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Ndayishimiye: from man of providence to a king without kingdom

Le président Évariste Ndayishimiye passe les troupes en revue en marge de la célébration de la fête de l'indépendance dans la ville commerciale Bujumbura, le premier juillet 2022, Sos Médias Burundi

Who does not remember the intense sighs of relief at the arrival of Evariste Nadayishimiye to power! Poorly elected certainly, with official results still in the drawers, four years after the presidential election, the world but most particularly Burundians, had hoped that he would be and would do better than his predecessor, late Pierre Nkurunziza. Despite his almost joyous enthusiasm in declaring himself « heir to Sogo », each and every one said to themselves: « In any case, we can’t sink lower. It’s impossible ! » But today, we have to face the facts. Some go so far as to say: “If only he had left things as they were.” In short, our national Neva does not even deserve 0/10, but well below, far, very far below. And, through his actions, words and gestures, on July 1, the “celebration” of independence turned into a disastrous “mourning” of independence. Editorial, in collaboration with Franck Kaze, Burundian journalist in exile (SOS Médias Burundi)

“At least he doesn’t have blood on his hands.”. “We have never heard his name in cases of corruption or embezzlement.”
Without questioning General Evariste Ndayishimiye’s abilities to lead the country, public opinion had at the very least found a “clean” man. That was already something.

A polite image, which was immediately accompanied by promising, beautiful, and even too beautiful speeches. So beautiful that the international community instantly opens its arms and doors.


Thus, the new president breaks the confinement in which Nkurunziza was trapped and travels around the world, he is invited to all the major international masses, or almost. Hey, he is even designated “champion of African youth!  » Just that.


With a convincing tone, Evariste Ndayishimiye obtains, although just on paper, the lifting of the European Union’s economic sanctions taken in 2016 following the serious crisis caused by the highly contested 3rd mandate of Pierre Nkurunziza.


But if we chase nature too much, it comes back galloping without brakes.


The world, disillusioned, discovers, although late, that it is not a question of man, but of a system. Because the head of state, whom nature has not spoiled of the charisma in which he is the only one to believe by multiplying speeches of a dubious basis, incapable of getting rid of the mysteries which found his party, accommodates himself to the practices of the modus operandi of CNDD-FDD governance: corruption, embezzlement, embezzlement of public funds, ethnicity, hate speech, assassinations, kidnappings, arbitrary arrests, justice under orders, and so on, and the worst.

And to ensure continuity and total impunity for crimes which are running wild like never before, the ruling party is declared, unequivocally, a party-state.


All it took was to open the eyes of an international community which had allowed itself to be seduced too quickly, and which immediately balked at releasing the funds promised on paper. And without the slightest foreign investment, with economic measures that some experts describe as suicidal, with diplomatic confinement by the closure of borders with Rwanda, currencies are becoming scarce, even disappearing completely, and the Burundian franc is collapsing in a unprecedented inflation.
A Kirundi adage says: “Uwukira ingwara arayirata” (to cure an illness, one must recognize it).

But is it not that our dear Evariste Ndayishimiye constantly turns into a waltz of an “Eden”, that “the country has never been as well as under my presidency” and that “the people are happy ».One observer recently stated, correctly, that “Evariste Ndayishimiye is not in denial, but in dementia.”
How can we not believe that the President of the Republic is suffering from schizophrenia when the country seems to be at a standstill? Because Burundi today lacks everything: no foreign currency; no fuel nationwide; no electricity.

In the absence of these last two products and without inputs which cannot be imported without foreign currency, companies and factories are at a standstill: no sugar, the Moso Sugar Company (SOSUMO) having withdrawn; no more beers or soft drinks from the only recognized brewery, BRARUDI; no fertilizer; many children interrupted their studies in the middle of exams due to lack of means of transport; State civil servants, just like private sector agents, no longer go to work for the same reason, the only option, for those with the courage to travel, being to walk, or to pay huge sums of money for what seems to be a space in the rare overcrowded buses and taxis still in circulation taking you off wherever they want.

The markets are empty: basic necessities such as food crops are nowhere to be found and what little is still available is extremely expensive; health structures, emergency services in particular, are almost no longer functioning; etc.

Faced with all this, the government prefers to bury its head in the sand.

Franck Kaze, Burundian journalist in exile

Two weeks ago, the Senate President spat at the Minister of Commerce and Transportation: “You are missing. You are supposed to set and enforce transportation prices, but what are you doing, what are you going to do?  »
And, as was to be expected, the questions encountered an insurmountable wall of silence, like the Prime Minister’s shameful response to the deputies who, two months earlier, had dared to say that he did not see no solution in sight to the crisis the country is going through.


And beware of anyone who dares to take photos of empty gas stations and other images that show the hellish reality that Burundians experience.


And when they pretend, Evariste Ndayishimiye in the lead, to half-heartedly recognize that the country is in an impasse, it’s the fault… of Rwanda!

“Independence cha cha…”.

What would we like to sing and dance on this July 1, the sacred day of the country’s independence, the famous song of « Grand Kallé »!


But apart from Evariste Ndayishimiye and his loved ones, the heart is not happy. And then, how can we celebrate an independence that is fast moving away? How can such a hungry people claim to be independent? How can we sing about independence when the president has offerings delivered to him by a miserable population, thus recalling the order of the settlers, the traumatic “zana ayo magi, zana amasoro” (bring those eggs, bring the oil)?

Quite naturally, the very _ if not too _ predictable President Evariste Ndayishimiye, will once again make a self-aggrandizing speech to the Nation, he will once again make fun of them and tell them they lack nothing, and this, thanks to… him, the providential man.

Prince Louis Rwagasore, the hero of independence, will once again turn in his grave which will not fail to be desecrated by the presumption of the one through whom the country has never experienced such a serious crisis, a shock which, unfortunately, is not ready to stop it, because of the premeditated completion of the sinister work of Evariste Ndayishimiye.

You said “independence”! That’s all the good I wish you!


Happy national day to you, dear Neva! You who have no pride other than the infamous evil you inflict on your own people.

President Neva reviews the troops in the commercial city Bujumbura, July 1, 2022 at the National Day.