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Guinea Conakry: Konaté, the last chance
By African Bulletin on April 7, 2010
The President-General Sékouba Konaté, 45, joined the Army in 1985 at age 21. He went through the commando training center at Mont-Louis, France, and the Royal Military Academy at Meknes, Morocco. One of his qualities is captured in three words: “No to ethnocentrism”. He is one of the few African leaders to set back power legitimate owners. Thus, he becomes a national hero in Guinea. “He knows that the Guinean people are tired of “khaki uniforms”. He served in Sierra Leone and knows the horror of war. He knows what risks the country might go through if it does not come out of the “Tunnel”. Then the wise decision has been fixed for the elections to be held on June 27.
Rabiatou Diallo, a respected trade union leader and president of the National Transitional Council (CNT) provides the general Konaté the quality of being frank: “He recognised from the outset that there are bad seeds in the army. After September 28, he acknowledged his mistakes. We can help him to correct them, she said. “Like many in Conakry, Diallo Rabiatou worries for the life of President General Konate. She feared that the transition can derail even if someone holds to his days.
For that, France and the United States, the two countries that urged Guinean brass to lead the country to a democratic transition, should express their support for restructuring the army which is still frightening the population, instead of protecting it…