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This isn’t the primary time that Professor Léonce Ndikumana has given up all efforts to disclose very related components that ought to take Burundi out of poverty. How can we decide the current conference-debate that he has simply held on August 20? One convention too many?, asks this blogger. Purpose sufficient to put in writing and ship a message to the venerable professor.

Expensive Instructor,

You make no effort to clarify to our leaders, with supporting figures, why we’re among the many poorest international locations on the earth. Your mission is noble.

However what pushes me to put in writing to you is as a result of your presence earlier than the authorities is just not new, as is your theme of capital flight. It got here up once more in different conferences like the 2 editions of nationwide growth discussion board the place you have been additionally a speaker, in each editions of the nationwide personal sector discussion board and within the 5 editions of Burundi Financial Summit.

The issue, expensive Professor, is that the awakening of consciousness of capital flight that you’ve triggered and that you simply proceed to gasoline doesn’t appear to be producing any outcomes. For what? As a result of these are the identical company, the identical ones that the President of the Republic continues to say are placing obstacles in the way in which of the Burundian economic system. They’re your listeners. For this reason we see them filling their notebooks along with your suggestions, with out issues altering.

Trying on the questions requested by our leaders in the course of the convention on August 20, it’s paradoxical to notice that the workshops that are speculated to be alternatives for change and reflection, usually flip into an actual abyss which swallow time. Watching the video out of your current convention and the outdated video from the second version of the Nationwide Growth Discussion board, our leaders have the identical questions. The shock they present after your shows, prefer it’s the primary time they’ve attended your conferences, frustrates me. It is as if the solutions you give slip previous their ears.

Expensive Instructor,

We appear to be caught in a vicious circle of limitless conferences, the place every convention is a reproduction of the final. This cycle deserves to be damaged. We should not proceed to boost the identical subjects, repeat the identical discussions, and attain the identical conclusions, however with none concrete resolution being made in the long run. This example is making a rising frustration which has pushed me to put in writing to you. We should cease being the joke of those conferences that don’t convey tangible outcomes. It’s time to ask if these conferences are actually crucial or in the event that they solely distract from the deeper issues going through the nation.

The lesson? It’s easy: with out a change of mindset, there may be little probability that issues will change by way of these debates and conferences. In conclusion, and forgive me for my frustration, it’s important to debate, to debate macroeconomics. However it’s equally important that these conferences present added worth. The multiplication of such occasions with out actual influence can contribute, in the long run, to discrediting the management and undermining the morale of residents who’re impatiently ready for an enchancment within the nation’s socio-economic state of affairs.

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