The New African Charter International (NACI) is deeply
shocked and concerned by leaked intelligence, which suggests
that France has added the President of the National Assembly
of Senegal, the Hon. Ousman Sonko on its list of African
leaders to be eliminated and taken out of the scene. The
others include the President Assimi Goita of the Republic of
Mali, President Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso, President
Abdulrahman Tiani of the Republic of Niger and President
Michael Randrianirina of Madagascar. This is coming after
the failed attempt to silence and make Ousman Sonko no more
relevant in his country’s national body
politics.
The ploy to destroy Ousman Sonko and take
him out of the scene is another desperate attempt by
neo-colonial elements to destabilise the entire African
continent. If executed, the plan would not only be a
criminal attack to eliminate one African revolutionary
leader, but also on all noble Africans, both at home and
abroad. NACI calls on all Africans to unite against such
destructive forces, and to rise above self-aggrandisement to
help uncover this new conspiracy.
This statement
serves as a call to the international community, represented
by the United Nations, African Union and the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS), etc. to remain
vigilant and discerning on activities of those foreigners
parading across Africa as policemen and women of the world.
The neo-colonial forces and destabilisers of whole peoples,
whole nations and whole regions are out to market their
stock in trade, using precisely unscrupulous elements to
exploit the imposed political confusion in Senegal to sow
chaos.
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We are not doubtful about the role of the
international community in promoting peace, stability and
development in Africa. We insist that France’s
neo-colonial agenda is not a licence to unleash terrorism in
Africa. Violence or threats against progressive African
leaders will not augur well for Africa and the global
community. We are concerned that in the midst of executing
France’s neo-colonial agenda, poor Africans must not
become the real victims for the sins committed by bad
leaders on the continent.
In the view of NACI, the
plot to destroy progressive African leaders can only emanate
from adversaries who wish to punish poor Africans
collectively. It is as tragic as it is unsurprising that
France will plot the demise of the Speaker of the National
Assembly of Senegal, and the former colonial master would
even attempt to assassinate Ousman Sonko and use it as a
platform to mislead international opinion. It is only wicked
leaders who can go any length to punish generations of human
beings for a life of opulence and immorality.
The plot
to unalive Ousman Sonko shows the level of desperation and
low depths to which France and its partners are prepared to
descend. This is not surprising as the world has witnessed
their spurious, diabolic and genocidal attacks in the last
three years, as they attempted to destabilise the Alliance
of Sahel States (AES), and as well as their attempts to kill
the leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and the Republic of
Niger.
France has a long record of unleashing
terrorism against Africans by leading the forefronts of
criminal wars in Africa and killing African leaders who
refused to bow down. France is now using President Bassirou
Diomaye Faye as a proxy not only to destabilise the new
governance system in Senegal, but also to use the West
African nation as a launching pad to destabilise the Sahel
region.
The ongoing political confusion in Senegal is
a France’s manufactured crisis, fuelled by a desire to
loot natural resources, and this risks dragging Africa into
another criminal war, akin to the 2011 Libyan genocide
aggression, spearheaded by France, US and UK’s led North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). It is even not a secret
to mention that NATO in their unholy alliance with al-Qaeda
terrorist outfits killed the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi
in order to rob the North African nation of its natural
resources and wealth.
The world is tired of France’s
neo-colonial playbook, creating artificial crises and
political confusions in order to initiate wars and
orchestrate regime change in Africa. President Faye must
come out clean and clear himself of not in collusion with
France and other foreign powers to lead Senegal in a
direction that can only bring chaos and political
instability in West Africa. That is to say, France and its
allies are spending sleepless hours, exacerbating and
exploiting any divisions they can find, constantly working
to undermine and sabotage efforts to promote peace,
stability, unity and development in Africa.
Having
stated the above, NACI applauds Ousman Sonko for the display
of maturity and patriotic zeal that he and the ruling PASTEF
Party exhibit in the midst of barefaced provocation by
France’s neo-colonial adventurism in Africa. Sonko, like
other leaders of the PASTEF Party, is not unaware of the
tactics employed by France and has frowned at any action
that surrenders the dignity of the Senegalese nation to the
tastes and designs of the neo-colonial Empire.
NACI
understands what is currently on President Faye’s table
and the plots against the Speaker of Senegal’s National
Assembly and the ruling PASTEF Party. In our candid opinion
any attempts to undermine the vision of the ruling PASTEF
Party, the Senegalese people, and of course Africans in show
of solidarity, will have no alternative but to form
resistance to save the West African nation’s democracy
from sliding into the abyss. NACI assures France and its
allies that much as the new African citizens abhor war,
political violence and economic strangulation, every African
will form resistance to any attempts to rob off the dignity
of the continent.
In the view of NACI, Senegal is for
all intents and purposes a captured State betrayed by
President Faye and his allies of domestic traitors. We urge
the Senegalese leader, though he refuses to heed the
warnings of his fellow countrymen and women, to heed to
common sense, to show patriotism and resign honourably if
Senegal is to move forward.
Again, NACI unequivocally
opposes France’s plans to re-establish its military base
in Senegal. NACI and of course all Africans, whether living
at home or abroad are putting President Faye’s bandwagon
on notice that any attempt to return France’s military
base in Senegal will be met with a unified and relentless
resistance, not only in Senegal, but across Africa. We also
appeal to the Senegalese leader never to allow any parts of
the sovereign territory of his country to be used as a
terrorist staging post to attack the Sahel countries,
including Mali, Burkina Faso and the Republic of
Niger.
In addition to our condemnation of the plot to
eliminate Ousman Sonko, NACI stands to reject and campaign
against any attempts to legalise the activities of Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGTB) in Senegal. We will
also campaign for transparency and accountability of
Senegal’s debts with the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund (IMF). We will not relent in our condemnation
of any African government or leader’s acquiescence to
destabilisation efforts in Africa.
Finally, NACI
appeals to President Faye to refuse attempts by any foreign
powers to use Senegal as an exceptionally strategic location
for geopolitical or economic plunder in Africa. We must
reject this new scramble for recolonization of the African
continent, and never to succumb to the strategies, including
an Arab Spring-like or Libya-like genocide campaign employed
by foreign powers to have control over the destiny of
Africa. After all, we are in nobody’s backyard, to borrow
the words of former revolutionary leader of Grenada, Maurice
Bishop, who himself was a victim of US aggression and
political assassination on foreign lands.
The time has
come for Africans from across the continent and the
diasporas to have a good understanding of the honesty of
those who claim to be our moral guarantors, donors or
development partners.
Long live Senegal!
Sender:
Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh
President
and Co-founder
The New African Charter
International
NACI
