The head of the junta in Guinea, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, dismissed one of his prefects filmed in the process of cutting into the hair, too long for his taste, of two candidates for the baccalaureate.
The video, of unknown origin, has been around social networks in recent days: Lieutenant-Colonel Ibrahima Douramoudou Keïta, prefect of Siguiri, rages cheerfully and without concern for aesthetics in the hair of a visibly frightened and humiliated high school student in front of the whole class.
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The prefect in khaki uniform was at that time the tour of an examination room as is the tradition at the beginning of the baccalaureate exams.
The other students, visibly dismayed, try to escape his gaze and his hand, when someone draws the attention of the local state representative to a second high school student, who suffers the same fate.
The images sparked a stir on social networks and calls for the dismissal of the prefect.
"The good education of children"
The news fell on the big television news on Saturday evening: "
Lieutenant-Colonel Ibrahima Douramoudou Keïta, registration number 18342G, previously prefect of Siguiri, is relieved of his duties and made available to the general staff of the armies
", stipulates a decree of the Head of State, Colonel Doumbouya.
Lieutenant-Colonel Keïta was among the many soldiers appointed to senior administrative posts by Colonel Doumbouya after the military coup that brought him to power on September 5, 2021.
The now former prefect had tried to justify himself on Saturday to the Africaguinée site.
He invoked "
the good education of children
".
“
Imagine, these are the future executives and future ministers of Guinea.
They come in full rasta
,” he said.
He claimed the concern of the Head of State to "
promote excellence
".
He said to the high school student, “
I am your dad.
I am not acting as a prefect but as a dad because you are the same age as my first boy
”.