Burundi: The new change at the head of Regideso risks revealing angry cases.
His name is Dr. Ir Major Jean Albert Manigomba, ID number SS1605. He was appointed by President Ndayishimiye as the new Managing Director of the parastatal Regideso, which supplies water and electricity to Burundi.
Some analysts thought that the appointment of a soldier at the head of this company which Evariste Ndayishimiye and Allain Guillaune Bunyoni had declared bankrupt would be a way of relieving it; an officer would be more serious in management than a civilian, they thought. On the one hand, they are right, on the other, there is reason to believe that Ndayishimiye is in his logic to militarize all of Burundian society, starting with the top: President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Minister of the interior, the president of the National Assembly, the secretary general of the presidential party, etc… all soldiers and police. With one stone, could Evariste Ndayishimiye have succeeded in appointing Major Manigomba as head of Regideso? Anyone who looks with one eye can believe it, but a more political eye can analyse it differently.
Indeed, it is under the command of Major Manigomba that a theft of more than 25 million Burundian francs has just been discovered on January 25, 2021 at 4th avenue of the Kavumu district in the Kamenge zone, Ntahangwa commune north of the city Bujumbura. More than 10 months without the telecommunications company LUMITEL belonging to Prime Minister Allain Guillaume Bunyoni not buying cashpower recharging units. The cheating consisted of a direct connection; In other words, the current supplied to the motors no longer passed through the Regideso meters.
Let’s say Bunyoni was unaware of this theft, but everything suggests that his workers are abusing his authority to do whatever they want. We never stop hearing the bus drivers and couriers cry injustice because Bunyoni buses do not pay taxes and are imposed in parking lots; no one can dare to get a passenger on their bus until that Marshals have finished loading. Bunyoni himself also has no clean hands in the cases of economic malfeasance observed in the country; otherwise he wouldn’t be incapable of justifying the wealth he has.
Can we believe that the exposure of this cheating of the Lumitel company stems from the sole initiative of the workers or of the new CEO of Regideso? Far from there. We are thinking rather of a manifestation of a certain unease which has been in the upper echelons of the state since the appointment of Allain Guillaume Bunyoni as Prime Minister. We had the opportunity to say in one of our editions that it was imposed on Evariste Ndayishimiye. Today, the rag is burning between the two groups (that of Evariste Ndayshimiye and that of Allain Guillaume Bunyoni: we will have the opportunity to tell you the big fish behind each of them). Moreover, it has been said that Bunyoni did not even participate in the prayer crusade and the appointment as head of the cnddfdd of Révérien Ndikuriyo which just took place in Gitega from January 21 to 24, 2021.
Evariste Ndayishimiye would have taken advantage of the presence of a new CEO to settle accounts with his rival Bunyoni, recognized to be at the base of many mafia cases which provide him with large sums of money to the point that he has become richer which state. We are waiting for the government tomorrow to put pressure on the Lumitel company to reimburse this amount of 25 million francs owed to the Regideso company; or the worst-case scenario is that Marshal Bunyoni orders an operation to eliminate the Major who dares to poke his nose in his business. Evariste Ndayishimiye will not protect him; the balance of power is tilted towards Bunyoni. Who has the money has the power, it will be said.
With the professionalism, skills and new blood he can have, would Major Manigomba have the freedom to manage this company in order to generate profits and give water and electricity to other Burundians who do not have not yet? The answer is probably no. The cnddfdd power will not make it easy for him. He will always have a look at the cash flow to use it for other party business.
During the handover and takeover session, the former CEO, Siméon Habonimana said that on the accounts of Regideso, there were 12 billion frbu and that the state owes him 16 billion frbu. He added that the company’s turnover rose from 56 billion in 2017 to 88 billion in 2018, then to 107 billion in 2019. However, Evariste Ndayishimiye and Allain Guillaume Bunyoni had declared that the company was bankrupt and that it had to be ceded to other managers, after having publicly accused the CEO and all the staff of the company to the orderly of theft. Ridicule does not kill, Evariste Ndayishimiye a few weeks later, appointed the big thief to a more important post than that of the Director General
URN HITAMWONEZA once again asks the Burundian people to be very careful about the management of public affairs. A handful of men and women within the cnddfdd have given themselves the right to life and death over the rest of the population. They take advantage of all the advantages of the country and enrich themselves in an extraordinary way while the average citizen does not have enough to eat twice a day, has no medicine, his child sits on the floor for lack of desks in classrooms without doors or windows. It is these ill-gotten gains that create conflicts between these leaders and the repercussions of their differences fall on the people. We advise you not to interfere in their affairs; rather, let’s think together of possible strategies to put them aside and choose other leaders who are able to give us peace and development for all. WhatsApp contact: +31685638237
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