Home security: The State’s big fat lie made public

Colonel Brunel Razafindrahofa keeps holding on and keeps on making the issue public. The former border police service chief is definitely pointing at the home security minister as the one having ordered to let Philippe Verdon in. This former mercenary and current businessman was actually banned from entering the Malagasy territory under the Ravalomanana regime. The putsch and the latest events somehow provided the businessman connected to the HAT’s earliest Primer Minister, Monja Roindefo, with some sort of amnesty. The ban has however never been officially lifted.

Philippe Verdon entered the Malagasy territory on September 23rd; Colonel Brunel Razafindrahofa is firmly holding on to his version against the home security minister, who fired him later on, emphasizing that the order to let Verdon in directly originated from Organes Rakotomihantarizaka. “The ban was not lifted by that time, my colleagues warned me about this, I ordered them to halt the operations and joined the area to address the situation… The minister clearly ordered to let this individual in, and to treat him as he was a simple passenger”.

Colonel Brunel Razafindrahofa’s statement didn’t suffer any alteration, either in its version or in its impact, as a direct political accusation against his superior Organes Rakotomihantarizaka. The latter is obviously denying the facts: “I never gave such an order”; and argued that the former border service chief’s dismissal was based on a trust issue: “now that he dare uttering those lies, I know what he’s made of, and I consequently do no more want to deal with him. I am not firing him because what he says is true, but rather because we can’t rely on him”. Problematic reply, isn’t it?

This umpteenth confrontation is reflecting the state’s general estate. The HAT and its propaganda machine are constantly crying wolf. But former mercenary Philippe Verdon’s presence on Malagasy soil only became a concern, one month after his arrival. His connection with Monja Roindefo, a former HAT Prime Minister now become part of the opposition is being held as potentially dangerous. Even the HAT minister Organes Rakotomihantarizaka is now suspected by the HAT propaganda. Colonnel Brunel is for the time being the official scapegoat