Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba is “under house arrest”, surrounded by his family and doctors, and one of his sons has been arrested, specifically for “treason”, the the original soldier announced on Wednesday morning of a coup d’etat.
“President Ali Bongo is under house arrest, surrounded by his family and doctors,” according to a press release read by soldiers from the Commission for Institutional Transition and Rehabilitation (CTRI) on television. state figure.
Noureddin Bongo Valentin, son and close adviser of the Head of State, Ian Ghislain Ngoulou, Bongo’s chief of staff, Mohamed Ali Saliou, his deputy chief of staff, Abdul Hosseini, another adviser to the president, Jessye Ella Ekogha, special adviser and president. The spokesman, as well as the number one and number two figures of Bongo’s all-powerful Democratic Party of Gabon (PDG) “are under arrest”.
Bongo “has been arrested,” continued the army colonel, who read a press release the night of the announcement that soldiers “are ending the regime.”