5 August 2007
Bujumbura — The Burundian Heat of State, Pierre Nkurunziza has threatened to cut the premiums and allowances to the members of Parliament of the opposition if they continued to block the normal activities of the National Assembly and that of Senate .
President Nkurunziza is bothered by the fact that the parliament have not voted for more than four governmental bills since the beginning of the year.
The opposition parties have hardened their tone following the grafting cases shown at top frameworks of the country.
President Nkurunziza has often been accused of being soft on graft. For instance, in the recent cabinet reshuffle, he nominated certain people who where initially dismissed due to grafting. Ngowembona Dieudonne who is suspected of being involved in illegal sale of the presidential airplane, Falcon 50 is freely circulating in Bujumbura.
The other obvious example is that of Karenga Ramadhan who is suspected of being involved in the embezzlement of the proceeds of the presidential airplane, and who publicly claimed that the government had the right to even give away the plane for free was given a ministerial position in recent Burundi ministerial cabinet reshuffle.
According to experts who follow the situation very closely, the Nkurunziza government is described as illegitimate as it is not approved by the majority of the Parliament and its composition includes more than half of the opposition after the imprisonment of Hussein Rhadjabu which resulted in split of the CNDD-FDD parliamentarians, those supporting Radjabu and those supporting Nkurunziza.
The opposition parties have recently started an internet forum whose main objective is to assess motives to impeach president Nkurunziza who is classified as incompetent.
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