The Guinean Social Movement (MSG), which brings together the main groups of affiliated trade unions, the civil society and the employers of the country, has demanded “an international medical expertise of the state of health of President Dadis Camara” hospitalized in Morocco almost a month ago, after the murder attempt on the part of his former aide-de-camp, who is still on the run.
“There must be an international medical expertise, conducted by Moroccan doctors, but also by others who are competent, experienced and independent, so that to have Captain Dadis Camara’s medical checkup. It is not through telephone calls that we are going to reassure ourselves” stressed the Secretary General of the United Trade Union of Guinean Workers, Ibrahima Fofana, who is also a member of the groups of affiliated trade unions which organized the memorable strike of workers from January to February 2007, which had considerably shaken the former government.
Concerning the military junta’s chief’s state of health, hospitalized in Morocco since 4 December, about which all Guineans are concerned, the Guinean Social Movement (MSG) revealed that two of his trade union leaders have had a telephone conversation with Captain Dadis Camara on the eve of the New Year, thanks to close collaborators of the junta’s chief who initiated the conversation.
The Secretary General of the National Confederation of Guinean Workers, Mrs Hadja Rabiatou Sérah Diallo, recognized that she heard at the end of the phone “a regular voice” she used to hear and which sounded like that of the junta’s chief, who expressed his best wishes for the New Year to the Guinean people.
“But I cannot testify that it was President Dadis Camara. Technological progress is such that today, we can do a lot of things,” confessed the union official.
“We did not receive reliable information on Captain Dadis Camara’s state of health, hospitalized since 4 December, by those who took him to Rabat,” added the trade unionist, Ibrahima Fofana, thus referring to several trips made by Guinean officials to pay him a visit.
Since he was taken to Morocco for medical purposes on 4 December, Captain Dadis Camara was neither heard nor seen on the radio and on television, even when the first anniversary of his coming to power was celebrated on 23 December 2009 as well as the New Year.
His close collaborators have always supported that his state of health is not at all a concern.
This reassuring information was disproved by the Guinean civil society which recently protested in these words : “this obvious lack of respect to the people is an unacceptable situation which brings about an unrest sustained by statements without medical foundation from some members of the government and officials of the national television of Guinea.”
Source African Press Agency
