The withdrawal of diplomatic passports from ministers and senior state executives decided by the Prime Minister continues to fuel debate within national political opinion. If other political actors and certain Guinean citizens appreciate this measure from the transitional authorities, this is not the case of the President of the RRD party.
Contacted by the editorial staff of the online daily Conakryinfos.com, Abdoulaye Kourouma criticizes this way of withdrawing ministers’ travel documents: “ This way of withdrawing these passports creates doubt even among members of the government. This also creates doubts among the population from the moment when other, more professional ways could be the subject of withdrawal or press release of withdrawal of passports or even to reduce the travel of ministers without this creating doubts. Because the way the passports were withdrawn led to a lot of doubts between them there. As they are ministers, it was necessary to find the right formula for the withdrawal of passports », Explains the president of the RRD.
Recently, in a media release, the Minister of Territorial Administration, Mory Condé, addressing this subject, indicated that the withdrawal of passports is entirely logical:
I don’t know of any organization where the passport given to a person stays with them after the service. The service passport and the diplomatic passport remain the exclusive property of the Guinean State. The Prime Minister and members of the government are free to let executives keep them or remove them.
An explanation that the former member of the National Assembly denies: “ I listened to the Minister of MATD on Fim Fm, who said that even in institutions, service and diplomatic passports are withdrawn after the trip, I disagree. It doesn’t happen like that, it’s not true. When you are given your passport, you cannot leave without a mission order, but your passport is never taken away. There may be emergencies. The minister does not know how diplomatic passports and services are managed, what he said is not true ,” reacted Abdoulaye Kourouma
For the president of the RRD party, the diplomatic passport is managed at the level of the President of the Republic: “ The diplomatic passport is an act of sovereignty of the President of the Republic. He can even give to a Burkinabè if he wants, and he can give to a trader if he wants. I ask myself the question, a president who gives the privilege to a trader by giving him a diplomatic passport, how can he deposit his passport after his trip, it doesn’t happen like that. The minister does not know », declared this Monday, October 30, 2023 the honorable Abdoulaye Kourouma of the RRD
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