In a message to the nation this Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Garry Conille announced that the gangs in the metropolitan area will soon be dismantled. Taking stock of the damage caused by the bandits in the country, the head of government reiterated his commitment to bring peace to the metropolitan area and part of the Artibonite department. Operations will be carried out in the areas controlled by the bandits of “Vivre Ensemble”, announced Garry Conille in a calm but determined tone.
According to the Prime Minister, the consequences of the bandits’ actions are incalculable. “They kill and rape, targeting women and children,” Garry Conille laments. In his message to the nation, he also emphasized the blocking of supply chains, thus causing a humanitarian disaster in the country, not to mention the children who are deprived of school because of the terror installed by the criminals and the consequences on investments.
“This disastrous situation requires immediate and decisive action. We will not allow the bandits to continue to take hostage neither the capital, nor the Artibonite, nor any other part of the territory,” declared Conille, for whom restoring security and order in the country remains an absolute necessity. “Concrete and decisive measures will be taken,” continued the head of the Prime Minister’s Office.
Addressing the populations of the 14 communes of the West and Artibonite targeted by the state of emergency, Conille asks them to wait for security instructions which will only be given, he specifies, through official channels. A national campaign against insecurity will be launched throughout the territory.
In order to ensure the success of the operations against the bandits that are to be carried out, the Prime Minister announces restrictions on the press. The media is forbidden from giving information that would allow the bandits to gain the upper hand over the police.
“Avoid live or delayed reporting that could provide information to gangs about the positioning of law enforcement and how operations are progressing,” he said.
Before concluding his message, Garry Conille once again asks the bandits to lay down their arms and surrender to justice while calling on the population to collaborate in this battle as was the case, he said, in the liberation struggle of our ancestors.
By Gazette Haiti News and Daniel Zéphyr
