The military regime was “collecting until today” the “evidence to put the ousted president on trial,” regime official Colonel Amadou Abdaraman said in a statement read on state television.
The coup plotters in Niger announced on Sunday night that they intend to put ousted democratically elected president Mohamed Bazum on trial for “high treason” and “blow to the security” of the country.
The military regime was “as of today gathering” the “evidence in order to bring the deposed president and his accomplices to trial before the national and international competent authorities for high treason and a blow to the internal and external security of Niger”, said Colonel Amandu Abdaraman, a regime official, in a statement read on state television.
At the same time, the coup plotters in Niger yesterday Sunday denounced as “illegal, inhuman and humiliating” the sanctions imposed on the country by the Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO in French, ECOWAS in English) after the overthrow of the elected president Mohamed Bazoum on the 26 July.
The Nigerian people are “being severely tested by the illegal, inhumane and humiliating CEDEAO sanctions” which have gone so far as to deprive them of “medicines, basic foodstuffs and electricity”, said Colonel Amadou Abdaraman, a top official in the military regime. , in the statement read on state television.
Source :Skai
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