In Côte d’Ivoire, the government is taking legal action following the civil disobedience movement launched by the opposition and the creation of the Transitional National Council. He announced it at noon. Police have been deployed in front of Henri Konan Bédié’s home.
At least three police cargoes and pick-ups arrived at Henri Konan Bédié’s residence in the afternoon. Police removed the journalists gathered there for an opposition press conference and surrounded the home.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Ivorian government condemned the training in a press release from the National Transitional Council, announced by the opposition, Monday afternoon. An organization “to replace the legally established Republican institutions” under the terms of the press release. For the Ivorian authorities, this message, as well as the violence perpetrated after the active boycott, constitutes “acts of attack and conspiracy against the authority of the State and the integrity of the national territory”.
Seal Keeper and Justice Minister Sansan Kanbile therefore announced that the public prosecutor and the Abidjan court had been seized in the first instance ”, so that the perpetrators and accomplices in these offenses could be brought before the courts. The government’s response comes less than 24 hours after the opposition condemned what it calls “an electoral mockery” and announced “the creation of a National Transitional Council responsible for the formation of a transitional government”.
This declaration, as well as the violence committed after the active boycott, constitutes attacks and conspiracies against the authority of the state and the integrity of the national territory.
Sansan Kanbile, Ivorian Minister of Justice
For two days, the ruling party, the RHDP, has called on the government to stand firm against the opposition’s statements and behavior. During a press conference this morning, Security Minister Diomande Vagondo returned to the shots and detonations heard last night near the homes of some opposition leaders. He said police had carried out maintaining order with “dispersal of small groups”.
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