Political problems.
Have you ever had family members that belonged to a political group organization in any country? Do you know how it feels to have most of your family involved in politics? This is my story. I was born into a family that had political connections and an organization that my uncle just has in Guinea. Before my uncle started his political groups, our family used to be a happy family. However, my family fell a part because of his activities with the government of Guinea. My uncle was the leader of the RPG, which stands for Rassemblement du People of Guinea. My family belonged to that one political group organization in my country, and this relationship to the R P G had profound effects on my family.
In the 1990’s my uncle was arrested and imprisoned by the Guinean government. I believed that was because he was trying to change the country. His political program was focused on the Guinean, economy and the development of Guinea. The reason why he was focusing on those elements was because the country has all the natural resource but the population was poor. He mission was to focus on the development of Guinea. Because we needed it at that time. Since Guinea became independent in 1954, the country only had two presidents. Because they were selfish and they did not care about welfare of their citizens, he started talking about the economy in Guinea, but no one was willing to consider his word. Guinea Conakry supplies water to all of African continent and the country is very rich in natural resources; he wanted to changes many things which would have benefits people in Guinea. Somehow, the government found it out that my father was the financial supporter of my uncle activities, so they came after him. The reason why my father was helping my uncle was because my uncle had the vision for the development of Guinea .However my father had opportunity to help the country, and he love his country; He also had the money to give him.
When the government came after my father, they arrested him and later they killed by Guinean government. There is nothing that my mother can do about it, so she became depressed, and she became ill. My aunt take care us while my mother were sick. I was only too young when it happened. Now the only thing I know that my uncle was a politician, and my father was his financial supporter .Now I know what it means to be a politician in Africa because it means putting your family in danger. For example Celiou Dalien Diallo now is running for president in Guinea. In 2008, he was beaten almost to death and sent to France, later that night the military armed came after he family while he was at hospital in France.
Another consequence of my uncle involvement was that my father young sister was arrested too and sent to prison. However, she managed to escape from the prison. Finally, my family was exiled to Senegal. After my family had the problems with the government. And my father was killed, my uncle still in prison. That meant, we did not families have anybody to stay with in Guinea. My mother, my aunt and my other five siblings went to Senegal to stay with my mother family. Since my mother was born in Senegal capital Dakar and she still has family there it was perfect place for us to live. Thankfully my aunt was there to take care of us, while mother was sick. My brothers and sisters and I went to school in Dakar. My aunt left us with our mother and she went to Europe. Three years later, she got my oldest sister a visa. I believed they worked extra hard to bring my oldest brother and me. Unfortunately, not all my siblings have been lucky an enough to go to Europe. We still have two more there in Senegal, because it is hard to get a visa now.
In conclusion, these political connections meant that my family experienced an inordinate amount of beating, and killing that effect our childhood. I think that our family fears harm or mistreatment if we return to Guinea. We don’t have anything to do in Guinea. Unfortunately, we still have my young brother and my young sister in Dakar. My uncle was released in December 2003and he is now running a business in Senegal. He is no longer a politician. We all hope, however my country will become better country in the future.
