Haruna,
If any our sympathy should be to the people of La Guinee for what looks
like a double-down of pirates and hijackers in control of their lives
all over again.
Malanding
Haruna Darbo wrote:
> We mourn the passing of General Lansana Conte', second president of La
> Guinea since independence. May Allah forgive him and may the Almighty
> guide Guineans with his infinite wisdom.
>
> General Lansana's passing before legislative elections in La Guinea is
> the flux that La Guinea cannot afford. I am confident when Prime
> minister Soare' yielded to demands for legislative elections last
> week, this was weighing heavily on his mind and that of the military.
> Now it is inevitable that the two elections must be held at the same
> time and it will not be pretty. However, I think La Guinea can weather
> the storm. She will need help from neighbours Mali, Senegal, Ivory
> Coast, Burkina Faso, SierraLeone, Liberia, and Guinea Bissau, and her
> development partners during these tenuous times.
>
> I encourage the military to stand firm and dispel rumours of
> gratuitous coups. They must not allow rag-tag outfits to hijack La
> Guinea's future once more. Opposition parties and trades unions must
> also be wary of these marauding bands of hopeless infantrymen. A
> military coup is not in the interest of opposition parties, trades
> unions, students, and or La Guinea's development partners.
>
> It goes without saying that the mining contracts signed by General
> Conte' for both RIO Tinto and Benny Steimetz are null and void. I am
> sure the two mining concerns understand that and that they will have
> to be re-negotiated by the newly elected government of La Guinea. I am
> very disappointed at the World Bank for the unwise decision to
> underwrite the Rio Tinto deal and equally disappointed at General
> Conte's brother-in-law for his part in encumbering La Guinea with BSG.
>
> It is now a matter of necessity to complete expeditious elections,
> both legislative and Presidential, funds or no funds. It will be
> difficult because the PUP has convinced itself that the logistics and
> funds were not available for the legislative elections and they
> encumbered themselves with a cockamayme biometric system. Now
> the military must assist in ensuring free and fair elections in the
> shortest span of time. It will be wise to seek additional military
> support from Mali, Senegal, the Ivory Coast, and perhaps Nigeria, to
> maintain the peace and order while La Guinea's military gets to work
> on the elections. All hands on deck.
>
> Haruna.
>
>
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