Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Under Military House Arrest
President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon is “under house arrest” surrounded by his family and physicians, and one of his sons has been arrested, notably for “high treason,” according to a Wednesday morning announcement by the military behind a coup d’état.
According to a statement read on national television by the military of the Comité de Transition et de Restauration des Institutions (CTRI), “President Ali Bongo is under house arrest, surrounded by his family and physicians.”
Noureddin Bongo Valentin, son and close adviser to the head of state, Ian Ghislain Ngoulou, Mr. Bongo’s chief of staff, Mohamed Ali Saliou, his deputy chief of staff, Abdul Hosseini, another presidential adviser, Jessyy Ella Ekogha, special adviser and presidential spokesman, and the number one and two members of Mr. Bongo’s all-powerful Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) “are under arrest.”
Bongo “have been arrested,” continued the army colonel, who had just read a nighttime communiqué declaring that the military was “putting an end to the regime.”
They were arrested for “high treason against the institutions of the state, massive misappropriation of public funds, organized international financial embezzlement, forgery, falsification of the President’s signature, active corruption, and drug trafficking,” he added.
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Under Military House Arrest
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