Faced with a failing economy, Burundian ruler Evariste Ndayishimiye aka Gen. Neva has turned to what intelligent people are laughingly calling “Neva’s Marxist ideology, which is to force everyone to fix prices, which prices are decided by government.
The Burundian clown of a despot recently made a public announcement: “If you charge more (than government dictates) then we will close your business and make sure you never do business again!” He then added that he had given his commerce minister a deadline of fifteen days, to start implementing his price controls.
Owners of private businesses are shaken by Gen. Neva’s lunatic idea.
The man’s impulses have now wondered into Marxist territory, and he’s not trying to implement an economic system that he’s never put a thought into (poor clown has the thinking capacity of a housefly anyway). Worse economic calamity is about to befall benighted Burundi.
Gen. Neva in reality is trying a cheap populist stunt, to distract Burundians from the real issues the country is going through: hyper-inflation with commodity prices shooting up every week; lack of fuel and many other primary consumer commodities; and a severe shortage of foreign currency to import anything.
Since he rose to power, the Burundian president has tended to limit his attacks (with governing becoming ever more arduous for him) to officials of the former government of Pierre Nkurunziza, or super rich individuals and cooperations. Neva locked up his former Prime Minister Bunyoni and confiscated all the man’s property.
He also attacked banks, fertilizer producers, telecom operators, import-export traders and others, blaming them for depleting foreign currencies, and for high prices. Yet it is public knowledge that it is Evariste Ndayishimiye aka Gen. Neva’s wife that’s one of the main problems. For instance this crooked woman has forced a monopoly in the energy sector.
She simply took over the fuel import business, with neither the capital (in funds) nor the experience required. Neva and his thug woman have collapsed whatever paltry economy Burundi’s was, and now the fellow is blaming “capitalism”, or “profiteers.”
Towards the end of 2024, a number of Burundians businessmen found their bank accounts blocked by tax authorities, others had their businesses raided by police, and yet other saw their title deeds cancelled. It’s economic terrorism that Ndayishimiye is practicing in Burundi, pure and simple.
With his rampant corruption and chaotic rule, Burundi has for a long time now been unable to buy even a small fraction of its fuel needs.
“The country’s foreign reserves can barely cover one week of imports, other countries in the region call it a crisis with 3 months worth of reserves”, a banker said, on strict condition of confidentiality. “We really are the poorest country in the world, and now we are also the most taxed and the least business friendly!”
Burundi’s main source of foreign currencies is still coffee and tea, despite Ndayishimiye’s lies of “great domestic mineral wealth”.
Mining companies in Burundi only launder mines smuggled from DR Congo, which the Congo regime is complicit in as payment for Bujumbura’s military support to Tshisekedi. The criminal “DDs” also are engaged in human trafficking, with Neva selling Burundian soldiers to earn blood money from the Tshisekedi regime, while his wife sells Burundian girls to middle eastern countries.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is Gen. Neva’s Burundi in a nutshell.
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