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Why instead of serving to build the future of nations, alliances between parties and politicians, in our Africa, they are so often formed to destroy opponents who were allies yesterday and will be again tomorrow, to serve to destroy others opponents, old friends themselves?
“In Côte d’Ivoire, all politicians are jokers! …So spoke earlier this week at the microphone to RFI special envoy, a rather angry Ivorian. What can such a final verdict take? And what reasons drive a citizen to such a degree of difficulty that encompasses the entire political class?
It can only be a cry from the heart. What, moreover, can easily take over for themselves, many citizens of other states, especially in this French-speaking Africa that concentrates so many worrying exaggerations, that can exactly trigger such reactions. In the first sentence of the term, he probably referred to a lack of seriousness among the politicians he indexes. We feel disappointed, in the face of the tendency of political leaders to break their commitments, once in power, and to adapt the rules of the democratic game to their mood, so as never to be upset. By constantly reducing everything to their current interests, politicians can really irritate to such an extent.
At one point or another in the rather turbulent history of Côte d’Ivoire, all those who, from Abidjan to Brussels, oppose or ally themselves today, have been in coalitions, some against each other, with each other … And how many camps, how many clans have been formed or collided over the last thirty years to finally destroy the fate of this land of hope, which Félix Houphouët-Boigny liked to present as showcasing the best that cooperation with France can offer in Africa!
So what are these camps and clans?
We knew Soro, a student, under the influence of a mentor named Gbagbo, which made life difficult for Bédié, the president. Gbagbo and Ouattara then allied to fight Bédié, in power. Ouattara strongly opposed Gbagbo, the president. Ouattara and Soro, united in an uprising, to destabilize the power in Gbagbo, Ivory Coast with it. Ouattara and Soro fought a real war against Gbagbo. Ouattara, Bédié and Soro held the siege of Gbagbo, which they will eventually release from the presidency of the republic. Ouattara, the president finally, allied himself with Bédié and even canonized him by distinguishing him as “Ivorian Nyerere”, and that’s nothing! Together, Ouattara, Bédié and Soro, the Prime Minister, will agree to send Gbagbo to the ICC. Where some among them would not have been pale in the box of the accused, according to more than one. And ten years later, we find Bédié, Gbagbo, Soro, Afi Nguessan, the heirs of Robert Guéi, the relatives and allied families, united against Ouattara, who all claimed to know each other well. And yet they can still be taken and locked up even twice at home.
Should we conclude that they really are jokers?
If this is not a joke, it’s at least a little comedy. And we would almost laugh at it if, behind this disturbing spectacle, the plight of a people did not play out, who imagined first in class and discovered that they were not so different from the dunes and asked for a buoy to save an embarrassed international community as in its proverbial hypocrisy demands dialogue, urges, impersonal, to moderation. In this bad show, we are desperately looking for the good ones. Sometimes it is enough to cross the border, to find a living identical nightmare with equally bad scenarios, another people, other politicians! Here or there, it is necessary to fear that the spectators, if they can no longer, one day will soon enter the place and demand that they receive compensation.
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