Burkina Faso military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is due to be sworn in as the country’s president, just over two weeks after soldiers ousted President Roch Kaboré in a coup.
Last week, the Constitutional Council, “having taken note” of Mr Kaboré’s resignation, declared Mr Damiba, a 41-year-old army officer, president of Burkina Faso.
State television says the inauguration will be broadcast live from the Constitutional Council building on Wednesday morning.
Mr Damiba led soldiers to oust Mr Kaboré, who had faced months of protests over his failure to stem a jihadist insurgency in the north and east of the country.
On Monday January 24,2022 the strongman of Burkina Faso, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damira President of the Patriotic movement for safeguarding and restoration MPSR as president of the Republic of Burkina Faso head of state and supreme head of army he will take the oath this Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in the Burkinabe’ capital Ouagadougou .
In a decision notified to him on Wednesday, the Constitutional Council said that “Mr Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, lieutenant-colonel of the national armed forces, is the president of Faso” since 24 January.
in its session on February 8, 2022, the Council took note of the resignation of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré from his duties as President of Faso and officially noted the vacancy of this position as of January 24, 2022.
Mr Damiba, who is also “head of state” and “supreme chief of the army”, “will take the oath of office before the Constitutional Council”. It was however not specified on which day he will be sworn in as president, according to a judicial source who explained that it must be “fixed by mutual agreement” between the presidency and the Constitutional Council.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union have suspended Burkina Faso from their bodies, without further sanctions, asking the junta for a “reasonable” timetable for this “return to constitutional order”.
Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba has thus officially become the president of a transitional period until constitutional order is restored.
On Saturday, a decree by Mr Damiba announced the creation of a 15-member commission to “draw up a draft charter and agenda, together with a proposal for the duration of the transition and implementation modalities” within “two weeks”.
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