Leaders of the military coup in Niger Republic say deposed
President Mohamed Bazoum will be prosecuted for “high treason and undermining
the internal and external security” of the country.
Bazoum, 63, has been kept at the president’s official
residence since the July 26 coup.
In a statement read out on national television on Sunday,
Amadou Abdramane, spokesman of the junta, said Bazoum was granted access to his
doctors the previous day and that he was in fine fettle.
“After this visit, the doctor raised no problems regarding the state of health of the deposed president and members of his family,” he said.
“The Nigerien
government has to date, gathered the necessary evidence to prosecute the
deposed president and his local and foreign accomplices before the competent
national and international authorities for high treason and undermining
internal and external security of Niger,” Abdramane added.
JUNTA OPEN TO
DIALOGUE
On Sunday, the military junta told an Islamic delegation
from neighbouring Nigeria that its doors are now open for dialogue and a
diplomatic resolution of the crisis, amid economic sanctions from the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
“We have agreed and
the leader of our country has given the green light for dialogue,” said Ali
Mahamane Lamine Zeine, Niger’s prime minister, who was recently appointed to
the position by the junta.
“They (Muslim delegation) will now go back and inform the
Nigerian President what they have heard from us…. we hope in the coming days,
ECOWAS will come here to meet us to discuss how the sanctions imposed against
us will be lifted.”
The junta said the sanctions imposed by ECOWAS were making
it difficult for people to access medicines, food and electricity.
ECOWAS resolved last week to deploy a standby force to Niger
in a bid to restore constitutional order to the country.
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