Those who speak of Senegalese exception do not believe they say so, because Senegal is indeed a truly special country. Because today, at a time when all serious countries are looking for how to overcome the coronavirus pandemic that is shaking them, Senegal is shaken by a matter of morals.
At a time when health structures are overcrowded and refuse patients, when cases of death increase, when health soldiers fight with their bare hands, for lack of equipment to overcome this disease, the news is dominated by a mores affair that features Ousmane Sonko, a fierce opponent of power, and a certain Adji Raby Sarr, who, according to information published in the press, would be a girl of … light mores.
How, in a serious country, can we mortgage the life of an entire people, already … mortgaged by the pandemic, for a simple news item, which, in a really serious country, would have been treated as such, in serenity? the most total.
But, under our skies, this affair has become a real affair of state as more important issues such as the nebulous management of the country’s natural resources and the enormous and unexplained heritage of our politicians which amounts to billions, n have not caused such an uproar.
But, it will have been enough of a banal “affair of frolics”, to ignite the debates and to put Senegal in all its states while the debates should be elsewhere, like the question of the vaccine against the Covid which will begin to be injected to the populations at the end of this month.
Moreover, during the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, the Head of State asked the Minister of Health, in conjunction with his colleague from Finance and the ministers concerned, “to take all the health, logistical, financial and social mobilization measures necessary for the launching of vaccination campaigns throughout the country, at the end of February at the latest“. So, currently, the debates should revolve around this problem.
Which vaccine? What are the guarantees ?
And so many other questions to which specialists had to provide answers, to reassure the populations, because, a lot of things have been said, rightly or wrongly, about this vaccine. Unfortunately, in this country, those who lead us seem to have concerns other than those of providing concrete answers to the problems of the populations.
The only thing that matters to them is the power and privileges it confers. To maintain themselves, they stop at nothing, the main thing is that the end can justify the means. They have their agenda that they unfold according to their convenience, without qualms, the rest does not matter.
Even the corona which is wreaking havoc and which was to push them to review their health policy, by providing hospitals with equipment to enable health soldiers to cope, has become a convenient pretext to blame everything: corona business , with, as a result, a restriction of freedoms against a background of curfew, state of natural disaster, state of siege, etc.
To say that despite the urgencies and the seriousness of the hour among the populations, on the side of power, the time has come for political maneuvers. “But today, with the “Sweet Beauty” affair, republican ethics are so ridiculed that the urgency of sounding the alarm is also urgently needed on everyone.»Said Boubacar Boris Diop.
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