The fight is becoming international. The Neo-Pan-African Organization of Sovereignty (ONS), which brings together 36 entities from 17 different countries, is involved in the libel case between the president of the Pastef/Les patriotes party and the Minister of Tourism, Mame Mbaye Niang. While the latter appealed (the trial is scheduled for this Monday, April 17 before the Court of Appeal of Dakar) after the decision rendered in first instance on March 30, the ONS issued a long statement of arguments also going back on the genesis of the facts. This, in order to challenge African and world opinion. “We invite them to keep in mind all the previous episodes of the aforementioned persecution of Ousmane Sonko, in order to establish a direct link with the case of Mame Mbaye Niang, the minister of Macky Sall, and which is clearly part of a comprehensive plan put in place by the current President of Senegal, which national and international opinion suspect of wanting to seek a third unconstitutional mandate, to stay at the head of Senegal by eliminating from the presidential race the one that is expected as its potential successor», said the signatory members in the document that Seneweb publishes in extenso.
Continental news has been shaken for a few weeks by the harmful situation in Senegal. The country of Teranga is experiencing unrest as a result of demonstrations between the supporters of the Pan-African patriot leader Ousmane Sonko and the defence and security forces in the context of the defamation lawsuit brought by Mame Mbaye Niang, the current Minister of Tourism and Recreation of the government of Macky Sall, against the leader of Pastef.
Indeed, Ousmane Sonko, who is basically an expert in public finance and taxation and who began his career as a senior inspector of taxes and domains, said he had read a report of the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) Minister Macky Sall for the massive misappropriation of public funds through the activities of the Community Agricultural Estates Program (Prodac). This Senegalese state structure was created in 2014, which aims to integrate young graduates and unqualified workers into the agricultural professions, to promote private investment in the agricultural sector, to provide rural populations with a framework conducive to the development of real agricultural enterprises and the emergence of development poles, was under the direction of Mame Mbaye Niang at the time when he was minister of youth, employment and citizen construction.
“During this altercation, President Ousmane Sonko was sprayed with a suspicious liquid, the nature of which is still unknown, as well as Congressman Guy Marius Sagna, one of his most fervent supporters, who bravely stepped in to tear President Ousmane Sonko from the hands of police officers…”
It is therefore in connection with this trial that demonstrations took place on March 16 in Dakar and pitted the Senegalese police forces against the supporters of the Pastef leader. These demonstrations degenerated due to the intimidation and provocations of the police forces who wanted to impose an itinerary to the leader Ousmane Sonko to go to court but whose supporters mobilized very quickly to defend and protect him after that the latter was brutalized by the same police forces.
During this altercation, President Ousmane Sonko was sprayed with a suspicious liquid, whose nature is still unknown, as well as Deputy Guy Marius Sagna, one of his most fervent supporters, who courageously stepped in to tear President Ousmane Sonko from the hands of the police officers, who were being physically abused by them. It is in fact in front of the home of Ousmane Sonko with whom he had to go to the place of a demonstration scheduled on March 15, that the deputy leader of Frapp-France will be hit by a projectile that will hurt his thigh, while he opposed the forces of law and order which were determined to arbitrarily prevent the leader of the Pastef from leaving his home, although he had never been under house arrest.
Ousmane Sonko, who was forcibly taken to court by the security forces, is going to ask to go urgently to a hospital to receive treatment after suffering from this outrageous and barbaric aggression, which he has been the victim of in mondovision. He will finally be admitted to a local clinic after having been prevented from it by the same forces of law and order who have curiously brought him back to his home, while the leader of the Pastef felt very bad.
“The ONS notes with regret that since the beginning of his career as a senior civil servant, Ousmane Sonko has never stopped being in the crosshairs of Macky Sall’s power.”
Postponed until 30 March, the trial will finally end with the opponent’s sentence to a two-month suspended prison sentence with a fine of 200 million CFA francs. This verdict, for which the plaintiff Mame Mbaye Niang had initially expressed his satisfaction, was quickly challenged by thethe following day at a press conference, when he announced his intention to appeal for a higher penalty and a much higher amount of damages, threatening to seize the home of the leader of the Pastef if he did not pay the said amount within the prescribed deadlines.
