he quoted it on purpose!), he succeeds in embodying renewal, if like Rawlings, he succeeds in getting rid of the harmful influence of relatives, to regenerate hope then, he will quite naturally become the most beautiful figure in our modern history. But as I said yesterday on RFI, if he has the misfortune of imitating his horrible predecessors, then he should know that he will end up like them. In the mud! »
We don’t fool with History, General Mamadi Doumbouya. The path you have chosen to follow is a dead end. Respect the Transition Charter, it is from it that you get the little legitimacy that covers your putschist nudity! Meet the December election deadline and go! Don’t end up in the mud like Alpha Condé and Dadis Camara did: leave while there’s time!
Go!
Tender Monenembo
2024-09-27 20:12:45