“I am Murid but I will not go to Touba …“, Said Me El Hadji Diouf. The lawyer was the guest of the program “Grand Jury” on the Rfm. Affected by Covid 19, Me El Hadji Diouf says he recovered by the grace of God. He took the opportunity to warn of the dangers of the disease.
Hospitalized in Fann …
Me El Hadji Diouf made the revelation. Affected by Covid 19, he says he was hospitalized in Fann. “Nobody knows, this is the first time that I talk about it …“, He says, confident to have lived his contamination with Coronavirus with“dignity“, “serenity and as a good believer.”He also says he was never a serious case. “I went to see the doctor very early on. That’s what saved me. There are people who wait for the disease to set in before going to see the doctor. Here it is too late. No one is immune to this virus. Me, even before the Government’s decision to close schools, courts, to declare a curfew, a state of emergency, I confined myself“.
Questioned on the maintenance of the Magal of Touba, despite the spread of the Covid in Senegal, Me El Hadji Diouf, Mouride disciple, said that he would not go to Touba. And he gives his reasons.
Why he won’t go to Touba …
“I will not go to Touba (for the Magal (…) Today, I received the call from the son of my marabout (…) Mecca and Medina, these are the holy places of Islam. “Saudi Arabia has closed its borders. I, moreover, am against the Government’s decision to open the inter-city borders. This is what allowed the virus to be disseminated on the national territory. Today, everywhere in the country, there is the Coronavirus. If we had closed Dakar and Touba from the start… the virus would have been defeated a long time ago“, Underlines Me El Hadji Diouf.
Macky’s biggest mistake …
For the lawyer, “we were too lax, too light. We let it happen, with exemptions, people who went to see the prefects in order to be able to deceive the vigilance of the gendarmes. Then, the state itself which capitulates in front of demonstrators to say: ‘go ahead, we will live with the virus’. This is the biggest mistake of Macky Sall’s mandate …“
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