Burkina Faso: Military won’t step down now– Coup leader

The military in Burkina Faso states they will remain in power till the conditions are right.

Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, who led the ouster of President Roch Kabore, made the declaration.

In his very first speech, the coup leader blamed Kabore for stopping working to aggressively push back Islamist militants.

“When the conditions are right, according to the deadline that our people will specify in all sovereignty, I commit to a go back to a regular constitutional order”, he said.

Damiba exposed strategies to fulfill representatives of different sections to settle on a roadmap for reform.

The mutineer included that Burkina Faso needed international partners “more than ever”.

Damiba advised the global community “to support our country so it can exit this crisis as quickly as possible”.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) suspended Burkina Faso on Friday.

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo stated coup d’etats were offense of democratic tenets.

“It represents a danger to peace, security and stability in West Africa”, Akufo-Addo stressed.

The military takeover in Burkina Faso is the 3rd in the area because August 2020.