The standoff between the Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), several of whose members are in detention, and the military junta in power continues. After the violent demonstrations recorded last weekend in Conakry resulting in deaths, injuries, arrests and significant material damage, the social movement is still in its boots and demands from the CNRD a rapid return to constitutional order.
This Friday, August 5, 2022, the FNDC hosted a virtual press conference to announce not only the end of the truce from 10:30 p.m., which it had decreed last week, at the request of General Umaro Cissoko Embalo , President of Guinea Bissau and current President of ECOWAS, but also announce the continuation of his fight through actions. In the field next week, Guineematin.com learned from one of the FNDC officials.
Abdoulaye Oumou Sow, FNDC communication manager
During this press conference, the leaders of the citizens’ movement announced that they had informed the current president of ECOWAS of this decision: “We wrote to President Umaro Sissoko Embalo, current President of ECOWAS to announce the end of the truce he had requested from the FNDC a week ago. Unfortunately, we note together that the junta in power is not ready to open a framework for inclusive dialogue to discuss the modalities of a return to constitutional order in our country. She is in a posture of confiscating power and muzzling dissonant voices, ”explained Abdoulaye Oumou Sow, the communication manager of the FNDC.
For his part, the head of strategies and planning of the FNDC, Sékou Koundouno, has great doubts regarding the CNRD’s “fight once morest corruption” actions. For the civil society activist, the leaders of the ruling junta are not as virtuous as they make them believe: “Today, the assets of some CNRD members contrast with their salary in the army. Doumbouya tell us how did he get the building that is under construction next to the Sino-Guinean hospital? Let him tell us how he managed to get his villa in Dubréka and the villa where his mother is in Kankan. Because his salary in the army as a Colonel is only 3 million and a bag of rice. We must not make fun of the intelligence of Guineans. I take a second example, it is that of Colonel Balla Samoura. Travel to Kountia and look at the villa he built there. Come to Lambandji in his first residence. Count the number of rolling vehicles that Balla Samoura holds. Also count the number of vehicles that Doumbouya owns. It is mocking the intelligence of Guineans to make them believe that they are virtuous, respectful of the principles of good governance “, denounced Sékou Koundouno.
Sékou Koundouno, in charge of strategies for the FNDC and General Administrator of the Cellule Balai Citoyen
Speaking of the non-publication of the list of CNRD members, the head of strategies and planning of the FNDC, reveals that: “ These people make us believe that they are virtuous, so far we do not have the list of names of the members of the CNRD. How can a hooded nebula claim to give examples in terms of management of the Republic while we do not know who takes official acts in the name of the people of Guinea? Within the CNRD, there are drug traffickers who have been arrested, convicted on the side of the United States and repatriated. They do not have the courage to appear before the people of Guinea because we will all be surprised how such individuals, who have no morality, can claim to lead this country. We also know that they have economic operators accompanying them. So they say to themselves that if they present such a list, they risk proving to the public that these people helped them in order to be able to overthrow the regime, certainly which was also equal, of Mr. Alpha Condé », recalls the head of strategies of the FNDC, who has been in Europe for a few months.
Finally, the FNDC announces that: “As of this Monday, gradual actions will be announced to indicate what will be done by the movement to force the junta to create conditions for the return to constitutional order. So, this evening, we are going to speak with the current president of ECOWAS to explain the situation to him, since we are respectful of the sub-regional institution”, promised the FNDC, engaged in a merciless fight once morest the authorities. of transition.
Abdallah BALDE for Guineematin.com
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