Military Take over in Guinea.

The leaders of a military coup D'etat in Guinea will meet members of the nation’s ousted cabinet on Monday to discuss a transition of power. 

The meeting was called by the coup leader, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who also replaced regional governors with military commanders. President Alpha Conde was detained by the special forces. The 83-year-old leader has so far resisted pressure to resign. Observers say that tensions between Guinea's president and the army colonel stem from a recent proposal to cut some military salaries. Do you think the military is acting in its own best interests or those of the people?

Profile of #Mamady_Doumbouya Guinea's new strongman!

 Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady DOUMBOUYA who overthrew the President of Guinea Conakry, Alpha Condé on September 5, 2021 following a coup d'état, is a big Malinké from the Kankan region. He is a former French legionnaire until 2018.

 He is also a commissioned officer of the School of War, with more than fifteen years of military experience, in particular during operational missions (Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Central African Republic) and close protection (Israel, Cyprus,  United Kingdom, Guinea).

Mamady DOUMBOUYA brilliantly completed the specialist training in operational protection at the International Security Academy (Israel), the training course for unit commanders at the Infantry Application School (EAI -  Senegal), the training of staff officer (EEML Libreville) and the Paris War School, ”adds the director of information and public relations of the army.

 Alpha CONDÉ made him leave the French army for the Guinean army to put him at the head of the Special Forces Group, specially created in 2018. This elite body of the army is a real army in the army. Mamady mission was to fight terrorism.  At one point, this man who saw himself threatened and dismissed (he was transferred to Forecariat, a border town in Sierra Leone), therefore decides to turn against "his boss".

 During the year 2021, he tries to make the Special Forces Group less dependent on the Ministry of National Defense, which arouses suspicion of the Guinean authorities. In May 2021, there were even rumors of his arrest.

This September 5, 2021, he announces the arrest of the President of the Republic, Alpha Condé, the suspension of the Constitution and the government, as well as the closure of the borders.  Citing "the socio-political and economic situation of the country, the dysfunction of republican institutions, the instrumentalisation of justice, the trampling of citizens' right.

The speech by colonel Doumbouya 

 Dear compatriots,

 Our gesture today is not a coup d'etat but an inaugural action to create the conditions for a state.  More precisely a rule of law.  Because the political history of our country, marked by violence, injustices and inequalities, proves that in Guinea the will of the strongest has always supplanted the law.  Since independence, the authoritarian spirit has triumphed over the spirit of the just and the reasonable.  And it is moreover because we consider this deeply abnormal and unjustifiable situation that we have decided to act, to make a gesture around which we want to mobilize all good conscience in order to get our country out of the political

 Dear compatriots,

 Our action is not a coup d'etat.  It only reflects the legitimate aspiration of people to want to live in an environment where basic human needs can be met.  Where it is possible for everyone, without fear, to enjoy life, to study, to take care of themselves, to work humbly without being subjected to the constraints of informal networks.  Where finally power is responsible for its population.

 In this way we want to reconcile the political and the human.  Our gesture is therefore nothing other than the expression of our desire for dignity which you certainly share with us.  However, it is because respect for our dignity has been flouted since 1958 by a minority which confiscates power and its economic advantages that we have taken the initiative, summoned by a sense of duty, to create the conditions for a new  political and social departure.  The action we are taking today is therefore a first step.  An inaugural moment.

 Dear compatriots!

 

 We have no prophetic mission.  It is not the people of Guinea that we want to save, but Guinea above all.  For a people cannot be saved when the space in which they live is hell.  You have to put out the fire first.  It is this role of firefighter that we wanted to take on.

 Our country does not suffer from a lack of human resources, even less is it a victim of precarious natural resources.  No: our ills are called lack of political courage, tyranny of money, extraversion, lack of collective morality.  What we lack and have lacked are men capable of translating this wealth that is Guinea politically and economically.

 Our problem is not even the lack of democracy, but the lack of vision, political and social value.  It is to put an end to this willful blindness, which has made Guinean's life miserable, that we are now deciding to shoulder our responsibility.  So that we Guineans can finally achieve lucidity, that which the rule of law requires.

 From Guinea's external partners, we are not necessarily asking for financial support, but for your understanding.  Before you brandish the idea of ​​state restoration, ask yourself beforehand if there ever was a state in Guinea.  Before waving sanctions, find out if the sanction has still not been the hellish lot of Guineans, from Sékou Touré to Alpha Condé.

 We challenge our unjust condition.  We believe that our political situation is unacceptable and is humanly reprehensible.  We therefore hope for moral support from you.

 We invite all those in charge of civil society and the various political parties to an emergency meeting so that we collectively emerge from this inaugural moment and begin the second stage, that of organizing Guinean society under the principles of the State of  law.  This will essentially include a reorganization of the military to put an end to its long and tragic politicization.