Haruna



I know you are keen observe on sub-regional politics and thanks for key facts on the piece below. It is time that will proof but am just surprise about sudden campaign. Military in African politics are used to machination and current campaign for him to stay on can be part of his own making. He will be respected if h stick by his words and turns into silly and arrogant beast like Yahya Jammeh.

 





Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:26:36 -0400

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Subject: Re: Dadis Must Stay Movement afoot. Courtesy BBC News.

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Okhooo Karim, as my cousin is wont to quip.

 

I understand your anxieties yielded by prior frustrations and disappointments Karim. But consider this:

 

1. Dadis and the CNDD intervened in a timely manner.

2. They accorded Lansana a burial fitting a national official.

3. There was minimal or no bloodshed as a direct result of the intervention.

4. Dadis and the CNDD have retarded if not atrophied La-Guinea's otherwise sure decay in drugs.

5. Former officials who have had a hand in theft of the public purse have been apprehended and some of the loot has been recovered.

6. The port of Conakry has been put on surer footing and reports are that a turn-around is imminent. If it were'nt for the unfortunate global economic stringency (recessions), that turn-around would have been robust and quicker.

7. When some Presidential guard troops were found dishonourably wanting, they were made to crawl on knees to apologise to Dadis' second in command.

8. Prostitutes and johns are paraded on TV to curb the insiduous activity. It could have saved La-Guinea from the scourge of a pandemic H1N1 virus.

9. Dadis and the CNDD agreed to a timetable for end-of-year elections from which they recused themselves from participation.

10. Dadis and the CNDD have successfully opened up vigorous dialogue with civil society, political parti es, Labour Unions, and the diplomatic corps and regularly reassures them of the former's commitment to the schedule and their recusal.

11. La-GUinea's development partners in the UN, EU, AU, and ECOWAS have reviewed La-Guinea's work toward making good on their commitment. These organisations remain understandably unsure, but all indications are that the processes to yield the elections are proceeding with equally understandable sobriety and promise.

12. La-Guinea's neighbours in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Liberia are standing with Dadis and CNDD because whether or not they trust Dadis and the CNDD, what they fear may happen will surely happen when Dadis and the CNDD is abandoned to vultures.

 

I therefore encourage you Karim and all Africans, to walk side by side with Dadis and the CNDD if only to ensure our disquiets do not come to pass. Reckless abandon will surely make that happen. I don't know whether to trust or distrust anyone. All I know is that when good promises are made, and effort is being made toward those good promises, due diligence requires me to support such efforts and grow them where I can so that depravity and decrepitude do not gain a foothold. I beg of you Karim. We need folk like you when circumspect hangs in the balance.

 

Haruna. If you cannot overcome your suspicions and positively help Dadis and the CNDD, I encourage you to take a wait and see attitude. You would not wa nt failure just to be proven right in anxieties. There is too much at stake. La-Guinea citizens have gone through too much already.  





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From: abdoukarim sanneh <[log in to unmask]>

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Sent: Sat, Aug 15, 2009 9:24 am

Subject: Re: Dadis Must Stay Movement afoot. Courtesy BBC News.









Haruna

I really don't trust Captain Camara for any min. What is the reaction from him about the campaign. West Africa's unfortunate sad situation is criminals in uniform. I am really following the transition with keen interest.

 





Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:28:01 -0400

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Subject: Dadis Must Stay Movement afoot. Courtesy BBC News.

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Like the citizen movement for ATT, La Guinea citizens who are appreciative of Dadis and the CNDD's intervention and their subsequent declaration that no CNDD member will contest the upcoming legislative and Presidential elections, have decided to form themselves into a movement called Dadis Must Stay. This is the hallmark of an appreciative citizenry and in African traditions, it is most exalting to reward a humble20and self-deprecating leader. That is the context in which citizen movements like these must be viewed.And I acknowledge and appreciate such grateful citizens and I continue to admire and thank Dadis and the CNDD for their timely intervention in La Guinea's fortunes. However, because the contours of such citizen organisations cannot be readily defined, they could represent difficulty in the larger context of seamless governance. Dadis and the CNDD interventionists are right to have recused themselves from seeking office in an election they themselves are shepherding, albeit by an Independent Electoral Commission. The appearance of conflicts of interest trumps the value of an independent electoral commission when the governing authority is in National military regalia.

 

I therefore encourage the gracious citizens of Dadis Must Stay to continue to form, while at the same time I discourage Dadis and the CNDD from being enticed, if ever so surreptitiously, away from their commitment and focus to hold elections at year's end sans their participation. It will only be proper for Dadis and the CNDD to contest future elections when they do not hold national military office and or when not associated with the gallant CNDD. The CNDD will go down in the annals of La-Guinea's history as Fouta Djallon's Saviours. Like ATT, Dadis and the CNDD will have made me and Africa proud. Tandja is not good example. Allez!! Haruna. 













Guinea coup leader 'must stay on' 













 

Capt Camara declared himself president days after the coup

Supporters of Guinea's self-declared president, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, have formed a movement to call for him to be allowed to continue in office. 

Members of the new group, Dadis Must Stay, want him to stand for office in the next election, scheduled for 2010. 

Capt Camara has previously said he would not stand for the post. 

He emerged as the leader of a group of army officers who seized power in a bloodless coup in December 2008, after the death of President Lansana Conte. 

Aly Manet, who says he is a spokesman for the new movement, told the BBC's French service that the captain should be able to remain as president. 

He said all of the "healthy" and "patriotic" sections of society supported Captain Camara's continued rule regardless of what "obscure forces in the pay of the so-called international community" might think. 

The junta set up a new=2 0ruling body, the 32-member National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD), to replace the government and other institutions. 

They pledged to rid the country of corruption and improve living standards during a two-year transition, after which an election would be held. 

Capt Camara declared himself "president of the republic" the day after the coup, but he also maintained he had no intention of clinging to power. 

His rule has been characterised by eccentric displays of power - such as forcing members of the elite presidential guard to beg for forgiveness on national TV after they roughed up a veteran soldier. 

And several top officials, including the son of the late president, have been arrested and accused of drugs trafficking since the coup. 

Guinea, along with neighbouring countries, has become a major transit point for smuggling cocaine from Latin America to Europe.

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