For quite a while, the leader of Pastef, Ousmane Sonko, stayed in Ziguinchor. At the time when his trial opposing him to the ex-masseuse Adji Sarr was held, the leader had withdrawn to this region in conflict for more than thirty years. Clashes were often noted during this period between the police and supporters of the mayor of Ziguinchor. Clashes that are a source of concern for Innocence Ntap Ndiaye. 

Guest of the “Grand Jury” this Sunday, the president of the High Council for Social Dialogue considers that “the worst is to be feared”. “What these youth demonstrations reminded me of is a kind of revolt. The word may be strong. But that’s it and we must fear the worst,” said the former Minister of Labor. 
According to Innocence Ntap Ndiaye, the process to bring peace to the region should not be weakened. “We are emerging from a crisis. Two weeks ago, the MFDC armed group in the Djakay camp laid down their arms. It is a very symbolic act which shows that we are on the right track to push back all that we have had as resentment during these thirty years of crisis”. 

Innocence Ntap Ndiaye maintains that “we must not arrive at regionalization”. It therefore invites actors, especially young people, “to dissociate what engages the region and what engages the nation”. “I think all the sons of Casamance should stand up and say that they don’t want this area to become the epicenter of violence. Let’s get out of a rebellion and fall back into another crisis that we could call it politics, but the effects are the same. It’s deaths, it’s attacks,” she laments. 
Returning to the pass of arms between Ousmane Sonko and Victorine Ndèye, Innocence Ntap Ndiaye invited political actors to avoid speeches of an ethnic or racial nature. “A debate of this nature bothers me. We must avoid this kind of debate and give advice to those who are in the political field to avoid this kind of speech”.
 However, the president of the High Council for Social Dialogue “considers that (the words of Ousmane Sonko) were not addressed to a community, because he cited names. We must dissociate what concerns individuals and what concerns the community”.

By Salieu Njie