In the militarized one-party state junta, Evariste Ndayishimiye is always fearing potential coup d’etats of his regime in Burundi. The ruling party CNDD-FDD governs through a series of “Generals” sprayed across the police and army. Ndayishimiye, deliberately, has been targeting those from the police and is actively looking them up claiming to be fighting “corruption”.
With more opportunities to extort civilians, these so-called police Generals are significantly richer than their army counterparts. Typically, Army officials are forced to hide their business activities and interest under their spouses’ names; Ndayishimiye knows this, he did it for almost 20 years. With poverty at an all-time high in Burundi, visible signs of a potential revolt, and mutiny in the armed forces, have become obvious. Ndayishimiye, cynically, has once again opted to sacrifice police “Generals”.
The inept despot played that card against his rivals and most senior police General Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni who was his Prime Minister and designated successor. Bunyoni was charged with threatening state security, jailed and tortured for 3 years, dispossessed of all his properties (a staggering 100+ houses, 300+ cars) and released into indefinite house arrest in a comatose state.
Ndayishimiye blamed Bunyoni for all ills, for economic woes such as the never-ending acute shortages of basic goods (fuel, medications, electricity, water and foreign currencies). Six years later, the situation has become worse yet Ndayishimiye had his way with Bunyoni. He is now turning his attention to the heads of immigration and traffic police claiming “corruption” in document issuance; a very cheap but effective scapegoat according to our source.
“The CNDD-FDD system is run like a cartel. Immigration and traffic loot money from the public and directly deposit 60% of the loot to their bosses including Ndayishimiye”, the source said, “He is sacrificing police Generals to appease public outcry and because he believes police Generals are unable to overthrown him”. Historically, all coups are usually led and executed by army generals, however, our source revealed that CNDD-FDD functions differently.
“There is no difference between police and army generals in CNDD-FDD. At the beginning, Evariste Ndayishimiye was a compromise between the army chief and the police chief. But now, he is picking on the police”, our source narrated, “It is also important to remember that the current President of the Senate, Ndirakobuca Gervais aka Ndakugarika, a retired police General and former Prime Minister, is currently the unofficial boss of the police. He’s considered to be Ndayishimiye’s main rival in CNDD-FDD”.
Ndayishimiye’s purge is a desperate move after six years of complete incompetent rule. Inevitably, his purge of Police Generals in the CNDD-FDD system will only result in more tensions in the crumbling military junta.
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