A word uttered by Idriss Déby during his first campaign rally for the presidential election on April 11, Sunday at a stadium in Ndjamena, set fire to the powder. The opposition and civil society condemn a term in local Arabic that qualifies as “insulting” and cannot be properly translated according to them. The presidential camp is talking to him about a lawsuit about bad intentions.
The opposition has not disappeared for two days. She condemns “insulting and contemptible” remarks – “Ni ori lekou hak !!! Damboula hanakou (“I’ll send you shit! I *** you”) Proclaimed Idriss Déby -, which reflects on the entire Chadian people, according to her. “It’s unbelievable, a head of state can not say such things. They insult us all. Me, I take it on myself, I wash my hand with it. You can not say that, ”comments Ngarledji Yorongar.
Mahamat Ahamat Alhabo, him, speaks of an attempt at redirection by Idriss Déby to forget thirty years of powerlessness.
“While he was holding his meeting, the city was in darkness. We did not have water in the tap. This is the real balance. He had to talk about it, he had to explain to people what he was doing with all the money from exploiting and selling oil. Instead of talking about these things, this vulgarity. I think that’s pathetic. ”
The reaction of the presidential camp: “this expression should not be taken out of context,” explains Jean-Bernard Padaré, spokesman for the presidential party and for Idriss Déby’s election campaign. He recalls that the Marshal president spoke of the opponents in exile.
“It is not insulting to anyone who has lived or is living in Chad. So these stateless people or these unpatriots who are doing everything to smear Chad’s image. The President of the Republic, candidate for consensus, would simply say in these terms: “stop fantasizing, Chad is not for sale”. “
But nothing to do at the moment, hundreds of internet users continue to free themselves online since Sunday.
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