Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has said Burkina Faso's former President, Blaise Compaore, must serve his jail term to deter others from committing similar offences in future. SaharaReporters had reported that Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, in a coup by a military tribunal.
Called by army ruler Sandaogo Damiba to accelerate national reconciliation , the meeting only had two former Presidents; Blaise Compaore and Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo
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