2023-04-23 18:02:45
The Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Mamoudou Nagnalen Barry took advantage of the aid-El-Fitr to speak [sur sa page] of a subject that has been in the news for several years: arson of plantations in Lower Guinea. For him, “Since the advent of the CNRD, and my appointment as Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, I can confirm that the majority, if not all, of the so-called “criminal” fires published on social networks in Lower Guinea , are fake, unreal, imaginary and stateless, because they unnecessarily tarnish the image of our country throughout the world, and discourage certain investors”. Reaction…
PLANTATION ARRES, BAD BUZZ OR SCAMS?
“(… Certainly, our country has experienced plantation arson in the past. There are also non-arson fires that attack houses, shops, villages and plantations. But since the advent of the CNRD, and my appointment to the post of Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, I can confirm that the majority, if not all, of the so-called “criminal” fires published on social networks in Lower Guinea, are fake, unreal, imaginary and stateless, because unnecessarily tarnishing the image of our country throughout the world, and discouraging certain investors. while, thanks to state support, this young person resumed his activities a year ago, in complete safety.
On FIM, Espace and Djoma, I invited the media, which all have my number, to share with me the contact details of anyone who is the victim of a “supposed” arson attack so that we can take action immediately. The three cases that have been brought to my attention since I became minister were accidental for two cases, and a scam for the third. Our brother Singleton’s case didn’t look like foul play, and the victim wouldn’t press charges.
The best-known case, that of a lady who was allegedly twice victimized in Kindia, turned out to be a scam the second time, when I deployed the teams to identify ways and means to help her. For the first time, I had asked his contact to the journalists of Espace to call him, but I did not have a follow-up. As I know this is generally not true, I did not insist. The second time, it was thanks to a journalist from FIM that I got his contact. I immediately called her, she mightn’t stop crying because of her losses of around 50 million. I immediately called my Inspector General to mobilize resources and find him a domain on one of our secure sites. Except that she had made inconsistent statements. Thus, the ministry and the federation of pineapple producers went to her field, to notice that there had been no new fire as she claimed. Worse, it had multiplied by ten the area that would have been burned in February. I had wanted to sue her for attempted fraud, but the sages asked to let her apologize and drop the charges. What was done.
We are not saying that everything is perfect, but we are repeating that at some point, if you have a certain amount of patriotism, you have to stop spreading unverified bad news regarding your country, our country. It seems that some are happy when bad news reaches their own country. We have nothing to gain from it. The countries we envy have people who have understood that the image of the country depends above all on the image that each citizen sends of him. We are available to support all victims of arson as far as possible for legal proceedings, and also to relaunch themselves in an interest-free loan mechanism. We would like to remind you that agricultural activity is a lucrative activity whose risks must be borne by the promoter”
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