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In Chad, the deputy general secretary and spokesman for the MPS – the party of Marshal President Idriss Déby – reacted to the accusations of the fleeting opponent, Yaya Dillo Djerou. Jean-Bernard Padaré disagrees with all the accusations, and he warns part of the opposition that wants to “make Chad ungovernable” in the run-up to the April 11, 2021 presidential election.
RFI: A little over a week ago, an elite corps opponent Yaya Dillo stormed home. He has since condemned a request by President Idriss Déby to get rid of a presidential candidate. How do you justify this assault?
Jean-Bernard Padare: First, it is untrue to say that there is a desire to prevent him from running in the presidential election. Second, it was not an elite unit that went there. He was the subject of a ruling. In carrying out this mandate, there was opposition from Mr. Yaya Dillo. Police officers had been injured and therefore these police officers called for reinforcements. Arrest warrants must be executed under the rule of law, and Mr Yaya Dillo is not above the law.
Are any weapons found at Yaya Dillo?
When Mr. Yaya Dillo tells you he was with his bare hands, everyone knows he was heavily armed inside FAMAS! And so the police were pushed back … And then they were forced to call in reinforcements, what are called third-degree forces. The reality, the truth is there!
Yaya Dillo denied the government’s claims, saying her mother was killed by a bullet coming from inside her home. He accuses the authorities of murdering her …
Exactly, everyone wants to know the truth about this mother’s death. Either the shot came from inside or there was a wild shot. Mr. Yaya Dillo is a citizen of Chad, he is an eyewitness, he must make himself available to the prosecutor in order to accurately help the prosecutor and the judicial system shed light on the deaths of two or three people who have lost their lives in this unfortunate affair. .
Do you think an autopsy is necessary to determine where the bullet came from?
Legal information is open. When the investigation is extended or deepened, only the public prosecutor decides whether the autopsy should be performed or not. But you know, our customs here are such that the remains are buried immediately after death.
The government talked about two policemen being killed in Yaya Dillo’s home the same day, which the opponent denied. Have they been identified? Have they ever been buried??
There is a video. I can send you this video shot by members of Yaya Dillo’s family who were there. They pulled the body out of a tank, it was not the government forces that killed their colleagues. You have to be a little serious!
Have the two police forces been identified by name?
But of course ! And the parents got the remains back to bury them. As much as we have two people from the family – including the mother who died – as we completely hide these two people who were on a mission! Nobody talks about it. It’s as if – excuse the expression – it’s dogs that have been killed and deserve it. If you want, we can make this video available to you at the right time.
We are almost a month away from the presidential election. Is not such use of force a bad signal, as the opposition points out??
It is not because we are a month away from the presidential election that Chad is to be an anarchy. There are leaders of opposition political parties who sometimes say they have withdrawn, sometimes saying that their withdrawal will be active … Those who create this disorder, their goal is to make Chad ungovernable. No one can prevent the election from being held because it is a requirement of the Constitution.
For months, the opposition has condemned a double standard, two measures in the country. She gives as an example the fact that President Idriss Déby can travel around the interior, walk, while the opposition can not even arrange simple meetings with leaders. It is systematically the opposite of measures to control coronavirus.
There is no comparison between demonstrations that people want to organize illegally – and moreover by unrecognized parties – and the state expulsion carried out by the President of the Republic in deep Chad.
The opposition condemns an increasingly authoritarian regime. Some even say that it is dictatorial – you have heard them – they point to the fact that after thirty years with Idriss Déby’s power he can no longer embody changes in the country. What do you say to them?
If Idriss Déby can not shed light on change in the country, it is by no means those who spend their time dividing the Chadians who would. The Chadians do not fool. The Chadians know that once the security of our country is reached, who is the one who travels the earth to go and donate his body. We saw it when the squid Boko Haram attacked in Lake Chad. Who is the politician who went out into the field to live with the military, to take up arms, to organize the counterattack against these barbarians? It’s Idriss Déby all alone.
Who is the politician who makes sure that we no longer talk about Chadians from the south, north or east and west as soon as we talk about Chad? If Mr Idriss Déby can no longer bring about change in Chad, but who would? It is them?
People who agree to say we do not want to go to the polls and who the next day – in the evening, in the afternoon – will submit the candidacy … People who say they want to be President of the Republic, and who is not able to go and pay the deposit? Is it among them?
Chadians are not puppets. We must respect them, we must take them seriously. They must be involved in the community project for the development of this country. This is what Mr. Idriss Déby has always done and will continue to do as long as God keeps him alive.
On the economic front and on the social front, people say the country has become poor over the last thirty years.
Chad became richer. Was Chad at this level in the 1980s? Today is nothing more than the standard of living of the Chadians, nothing but the development of infrastructures brought by the President of the Republic … We have the record, Chad has changed and we want to further improve Chad’s image, no insult to those who only think on their own interests. Idriss Déby Itno thinks of Chadians before he thinks of him, unlike these people. There are some that were made by Mr. Idriss Déby, created by Mr. Idriss Déby! And today they have become his best lawyers.
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