The Neo-Pan-African Organization of Sovereignty (ONS) Questions Mame Mbaye Niang’s backtracking and wishes to emphasize its malicious nature which seems to be part of the logical continuation of the persecution and harassment of the Senegalese opposition leader, which was the victim of the Senegalese authorities for a purpose unavowed, In view of the many obstacles and administrative and legal problems of all kinds that he has been a victim of since he has been politically revealed to Senegalese and to Africa as a whole.
The Neo-Pan-African Organization of Sovereignty notes to deplore that since the beginning of his career as a high official, Ousmane Sonko has not ceased to be in the sights of the power of Macky Sall and to be persecuted by it-here, for his critical postures against him. Indeed, in August 2016, the current mayor of Ziguinchor, due to his diatribes against the government and his accusations against the Senegalese state for fiscal and budgetary anomalies involving President Macky Sall, is removed from the General Inspectorate of Taxes and Estates for failing to comply with the «duty of reserve», after the creation of his political party that allows him to be elected deputy in the National Assembly of Senegal in 2017.
In January 2018, he released the book Pétrole et gaz au Sénégal: Chronique d’une spoliation, where he accused Macky Sall and his entourage of embezzlement in the management of the country’s natural resources. In September 2018, he published a book program, Solutions, in which he gives a diagnosis of the social and economic problems of Senegal, outlining his proposals to remedy them. This book, which met with great success, was not well received by the Senegalese authorities, who saw it as yet another highlight of the opponent’s opposition to government policy and a proof of the presidential ambitions of the native of Thiès.
This desire to exclude by unorthodox means political rivals from the Senegalese presidential race is a constant among the Senegalese president who has done everything to put aside, by similar schemes, other presidential candidates such as Karim Wade or Khalifa Sall»
Having finished third in the presidential race in February 2019, Ousmane Sonko is gaining power and scaring the power of Macky Sall who no longer hides his aversion to the latter. In February 2021, the leader of Pastef is curiously accused of rape by a massage parlour employee who complains to him in the aftermath, accusations he rejects and qualifies as a plot to eliminate him from the 2024 presidential race. It was in the context of the trial related to this case that violent demonstrations broke out in Dakar in March 2021, pitting law enforcement and Ousmane Sonko’s supporters, nearly failing to bring down Macky Sall’s regime. Despite his legal problems, the leader of the Pastef continues his rise and is elected mayor of Ziguinchor in the local elections of January 2022.
n view of the above, the Neo-Pan-African Organization of Sovereignty (ONS) invites African and world opinion to bear in mind all the previous episodes of the aforementioned persecution, of which the leader Ousmane Sonko is a victim, to establish a direct link with the case of Mame Mbaye Niang, the minister of Macky Sall, which is clearly part of a comprehensive plan put in place by the current President of Senegal, that national and international opinion suspect of wanting to run for a third unconstitutional mandate, in order to remain at the head of Senegal by eliminating from the race for the presidential election the one that is perceived as its potential successor.
The Neo-Pan-African Organization of Sovereignty also notes to deplore the complicit silence of the International Community which thus gives the white-seing to Macky Sall whom she supports in her intrigues and her willingness to seek a third term to block a potential successor who openly criticizes the African policy of France and who does not hide her intentions to put Senegal in a dynamic of multilateral partnership in phase with an emerging multipolar world, at a time when the continental geopolitical context is characterized by the «irruption» of Russia in the African Meadow of France. This desire to exclude by unorthodox means political rivals from the Senegalese presidential race is a constant among the Senegalese president who has done everything to put aside, by similar schemes, other presidential candidates like Karim Wade or Khalifa Sall.
“The ONS therefore appeals to the Senegalese people to remain vigilant and in order of battle in view of the continuation of the trial between the leader Ousmane Sonko and Mame Mbaye Niang, for…”
The Neo-Pan-African Organization of Sovereignty invites the Senegalese authorities to recover and stop using justice to satisfy the unhealthy ambitions of President Macky Sall who does not hesitate to recruit on ethnic bases and in the whole sub-sub-region of the militias he incorporates into the defence and security forces, who are likely the perpetrators of the violence against Ousmane Sonko and his supporters and the attempt to poison the leader of the Pastef. This instrumentalization of the ethnic fact by the Senegalese president risks to undermine the national unity that seemed to be an acquired base of democratic culture recognized by the whole world in the country of Teranga. The Neo-Pan-African Organization of Sovereignty denounces the notorious and repeated violations of the rule of law by the Senegalese authorities who are probably sinking into tyranny, if we stick to the manual expulsion of lawyer Juan Branco chosen by Ousmane Sonko to defend him, and the arbitrary use of public power to create by violence a climate of terror in the country in view of the ever increasing number of dead, wounded and numerous recorded imprisonments.
