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By decree signed on July 9, 2024, the President of the National Council for the Protection of the Homeland (CNSP), Head of State Abdourahamane Tiani, disbanded the High Committee of the 3 N Nigerien Initiative (Feeding the Nigeriens). The decree states: “The members of the High Committee of the 3 N Initiative return to their governments of origin.” The 3 N Initiative was the flagship project of the former President of the Republic, General Mahamadou Issoufou, who was in charge of the Presidential Guard during his ten years in office. Through this program, which was widely praised at home and abroad, the former president promised to overcome the almost permanent food insecurity in Niger due to a number of factors, including insufficient rainfall. This is why Mahamadou Issoufou decided to focus his program on irrigated crops. As a result, billions of CFA francs are raised every year for the 3 N Initiative. However, after years of implementation of the program, it is widely believed that Niger has not yet escaped the food crisis. In the eyes of many observers, the 3 N Initiative has simply not met the expectations of the Nigerien population. Some analysts even criticized the Mahamadou Issoufou plan as more of a political propaganda tool than a tool to fight food insecurity. They justify this assessment by saying that the 3N initiative is more theoretical than practical, more inclined to hold workshops and develop documents than to directly support producers to increase production. Is it the lack of visible results that has led President Abdourahamane Tiani to dismantle this legacy of Mahamadou Issoufou? Nothing could be more certain! We note that the High Committee of the 3N initiative was dissolved a few weeks after the launch of the large-scale irrigation plan initiated by General Abdourahamane Tiani. This new plan, aimed at fighting food insecurity, is more practical than that of Mahamadou Issoufou, and it targets the development of hydro-agriculture, with the main project being the production of various cereals, including rice.
Since coming to power in a coup on July 26, 2023, General Abdulrahman Tini has for the second time gotten rid of the legacy of Mahamadou Issoufou. We remember that he dissolved the High Authority to Fight Corruption and Similar Crimes (HALCIA), created by Mahamadou Issoufou, and replaced it with the Commission to Fight Economic, Financial and Fiscal Crimes (COLDEF). The entire 3N initiative HALCIA was more of a tool for political propaganda and blackmailing politicians opposed to the power of Mahamadou Issoufou than a real anti-corruption tool.
Thus, while some of Mohamed Dou Issoufou’s supporters tell anyone who will believe them that the latter continues to focus on the management of the ongoing military transition, General Abdulrahman Tiyani continues to provide evidence that he is not that “small” man and intends to chart a new trajectory for Niger.
IB (Today’s World)
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