Guinea coup leader names civilian prime minister

The late dictator was guilty of abusing state power, and planning and executing silent coups by destroying the foundations of the Guinean Constitution ; imposing controversial presidential Decrees and terrorising the people politically and economically with the help of corrupt politicians and pliant institutions, including the Judiciary, Parliament, the Police, as well as shameless, unprincipled and evil-minded men and women who were ever ready to pawn the dignity of their fellow countrymen and women for ostentatious living.
It is an open truth that the former regime of the late dictator had all the opportunity but failed to grasp the true meaning of democracy, which is all about establishing viable institutions whereby the people of Guinea can act intelligently, to resolve their difficulties. Democracy under the Conte enclave was conceived as an alien concept which was not good for the Guinean people; and that the concept does not go beyond manipulating elections. The moral concerned to ensure a legitimate legislature where all problems affecting the lives of the people are tabled and discussed, and where budget allocations were supposed to fashion-out for the purpose of sustaining the institutional framework of the sister country was unfortunately absent.
Ever since in 2003, the Sierra Leone People’s Democratic League (PDL) warned that Guinea was sliding towards abysmal collapse. We warned also that, the international community to take serious measures to force the Administration the late dictator to do everything to repair the damages the corrupt, lawless and belligerent rule inflicted on the Guinean people. We sensed that the absence of basic constitutional provisions for the separation of powers, for the independence of the judiciary ; for a legitimate and functional Parliament and for the strict adherence to constitutionalism in the national and public life, President Conte and his henchmen grab all powers in their own hands leaving the Guinean people marginalised, isolated and dehumanised.

Big political gurus and henchmen of the anti-Guinea system questioned the logic of our concerned, which they misconstrued as attempt by foreigners to undermine the authority of the late oppressor. As a matter of fact, no one in the international community had the courage to speak against President Conte’s fascist dictatorship rule in Guinea. Instead, most foreign diplomats in the regions were only concerned with proceeds out of the loot from Guinea’s natural resources, because they knew the victims of the Conte’s cancerous leadership were not Europeans, or Americans or Asians, but Africans whose dignity was subjected to activities of foreign criminal adventurism on the continent.

The 24 years rule of President Lansana Conte was at best can be described as the era Guinean lost its dignity. The era in which the country saw the collapse of basic institutions needed to run a country for the benefit of its sovereign people. And the era in which elected Parliamentarians became power unto themselves, handled Guinea’s affairs for their own self-aggrandisement, and allowed social vices and degeneracy to eat deeply into the fabric of the Guinean society.

We knew the time was overdue for the old guards to give way for renovations and innovations into Guinea’s national body politics. Based on this fact, we suggested the formation of a Transitional Government of Inclusion (TGI) to fill the leadership vacuum that was already been created by the inability of the government to deliver stability and stop the ruthless and merciless exploitation of the Guinean people and natural resources. We proudly stand as the only Pan-African organ in Sierra Leone, and in deed in the West African sub-region to have seen and warned about the dark clouds hanging over our neighbours.

However, in spite the acceleration of the repressive rule in defiance of our early warning, various civil strives and unrests in recent years in Guinea vindicated PDL’s conviction that the only antidote to Guinea’s artificial nightmares did not lie in the political manipulative mechanism and brutal leadership exhibited by the late President Lansana Conte. The policing system for instance was rotten with a reckless, incompetent and irresponsible domestic command structure. Instead of enforcing law and order, the late dictator(s Policemen became notorious in the trade of using brute force and gun powder to intimidate the public and to deal ruthlessly with any peaceful protest.

At the time the late dictator’s Police turned into a daylight madness, which institution was in place to safeguard democracy and defend the human rights of the people? When President Conte had transformed Guinea’s judiciary into a tool of oppression and for protecting drug barons and other dangerous criminals, who was trusted to be the guardian of law in that country? Who was in the international community that came-out and condemned the brutal misrule of late President Lansana Conte? We demand answers especially from our foreign friends in the region who pretend they love Guinea and the Guinean people more than the CNDD.

