an influencer imprisoned after criticism of “insecurity” and “inflation”

An influencer Malian was imprisoned on Wednesday March 15 following harshly attacking the military in power and their “failure”, according to her, in the face of insecurity and inflation, the prosecutor’s office of the commune 4 told AFP. from Bamako.

Discordant voices are struggling to be heard without risking being worried under the regime of the colonels who took power by force in August 2020 by overthrowing President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. On Monday, another personality, radio and television host Mohamed Youssouf Bathily, known as “Ras Bath”, was placed under a warrant of arrest following declaring that a former Prime Minister who died in detention a year ago had been “murdered”.

Rokia Doumbia, known in Mali for her commitment once morest the high cost of living and widely followed on social networks, herself told an AFP correspondent that she had been arrested on Monday following a live broadcast on TikTok. She remained two days at the police station before being placed under a warrant for “incitement to revolt” and “disturbing public order through the use of information and communication technologies”, indicated a member of the prosecution on condition of anonymity. The information was confirmed to AFP by a relative of Rokia Doumbia.

“Under your governance, things are not going well”, she launched in her “live” addressed to the leader of the junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta.

“No Malian lives in peace”

“This transition is a failure with 0% (of results). I would not even give 1%, but 0%,” she said of the period of military government. supposed to precede the return, announced for 2024, of the civilians at the head of this country plagued by jihadist spread and a deep multidimensional crisis.

“No Malian lives in peace,” she said while the authorities regularly claim to have taken the initiative once morest the jihadists. “Insecurity is gaining ground everywhere,” she said.

“During my lives, people react by denouncing the soaring price of rice, diesel, oil and sugar. You did not make a coup for that,” she insisted. the address of the governing colonels.

“Time has proven IBK right,” she added, referring to Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, deposed by the military in a climate of exasperation of the population in the face of insecurity, corruption and the failures of the government. state, two years following his re-election.

A relative of Rokia Doumbia, speaking on condition of anonymity like many interlocutors now, said that she had been reported to the authorities by the Collective for the Defense of the Military (CDM ). The appeals of this organization, one of the most offensive supporters of the junta, are often followed by effect. The CDM, with obscure ties to the junta, had called on the courts to take up the comments of the host “Ras Bath”.

With AFP