Newsletter Lefaso.net Transition process after the coup: "We cannot make us the trial of any opportunism" (Evariste Faustin Komsimbo)

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Lefaso.Net: the coup d'etat of the patriotic movement for safeguarding and catering (MPRS) has been generally praised by the country's populations.What do you think ?

Evariste Komsimbo: This arouses questions because in general, a coup should not be greeted.We see at the outset in this case, that no one has come out in the street to challenge the fall of MPP power (note, people movement for progress).A coup is an exception.The rule is the democratic process.But it must be said, in the present case, a certain number of conditions have been met by the political actors in charge of business to arrive there.They put themselves in the margins of the aspirations of the people.I am not trying to justify the coup but it is somewhere explained.The elements of the MPSR, seeing the ship flow, made the decision, at the risk of their lives, to take their responsibilities.It is to save the community.This is how I see things.

Do you think the taking of power by the MPSR is a logical consequence of the decried governance of Roch Kaboré?

The coup de force perpetrated by the MPSR is of course the consequence of the mismanagement of the country by the regime and the MPP system.It is not only the person of Roch Kaboré who must be implicated.He did not manage power alone.It is true that he was the president, he therefore puts responsibility but it is the consequence of the mismanagement of the entire MPP regime.

What should be the first MPSR projects according to the GCAOT?

The sites are not as complicated to determine because there are not a thousand.The first is security, that is to say to reconquer the territory portions that we have lost due to terrorism.Then, we should think of the return of internal displaced people in their localities.The other component will concern governance.When I speak of governance, I am talking about the redefinition of the rules of virtuous governance.Governance that takes into account the interest of populations.Because the administration is there to serve and not to serve oneself.The last point, and not the least, which is linked to the political evolution of our country is reconciliation.If I have to sum up, this is security, reconciliation and governance.

Some analysts believe that the MPSR should base its command in Inata.Are you of this opinion?

When we do an analysis, it would mean that we made a diagnosis.For my part, we rather need a reorganization of our FDS (Editor's note, defense and security forces).The MPSR should take into account danger areas.In its time, I had proposed to create a command post in each chief town of the thirteen regions, to send substantial logistical means, IT and military devices.Material that can detect enemy movements 10 to 50 kilometers, air means and many men.If our men are massacred at the front, it is also due to the current format of our army.Because when you send fifty men against 150 to 200 heavily armed people, there is no match.Now that it is the soldiers who are in business, we are convinced that they will be able to have a clearer reading of the war strategy.From my point of view, their presence and their involvement can bring something.

There are also political parties that fear that the coup to be an attempted restoration of the fallen regime of Blaise Compaoré.Do you think there too?

Newsletter LeFaso.net Processus de transition après le coup d’Etat : « On ne peut pas nous faire le procès d’un quelconque opportunisme » (Evariste Faustin Komsimbo)

You know, personally since 2014, the day after the insurrection and after the 2015 elections, when I saw the results of the CDP (Editor's note, Congress for Democracy and Progress, Party of the Fallen President, Blaise Compaoré) in the legislative elections, I understood that one party cannot govern this country.You have to associate everyone.I do not enter into individual quarrels.What is important to me is Burkina Faso.It also earned me difficulties with certain personalities including President Roch Kaboré himself.We have advocated reconciliation, appeasement.Unfortunately, power was not in this dynamic.He was unwittingly there in a way.I am not a genius, but I still went to school and I know for a time, it is little Burkinabé society.

Indeed, there was much more bad faith.However, to have a real reconciliation, it takes sincerity.I also give you this confidence: former President Blaise Compaoré, at present, I can tell you his latest concern, is to become president of Faso again.All he wants is to get into his country with dignity and sink his old days there.I can tell you too, that President Roch Kaboré should know it.Because power when you lost it is over.Those who do this analysis are to mount the Burkinabè one against the other.They harm national reconciliation and peace so much sought after for the good of our country which is going through a deep crisis.

The Thomas Sankara trial and these companions are suspended.Is there not to fear a final suspension and a probable release of Gilbert Diendéré?

(Laughs).I am Burkinabè, but there are times where I find it difficult to understand my compatriots.If I have reserved myself for a long time, it is because I did not understand certain situations.Know that you can be useful to your country without seeking to be a minister or president.I feel like I'm an isolated case.Everyone wants to be minister or president in this country.Regarding General Gilbert Diendéré, I tell you that I received baton shots in 1988 during demonstrations.He was the one who was the principal in the company of the Gaspard Somé and others to repress.

