{"id":879,"date":"2010-03-04T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/54109623ef2e724fa5f7248acb4acc8e#tomathon"},"modified":"2013-10-16T20:28:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:28:45","slug":"niger-tandjas-spymasters-wasted-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-tandjas-spymasters-wasted-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Tandja&#8217;s spymaster&#8217;s wasted funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Norbert&quot; in Niamey&#039;s &quot;Le Courrier&quot; paper has interesting piece on the ineffectiveness of Tandja&#039;s Interior Minister Abouba Albad\u00e9.  Albad\u00e9, a Tandja-ist of the first water served briefly as PM and importantly headed up the police and internal paramiltary (FNIS) services.  He was one of the men most associated with Tandja&#039;s power grab.  While the author refers to Albad\u00e9&#039;s well funded &quot;Gestapo&quot;, the fall of the President suggests those funds may have gone somewhere other than for intelligence.  Le Courrier repeats rumors that Albad\u00e9 was getting 120,000 Euros a year directly from Tandja.  When PM Ali Gamatie (on whom the writer hangs the Hausa slur &quot;Bak&#039;in Bature&quot; : essentially &quot;an Uncle Tom&quot;) tried to cut the funds, Albad\u00e9 went over his head to keep them.  The piece ends with a bizarrely obscure Diderot quote from his 1769 harangue against Frederick II (&quot;Pages contre un tyran&quot;), saying that when power praise &quot;truth&quot; while lying,  people may only yearn for truth even more.  True?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Norbert&quot; in Niamey&#039;s &quot;Le Courrier&quot; paper has interesting piece on the ineffectiveness of Tandja&#039;s Interior Minister Abouba Albad\u00e9.  Albad\u00e9, a Tandja-ist of the first water served briefly as PM and importantly headed up the police and internal paramiltary (FNIS) services.  He was one of the men most associated with Tandja&#039;s power grab.  While the author refers to Albad\u00e9&#039;s well funded &quot;Gestapo&quot;, the fall of the President suggests those funds may have gone somewhere other than for intelligence.  Le Courrier repeats rumors that Albad\u00e9 was getting 120,000 Euros a year directly from Tandja.  When PM Ali Gamatie (on whom the writer hangs the Hausa slur &quot;Bak&#039;in Bature&quot; : essentially &quot;an Uncle Tom&quot;) tried to cut the funds, Albad\u00e9 went over his head to keep them.  The piece ends with a bizarrely obscure Diderot quote from his 1769 harangue against Frederick II (&quot;Pages contre un tyran&quot;), saying that when power praise &quot;truth&quot; while lying,  people may only yearn for truth even more.  True?<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-tandjas-spymasters-wasted-funds\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[75,107,66],"tags":[287,249,262,326,245,569,83],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-eb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}