Thanks for an interesting and enriching write-up Haruna. Have a good day. Buharry. ----Original Message---- From: [log in to unmask] Date: 2009-12-06 15:47 To: <[log in to unmask]> Subj: BBC reports Defense minister & VP captain Sekouba Konate has stepped in to fill the governance void in La-Guinea. When Lansana passed, the La-Guinea constitution had appropriated the head of the National Assembly to be interim governor until elections are held. The incumbent government of Souare' either in a haze of cluelessness as to what to do, or in a lazy attempt to perpetuate themselves, dilly-dallied on election mechanics even while the organisation of elections was at a relatively advanced stage with help from La-Guinea's partners and the EU. The hodge-podge of military encampments became restless and a loose coalition of military factions called the CNDD intervened. This loose coalition of CNDD, although undesirable to govern La-Guinea, presented at the time the most viable and credible consortium in La- Guinea's ethnically-divided population and military. They were able to pacify the equally-rifted police and gendarmerie thereby dousing the embers of endless mutinies and Police-army conflicts that have marred La-Guinea's fragile peace for years. The alternative and more benign consortium would have been a loose agglomeration of opposition political parties and the forces vives of La-Guinea forming an interim government while they guided themselves toward peaceful and fair elections. That push came all too late when they reacted to Dadis' attempts to entrench and perpetuate himself. It resulted in the La-Guinea murders and the subsequent resignation of some conscientious CNDD members. No effort was made by the remaining CNDD members to apprehend those culpable in the murders. Popular disdain and disgust forced an ECOWAS mediation regime headed by Compaore and a parallel UN investigative mission. There was no room for Dadis and the CNDD to comb over the heinous acts and as Dadis himself admitted he was not in control of the army, he had no choice but to accept the mediation by Compaore and the UN investigators. Not only did he accept these interventions, Dadis and Prime Minister Komara pledged to cooperate fully with the mediators and investigators. As expected, the ensuing and inevitable vortex threatened to consume the belligerents as they tried to blame each other for the crimes. It was later learned that the war on drugs, although sober and commendable, had a subplot to emasculate the virulence of foreign fighters who formed the bulk of the presidential guard with Diakite at the helm of that outfit. It was common knowledge since the Liberian civil war that drugs were the fuel that spinned that war out of control and that a cross-border Liberio-Guinean episode threatened to expand that war into neighbouring GUinea. As the Liberian rebels fled into border regions of La-Guinea to mismanage UN food aid, a crop of fleeing bandits with help from local criminals formed into a rag-tag unit to manage drugs and arms proliferation. It is this cadre of fleeing soldiers who were originally a band of ungoverned border locals belonging to both La-Guinea and Liberia, perhaps remnants of earlier expeditions into both countries, that now appears to be "foreign Liberian fighters". They have now found an expeditious and opportune ally in Dadis in his ill-considered putsch to replace Lansana. The two were actually allies but Dadis wished to turn the corner for La-Guinea's sakes. His mistake was instead of deny Diakite permission to handle the opposition rally at Conakry stadium and take his chances with disdain from Diakite's men, his pride got in the way and he allowed Diakite to go handle the "intransigent" but peaceful rally. We learned that Dadis had personally called opposition leader Sidya Toure to encourage him to call off the rally but that Hon. Toure had told Dadis that the preparations for the rally were far too advanced for he alone to stop. Besides, that it was a peaceful demonstration to which the opposition and civic associations had a sovereign right. After the murders by the red-berets, led by Diakite, Dadis was genuinely shocked and surprised. The lesson here is that no president ought to allow a hot-head to "handle" a peaceful public demonstration. Besides, the demonstration was in response to Dadis own ambiguities surrounding the high promise that neither he nor any member of the CNDD or the interim government would contest any office in the upcoming election. Dadis allowed himself to be lured ever so surreptitiously to create an atmosphere conducive to the murders. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the presidential guard was the managers of "Dadis Must Stay" vociferous lobby. Now, we learn that while Dadis is away, the defense minister (Sekouba) or leader of presidential guards (Claude Pivi) will take over the governing of La-GUinea. Why was it not ok for the leader of the National Assembly to act as interim governor of La-Guinea as they head toward elections that were already in advanced stage and it is now "ok" for Dadis' vice president or leader of presidential guard to become interim governor as crimes against the people of La-Guinea (that involved top echelons of the CNDD) are being prosecuted???????????????? Does that make any sense??????????????? If it makes any sense, I encourage Captain Sekouba to help a combination of the forces vives and La-GUinea's opposition parties form themselves into an interim government while he Sekouba and his military forces seek out the criminals and help maintain order in La-Guinea so that elections can be held with ECOWAS and UN supervision. 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