I even had neurological problems after this.But I also tell you that despite this, I went to meet General Diendéré at La Maca (Editor's note, House of remand and correction of the armies) as well as Djibril Bassolé.I admit I learned a lot of them.I can also assure you that even if we widely opened the doors of the maca, and we tell the general to go out, he will not come out.Because he was a man who was resigned and he accepted his fate by accepting the judgment and the convictions that will result from the Sankara trial.I don't think at all that the trial will be canceled.On the contrary, the new authorities of the moment have an interest that it continues until the end.It is the same for other trials.Because it's educational.

What are your proposals for a successful transition?

For a successful transition, all the components of the living forces of the nation must end up with the MPSR to find a consensus.Because you need an inclusive and consensual approach.The army alone cannot do it.Once this consensual and inclusive approach has been acquired, we are already a 50% success.We have proposed a transition that will be organized around the president of the MPSR.He will primarily take care of security and military issues.He must then be supported either by a civilian vice-president who will work on governance issues or by a reinforced prime minister who will be able to balance with the military presidency.At the level of the legislation body, two chambers were planned to play the role of the National Assembly.The first level for a parliament and the second level will be a constituent which will have the prerogatives to adopt a new constitution to go to the fifth republic.

How will the choices of these people be made, will we not fall back into the passed transition trap?

By mechanisms that the living forces will have to determine and put in place.I think people will capitalize the experience lived under the past transition.The bad experience of the CNT (Editor's note, National Transition Council) will be in mind.At this level, nothing can be pre -established.In addition to that, the CNT context is not the same today.The country in danger, parts of the occupied territory.There, we have a sword on our heads and the urgency is to save the country.

Are you sure it is not a door open to opportunists?

We are talking about opportunists if there is money at stake.It is clear that in this assembly people will not come to receive millions.Why not establish the spirit of volunteering?This is what missed the CNT.We could, for example, limit compensation to simple allowances.These are errors of the past that the living forces will certainly take into account for a successful transition.

Speaking of opportunists, what do you answer to those who say that your grouping is an opportunistic action?

On this question, we are sufficiently known for having made acts very prior to this transition which will open.In 2019, we launched the Appeal of Manéga (Editor's note, Citizen Initiative in favor of national reconciliation) at the time when insecurity began to take excessive disproportions, cohesion and social peace threatened.We have set up mechanisms, including a panel of the ancients and the reflection groups.In late 2019, we were in Kombissiri to think.It was from there that the roadmap of the Manega call took out.

When the epidemic of the COVVI-19 appeared, we had created the CIVVI-19 Governance Circle from the very first days and we worked from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. every day to produce the first reflections that helped theauthorities.In June-July 2020, we were in Manga with our experts.We had, in his time made the proposal not to hold elections and to open a transition.Because these elections on the basis of a modified electoral code excluded suffrage and we risk ending up with elections that do not strengthen the state, worse, which would put power in jeopardy.We were not listened to us.When the situation began to get worse, we offered scenarios.

Many could be surprised by the speed with which our proposals are already published.We are experienced and proactive.In reality, the current situation is a scenario that we already had.Only, he did not include a coup.Better it was a transition that was to be triggered by President Kaboré himself by being inside.All those we were able to approach and advised in this direction did not want to listen.Because it may be undermining their privileges of power.So we didn't have to wait to make the proposals you see currently.

Have you ever been contacted by the MPSR?

Currently not.We have not tried to contact them either.We believe that all proposals must be shown and paid in the public debate.The moment will come or the MPSR will open a space for debate.At that moment, we will participate.We have refused a lot with the initiative of Manéga's call.For example, for the creation of the Ministry of Reconciliation and the Zophirin Diabré appointment (one of the hundred personalities signatory to the Appeal of Manéga) at the head of this ministry, many believed that we were going to go and take care of advisers,etc.But we did not do it and these are not the possibilities that missed.I remind you that he was appointed on a Sunday and on Monday we were received by him in audience.

I will not come back to what we said to ourselves but if we wanted positions, we would have gone there.Better still, at the National Council for the Monitoring and Orientation of Reconciliation, we had been offered a position that we declined because we wanted to keep our autonomy in relation to the process of reconciliation.It is time for the Burkinabè, for once, respect the commitment and patriotism of people a little.We do what can be used for the country.Everyone can do the same and we will gain more in terms of proposals and ideas.All we can say is that we are in the field and we work.We did not appear out of opportunism.With a little honesty, we cannot give us any trial in this sense.

We invite each other, in this fairly decisive and decisive moment to look at and discuss rather the proposals we make.This is what will make us better move forward and help this transition to succeed.There is the survival of the nation.

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