Demo spokespersons
By
Seyid.O.Seyid
Crashed by oppression, armed
with determination, and disappeared in desperation, the Caravan of 206 employees
had walked 750 miles from mining capital Zouerate with a labor union intention to
protest democratically in front of Presidency Palace in the Mauritanian capital
Nouakchott.
Walking in demonstrations on behalf of 400 voiceless
work mates in their Private Security Company, the retired military security
workers have been jammed to enter the city for security reasons. With little
food and no resting rooms, they have to wait 19 days of depressions for their
cry to be heard by concerned Ministry, their spokespersons told me.
We have done every possible striving including, sit-in
striking, writing, and legal protesting in the work site in vain. The pain of
being unable to provide bread for crummy children is the motivation behind our malevolent
decision, complained the workers delegates in their meeting with the Ministry
decision makers. Everyone is unrestricted to walk. The solution must be a long
administrative procedure. Your rights are fail-safe as long as the law is in on
your side courtesy, replied the Ministry.
The employees’ caravan had settled in temporary squatter. They have refuted political parties to
exploit their public opinion case. Surviving on individual donations of the
generous nation and undivided on more waiting to see President Aziz in person,
the only one capable of solving their human plight in the fight of justice.
Nature is home of homeless caravan until getting new home or return home.
The melancholiest story is spasmodic coverage in local
independent news wire. State Medias had not covered the new old story yet. Mauritania
Government had granted free access to news reporters to visit the downhearted Caravan
in steady juncture declining to exit, as deprived to enter. The Caravan had reached the door of no return,
concluded the organizers. As optimistic axiom goes, “The brightest dawn comes
after the darkest hours”.
Regardless of legal debates, the security employees inhuman
situation should be dealt with as human case with due urgency. For justice to prevail,
the state of law ideals that Mauritania Government is promoting in its public
media should be in action immediately.
In the past, 12 workers of the economic capital
Nouadhibou have marched to protest at the Presidency gate. They were received
and promised equate consideration. They
have returned in ablate oblivion.
It might be appeasing to grant Presidential audience to
such patient, patriotic and peaceful Caravan, despite busy schedule of acting President
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on the wheel for advancing the agenda of the African
Union he is chairing.
To elude hazard manners, labor essential requests are
to process in decentralized manner. It is undesirable end to end nowhere. Primarily,
national means must serve human needs. Getting back to normal stagnation is
conclusive victory in the face of abnormal absurdity. As American song does
reiterate, “Life’s funny
proposition after all, imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy and all”.
