Coup In Guinea, President Conde Arrested

By Gideon Njoku

Wearing a pair of blue jeans trousers, flowered shirt, unbuttoned a little below, and surrounded by heavily armed soldiers, President  Alpha Conde of Guinea, a tiny West African County of a little over 12.77m people, looked anything but Presidential.

There he sat, helplessly, looking scared and uneasy, not knowing what tomorrow  holds.

Conde was, in the early morning of Sunday, September 5, overthrown in a  Coup d’etat, by his country’s Military. He was immediately arrested and taken into custody, after being roughly shoved into a vehicle.

The Coup was announced to his country men and women by a deafening barrage of fire power which lasted for about two hours.

It is not known if there are casualties, but the country’s  constitution has been suspended.

A Colonel Mamady Doumboua of the Guinean Army  announced the dissolution of the Parliament and the closure of all land, sea and air borders/routes.

The reasons he gave for the Coup are the  usual in the third world, especially, West Africa -corruption and poverty in the land.

Conde, 83, won a third term in office in October 2020.

There has yet to be a reaction to the Coup from both the African Union,AU and the Economic Community of West African Countries, ECOWAS.