Heard yesterday a baccalaureate candidate saying that the exam subjects were affordable. To understand that there have been leaks at certain tests, to the point that unfortunately, candidates for different examinations spend more time searching for the subject than learning the lessons. The candidate adds that if IBK thinks that by making subjects affordable that people will vote for it, he is misleading himself miserably. He remarks sparked a burst of laughter, but the most interesting is that they recall those held a few days by the hilarious and stainless Moussa Timbiné, RPM Member of Parliament and first deputy speaker of the National Assembly. For him, the political opposition is agitating to block the constitutional reform project in the perspective of the 2018 presidential election. There is therefore, only one topic that focuses attention and even serves to make impute motives.
It would be a waste of time to dwell on the leak of the examination subjects, real gaping wound of the education system. A recurring phenomenon that does not bother anymore, that having the subject the day before a test has become a bonanza. But even here too, it would not be inaccurate to say that regarding the subject of education, President Keïta hasn’t been a shepherd before his sheep. It is up to the government to reflect on measures that could stop the expansion of such a harmful phenomenon. But as in almost all areas, the government is squandered by its lack of vision and strategy. As a result, the school remains on the stretcher.
What the candidate said was anything but trivial. She is one of those who think it’s “too late for IBK”, “the milk is already spilled”, as they say. For let it be said, nothing of consequence has finally been settled on the major problems to which Mali was the target. The school is adrift; the army still faces corruption, laxity and lack of equipment and training; the Peace Agreement is “insufficient” to bring about peace and reconciliation is advancing difficultly; the insecurity wreaks havoc. Yet, even if not reminded enough, IBK made an electoral tidal wave in 2013 (77% of the votes cast) to build a stronger State than ever before. Even if we also know that a country that has been hit as hard as Mali needs several decades to get up.
But the problem is that the country needs a president. And not presidential. Because it is this, at the top, the eyes are turned towards a single horizon: the presidential election of 2018. To the point that we come to forget the essential. That is to establish the foundations of a nation, which is today the urgency. In the country, one person gives the impression of being absent: it is President Keïta. One wonders whether he takes the trouble to take the pulse of the people, who, whatever the light in which one decides to see the march against the constitutional review, seems more and more on edge and says that it has understood everything. However, understanding everything is not necessarily all forgiving.
Boubacar Sangaré
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