2023-05-08 17:34:02
After the announcement of the resumption of street demonstrations by the Forces vives de Guinée, the High Command of the National Gendarmerie and the General Directorate of the National Police threaten to crack down on what it describes as “violence on the Leprince road” .
The security authorities accuse “violent young people” of erecting barricades at certain places on Le Prince road to attack peaceful citizens and the police. “The perpetrators of these acts will be tracked down, arrested and brought before the competent judicial authorities”, warn the authorities.
While some see it as a threat once morest the Forces Vives, the executive secretary of the National Council of Guinean Civil Society Organizations (CNOSCG) welcomes the decision of the security authorities. “The Axis is increasingly becoming a risk zone, an area where every time there is a demonstration, citizens are in danger. Whatever the measures, the State must take them to ensure that the other citizens who live there who are not involved in these disorders can be protected because it is their obligation. The demonstrations are becoming recurrent and have come to nothing with zero results for almost 12 years”, criticizes Ange Gabriel Haba.
According to him, the approach of the Forces vives de Guinée is not coherent, because only a framework for dialogue might get the country out of the current crisis. “If it is true that we all have the same agenda for the prosperity of this country, the best solution is to sit down with the other Guineans around the table, to discuss to find more acceptable approaches which preserve the lives of the citizens. and favor the general interest of all Guineans without exception”.
And to add: “I believe that we must put this kind of practice behind us because it is the low people who pay the price and it is a minority who continue to grant themselves advantages to the detriment of the general interest. Those who call themselves forces vives, who continue to despise other political parties and civil society organizations as if they had no right to discuss around the same table as them. They think they are more Guinean than others, they want an exclusive dialogue and it is deplorable because we are in a reform transition for democracy and the rule of law. We must not use contemptuous language for other Guineans who are also fighting for peace in this country. We are not in electoral competition, all political parties are equal, no party should be privileged to the detriment of the other”.
The FVG are calling for a series of demonstrations on May 10, 11, 17, 18, 24 and 25 in Greater Conakry. The objective is to demand in particular the opening of a frank dialogue under the mediation of ECOWAS, the end of judicial harassment once morest political leaders and the release of political detainees.
For the time being, no prospect of cancellation or postponement of the demonstrations is envisaged by the Living Forces which, moreover, refused to respond to the invitation of the religious, this Monday, May 8.
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