How were we systematically destroyed by geniuses/dilettantes!?

By Muamer Bandić, MP in the KS Assembly and member of the Presidency of the Party of BiH

A hollow year, memorable for nothing good, is behind us. At least not for us from Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the former center of political power of our country.

I say in the past tense because the year 2024 has clearly shown us that in today's Bosnia and Herzegovina, tailored by the Trojka and their partners, Sarajevo is the center of nothing. At least nothing good, considering that Sarajevo today is solely the main center for draining money from budgets at all levels of government and subtly channeling it into the pockets of partners, godfathers, and friends of a group of dilettantes alienated from reality, who tenaciously hold power and confuse the citizens of Sarajevo with constant media spins.

Thus, we will remember this year as one in which "we have never been better," and for the great "momentum on the European path" and the creation of a false image that we are just a step away from EU membership. And we are being led into the European Union by a team that competes with each other in celebrating war criminals and their fascistoid legacy, while this team of "Europeans and intellectuals" is led by the "best cadre of ministers from RS," who, incidentally, ended up in prison as part of an extensive corruption investigation.

Thus, this year will be remembered for the heroic European struggle worth 100 million KM for the godfather of the main boss from Laktaši, a trifle of 250 thousand KM for the godfather of the main Bosniak statistician and flower in state government, contracts for digitalization to companies on the American blacklist of the most honest minister ever and his persistent fight to secure a lifelong mandate at the head of BHANSA for Dragan's son-in-law, the continuation of manipulation in the election of the director of KCUS, some unnecessary state "fields and meadows" that are being given to private companies outside the law and the state to which this property belongs, Dragan's gas connections, and somersaults in road construction where a highway connecting a few villages in Herzegovina has suddenly become a priority over the international strategic road corridor Vc connecting Central Europe with the Port of Ploče.

I would also mention the tragedy in Konjic, Jablanica, and Fojnica, in which 27 people lost their lives, but judging by the attitude of the state and federal authorities towards these people and areas, this is just a minor and secondary episode for them this year, unusable for positive media self-promotion of our champions of progress. So minor and secondary that the transport lifeline of BiH industry is today being renovated by a donation from a private company from Turkey, and not by those whose job and responsibility it is.

Let's even overlook this losing streak of the Trojka in the high politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Dodik and Čović are leading them on a wild goose chase, reducing Bosniaks in institutions to the level of a statistical error, while our bravest, most honest, and best cadres, under the influence of Stockholm Syndrome, are flattering and indulging former war criminals, notorious criminals, and scoundrels who openly hate and destroy the country they live in. Otherwise, Stockholm Syndrome is a scientific phenomenon in psychology characterized by the creation of an emotional bond and a sense of trust by the victim, and their complete identification with the aggressor, so this term perfectly explains the role and behavior of the Sarajevo Trojka in partnership with HDZ and SNSD.

But, let's overlook all of that too, let's see how and what the Trojka is doing in the Canton of Sarajevo, the richest canton in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and certainly the richest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina? Let's see how they function where there is neither HDZ nor SNSD, and where the Trojka firmly holds all levers of power, with hands bought through political corruption in the KS Assembly.

Judging by how our esteemed Trojka members see themselves and talk about themselves, they are revolutionaries, and under their baton, a real revolution is taking place in the Canton of Sarajevo!

In their self-perception, there is not a word, not even a letter, about the financial collapse of the Canton of Sarajevo this year and the financially uncertain 2025, in which the collapse of the communal economy, like a house of cards, could already happen. Not a word about the damaged relationship between the cantonal authorities and social partners, about the collapse of traffic that has become an integral part of our grim everyday life, or about systemic corruption that resulted in the arrest of cantonal minister Bojan Bošnjak, whom his bosses are still protecting in every possible way, including constant pressure on the media and the judiciary.

