2024-05-12 11:16:58
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In recent years, Guinea has experienced a succession of socio-political and economic crises which have generated a climate of tension, mistrust and hatred. This is felt today in all spheres of our country, administration, schools, markets, etc.
When you analyze with objectivity and you see in your country the seeds that have led other peoples to violence and self-destruction, with full responsibility, you are challenged and you act with lucidity to ward off the worst.
Evils named hatred, ethnic manipulation, exclusion, injustice and arbitrariness have largely contributed to the aforementioned disaster attributable primarily to those who were in charge of the destiny of their nations, then blinded by the privileges of power.
But let’s return to Guinean hell which therefore testifies to the madness of men, proclaimed in particular by a group of so-called wise men, white beards, hearts of Satan.
Through tendentious remarks and the greatest ignominy, many of these bearded and/or mustachioed people of shame risk dangerously affecting our life together and dragging Guinea into cataclysm.
For my love for Guinea and for the respect I give to my compatriots, I cannot repeat certain comments heard in videos that have gone viral on social networks. Wise people who wrongly attack an important and respected community in our country. When it comes especially from the mouth of an individual whose primary role is to bring people together, it is irresponsible, unacceptable and dangerous!
Since 2010, Fouta has been the scene of all kinds of stigmatization, exclusion, insulting remarks and attacks at all levels. This resulted in destroyed plantations, wiped out businesses, dead and injured children and others forced into exile with complete impunity.
How can we talk about peace when divisionist remarks are tolerated and encouraged, when human lives are unjustly cut short, fields as far as the eye can see destroyed, shops and stores looted and burned?
We have seen youth movements supported by certain authorities attack the plantations of peaceful compatriots under the pretext that they are not from their region and this with complete impunity. The story is stubborn and will be told throughout generations.
We have said it and we will never stop repeating it, the Guinea of our dream, this united, hardworking and united Guinea will inevitably pass through a reliable, equitable justice system in the service of the law. A justice capable of guaranteeing equality for all citizens of our country and of deciding according to the rules of law and not according to the mood of the leader, from high places. Wasn’t the Minister of Justice Mr. Yaya Kaïraba Kaba recently indignant at the amateurism of a judge who called the head of the junta to ask him what fate he should reserve for a journalist whose only crime is for exposing the behavior of a wanton? We are crossing the Rubicon.
Political adversity must not lead us to knee-jerk irresponsibility with unfortunate consequences. My General under your ministry, the errors of the past are being reproduced with so much zeal and contempt that it is appropriate to question the real motivations of the coup d’état of September 5, 2021.
Let’s not push it to the extreme, by doing or letting these lost black sheep do, it will fall back on you!
Souleymane SOUZA KONATÉPresident of the ANAD Communication Commission and Communications Advisor to the President of the UFDG.