The former governor of the Bank of the Republic of Haiti who since last February has donned the suit of President-elect of the Montana Agreement has drawn a bleak picture of the general situation of the country during the ceremony of the 3rd graduation at the Public University of the Northeast in Fort-Liberté (UPNEF) on Sunday, June 19, 2022.
Sponsor of the outgoing class, the economist in his speech denounced “the balkanization of the territory with the main feature, kidnapping, vio, serial killings.
According to the president-elect of the Montana Agreement, “we are in a situation of total dehumanization” regretting that this country, traditionally a land of freedom, has lost its bearings.
Haitians are still looking for a way, a life. After three consecutive years of economic decline, the country is on its knees in the middle of a crisis made of gasoline shortage, an exchange rate of more than 120 gourdes for one American dollar, the high cost of living, the Haitian families have difficulty in providing for their needs and in surviving” deplores the author of the book entitled: Haiti, an economy of violence.
The capital of the country is completely under siege. Yesterday it was Martissant, today it is the communes of Tabarre and Croix-des-Bouquets that are the object of criminal acts by bandits who kidnap and murder peaceful citizens in complete peace of mind, denounces the economist Fritz Alphonse Jean.
The former head of the central bank says he regrets to see that compatriots are forced to leave the country for other horizons in search of a better life. We have become the pariahs of the region,” he says.
Everywhere, compatriots are expelled. The bodies of Haitians are found on the shores of Florida, the Bahamas. The opportunity for the political leader to salute the memory of 11 of our brothers and sisters who were buried in Puerto Rico after being drowned in the high seas.
The one who is called to lead the country in case of agreement with other political forces said that the republican institutions are bankrupt, justice is taken hostage and gangs are the law like the courthouse controlled for about two weeks by armed men.
We are in a state of exception,” he says, “where the law, not applied, is suspended somewhere.
The primordial role of the youth in the change of the country
After reviewing the various characteristics and manifestations of the multidimensional crisis, the former head of the BRH put on his costume of godfather of the graduates to encourage them to the political commitment to save the national boat.
You, the youth, must train yourselves in order to become good professionals capable of ensuring the well-being of your families but also and above all you must be citizens involved in the transformation of this nation-state he preached.
You must go to reconquer our lost dignity in order to rebuild a prosperous Haiti for all its sons and daughters”, declared Fritz Jaan under the attentive eyes of his godchildren.
Partisan of the transition of rupture dear to the signatories of the Montana agreement, the man of Ste Suzanne in the department of the North-East, pleads for a change of the relations of the state with its citizens arguing that the current state does not cease to choke any impulse of growth of the regions capable of leading to a true decentralization and the transformation dreamed of by all.
Fritz Alphonse Jean who says he believes in the wealth of the country calls for the involvement of young people to decentralize the country and fight this history of the republic of Port-au-Prince.
It is the only country in the world where the ignorant lead those who are better prepared to lead, he regrets. ”We need to change the paradigm,” the economist believes.
During a good part of his speech, the president-elect of the Montana agreement has much urged the youth to be the artisans of the new Haiti.
You must be the goldsmiths of the deconstruction of the current state and the goldsmiths of the construction of the new Haiti”.