The CNDD just came at a time when a liberator was needed to save the Guinean people and the entire region from crises very akin to the brutal wars fought in Liberia and Sierra Leone. President Moussa Dadis Camara intervention should therefore be justified on the basis that, the CNDD came to put Guinea back on track. We welcome the CNDD’s declared willingness to work with Guinea’s neighbours and the wider international community to consolidate the current peace, stability and harmony in the region; put in place institutions that are urgently needed to combat corruption, lift the living standards of Guinea’s poor people and prepare the country for proper constitutional order through credible, democratic and transparent transition program.
It should be obvious to the international community by now that the huge and worldwide wave of solidarity and sympathy with the Guinean people behind the CNDD is growing by the passing day with public statements welcoming President Moussa Dadis Camara as the God-sent Moses to restore the lost dignity of the people, and re-establish the will of law in Guinea. It should also be obvious to the international community that no amount of political intimidation, isolation, incitement, threats or ridiculous propaganda is helpful in Guinea’s current situation. The CNDD empathises with the suffering, pains, traumas, tribulations and misery the Guinean people went through in the last 24 years of Conte’s misrule.
Within the framework of peaceful co-existence, political stability, regional security, freedom and dignity, the foundations and pillars upon which the CNDD is erected, we, in the Sierra Leone People’s Democratic League (PDL) wholeheartedly declare our un-flinched support for President Moussa Dadis Camara. We move also to expose and defend the CNDD government against outside misrepresentation, threats, intimidation or any attempt by individual or group of individuals who may be planning to cause disruption to peace and harmony.
We call upon the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma in Freetown to raise its voice with courage in solidarity and support for its counterpart CNDD government in Guinea, led by President Moussa Dadis Camara. Proxy Policy of isolation towards our neighbours through sanctions or other anti-people’s Guinea motivated decisions would have serious impact across the region, with threats to the fragile peace and baby democracies in our countries.
Sierra Leone strong support for, and good working relationship with its neighbours in Guinea is necessary and most warranting for regional peace and security, as well as for Sierra Leone’s national security and economic interests. I twill also assure our neighbours of Sierra Leone’s goodwill.
We take the opportunity to call upon the international community, the United Nations, Organisation of Islamic Conference, African Union, Organisation of American States, Economic Community of West African States, Association of South East Asian Nations and individual countries worldwide that love and defend peace and freedom to have a second look at events in Guinea and do a good service to humanity, by rallying support behind the CNDD government. The international community must send a clear message of support for the CNDD, to promote peace, stability and development of democratic institutions in the region.

We challenge the Guinean Security-the National Army, Navy, Air Force, Presidential Guard Force, Gendarme, the Police and Secret Services to preserve Guinea’s values, traditions and beliefs, and to remain ever vigilant against infiltrators within and without. We challenge the Guinean security to rise beyond the tribal line to overcome the past and rally firmly and loyally behind the CNDD, to restore Guinea to its rightful place in the international community of free and proud nations.

We believe the Guinean security are trusted, patriotic and competent to consolidate the current peace and stability, and defending the state, national institutions, the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Guinea against rogues.

This statement is incomplete without calling upon Political Parties and their leaders, and all stakeholders and entire population to welcome the CNDD as a « Daniel who has come to do justice to the Guinean nation ». The CNDD has come with a mission to make a difference and to dedicate itself totally to the advancement of the vital interests of the Guinean people, inspired by the spirit of love, patriotism and national belonging.

The CNDD’s commitment to return Guinea to constitutional order as early as practicable becomes an acid test for all Guineans to work together with their new leaders for a peaceful and democratic transition. We call all Guineans, poor or rich to rally behind President Moussa Dadis Camara’s slogan of « Guinea first », and we warn detractors to avoid actions that are capable of disturbing peace and threatening security. We know that these detractors, local and foreign were onetime apologists and proxies of the very former reactionary government of the late dictator, which perpetrated heinous crimes against the Guinean nation.

As always, we wish to assure once again all African compatriots in Guinea our continued support for peace, stability and progress in their country. We will continue to pray to the Great God to Protect and Guide the CNDD in all its undertakings. Wishing great success to President Moussa Dadis Camara for a New Guinea out of the ashes out the old, corrupt, narcotic, anti-peoples, reactionary, fascist and decadent system

Long live the republic of Sierra Leone!

Long live the Republic of Guinea!

Long Live Sierra Leone-Guinea Solidarity!

Signed:

Amadu Bailor Bah

PDL Secretary for Foreign affairs and International Solidarity.

Sierra Leone People’s Democratic League (PDL) is affiliate of the Green Charter International (GCI), for peace, democracy, human rights, rule of law, freedom and dignity.

why did he said the election will be in 2010 ;that is not right . He want to sell the power . the election will be normally in end of 2009 ; that the people want and we need the help from the community international to help .