Let's say that our cantonal prime minister is young and inexperienced, so he is not coping very well in that assigned role, which is difficult to play even for much more experienced political wolves because much was promised, and very little was achieved. Therefore, let's take the easiest institution in KS as an example, the Assembly of the Canton of Sarajevo, as a mirror of the knowledge, honesty, and efficiency of the Trojka's government.

I have already mentioned that thanks to political corruption, i.e., buying votes, the Trojka has a secure majority in this institution. Even the work of the institution itself, through amendments to the Rules of Procedure, is subordinated to the work capacity and intellectual capacity of the presiding officer, turning the SKS into a totalitarian body, which resembles the former Central Committee more than a parliamentary body of a democratic society.

Even in such a constellation of political relations, the leadership of the KS Assembly held only SIX regular and ONE extraordinary session in 2024. Thus, a total of SEVEN sessions in the entire year! And out of these six regular sessions during 2024, only four were successfully concluded with some sixty agenda items, where four laws, two amendments to laws, and six draft laws were adopted. During 2024, the Government's Work Report for 2022 and the Reports of cantonal public enterprises for 2021 and 2022 were adopted.

Of course, for this most honest government ever, the culmination of work is the determination of the Draft Urban Plan for the urban areas of Sarajevo (Old Town, Center, New Sarajevo, New Town, Ilidža, and Vogošća), as well as the Draft Urban Plan for the urban area of Ilijaš, Hadžići, and Trnovo, in order to continue the urbicide and ecocide in the Golden Valley and its surroundings.

Looking at these devastating figures, that the SKS under the leadership of the Trojka did not even have one session per month, the conclusion is that this government does not work for the people but only for itself, its relatives, godfathers, and friends, because just enough sessions were held to pass those materials that will enable the unhindered satisfaction of this narrow circle of privileged caste living off our backs. With SEVEN sessions a year, we will certainly not go to Europe, nor will Sarajevo become a European city! Rather, in a few years, if not already today, we will wonder how we were systematically destroyed by geniuses, European intellectuals?!

And for this to truly work that way, here is a little story to support this conclusion. Let your imagination run wild and imagine a European capital city where there is not a single company, public or private, capable of performing "maintenance services for fences and canopies at tram stops of public passenger transport, which includes replacing worn-out parts, plexiglass, stainless steel structures, glass, galvanized steel pipes, replacing benches, and cleaning canopies from oxidation, residues of removed advertising boards, removing graffiti, and washing glass"?

Believe it or not, there is no such company in Sarajevo, but the Ministry of Transport of KS, judging by contract number: 1242-1-2-40-5-42/24 dated 11. 12. 2024, has awarded these jobs to the company "Procesna oprema-inženjering" d.o.o. from Trn (Laktaši).

This is a company owned by the same Slobodan Vukadin, about whom journalist Slobodan Vasković wrote four years ago, stating that he is a "regime player for extracting tens of millions of KM from the budget through "front companies," at that time in the context of urbicide on Jahorina. Thus, our urban and patriotic star of SDP from Banja Luka, Vojin Mijatović, through the most operational minister in KS, Adnan Šteta, and their supervisory board member of KJKP GRAS, Saša Grbić, also from Banja Luka, has brought proven money launderers for Baja from Laktaši into the business of maintaining stops in Sarajevo.

So, it's not enough to squander the state and federal budget, but the cantonal one must also be taken. Why not, when it's already possible and while the infatuation of Sarajevo's petty bourgeoisie with authentic Chetnik ideology persists!?

I believe that after this successful tender, the entire KS Government, and especially the Presidency of SDP, will wholeheartedly cheer for the Sarajevo vandals who spray and destroy Sarajevo's stops.

If not them, then Baja from Laktaši certainly will, because the more they spray and destroy, the more Sarajevo's money will end up in Laktaši! So, let's not be surprised that next year the KS Government's treasury will be empty for fighters, disabled persons, pensioners, culture, sports, and everything that Sarajevo and our citizens need, because it is more important to satisfy the partners who keep you in power. And that is the only policy that the Trojka effectively implements at all levels of government!