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Captain Sani Gourouza was arrested in Benin and handed over to the Nigerian authorities. He’s the alleged perpetrator of the coup try that shook Niamey on the night time of March 30-31, the day earlier than the inauguration of the brand new president, Mohamed Bazoum. The knowledge was formally confirmed by the Nigerian police and the gendarmerie who had issued an arrest warrant in opposition to him.
as reported from Niamey, Moussa Kaka
It’s the tip of a run for Captain Sani Gourouza, the alleged chief of the putschists at 101 Niamey Air Base, quoted within the rejected coup try in opposition to Mahamadou Issoufou’s regime on the night time of March 30-31, two days earlier than the inauguration of the brand new president, Mohamed Bazoum. On Monday, he was arrested by the Beninese companies and returned to Niamey.
One week in the past, on April 20, a lieutenant and an adjutant have been additionally arrested in Benin and transferred to Niamey. Cooperation welcomed by the hierarchy of the Nigerian Analysis Brigade following an arrest warrant issued in opposition to the captain and his males concerned within the coup.
Following the failure of this try and in his final message to the nation, President Mahamadou Issoufou condemned this act. The identical was true of the brand new president, Mohamed Bazoum, on the day of his inauguration. Each had declared that the perpetrators and their accomplices might be sought and delivered to justice.
The opposition then declared that this coup try was a coup staged by the Niamey regime to advertise itself. We do not forget that the progress of Captain Gourouza’s males had been stopped at the peak of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, which shares a wall with the Presidential Palace. The flood of fireplace from components of the presidential guard, in line with it, had frightened the attackers, a few of whom are nonetheless within the wild.
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