{"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’s spymaster’s wasted funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

"Norbert" in Niamey's "Le Courrier" paper has interesting piece on the ineffectiveness of Tandja'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's power grab. While the author refers to Albad\u00e9's well funded "Gestapo", 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 "Bak'in Bature" : essentially "an Uncle Tom") 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 ("Pages contre un tyran"), saying that when power praise "truth" while lying, people may only yearn for truth even more. True?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

"Norbert" in Niamey's "Le Courrier" paper has interesting piece on the ineffectiveness of Tandja'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's power grab. While the author refers to Albad\u00e9's well funded "Gestapo", 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 "Bak'in Bature" : essentially "an Uncle Tom") 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 ("Pages contre un tyran"), saying that when power praise "truth" while lying, people may only yearn for truth even more. True?<\/p>\n

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