It must be stated here that, the former rebel RUF started its war when its leader Foday Sankoh came on the air to give an ultimatum to the then APC government of late President Joseph Saidu Momoh to introduce multi party democracy against the one party dictatorship rule syndrome in the country or faced war. Every Sierra Leonean has experienced the bitterness of the RUF led war. If today, and again under the APC rule this time led by President Bai Koroma, a group has been reported to have threatening war in Sierra Leone, it must be treated seriously. This is a source of concern to the Sierra Leone People’s Democratic League (PDL) and we wish to express our distress and dissatisfaction about the government of President Ernest Koroma’s attempt to down play on this issue.

Finally, we call on all Sierra Leoneans particularly working peoples, students, youths, market women and other cheated layers in the society not to be humiliated again by political rogues and narcotic drug cartels by rejecting any group that want to make Sierra Leone to become the Rwanda of West Africa. Let us, collectively tell the promoters of these ethnic agendas that Sierra Leone belongs to all of us and therefore we cannot continue to remain divided along rude tribalism.

Concluding: We call upon all democratic and patriotic Sierra Leoneans to examine the current political environment in Sierra Leone beyond ethnic chauvinism. Sierra Leonean unity, which shall inevitably be the end result of a genuine reconciliation process, is at stake and we must constantly and vigorously combat ethnocentric politics that could undermine the peace, stability, security, unity and progress of Sierra Leone. We all Sierra Leoneans have an obligation to make Sierra Leone a great and proud nation.

Signed:

Alimamy Bakarr SANKOH

Leader and Chairman of the Sierra Leone People’s Democratic League (PDL).

For an on behalf of PDL members.

THE WAY FORWARD.
From the above, it is pertinent for all those concern for the wellbeing of the Guinean people to view the situation in the country from an objective standing point, particularly, to address the thorny issue of the dangers and threats posed by organised crime cartels in the region, to destroy the current peace, stability and harmony that prevail under the wise and visionary leadership of the CNDD Government, led by President Moussa Dadis Camara.
Guineans had experienced the bitter tastes of political gangsterism, economic terrorism, social injustice, brutal poverty, hateful ethnic hegemony and indignities under the rot leadership of late President Lansana Conte. Guineans know best and are the only ones qualified to determine what is good for their country and future generations. Guineans have better understanding of the appropriate antidote to clear the mess left behind by President Conte. They have proven this by the CNDD’s demonstration of its willingness and determination to restore the rights of Guineans to form and belong to political parties of their own without fear of being persecuted for belonging to the wrong party; ensure the right of trade union activities and that of the media and journalist to practice their profession in a peaceful and conducive environment; curb the menace of organised crimes in the country; ensure the security and safety of legally owned businesses; ensure the independent and credibility of the judicial system; fight and destroy all those evils that threatened the peace, security, political stability, harmony, national unity, freedom, dignity and development of Guinea; end the culture of political banditry and ethnocentric terrorism; and to return the country to a credible and decent democratic rule.
It is necessary for the opposition political parties and other stakeholders in the country to reflect on the tortuous journey Guinea has passed through in the last fifty years of independence from merciless colonialism. Experienced has taught us that, orthodox prescription of governance has failed Africans in areas such as peace, stability, freedom and growth. In other words, orthodox programs as imposed on Africa have only landed the continent into civil unrests, brutal ethnic wars, rebellions, abject poverty, economic deprivation and retrogression, instead of progressing.
The solution to Guinea lies not on outside machinations, but to what Guinean people themselves want for the country now and the future. President Dadis Camara’s recent statement during a familiarisation tour of Universities in Conakry that Guineans from all shades of opinions should come together and rebuild their homeland is a welcome move. President Camara’s program designed to work out a national strategy involving all stakeholders to put in place acceptable constitutional arrangement opens the way forward.
The international community should appreciate the CNDD resolved to introduce first in Guinea’s politics a system of checks and balances to stop bad governance and preventing the military from taking over power. What is required is understanding and helping the CNDD to push ahead with such programs. All domestic and foreign stakeholders are invited to join the CNDD Government, to pull Guinea out of the political and economic morass created by the 24 years reign of General Conte’s misrule. It is a formidable task and a genuine resolve of the CNDD to achieve for the sake of the Guinea people. Political stability alone can permit pursuit of socio-economic development that should be the country’s objective.
Guinea will survive!
Signed:
Alimamy Bakarr SANKOH
Chairman and Leader of the Sierra Leone People’s Democratic League (PDL).

