Fictitious democracy and opaque power: the cry of Wakit Tamma
By: Charilogone Editorial TeamOn July 21, 2025, in N'Djamena, the citizen organization Wakit Tamma published its communiqué No. 05/WT/25. To this day, it remains the only civil society force to have unequivocally denounced the abuses of power. Signed by Soumaine Adoum and Max Loalngar, this text stands as a clear alert — a call against forgetting, institutional violence, and the confiscation of the fundamental rights of the Chadian people.
In a world beset by crises—massacres in Gaza, escalating tensions between Iran and Israel, famine in Sudan, looting in Libya, and growing instability in the Sahel—Wakit Tamma asserts that this global turmoil is fueled by a ruthless race for strategic resources (gas, oil, gold, uranium) and the rise of authoritarian regimes. Chad is not on the sidelines: it is at the center of these power dynamics, engaged in foreign conflicts (Gabon, Mali, DR Congo, Sudan, Yemen, CAR, Libya), often without popular mandate, transparency, or strategic accountability. The Chadian people are neglected, manipulated, and exposed. External conflict becomes a diversionary stage designed to silence voices at home.
Domestically, Wakit Tamma denounces a counterfeit democracy. The 2023 constitutional referendum was imposed without balanced debate. The 2024 presidential election was locked down from start to finish. The newly installed Parliament and Senate are little more than appointed chambers lacking true representation. Meanwhile, the justice system operates under political orders: opinion leaders languish in jail without trial, or are hastily sentenced with no legal safeguards. Rights are crushed, truth is smothered, and the world looks the other way.
Another stark paradox emerges: Chad is wealthy—oil, gold, farmland, livestock, minerals—yet its people remain impoverished. Oil and gold revenues evade the national budget. Their management is opaque, corrupted, and monopolized by elites with foreign ties. Social projects have been abandoned. As families struggle to eat, a privileged few grow endlessly wealthy. The gap is vast. The injustice, glaring.
Faced with this reality, Wakit Tamma dares to say no. The organization issues a clear call to the authorities: abandon the illusion of militarism and respond to the deep expectations of the people—truth, justice, equity, dignity. It urges citizens to remain clear-minded, reject fear, and organize peacefully in defense of their rights. It calls upon civil society organizations to link the fight for peace to the struggle for freedom, transparency, and social justice. And it challenges the international community: stop endorsing impunity, and respect the right of peoples to self-determination.
Wakit Tamma still embodies, in the popular consciousness, the clearest expression of a desire for justice. Neither an enemy of peace nor a factor of division, she is the voice of a people who know, who see, and who refuse to be spectators of their own dispossession. A people who demand a peace based on truth, dignity, and real freedom.
Written in N’Djamena, July 21, 2025
Spokespersons: Soumaine ADOUM & Max LOALNGAR
Charilogone Editorial Team
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