GOVERNANCE THROUGH GANGSTERISM! LA GOUVERNANCE PAR LE GANSTÉRISME!
English version CBON had the water delivery tanker trucks requisitioned under the pretext that these people were conducting an illegal business. But after demanding that these deliverymen accept his conditions and, above all, ally themselves with one of his cronies, he returned their vehicles to them, and the very same business that was illegal yesterday became legal today. This is not governance; this is gangsterism and extortion! Using public force to expropriate economic actors, not to clean up a sector, but to force them to integrate into a network of clientelism, indeed looks more like organized racketeering methods than state regulation. This type of maneuver follows a three-step modus operandi, highly characteristic of regimes that struggle to separate the public interest from clan interests: Facade criminalization: CBON uses a legitimate pretext, in this case the supposed illegality of the water trade, to justify a heavy-handed crackdown. This perfectly feeds the nar...