Africans would like to see the International Contact Group on Guinea (ICGG) prove itself not another neo-colonial manipulation. Africans will resist any attempt by foreign detractors hiding behind the façade of constitutional rule, to incite some domestic elements to try and destabilise the current peace and harmony that prevail in Guinea under the charismatic leadership of the CNDD. The Guinean people are satisfied with the peace, security and harmony they enjoy in the current dispensation, an atmosphere which the former regime of the late dictator never allowed to flourish in the West African nation. Two things worth our mentioning here, and these are:
1. Africans everywhere reject well-tailored agendas intended to mislead compatriots in Guinea and elsewhere on the continent about the honest intention of a dishonest and unrealistic international community.
2. Africans have resolved not to repeat the sins of betrayal and never again be used as tools to destroy the continent’s leaders, as was done to heroes like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Gamel Abdel Nasser of Egypt, etc; Africans are now conscious and united more than ever to move the mother continent forward with unity in peace, unity in stability, unity in freedom, unity in dignity and unity in prosperity.
The factors that the CNDD has to manage in Guinea are many and not only confined to the phrase “elected government” or other orthodox dictation that contains hidden agenda of pillage and plunder of resources, which are meant for proper management and just distribution to restore national dignity and ensure the happiness of the people.
The CNDD inherited a bogus, immoral and failed state that was nurtured by big powers, acting as foreign mentors to the rotten leadership of General Conte and his cronies. Suffice it to say that, under the dictatorship of General Conte, the Guinean Constitution existed only on papers and was not allowed to function; the judiciary was a sham as the President determined who should go to prison and for what crime; people were never allowed to vote for their choice as belonging to the opposition is tantamount to committing suicide, or risk chased into exile; there was total chaos at all levels of governance, looting of resources, money-laundering, narcotic trafficking, ethnic domination and control, political banditry, absence of law and order, and general feeling of insecurity amongst the people. The entire length and breadth of the country was in a gigantic mess to the extent that its children’s future was mortgaged, even up to its third generation, due to General Conte’s wicked dictatorship rule syndrome.

THE EMERGENCE OF THE CNDD.

The birth of the CNDD to fill the power and security vacuum left behind after the announcement of the death of President Lansana Conte was ever anticipated by the Guinean people who many times had condemned the Conte’s regime and its cronies as stumbling block to peace, political stability, economic development and social justice. The action of these patriotic sons and daughters of Guinea has also exposed once again the vicious cycle of the much Western/US rhetoric talks of democracy in Africa.

Not surprising, the mass of the people from all corners of the country celebrated the birth and intervention of the CNDD in the governance of Guinea as a “Daniel come to Judgement”. Those familiar with the politics of Guinea under the dictator Lansana Conte’s kleptomania will agree that those condemning the CNDD today are themselves the enemies of Africa and Africans everywhere. These are the very people and Institutions that turned against the Guinean people to favour the rogue system. These are the same elements that conspired with the Conte’s wicked rule to destroy Guinea, through the pillaging of resources, the imposition of willing tools as leaders against the wishes of the Guinean people and feeding fat out of the sorrows, pains, traumas, tribulations, misery and tears of the ordinary person in the West African nation.

DEATH OF GENERAL LANSANA CONTE.

On December 23, 2008 the death of diabetic, chain-smoking, septuagenarian General Lansana Conte was announced on Guinean Television by President of the National Assembly of Guinea, Aboubacar Sompare, who was flanked by cronies of the old regime including Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souare Camara, Ministers and senior Army officials to break the news. The broadcast explained that the dictator died in the evening of December 22, after a short illness.

In this situation, the Constitution of the Republic of Guinea stipulated that in the demise of the Head of State, the President of the National Assembly should be sworn immediately to succeed the late President in an Interim arrangement until when elections are held in sixty days time. The manner in which the news of the death of General Conte was broken on Guinean television explained there was already an unprecedented rift between cronies of the late President. The Supreme Court would have proceeded straight away to swear National Assembly President, Aboubacar Sompare to succeed President Conte but was prevented to do so because of the constitutional illegalities that may have rubbished the whole process.

In the first place, the National Assembly mandate had long expired more than two years and since then no elections were held again. There was also a complete absence of a legal institution capable of ensuring orderly transition in the aftermath of the demise of General Conte.

The other point is that, after the announcement of the death of General Conte, there was great confusion and arguments among cronies of the old system as to who really should succeed the President. Prime Minister Souare Camara argued that he should be sworn because there was no legal National Assembly in the country to provide a legitimate successor to the late head of state.

