Ramasy Adolphe: The HAT has been plundering wealth for too long enough

Madonline (M): It’s been a long time, hasn’t it?

Ramasy Adolphe (R.A.): our voice keeps on resounding though. Few days ago, I have expressed views in one of Antananarivo’s daily newspapers. I definitely cannot keep silent as the country is suffering from the HAT dictatorship

M: What your assessment of the way things are going?

RA: decisions are unilaterally and undisputedly issued now, the decisions from the High Authority of Transition (HAT). The problem is that they are looking for no solution at all, they’d be glad to have the transition keeping going on forever for the sake of robbing state money. The Malagasy people is irrelevant for the current government. They’re committed on hiring foreign artists but not on rescuing a nation increasingly dented by poverty. They are straining to skirt around their duty through parties of various kinds. The current leaders are doing whatever they want, no strings attached: they are illegally removing officials, replacing them with who knows who in an illegal way. For example in Manakara, the mayor has been replaced by someone who failed from getting a vote in the latest election and despised by the population. The same with Toamasina city. The current power is, however, not entitled to remove and replace mayors at all. The state funding management is just as so confusing. Clear and fair inquiries are not conducted since those illegally appointed leaders are making a clean sweep on money. I am pledging absolutely no support to any of the current leaders as it is now clear that they are thugs who  created troubles in order to pretend to be the cure and conquer power in Madagascar. According to my own assessment, Andry Rajoelina and his clique have nothing else in mind but a clean sweep on state owned wealth.

M: So what are your solutions?

RA: There are not many of them. Could Andry still be keen on remaining on top of any transition in legal terms, he would have to start by respecting whatever he has signed (the Maputo and Addis Ababa agreements). Then, everything in its time: a national dialog to schedule the drafting of a new constitution, an electoral roadmap, a constitutional referendum and finally the elections. Let it be clear that the election of parliamentarians has to be the first one. I also believe that a beheaded animal is a dead one. Both former presidents Marc Ravalomanana and Didier Ratsiraka are abroad. I think that the Rajoelina and the Zafy spheres can engage talks together with all of the country’s political forces

M: any message?

RA: No solution is possible without talks. The HAT is stubbornly holding on. On this account, I’m asking for Andry Rajoelina’s resignation to come true on Sunday, June 27th. The HAT had got enough of wealth so far and the country is in the crest now. I’m calling upon all the country’s political forces to join hands and build up a new roadmap for a genuine transition

By Mickaelys (Toamasina)