The Komsilga healer and her eight co-defendants appeared before the judges of the Ouaga II High Court for the second consecutive time. At the request of the defendants’ lawyers, the court decided to firmly postpone the case to September 6. But in the meantime, Lady Adja remains in prison. Anyway, according to the firmness of the president of the court, the case will be judged and a verdict will be rendered.
This case, which should be part of daily trials, unfortunately constituted a showdown between the executive and the judiciary and therefore made headlines. Indeed, following the intrusion of soldiers into the Ouaga II court to release the lady when the prosecutor had already issued a warrant of committal against her, the magistrates’ union immediately issued a press release calling on all magistrates to suspend all judicial activities. In fact, it was effective for at least a week. The healer will now be detained at the Armed Forces Remand and Correction Center (MACA) pending trial.
It was after all this that the Head of State came out on the same and had made remarks which, obviously, had appeared offensive to the Superior Council of the Judiciary which had not failed to react. On September 6, as they demanded, the healer who we tried to exfiltrate from the court and who we kept at the Armed Remand and Correction Center will face the judges to answer for the facts. which he is accused of. From now on, its fate is in the hands of the magistrates who must say the law, and nothing but the law.
Justice is a power independent of others whose role is to enforce laws and texts. In the specific case of the healer of Komsilga, justice will therefore be called upon to apply the law in all its rigor. And it is Adja, she alone who will suffer the consequences of any sentence that will be pronounced by court.
Recall that the prosecutor accuses the lady of acts of complicity in intentional assault and battery, endangering the lives of others and kidnapping. These facts were noted in a video that circulated on social networks.
As for the penalty she may incur, article 328 of the penal code in force in Burkina Faso says: Is punished with a prison sentence of two to three years and a fine of 600,000 CFA francs to 1,500,000 CFA francs, or only one of these penalties, any person guilty of wounds or blows or other violence or assault.
Ben Alassane DAO
