THIS JUST IN – Young Burkinabe leader Captain Ibrahim Traore wants to return to the barracks after his coup d’etat last month that removed another coupster Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
After famously declaring that a soldier’s place is in the barracks and not at the presidential palace on October 2, and yet still officially appointed president on October 6, the young Captain insisted on going forward with a transitional charter that would appoint another person to lead the country through the transitional process.
The plan is that, after the transitional charter has been launched on Friday October 14, it would lead to the designation of a new leader to head the transitional process towards the next presidential elections.
But yesterday, on the eve of the launching of the transitional charter, the youth hit the streets of capital Ouagadougou and the southwestern city of Bobo-Dioulasso demanding that the transitional process be aborted to allow the young Captain to remain the leader of the Sahel country.
This morning, the demonstration has continued with the youth this time unsuccessfully attacking the conference center where the proceedings were taking place to enact the transitional charter.
The police has for the moment succeeded in stopping the attack on the conference center to stop the process. But DNT’s man on the ground Jiluis Ouya reports that no one knows how this will end.
Stay tuned for updates on the situation in Ouagadougou.
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