Soldiers have revealed in a recent television broadcast that they had taken over Guinea’s affairs, implying a military coup.
The whereabouts of Guinea’s President, Alpha Conde is still not known as gunshots were reportedly fired in the country’s capital city, Conakry.
Guinea’s Special Forces disclosed they had captured President Conde according to them had been kept in detention.
The leader of the Coup d’etat, Col. Mamady Doumbouya, revealed that the 83-year-old President was in custody after hours of gunfire in the capital, Conakry, and warnings that people to stay indoors.
While announcing the coup in a video, Doumniuya said that the government and the country’s constitution and institutions have been ‘dissolved’.
He said: “We have decided after having taken the president, who is currently with us, to dissolve the current constitution, to dissolve the institutions; we have also decided to dissolve the government and the closure of land and air borders.
“The personalization of political life is over. We will no longer entrust politics to one man, we will entrust it to the people.”
While speaking further, Doumbouya, who has headed a special forces unit in the military, said he was acting in the best interests of the nation’s over 12.7 million people.
He said: “The duty of a soldier is to save the country.”
Meanwhile, the country’s Ministry of Defense, in a statement, said that “the insurgents (had) spread fear” in Conakry before going to the presidential palace, but that “the presidential guard, supported by the defence and security forces, loyalists and republicans, have contained the threat and pushed back the group of attackers.”
