POLICE have released the leader of the former ruling party in Burkina Faso who was briefly arrested for criticizing the conditions the ousted president is being held under, his People’s Movement for Progress (MPP) said Monday.
He was allowed to return home after spending the day at a police station in the capital where he was accused of staging a press conference last week ‘full of too much political activism,’ the party said in a statement.
‘If there are restrictions on the movement and activities of political parties it should brought to everyone’s attention,’ the party statement said.
Sakande, who was president of the National Assembly before the coup, had called for the immediate release of ex-president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, claiming the conditions of his house arrest had been tightened to the extent that he was effectively being detained.
Prior to his removal in January, Kaboré had faced a wave of anger over a jihadist insurgency that has ravaged the impoverished West African country.
Under junta leader Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba a transitional assembly took office in Ouagadougou last Tuesday.
The United Nations, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), have all called for Kaboré to be set free.
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