2023-04-18 05:29:34
The heart, the reason and to a certain extent the law are naturally the main guides which preside over our choices, our orientations as to what we would like to do with our lives.
But if in the traditional milieu, the vast majority of which is made up of people who are not educated in letters, to use an expression dear to René Descartes, the choices and orientations in the face of any situation seem much more to be justified by the heart or the degree of exposure to manipulation, in literate circles on the other hand, it is customary to expect the subject to detach themselves from all these forms of influence to give a cachet that is both rational and free to their positions. These can largely thwart a political system or a strategy in place, but in principle they cannot lack the aforementioned cachet.
And yet, it is indeed this mark or this formative allure legitimately expected which seems to be lacking when reading the articles published by Professor Farmo Moumouni, each time it occurs to him to pronounce on the political context and Niger’s strategic choices or even the security context in the Sahel.
It is as if the Professor made the deliberate choice to assign tailor-made hats to the three countries affected by a security context which even the ordinary citizen is capable of reading without appeal. In fact, in his recent article, the Professor depicts an unrecognizable situation, more like a fantasy, following a logic of agenda always aiming to condemn the Nigerien regime to scorn, while it proceeds to award medals to the Malian and Burkinabè regimes, despite the fact that the latter are still struggling to convince tens, even hundreds of thousands of their citizens to stay in the territories where they were born.
And the irony of fate is that these same citizens who become de facto refugees are draining towards Niger, the only country to truly share their pain, where they are welcomed in the greatest African tradition of hospitality. One is therefore entitled to wonder how normal human beings might make such a choice if the risk in the host country was more obvious or even greater. This is a question of simple reason, Professor, far from the bookish developments to which you have unfortunately accustomed us.
Niger, your Professor country, has been welcoming citizens of neighboring countries for more than ten years and it would be daring to believe that this is a coincidence. Even the giant Nigeria has seen its citizens drain towards Niger and we remain convinced that the image that all this beautiful world of refugees retains of our country is disproportionate to the sculpture that you are trying to present to those who swallow without blow do your writing. The security apocalypse that you foresee for your country, from the bottom of your supposed relevance, is rather opposed in reality, an obvious security of which the citizens of neighboring countries, living the context in their flesh have not missed the opportunity to capture profits.
And the better to drown your readers acquired for the supposed common cause, Professor, you had no hesitation in sending them back to these puerile and recurring reflexes whose only function seems to us to be to produce this excitation without real object, and in which all would act in the same way without having the same goal. The supposed and thorny march towards freedom to which you allude is really too old a song, better a password intended to excite the gullible, at the same time as to hide the weaknesses of the regimes that you have chosen to protect with your pen.
Rather than being able to defend them through results, you grant them the right to mediocrity on the altar of the steep mountain they are climbing. In the meantime, you are making a clean sweep of Malian and Burkinabe citizens who are losing their lives in this march, of which you and your proteges are the only ones to have the secret.
For our part, we remain both serene and lucid and nothing beats the results in our eyes, for the safety of our populations. As such, we retain that the only motive for your support for the Malian and Burkinabé military regimes remains and remains your aversion for the civil and democratic regime in place in Niger.
And when, as you say, we persist in presenting Niger as an island of peace, this is far from being a view of the mind in view of the context which is common to us with the said pilgrims of freedom that you support . In the face of facts and in terms of the fight once morest insecurity, even in these two countries, the civilian regimes have done better than the military regimes that govern them today. In Burkina Faso, statistics show that in six years, from 2015 to 2021, under the Kaboré civilian regime, the country had recorded around 6,000 deaths.
On the other hand, during the single year 2022 of the cumulation of the regimes of the two officers who had decided to take responsibility for the others, the country had recorded more than 4,000 deaths. This amounts to saying that the rate of disappearance of Burkinabés was multiplied by four following the coup d’etat of January 2021.
In Mali, where a supposed rise in power of the army has long been sung, citizens are still waiting to know the number of municipalities or villages under the influence of terrorists who have been released. Of course, all of this would accommodate the painful and very slow march towards freedom, from which Niger would be conspicuously absent.
Niger, your country, cannot but be proud of its results, Professor. Apart from the fact that it is the only country in the area of the three borders to have full control of its borders, the only one able to take the greatest risks, the most perilous initiatives, it remains to this day the only one where the large-scale attacks by terrorist groups on combat positions remain and remain difficult. As a reminder, on February 25, 2022, the President of the Republic Mohamed Bazoum told the Mahatma Gandhi International Conference Center to take steps to make such attacks difficult.
To date, it is safe to say that this commitment has largely been kept. Even the ambush of last February 10 had intervened on a unit on patrol. And to mark the difference from those who have deserted their border to seek freedom in their capital, it was on Malian territory, a refuge for terrorists, that on March 17, the Nigerien army had imposed a scathing setback on the alleged responsible for the February 10, 2023 ambush.
By Asmane Saadou
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