Burkina Faso: Confessions of traitors, when reconstruction and sovereignty leave certain stateless persons and their local accomplices indifferent
Burkina Faso, engaged in an existential struggle for its security and sovereignty, has just been shaken by a chilling revelation. The fresh confessions of the alleged perpetrators behind the destabilization attempt, implicating former transition leader Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba and his circle, expose a betrayal of staggering depth.
While President Ibrahim Traoré and his government are fighting on all fronts to rebuild the nation in the face of the multi-headed threat of terrorism and imperialist pressures, some were conspiring in the shadows to plunge the country into chaos.
This scheme, uncovered by security services, is a stab in the back of the Burkinabe people.
How can it be understood that at a time when the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) and the Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP) are shedding their blood to liberate the territory; when unprecedented efforts are being made toward food and energy self-sufficiency; and when a diplomacy of dignity is restoring Burkina’s voice on the international stage, some of the nation’s own sons could conspire to bring back chaos?
The motivations of these traitors, as they appear, seem driven by greed, regret over lost power, and likely promises of support from external actors hostile to the country’s sovereign path.
They chose the path of conspiracy and shadowy deals over that of national service.
Their project was not a simple political alternation but an act of pure sabotage, aimed at pushing Burkina Faso back into the abyss of instability, in total disregard of the thousands of lives sacrificed for the homeland.
This affair must serve as a brutal awakening. It reveals the existence of an internal enemy; a fifth column willing to sell the country’s future for selfish interests.
The firmness shown by the authorities in thwarting this plot is salutary. It demonstrates that the state is vigilant and that betrayal will not go unpunished.
Now more than ever, it is imperative to support the legitimate institutions of the Transition and to strengthen the sacred union around the objectives of national liberation and sovereignty.
The Burkinabe people, who have already suffered so much, deserve peace and must not become the collateral victims of the vile ambitions of a handful of traitors.
Justice must run its course, and this attempt must serve as a lesson to consolidate national resilience.
The time has come to rally behind the efforts of national recovery, not to fuel sterile divisions orchestrated by those who have traded their honor for thirty pieces of silver.
Cédric KABORE
