Was former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi sentenced to life? It is this question that his relatives have been asking themselves since Friday, December 11, after the very attentive resignation of the Comorian Minister of Justice. Accused especially of embezzlement of public funds in a case worth more than 800 million euros, the former president of the Comoros has been detained in his home turned into an annex to the Moroni prison, for more than two years.
as reported from Moroni,Anziza M’Changama
“Former President Sambi is jailed for life.” This is what his family understood when he read the words of the Minister of Justice in the columns of a national newspaper. According to him, “by law, the former president’s term of office is unlimited. Justice has the right to detain as much as necessary an alleged perpetrator of misuse of public property. ”
For the family to the former head of state, if some feared that Zambia violated the law, the exact opposite is proven here. The law stipulates temporary detention for four months, which can only be renewed once. This eight-month term has already been tripled by the former president, his political supporters are outraged who condemn a legal fraud to prevent the island of Anjouan, carried by its leaders, and claim he is turning to the 2021 presidency planned before the 2018 constitutional change.
Last week, it was the governor of Anjouan, but still an ally of the current regime, who declared his distrust of Comorian justice ineffective against Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, still not on trial after 28 months in prison.
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