On his part, President of the outdated National Assembly, Aboubacar Sompare threatened that any attempt by the Chief Justice to swear Prime Minister Souare or the Army Chief of Staff to intervene in favour of Conte’s cronies would lead to bitter civil war in the country. In deed the signs were clear; the Guinean people were prepared and even to go to war if necessary to reject any crony of the disastrous regime who may have surfaced as successor to President Conte. Hence the swift intervention of the CNDD was necessary, justifiable and most welcomed to save Guinea from sliding into a bitter fratricidal ethnic crisis, akin to the 1994 Rwandan ethnic cleansing.

No one ever disputes the fact that the atmosphere and condition for holding free, fair and democratic elections were never allowed to give expression in the West African nation, especially in the spectre of General Lansana Conte’s reign of terror, intimidation, illegal acts and the misuse of government establishments to prop his rot leadership on the people. There was just an atmosphere of suspicion, graft, abuse of power, misuse of public funds, dictatorial tendencies and absence of accountability at all levels of government.
The Legislative election of June 2002 for instance, was a complete travesty of democracy. The regime of General Conte, aided by big ethnic cronies, organised a hat-trick crude election, which was designed to baptise the covert enclave as a democratic regime.
The plain truth about that fraudulent, undemocratic and sham election is that, the whole program was a well-wrapped fraud held after General Conte’s regime prepared and introduced Constitution machinery, which was imposed on the people and which also, rapidly ended the dignity, freedoms and democratic rights of the Guinean people. General Conte’s biographies record also how the late oppressor personally bulldozed the prison yard in Conakry in 2006, to free businessman Mamadou Sylla and an official of the Central Bank of Guinea who were serving jail sentences, after been prosecuted and convicted by a court of law for corruption and other social-vices-like crimes against the Guinean people.
General Conte’s spurious dictatorship began to wane in 2007, when the Guinean people finally resolved to reject the regime’s failure in the political and socio-economic fronts, through peaceful protest marches across the country. Guineans felt they could no longer sit aloof waiting for political gladiators and intellectual flyweights with the mental abilities of cockroaches and cretins to free them from Conte’s cancerous leadership syndrome.
What the Guinean people were protesting was for the replacement of the vicious regime of General Lansana Conte with an Interim Government, which would create the atmosphere and conditions for the holding of free, honest, transparent and democratic elections, culminating into the inauguration of an elected President and legitimate National Assembly. Unfortunately, the peaceful protest was meted with the use of ruthless force to suppress the democratic rights and freedoms of the Guinean people. The shooting to death of over a hundred civilians and wounding of more, the brutal crackdown on the opposition and the media, the accusation of the opposition and attempt to silence all concerned and critical elements of society, particularly members of the Guinean Trade Union Movement were few examples of the excesses and dictatorial tendencies that were the trademarks of the Conte regime.

Soon after its usurped power the General Lansana Conte’s regime, like a brutal fascist empire commenced a heinous campaign of subverting cherished national and state Institutions such as the National Assembly, the Judiciary, National Defence Arrangements, Trade Unions, etc. The Conte’s junta planned and executed a ruthless policy, characterised by division, terror and manipulation of the Guinean people through ethnic politics. It eroded basic human rights, freedom, dignity, the unity of the people as well as pursuing a wicked war against members and supporters of the opposition, the media, journalists, rights’ activists and other patriotic forces.

The Conte’s Junta, which enjoyed support from Western governments and the United States was well known for its ethnocentric politics. The notion held by the regime was that ethnic-based politics provides the solution to articulate and represent the interests of a tribal group. The regime unabashedly defended and promoted this cruel, primitive and anti-peoples agenda at all levels of government, through intrigues, intimidation and brute force.

Conte’s 24 years in power were really a nightmare that plunge Guinea from one crises to the other, instead of delivering the country from the shackles of poverty, greed, unemployment, economic disarray, rude tribalism and lack of infrastructural development in terms of uninterrupted electricity supply, potable drinking water, decent roads, functional health centres and hospitals, qualitative educational facilities and rotten communication network system. Poverty, which manifested in corruption, nepotism, sectionalism, disenfranchisement, political instability and violence, absence of the rule of law, narcotic drug menace and ineffective government was the bane of Guinea, under the dictator Lansana Conte’s reign.

