Tag: Elections 2020

Burundi: Mouvement pour la Solidarite et la Democratie (MSD) – Press Statement (06.12.2020)

Burundi: Mise en place d’un gouvernement oligarchique issue d’un Hold Up electoral – Declaration des organisations de la societe civile Burundaise independante (03.07.2020)

Burundi: OLUCOME – Objet: Mise en application de votre discours prononce en date du 30 juin 2020 au parlement en rapport avec les coompus au Burundi (02.07.2020)

Burundi: Mouvement pour la Solidarite et la Democratie (MSD) – Communique (19.06.2020)

Burundi: Declaration du CNARED Giriteka sur la Proclaation des Resultats definitifs des Elections du 20 Mai 2020 au Burundi (07.06.2020)

Burundi: Reaction de l’Association pour la Consolidation de la Paix au Burundi «ACOPA-Burundi» 6 Juin 2020 sur le traite du Kiganda signe ntre le roi du Burundi et les colons allemands en date du du 6 Juin 1903 (06.06.2020)

Burundi: Olucome – Communique de Presse No. 12 – Portant sur la Negligence du Gouvernement Burundais dn la Prevention du COVID-19 (02.06.2020)

Opinion: You living on a lie, Supreme Leader Nkurunziza

“If all over the world we talk about the coronavirus pandemic, but we were able to gather without any problem, hold an electoral campaign without any problem, send our children to school and go to the market without worries….it is the hand of God which shows he has placed a special sign above our Burundi” – Pierre Nkurunziza at a rally on the 28th May 2020

The Supreme Leader for Patriotism, the three term President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza has come out with strong words and shown again his reckless behaviour. That has actually cost him and those surrounding him. Since, the President has downplayed and not taken the Global Pandemic of COVID-19 or Coronavirus seriously.

That’s why it’s both sad and ironic at the same time. There is no reports that Pierre got and his wife Denise Nkurunziza got it as well. Only his wife has able to leave the republic for treatment at Aga Khan in Nairobi, Kenya. She together with three bodyguards whose also been tested positive for COVID-19. Therefore, the necessity for mass-testing and checking society should be key.

Especially, since the state, the party and the leadership have held open rallies and done as ordinary. There been no or nothing of social distancing, neither lockdowns or anything. That is why the spread of COVID-19 can be to heights we cannot imagine. We know its worrying, when the big-men and their wife catches it. Also, the workers of the Big-Men get it too.

It is not like the state can afford to ship every case or everyone who would treatment to Nairobi. Neither, would the Kenyan authorities accept it either. Even if the Kenyan authorities are not supposed to accept people with COVID-19. However, they did, because of the stature of the First Lady of Burundi.

Mr. President with this and the actions you have made. You have been living on a lie. Because, you get tested since your a big-man and the ones around you for the same reason. All of them get tested as of association with you. The general public doesn’t get this treatment. Neither, is there any safeguards nor open checks in place. All trust are just going directly to God.

God wouldn’t let you act a fool. God wants is us to use our mind and to our best abilities. Yes, we supposed to trust his will, but not stop using the tools around that. Which is what you have done, Mr. President. You could have in the last months of your Presidency, ensured testing capacities and abilities to secure the spread of COVID-19. However, you have lived on a prayer and therefore, you have not shielded yourself nor your wife.

The prayers didn’t save you, the faith didn’t stop the virus from spreading to you. You don’t know where it comes from. Your wife doesn’t know where it comes from. It could anybody your been close in the recent weeks of campaigns. There could be plenty of others inside the CNDD-FDD and the State House. Who are running around asymptomatic and with the illness. However, you cannot know, because you have not tested nor even tried to combat this.

That is why Mr. President, Supreme Leader of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, you have been living on a lie. Instead of acting upon a global pandemic. You have taken the easy way out, which now will cost. Hopefully, we hope, that the people of Aga Khan can heal and ensure good treatment of Denise.

You can now be remembered that in your ignorance and in your arrogance you risked your own family just for the glory of the party and your own legacy. Peace.

La Diaspora Burundaise: Message de Felcitiation a Son Exellence General Major Evariste Ndayishimye, elu President de la Republique du Bruundi (26.05.2020)

Burundi: Mouvement pour la Solidarite et la Democratie (MSD) – Communique (28.05.2020)