For those who had questions, General Evariste Ndayishimiye was clear: he is not going to shake things up. Otherwise, he said, it would be necessary to pursue all those who have plundered Burundi's wealth since the time of Belgian colonization. He therefore set a starting point for himself.

"Your problem is that you want to stir up the past, instead of saying: let us draw a line for zero tolerance, starting today. Because if we pursue those who have plundered public property over the past few years, we will lose time in investigations, we will no longer work and the country will become poorer. Today, I say: those who have stolen, that is done. We will put your case before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission," because the population has asked me to protect national wealth since the day I took my oath", declared the Burundian president.

The Olucome, the main anti-corruption organization, denounces what it calls a "consecration of impunity". Its president recalls that "corruption has become institutionalized" during the sixteen years that the CNDD-FDD, the presidential party, has just spent in power.

"The laws have existed since 2006, under the CNDD regime. Furthermore, he [Evariste Ndayishimiye] is still a jurist. He studied law. Olucome cannot in any way understand how he can advance this thesis. There is also the principle of continuity of the State. So for us, it is truly impunity that he wants to consecrate, but we can also advance the hypothesis that he became afraid with respect to the corrupt who have become stronger than the State", emphasized the president of the Observatory for the Fight Against Corruption and Economic Misconduct, Gabriel Rufyiri.

But "it is not too late", believes Olucome, which insists on the fact that Mr. Ndayishimiye has an image of "Mr. Clean" on the issue of corruption.

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