2024-07-11 06:32:34
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In a country considered the Water Tower of West Africa with heavy rainfall, especially during this winter period, it is shameful to justify power cuts by the drop in water levels in dams. In other words, in Guinea when it rains, the dams dry up, we learn from Electricité de Guinée (EDG) for the first time in history.
This is the height of ridicule.
Indeed, the evil is very deep.
And it is on several levels.
In three years, the new gravediggers of our economy claim to have invested several billion US dollars in the electricity sector.
To what end so far? Even the little investment that the fallen regime left in this sector has been reduced to shreds by the current governance.
The main cities in the interior of the country are currently plunged into an abracadabrantesque darkness. In Conakry, power cuts are legion and unprecedented to the great displeasure of households and businesses. It is the capital of darkness with its share of exacerbated banditry.
Every night inspires fear and uncertainty for the poor citizens, especially those in the upper suburbs, who are sometimes forced to barricade themselves under the ephemeral light of torches or a few candles that expose them to serious fires from another era. It is every man for himself in the face of the indifference of the narcissistic State and the anarchy that governs us.
Enough nonsense! To lull consciences, the apprentice managers speak to us, not without demagogy, of phantasmagorical investments in the electricity sector with, it is said, more than 300 million euros as a subsidy granted to the EDG.
Which reveals a serious deficit of transparency and governance in the sector if we look at the results produced.
In a state where corruption, nepotism and the unbridled race for personal enrichment reign, there is nothing more to expect from the leaders. Because they have neither empathy nor respect for their mandate, these people whose dignity is trampled on a daily basis by a brainless junta desperately trying to save the “furniture”.
I keep thinking of the many Guineans who, thanks to electricity, relied on their fridges where they could store their preparations and various other condiments or foods without fear of seeing them unfit for consumption. This very economical approach benefited many families, including most civil servants with precarious households.
Today, many of these fridges have become simple cupboards where rotting food is piled up, ready to join the countless garbage bins with their foul odors, thus depriving many families of food, hit hard by the high cost of living.
Furthermore, the lack of electricity has destroyed and continues to destroy thousands of jobs in SMEs, some of which are simply forced to shut down while others are barely functioning, forcing owners to lay off their staff, sometimes without any compensation.
Unemployment is at its peak and the malaise among young people is so profound, leading many of them into depression and depravity.
This is the great despair under the CNRD governance which, if it is not stopped in time, will inevitably lead the country into a massacre. The latest figures show that 29,000 young people have left Guinea for the West in the last two years.
A massive and very serious emigration considering its procession of dead, wounded and missing in the desert and the cold waters of the Mediterranean. Large open-air cemeteries that make Guinea lose able-bodied workers because the CNRD has adopted this unilateral and authoritarian method that sacrifices the future of an entire people.
Using idle and disoriented youths for a visit to the dams in order to manipulate public opinion is both shocking and revolting. To tirelessly lie to the people one governs is both to betray them and to disrespect them. Fanciful appointments with only ethnicity and cronyism as criteria cannot develop a country.
For once, be honest and acknowledge your mediocrity and your inability to find solutions to the ills that beset our country.
Guineans must face the fact that the CNRD has failed on all fronts and has lost all legitimacy in managing this transition.
Therefore, we need a civil transition with a civilian and national unity government whose mission will be to organize a salutary and peaceful return to constitutional order before December 31, 2024.
It is up to the Guineans to draw all the conclusions and to stop once and for all the infernal spiral of this transition which leaves only desolation in its wake!
Souleymane Souza KONATÉPresident of the ANAD Communications Commission and Communications Advisor to the President of the UFDG.