It has to be born in mind that General Conte’s political machination of placing power in the hands of a few, corrupt and ethnic based bureaucratic oligarchy was a disaster for Guinea and the Guinean people. It was under the dictator Conte’s misrule that Guinea finally sank backwards into the abyss; and the nation mortgaged in the manipulative arrangement of a wicked, spurious and vicious cabal of rogue politicians. The bogus regime relied mostly on narcotic drug peddlers and political tin-gods, charlatans, marabous and intellectual neophytes to determine the future direction of Guinea. The only people who benefited in the system were the rogue politicians, their families, friends and cronies, while the masses of the people abandoned to swindle in pains, misery, suffering and brutal poverty.

THE COUP OF 1984.

For sixty years, from 1899 to 1958, Guinea suffered under France’s brutal colonialism in Africa. Ahmed Sekou Ture was the country’s first President, having assumed that position since independence on 2nd October, 1958 until his sudden death on 26th March, 1984.

The country is situated in West Africa; bounded on West by the Atlantic Ocean, on the North and North-east by the Republic of Mali, on the North by Senegal, on the North-west by Guinea Bissau, on the East by Cote D’Ivoire, and on the South by the Republics of Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Upon his death, President Sekou Ture was immediately succeeded by his Prime Minister, Louis Lansana Beavogui in line with the country’s Constitution. Beavogui had been Prime Minister of Guinea since 1972 and acted Interim President only for a month when he was toppled in a Western/CIA backed military coup led by General Lansana Conte. This was followed by the suspension of the country’s Constitution, banning of political parties activity and formation of a military junta to govern the West African nation. Former Ministers in the ousted Government were arrested, incarcerated and summarily executed; while family members of Sekou Ture, including his wife and children were incarcerated and later released only after the intervention of African leaders.

A year after the coup that toppled the Interim Administration of President Beavogui, Conte’s Prime Minister, Colonel Diarra Traore and at least a hundred and more uniform men and women were arrested and brutally executed on charges of plotting a counter coup to oust President Lansana Conte from the seat of power.

CONTE’S 24 YEARS IRON-FIST RULE.

The General Conte’s covert action plan and coup against the Interim Government of President Louis Beavogui in 1984, was received with a mixture of relief, scepticism and a general passiveness by the public. As a show of support for General Conte’s brutal action, Western Governments and the United States argued that the successful overthrow of the Interim Administration of President Beavogui was necessary to bring freedom to the Guinean people. Some Guineans who felt relieved took that Western/US rhetoric of freedom by the new junta as its face value and hoped for changes in the living standards of Guineans. For those who welcomed the action with scepticism and who were also ignorant of Conte’s true agenda decided to give the junta the benefit of doubt.

Introduction:
It is compulsory to start this thread to merely inform all who may be interested to know everything about the whole truth surrounding the situation in Guinea Conakry following the demise of one of Africa’s fiercest dictators, President Lansana Conte. While it is known that only a part of the situation has been said or written, however this document seeks to explain facts about the birth of the National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD) led by President Moussa Dadis Camara, which the enemies of Guinea try in one way or the other to distort, to favour the rogue system.
Guinea has been in crises since the overthrow of the Interim Administration of President Lansana Beavogui in 1984, in a Western backed subversive action plan and military coup led by General Lansana Conte. The coup was followed by the arrest, detention and death of President Beavogui in prison.
The 24 years reign of General Lansana Conte’s brutal occupation of power were marked by sorrows, bitter tastes, degradation and dehumanisation, and these were clearly written on the face of the Guinean people. It was also the period in which Guineans are held hostage and the entire length and breadth of the country plunge into serious political, economic and social crises, through a system characterised by gross mismanagement, widespread corruption, ineptitude, divisive tendencies, nepotism, collapsed of cherished institutions and illegal acts.
Following the news of the death of President Lansana Conte and the creation of power and security vacuum, the emergence of the National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD) was inevitable to keep the machinery of government functioning. Undoubtedly, the emergence of the CNDD to fill the vacuum created by the death of General Conte received massive endorsement of the people. To most Guineans in and outside the country, the CNDD was not only a New, Patriotic, Progressive and Transparent dispensation. It is also a God-sent Messiah to combat a political virus that sold national dignity for a life of opulence and immorality, destroyed peace, harmony and the people’s sense of security.
However, the actions and motivations of the CNDD have been the subject of misrepresentation by misled, misinformed and mischief politicians, diplomats and journalists.
This document helps to shed light accurately on the motivation that guided and led to the birth of the CNDD at a time when the machine of governance in Guinea had already broken down, leaving no other option than for patriotic sons and daughters of the West African nation, led by President Moussa Dadis Camara to step in and rescue the country. The document intends also to reverse the misconceptions held against the CNDD, which are created by enemies of the West African nation to deceive the public.