The attention of the Sahel Solidarity Campaign Network (SaS-CaN) has been drawn to the outrageous, despicable, nasty and intolerable comments spewed out by the so-called Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diasporas Affairs in Kenya-Musalia Mudavadi. In his recent attempts to throw insults on Africans, the said Kenyan Minister shamelessly and disgracefully made his gutter slander that: ‘Ibrahim Traore is not supposed to be a president, he is not a leader. A leader who carries a gun on his waist and has it on his table, is not a leader’.
When Africans in Kenya made William Ruto as their President, they anticipated that there would be more Rutos in government, and not sycophants who behave like pawns and talk shamelessly like drunkards. That the Ruto’s government in Nairobi is full of drunken talks became exemplified by the insults and vile comments made by Mr Musalia Mudavadi when he recently attempted to undermine the integrity and illuminating personality of President Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso. We want to believe that Minister Musalia Mudavadi was in a state of drunkenness with alcohol when he descended into making vile comments about the leadership role of Captain Ibrahim Traore in Africa.
SaS-CaN finds the behaviour of the Kenyan Minister not only outrageous, despicable, nasty and intolerable, but also as a low down dirty shame and a slap in the face of Africans and black communities around the world. It should be condemned by all Africans and the global community. Who does Minister Musalia Mudavadi believe that he is; definitely he is now drunk with power for his own good. That he is entitled to be able to utter such nastiness against the President of Burkina Faso and that he can get away with it. That he feels he has every right to be able to attack the illuminating personality of the Burkinabe leader with this type of insults and nastiness.
Minister Musalia Mudavadi may have been out of touch with the new reality in Africa and the future of the continent and its sons and daughters. Having stated this therefore, SaS-CaN joins other African voices across the continent and the diasporas to say that the character exhibited by Kenya’s Foreign Minister towards the Sahel region is disgusting, entirely out of order, cannot be countenance and must absolutely and in the most unqualified and unresolved terms be condemned.
It is our view that progressive leaders in Africa should not be ridiculed or scorned for their resolve to restore the stolen dignity of the African people. Mudavadi’s disparaging comments are of great cause for concern, especially against the backdrop of the AES leaders championing peace, stability, sovereignty, freedom, justice and dignity for the continent.
It is imperative that Africans understand the seriousness of exciting any form of hate towards the President of Burkina Faso. Mudavadi’s comments at least are politically motivated and unacceptable, and that the Kenyan politician has no locus standi on the internal affairs of the Sahel region, let alone possesses the licence to throw insults on the authentic leadership of the AES in Africa.
From all indications, Minister Musalia Mudavadi’s comments about President Ibrahim Traore reflect a habitual pattern of criminal interference and are aimed at provoking regional narratives. We want Minister Mudavadi to understand that his traitorous type of politics, that his cheap pawn and disheartening type of politics is a thing of the past. That can’t win anymore, that can’t bring people together, and that tenacious strategy of Minister Mudavadi has no place in Africa to give expression.
Belonging to a government that is at war with its people, Minister Musalia Mudavadi has no moral standing to lecture others. Rather than ask for his resignation as Minister, we would instead advise Kenya’s President William Ruto to urgently create a new Ministry and name it Ministry of Insults, where Musalia Mudavadi truly fits to advance his rudeness and disrespectful utterances.
We trust that this statement stands out as a more appropriate and balanced response, which we believe will contribute to a thorough understanding of Minister Mudavadi’s vile comments, now that he has completed his Master’s bidding. After all, it is clear that Minister Mudavadi gets that favour for which he sold his name and betrayed the conscience of the African people.
The Kenyan society is in peril and entrusting people like Musalia Mudavadi to serve as Cabinet Secretary in the Government in Nairobi is not only a distasteful profanity, but serves also to further degrade the moral fabric of the Kenyan nation. SaS-CaN has also weighed in on the matter, expressing outrage and disgust by the vile comments made by Minister Mudavadi, that as an African-based advocacy organ, we find it necessary to implore Africans across the continent and abroad to join in calling out the behaviour of Minister Mudavadi for what it is.
SaS-CaN encourages the understanding of the situation in the Sahel region, where France and its allies and puppet African leaders have ganged to destabilise and impoverish the region. We encourage France and its allies to understand that all Africans are one entity-touch one-touch all. We are and continue to be One African People, One African Homeland, One African Struggle and One African Destiny.
Signed:
Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh
Co-founder and President
The Sahel Solidarity Campaign Network (SaS-CaN)
