The son of the Malian president, one of the public figures on which the ongoing dispute in the country is focused, announced on Monday July 13 that he will resign from the important chairmanship of the Parliamentary Defense Committee.

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The name of Karim Keïta, the son of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, was one of those designated as popular protest in the demonstrations. Since June, these rallies have repeatedly brought together thousands of Malians against power and who degenerated on Friday into an almost insurgency in the capital Bamako.

Demonstrators used images of him showing happy holidays abroad with friends and in the company of young, lightly dressed women, in the form of posters, to present him as a character with light customs who could have a good time. that his country is suffering.

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Karim Keïta had assured that he had not been responsible for the guest list and that this private trip had cost the taxpayer nothing.

A "surname crime"

In a statement posted on Twitter on Monday, Karim Keïta said that, in the context of the current dispute, "some have made my modest person a political business, others a spillover of their unfulfilled ambitions. Nothing will have me been spared. "

My statement for this Monday, July 13, 2020👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿. pic.twitter.com/fvIM8VNaRE

- Karim Keita (@ KarimKeita1) July 13, 2020

Karim Keïta, elected deputy in 2013, re-elected in 2020, denounces a "surname crime" to mean that through him, it is his father who is targeted.

He says he puts "Mali above everything", but does not "want to be an argument for people in need of a program" and therefore resigns from the chairmanship of the Defense Commission. He remains a parliamentarian.

With AFP

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