Reporting on COST EU BEACON

This is my renewed commitment to keep on speaking the truth, until those who have chosen to do wrong end me already, since that is all they have been up to

The beacon signals, left right right wrong, this time around. Easy path forward, easy to tell apart. It saddens many, in positions of power, keep on choosing the worse options.

I am now awaiting formal expulsion from EU BEACON One Health Education, deeply saddened by recent developments and by the loathing shown toward others who deserve respect. I hold no hope, and will never until the action gets clearly back on track, now only awaiting further betrayal. Last week, an extremely competent and widely respected Nigerian doctor who was offered top leadership, along with myself, were unilaterally excluded from the meeting with COST officers, without explanation. This exclusion occurred despite having founded and sustained the network under extreme and often violent conditions. It is not an isolated event, but part of a broader and recurring pattern. Too often, those who survive structural violence, especially when perpetrated or backed by state actors, are not protected but discarded. Speaking up, resisting further harm, asking for help, or documenting abuse with scientific rigour becomes a cause for removal, not recognition.

This is transparency. That is loathing on our lives, keeping on beating down, joining a lynching as if an accomplishment. We only need to keep on working, honest important, urgent work to be done. Reaching here was almost impossible already. It took years of harshest work through their torture. The COST officers decided to join in the worse, not to help out. No excuses, to anyone, all was that clear to everyone.

I carry the weight of years marked by threats, institutional neglect, and both physical and symbolic violence. Yet instead of support, I am once more cast out from the very structure I helped conceive and bring to life. Left in the cold, regardless of appearances. What defines EU BEACON at this moment, tragically, is not its promise, but the reality of exclusion, silencing, and the denial of meaningful support. This must be urgently addressed, not by me alone, rendered powerless and silenced while striving to keep the action aligned with its core mission, but by all who understand that there can be no progress without zero tolerance for injustice. Networks often disown those who disrupt the silence. Survivors are too often reframed not as agents of change but as inconvenient obstacles.

We are subjected to further violence, displaced, pressured. My partner and I hold on in fear, with everything on the line, hoping that the threats still surrounding us do not materialize, though knowing all too well that abusers rarely stop by their own will, and remain free to continue harming us and others. As far as alive, we will keep on working and doing good. The career does not end, at this one achievement that lead to such expected conflict, since now the network holds money, status, and power to be placed in one or other hands. I trust the chair, to defend the action and its spirit against all bad actors, always too aboundant.

What sustains us, despite being severely threatened, is love, shared responsibility, and the hard work we carry forward for the sake of those who depend on us, including the children EU BEACON One Health education was and is meant to protect and skill up. What we have built is continually placed in jeopardy, not by failure, but by those who choose silence over truth, hierarchy over dignity, and complicity over justice. I am wishing you a great summer, free from all violence, a lovely one.