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Views: Visits 5 By Owei Lakemfa ON the eve of Africa Day, this Monday, May 24, 2021, soldiers went to Malian President, Bah Ndaw, not to salute him, but pick him like a chicken. They did the same for the Prime Minister Moctar Ouane. The duo was taken to the Kati Military Camp, Bamako. The soldiers were carrying out the orders of the Vice President, Colonel Assimi Goïta. The next day, Nigeria, the giant in the region issued a feeble statement signed not by the Foreign Minister or any high official, but by the Ministry’s Spokesperson condemning “the detention” when even high school students knew what had occurred was effectively a coup. The Nigerian statement whispered that the coup plotters should know that: “Stakeholders in the region and friends of Mali reject any act of coercion of the detained officials, including forced resignations.”
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Following a cabinet reshuffle on Monday, N’Daw, as well as Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, and Souleymane Doucoure, the country’s defence minister, were reportedly
Reacting to the development on Monday, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), had called for calm and demanded “the immediate and unconditional release of the President and the Prime Minister”, adding that “those who hold them will have to answer for their actions”.
In a statement on Tuesday by Ferdinand Nwoye, spokesperson of ministry of foreign affairs, the federal government condemned the detention of the government officials, and called for their immediate release.