Freedom Newspaper (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Solueyman Mboob
14 December 2007
opinion
Senegalese in their majority reacted after a stupid and spontaneous Senegalese in their majority reacted after a stupid and spontaneous decision of their minister of the interior OUSMANE NGOM,who declared PERSONA NON GRATA to an ivorian musician who expressed himself, like Youssou Ndour could.
A famous SENEGALESE musician OUZA criticized over a two decades ABDOU JOOF's regime and never faced such treatment.
In a real democracy the freedom of expression and people's movement should be guaranteed regardless the sources,and the unpopular anti-democratic and despotism regime of wadda once again has broken the ECOWAS basic rules.
SENEGALESE authorities reacted exactly the same way JAMMEH"S NIA would react to anyone who criticize their EMPEROR of KANILI empire. And it is shame if we know how many people were granted asylum in SENEGAL.
Everything started with SENGHOR our first president at the very beginning of independencies with a harsh dictatorship of THE GUINEAN leader AHMED SEIKHOU TOURE with Thousands of fula and MALINKE group who fled GUINEA and seek refuge in SENEGAL. The job market was opened to them, asylum and citizenship granted to them and most of them became famous lecturers in colleges and the university of DAKAR. They always expressed themselves and never face retaliations.
It is the first time that a Senegalese government react as such against a public figure and the sobering part is that Europeans said worst and never been declared non grata, if it was a French national , I bet my life that it will never have such animosity, most of them who invest in the tourist industry promote prostitution,pedophilia, and substance trafficking and never be disturbed.
Such reactions let me think back and remember my stay in the Gambia where I witnessed ECOWAS citizens being mistreated seriously, arrested, charged for loitering whereas they controlled the foreign currency exchange industry and petty trading.
I remember personally been charged D 16,000 a year as expatriated quota to be able to hold my job in the GAMBIA and paying taxes at the same time and big companies like GAMSEN an CSE did the same for their executives.
It is ridiculous if we are better treated in UK,US and SCANDINAVIA than AFRICA itself our motherland.
People from BENIN had the same treatment than Guineans in SENEGAL and were really though in critics with SENGHOR and never face what we faced in AFRICA.
Fellow intellectual citizens of AFRICA , living in the US, let us think about at least a sub-Saharan forum to analyze our political situation and declare a memorandum, our countries political health remains in our hands.
Africa is on its way to underdevelopment after almost five decades of independence, unpopular leaders among whom African blood sticks on their hand and yet not punished.
Who know what is next and who will be next?
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