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Burkina Faso: expectations of the country's new presidency

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For his inauguration, Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba (our illustration photo) did not say a single word.

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In Burkina Faso, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was sworn in as president yesterday, Wednesday March 2.

The ceremony was held in the banquet hall of Ouagadougou 2000. The leader of the Patriotic Movement for Safeguarding and Restoration (MPSR), which seized power in a coup on January 24, had already been sworn in February before the Constitutional Council.

And, 24 hours after the adoption of a transition charter, the official ceremony of his investiture, very short and sober, was therefore only a simple formality.

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Report in Ouagadougou by

Gaëlle Laleix

A simple master of ceremonies, the presentation of the presidential collar, the national anthem, the congratulations of rigor, and it was all over.

For his

inauguration

, Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba did not utter a single word.

So much the better, for Auguste Mohamed Koumsongo, vice-president of Sauvons le Burkina, the time is over for words: “ 

It's good.

What we are going to ask the president is that we go straight to work, that we go into the field, that we leave the capital for a bit, that we go down to the regions to be able to recover the territories already lost and enable the internally displaced to return to their homes. 

»

They can't do it " 

alone

 " .

An impatience moderated by Master Drabo Yacouba Le Bon, coordinator of the Confrérie des Dozos sans frontières: “ 

They need more time.

And that is very important.

So we always ask the population to be patient and not to demand in the very first hours.

If they are there, they must be accompanied.

But, we trust that they will arrive with the help of all of us, alone they cannot. 

»

“ 

There is the question of corruption 

”

And the new president is not expected only on the security issue.

For Jules César Ouangré, president of the Citizens' Union for Change, it is necessary to ensure progress in governance: “ 

There is the question of corruption, of responsibilities.

We have religious leaders, too, who often get involved in politics.

So, this means that the citizen today no longer finds himself there

 ”.

Yesterday the presidency announced a general financial audit of public administration structures.

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: Burkina Faso: Paul-Henri Damiba requests a general audit of the administration

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