How can we remain indifferent to the cry from the heart that our compatriot Kalémodou Yansané launches to the different categories of our society, to intellectuals and religious people, in particular?
How can we not share the emotion that seizes him when he calls for the awakening of consciences, when he implores dialogue to save this country on the edge of the abyss while there is still time?
Dialogue, yes, but dialogue with whom? Dialogue yes, but about what?
Before providing the beginnings of an answer to these two determining questions, let us first take stock of the situation, point out what is blocking it and establish who is responsible.
What is it about? This is not a dispute. This is an infraction, nay, a desecration. Mamadi Doumbouya violates, in the eyes of all, the Charter of the Transition, a charter which, like any institutional text, has a sacred character.
No one imposed this charter on him, it was established in agreement with the Forces Vives de la Nation, it was endorsed by the international community. It is on it that our September 5 putschist took the oath. It was this cover-up that protected him from total legal nudity.
From the moment he himself trampled on her, his power no longer has any reason to exist. From January 31, 2025, he no longer enjoys any legitimacy, he no longer represents anything other than his own person, the Guinean citizen therefore no longer owes him any respect or obedience.
This cruel reality brooks no discussion. No legal artifice, no intellectual gymnastics can contest it. But as you yourself say, Kalémodou Yansané, the country is on the brink of the abyss, due to the bad faith of this regime which deliberately delayed both the constitutional referendum and all the other elements relating to the electoral timetable, we can always discuss to provide him with an honorable way out: we could extend the transition for a few months on condition that he solemnly renounces running as a candidate as stipulated in the charter which invested him.
We want to talk, but with whom? How do you want to communicate with a man who does not respect his given word? How can you trust a soldier who is not ashamed to break his oath?
-You see, my dear Kalémodou Yansané, the problem would have been simple if it was a dispute. The problem is that Mamadi Doumbouya is not in conflict with anyone. He is in conflict with himself. He is in conflict with his conscience.
He knows to what abyss his intolerable conduct is leading the country. He knows that this is not the first time that the peril of institutional hold-up has threatened the existence of the country.
He knows that Dadis Camara and Alpha Condé have already done this to us, the first for having tried what he is doing, the second for his stupid idea of a third term. He knows that his two predecessors are condemned for a long time to brood over their unforgivable error, one in a cell in Coronthia and the other, in his distant Turkish exile. Seeing him reproduce their stupidities trait for trait, we are entitled to wonder if he is not tempted to share their fate.
Dialogue, yes, my dear Kalémodou Yansané but not with such a man! On the other hand, another dialogue proves desirable and even necessary and urgent, it is the sincere and constructive one between political forces, civil society, unions, religious forces (if there are still any!) to put an end to to this dictatorship before it is too late!
Our elites must work to provide this country with solid institutions to definitively protect us from the round of despots (whether civil or military) and repeated transitions.
My last word will go to this fauna who are agitating around the presidency just to lick their fingers: this new dictatorship that you are building with lies and twisted tricks, you will be the first victims. This is not a prophecy, it is an inevitability.
Tierno Monénembo, whose birth name is Thierno Saïdou Diallo, born July 21, 1947 in Porédaka, Guinea, is a Guinean writer, winner of the Renaudot prize in 2008.
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