Even among those who are called intellectuals, there are moments of idiocy and madness. Struggled by their inability to change the course of events in their favour, a powerlessness that is now difficult to hide, Malian politicians, noisy but in the minority and ineffective, have nothing relevant to bring to the attention of public opinion that constantly quibbling over trifles. Weary after several attacks (Prime Minister divisive, partisan, not neutral…) to obtain the departure of Dr. Choguel Kokalla Maïga from the Primature, their great challenge, they have lately been fooling themselves into believing that they can corner the authorities of the transition to renounce outright all the relevant recommendations of the ANRs; in short, to force Colonel Assimi Goïta and the people to make a coup against the Malian people. If they had obtained the departure of Choguel yesterday, it is sure that they would have continued with the request for departure of Assimi himself. Thank God this Machiavelli scenario did not succeed.
Today, when we talk about the rediscovered sovereignty of Mali, there they are, crying out loud on the pretext that sovereignty had already been obtained on September 22, 1960. Damn, what do they call sovereignty? They have probably forgotten the words of Modibo Keïta calling for the construction of a “truly independent” country. It is because certain independences are indeed artificial, they cannot claim the sovereignty to which a worthy people aspires. Is it sovereignty when a country is obliged to deposit its currency in the treasury of others from where it can only dispose of it under the unjust and cruel conditions of the custodian of the deposit? Is it sovereignty when a State is forced to content itself with a monkey currency manufactured by its strangler who can at will turn the printing press inconsiderately for the misfortune of its weak consumer? Can we really speak of sovereignty when we produce materials whose prices are set by others? Can we claim sovereignty when unworthy rulers, in complicity with dishonest officers of the National Army, knowingly destroy our defense tool, by making our soldiers cannon pulpits for others? Can we reasonably speak of sovereignty when Florence Parly, Minister of the French Armed Forces, arrives in Bamako and announces the Takuba Task Force so that the President of our Republic learns the news at the same time as the average citizen of our country?
All of that is over now.
Yes, we have regained sovereignty and our will is not to do anything that could sell it off. But the renegades are already in another debate, idle as always, on secularism. But no, don’t break the eardrums of our precious ears. Professor Glélé, a respected scholar, says that the secular state is obviously not the religious state; neither can it in any case be the irreligious state. The secular State is the non-religious State, that is to say a State which does not interfere in religious matters and which is equally divided between the different religions…”. Let the noisemakers therefore stop pretending that it is hot in Mali as it is not hot in hell. It’s wrong.
Amadou N’Fa Diallo
Source : Le National
