The one-year-old military government in Burkina Faso has announced it neutralized a mutiny by some military officers to topple it, raising worries of further instability in the West African sub-region.
In a statement released Wednesday by the government spokesman Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo, he said they had “credible allegations about a plot against state security implicating officers”.
“We regret that officers whose oath is to defend their homeland have strayed into an undertaking of this nature, which aims to hinder the Burkinabe people’s march for sovereignty and total liberation from the terrorist hordes trying to enslave them.”
The statement claims some of the renegade officers have been arrested and others were being “actively sought” after.
“The dark intention of attacking the institutions of the Republic and plunging our country in chaos… investigations will help unmask the instigators of this plot.”
On Tuesday, an attempt coup was stopped in Burkina Faso. Here in the video residents of Burkina Faso take to the streets in support of the authorities as they respond to news of a failed coup attempt. In mid-September, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali signed an agreement to create the “Union of Sahel States”. This alliance is designed to deal with matters of defense and mutual assistance in the interest of the citizens of the member states.
The junta led by 34-year-old Captain Ibrahim Traoré itself came to power in September last year in a military coup which removed President Paul-Henri Damiba from power.
Traore excused his violent seizure of power on the state of insecurity and rising armed insurgency in his country by Islamic extremists such as ISIS and Al Qaeda.
But Capt Traoré earlier issued a statement reiterating he was “determined to safely lead the transition [to democracy]” despite the attempted coup and thanked pro-government supporters who poured into the streets in protest are rumours of a brewing mutiny spread, for “their vigilance“.
He said he has fixed elections for July next year.
In the last two years, several countries in West and Central Africa had fallen to military dictatorships including the latest in the Niger Republic.
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