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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