Parley breakout as Niger junta threat to sue Bazoum in court

This counter-debate has emerged a day after a delegation of Islamic scholars from Nigeria visited to intervene in the country's political crisis.

                                               Niger's Protesters 

The debate have erupted about the announcement by the coup leaders that they intend to prosecute President Mohamed Bazoum and some of his colleagues inside and outside the country on charges of treason.

While those who are close to overthrown President say that the accusations are baseless. Human rights activists say that prosecution is not a problem, but it is better to avoid revenge 

In a statement he read on Niger's National television, the spokesman of the CNSP military council, Colonel Major Amadou Abdourhamane, explained how the President alleged that the coup leaders prevented him from accessing some important infrastructure and on the other hand the series of sanctions imposed by CEDEAO on Niger and the use of gun power to restore order.

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He added that the government of Niger has gathered all the information and evidence to prosecute the overthrow President and some of his friends inside and outside the country before the court as a result of accusing them of treason and attempting to stir up the country based on his conversations with some people and the presidents of some foreign countries and international organizations.

Expressing his opinion on this new parley, the leader of the Sauvons Le Niger group, Alhaji Salissou Amadou, believes that the decision is appropriate for some reasons.

However, on the other hand, the close associates of President Mohamed Bazoum, Alhaji Mahamadou Sahanine of the Federal PNDS party, are challenging this, who according to him, this is similar to Hausa proverb that says "kura za tace wa kare maye" which mean both of Bazoum and the military Junta should be accuse of treason then.

According to human rights activist Dambaji Son Allah, he did not see any problem with the issue of prosecution, the most important thing is to do the trial in a fair manner.

In a matter related to the July 26 coup, some citizens started calling for the CNSP Parliament to arrest the former President Issouhou Mahamadou because according to those with similar thoughts, almost all the alleged crimes were committed during 12 years of the PNDS regime.

At the end of last week, during the visit of a delegation of Islamic scholars from Nigeria, the government of Niger, through Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, emphasized the intention to start reconciliation with the conflicting parties in the crisis that followed the coup d'état in the country. .

Adamawa Times