The Neo-Pan-African Organization of Sovereignty supports the leader of Pastef who fights for the sovereignty of Senegal so that this African country has control of its natural resources, at a time when the increase in the exploitation of oil and gas resources makes the ruling caste in Senegal particularly greedy and violent and which explains the rise of tensions in the run-up to the presidential elections in February 2024, and all the violence and persecution against all those who are trying to prevent the derailment of the supposedly democratic procedures that must take place in that country. This support is fully justified in view of the hopes embodied by the Senegalese opponent regarding the problem of territorial integrity in relation to the Casamance issue, the rational management of oil and gas resources, and above all the geopolitical question that worries to the utmost the enemies of Africa of the freedoms that support in hand the dying regime of Macky Sall.
The Neo-Pan-African Organization of Sovereignty stands alongside the Senegalese people, whom it invites not to weaken in its mobilization to protect its rights, and therefore, Senegalese democracy, a guarantee of stability and development.
The Neo-Pan-African Organization of Sovereignty therefore appeals to the Senegalese people to remain vigilant and in order of battle in the perspective of the continuation of the trial between the leader Ousmane Sonko and the exploited valet of President Macky Sall, Mame Mbaye Niang, to protect the life of the leader Ousmane Sonko who is visibly threatened with death by a regime determined to ignite Senegal to satisfy the ambitions untila man who obviously chose to walk out the door and end up in the garbage of history.”
For the Organisation Néopanafricaniste de Souveraineté
The President
Done at Bamako, 15 April 2023, Mr. NGOMO PRIVAT.
SIGNATORY MEMBERS OF THE NEO-PAN-AFRICAN SOVEREIGNTY ORGANIZATION (36 ENTITIES):
AFRICA/WORLD
1. KANE AFRICA – ASSOCIATIONS OF 54 AFRICAN COUNTRIES
2. PAN AFRICAN YOUTH PLANETE [PJP MONDE]
BRAZIL
3.QUILOMBO TATUAPARA-BAHIA-BRASIL ASSOCIATION
BURKINA FASO
4.APP/BURKINDI
CAMEROON
5. CAMEROON LIMARA (LEAGUE OF MASSES FOR AFRICAN RENAISSANCE)
6.NEW PANAFRICAN POWER KAMERUN [NPPK]
7. MOVEMENT “10,000 PAN-AFRICAN ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES BETWEEN 2023 AND 2028”
CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE
8. OXAKE: SOLIDARITY-SUFFICIENCY!
IVORY COAST
9. AFRICAN PEOPLES PARTY [PPA-CI]
10. PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY OF PEOPLES (COJEP)
COMOROS
11. COMOROS INTEGRITY AND SOVEREIGNTY COLLECTIVE [CDISCOM]
12.MAORE COMMITTEE
13.KA UBUNTU
14. SULUHU
15. UKOMBOZI
16. AFRICA WARABA
EGYPT
17.NEWPOWER ORIENT [NPO]
FRANCE
18. NEW POWER EUROPA [NPE]
19.KATIIOPA
GABON
20. AIDI-241
21. COPIL CITOYEN
22. NEWPOWER
23. OSONS FOR AFRICA [OPA]
GUINEE CONAKRY
24.NATIONAL FRONT FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTION [FNDC]
GUADELOUPE
25. GWADAFRIKA – DIASPORAKAMA
MALI
26. M5 RFP DIASPORA FRANCE – EUROPE
27.INIS MALI (NATIONAL SOLIDARITY INVESTMENT INITIATIVE)
28. BLACK PLANET MOVEMENT
29. MALI YOUTH HOPE
30. PARADE (RUSSIAN AND AFRICAN ALTERNATIVE PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
NIGER
31.NIGERIAN ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS
SENEGAL
32. AFRICAN PATRIOTS OF SENEGAL FOR WORK, ETHICS AND FRATERNITY [PASTEF]
CHAD
33. CHADIAN DIASPORA CONSULTATION PLATFORM
34. NEW POWER CHAD [NPE]
TOGO
35.DYNAMICS MGR KPODZRO [DMK]
36. INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION OF BISHOP KPODZRO DYNAMICS [CIDMK]
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