Huff,Puff& Indignation!
There has been a ministerial reshuffle here. Now, just ask yourselves why, in Heaven’s name, there should be such a thing, less than 5 weeks from the presidential elections?? What could possibly be achieved , apart from confusion? Indeed.
I venture the following simple answer: Confusion of financial matters at the end of
the reign of the interim government is exactly what is needed in order for the outgoing powers to be able to
line their pockets before it is all over. This is their chance!
The interim government is deliberately removing the highly
efficient Finance minister, Tiéna
Coulibaly, put in place by the ousted Cheick Modibo Diarra
(himself probably ousted because he was too rigourous ) in order to put someone more amenable in charge: a person close to
the Interim President Dionkouda Traore, and a person who belongs to ADEMA, the president’s party: Kader Konaté swaps his position as
minister for Industry and Commerce to
take over Coulibali’s position in charge of Mali’s finances!
Coulibaly had
it coming: he made himself unpopular recently by refusing to grant a number of
new 4x4 vehicles to members of the ‘Commission pour la Dialogue et
Reconciliation’, a group
of officials chosen to lead the reconciliation attempts between the various
parties of the Malian conflict. ‘Non!’
said Coulibaly. ‘We can’t afford it.
Mali is bankrupt. You can use the old cars’.
Now, clearly, if you are the
outgoing powers, and have only 5 weeks left to make your fortune, this sort of
attitude is not helpful is it??? So what to do?
A reshuffle is the answer!
posted by toubab at 7:45 PM
6 Comments:
Such vital intelligence you give us of governmental skullduggery. Where in the western press could we find this sort of thing? Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, but djennedjenno should still be most people's first port of call on developments, or lack of, in Mali.
I admire your ability to stay in there swinging in the face of such things. It's so deflating to witness, over and over, this kind of petty greed, and it's certainly not unique to Mali.
Hello both- this sort of thing is perhaps not possible to find in the press- perhaps because it is only a suspicion- it can't be proved... and some might think I am being downright nasty with such a jaundised interpretation. Nevertheless, it DOES look like it, doesn't it?
Of course.
We have similar if not worse corruption in Canada and we have been living with a scandal a day for the last 2 months. I am starting to wonder if I am not in Mali, after reading this story.
Really? I was about to say: that is heartening news, since it proves that corruption is not just an African problem. But OF COURSE NOT!It sucks wherever you find it. What gets me here is that people just shrug their shoulders, as if this is the way things are and we can't do anything about it!
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