"Whatever organization or person is behind the current troubles in the country must be dismantled," Colonel Michaël Randrianirina insisted yesterday in Toamasina. Facing child abductions, Colonel Michaël Randrianirina is taking a hard line against criminal networks. In Toamasina, the strongman of the Refoundation declares total war on criminal networks and their cryptocurrency flows. The tone is direct, martial, and grave, befitting the current security situation of the Great Island. During a visit yesterday to the capital of the East for the celebration of African Anti-Corruption Day and the inauguration of new offices of the Independent Anti-Corruption Bureau (Bianco), Colonel Michaël Randrianirina spoke bluntly. "If it's me you don't like, then kill me instead if you are men, but don't touch Malagasy children, because I will not tolerate that," he hammered with vehemence before the audience, pounding the table, facing the intolerable surge of child abductions and murders shaking the country. It is a true declaration of war that the strongman of the Refoundation launched against criminal networks.
No leniency
For Michaël Randrianirina, the deep source of this social decline lies in "excessive love of money," a scourge that generates unprecedented turmoil within the community. Raising his voice, the senior officer reaffirmed that no leniency would be granted to those responsible for these abductions, regardless of their social status or political and financial complicity they might benefit from. "Whatever organization or person is behind the current troubles in the country must be dismantled," he insisted. The PRRM has already openly qualified these acts as pure terrorism. Cryptocurrencies
The major revelation of this visit concerns the modus operandi of the masterminds. According to Michaël Randrianirina, the brains behind these macabre operations are working from outside. To destabilize Madagascar and pay local executors, these networks use "cryptocurrencies," an opaque tool that bypasses banks. Facing this hybrid threat, the colonel strongly urged the Director General of Bianco to closely monitor these new financial flows. Aware that law enforcement alone will not suffice, the leader of the Refoundation urges youth to build a national anti-corruption vigilance network. "I believe many of you, young people who are the future of the country, have information about this child theft and these murders in Antananarivo and across the Island. Help us build a new Madagascar," he pleaded. Public opinion is growing impatient: despite recent arrests, the masterminds are still at large, no names have yet been revealed.