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Ali Bongo has been released from house arrest by the military junta in Gabon, eight days after he was deposed as president.

The new military leaders in the Central African nation said Bongo is free to leave the country for medical treatment.

Bongo was toppled on the morning the electoral umpire announced that he had been re-elected to a third term in office.

On Monday, Brice Nguema, an army general who led the coup, was sworn in as interim president.

Nguema who is Bongo’s cousin, served as a bodyguard to Bongo’s late father and also headed the country’s republican guard, an elite military unit.

The statement announcing Bongo’s release from house arrest was signed by Nguema.

“Given his state of health, the former President of the Republic Ali Bongo Ondimba is free to move about,” Ulrich Manfoumbi, the military spokesperson, said in the statement read on national television on Wednesday evening.

“He may, if he wishes, travel abroad for medical checkups.”

Bongo became president when Omar, his father, died after ruling from 1967 to 2009.

The military is yet to announce a transition to civilian rule programme.

https://www.thecable.ng/gabon-junta-releases-ousted-bongo-grant-him-permission-to-travel-abroad-for-treatment/amp

That is what the Niger Junta ought to have done to ease pressure from them. Send him on exile , constitute committee to investigate him,, charge him for corruption, and sentence him in absentia, case closed. All this " return Bazoum" that Ecowas and the west have been singing wouldn't have been there

That's the problem with African leaders. His family have been ruling the country for more than fifty years, yet no benefiting hospital to treat a former president. Obasanjo said, and I qoute," democracy is not working in Africa".

You're intelligent.

Pierocash:
That is what the Niger Junta ought to have done to ease pressure from them. Send him on exile , constitute committee to investigate him,, charge him for corruption, and sentence him in absentia, case closed. All this " return Bazoum" that Ecowas and the west have been singing wouldn't have been there

Bongo was toppled on the morning the electoral umpire announced that he had been re-elected to a third term in office. Bongo became president when Omar, his father, died after ruling from 1967 to 2009.

Just imagine. These are the power drunk autocratic, despotic, tyrannical and monarchial African leaders the ECOWAS, AU, and the UNGA does nothing about, but obsessed with minor thing because they are benefitting irrespective of whatever the inhabitants of those countries suffered.

Better

TemplarLandry:
You're intelligent.

Guess you are aware like King David’s reaction to the murder of Uriah when Prophet Nathan confronted him in the Bible, this scenario you exclaimed "Exactly" also applies to the current fella on seat today.

Hmm. Someone knows his Bible.

Racoon:
Guess you are aware like King David’s reaction to the murder of Uriah when Prophet Nathan confronted him in the Bible, this scenario you exclaimed "Exactly" also applies to the current fella on seat today.

Looking deep, this may have been planned between Bongo and his cousin to topple his government instead of the opposition taking over. It's still a win-win for them after all they are relatives.
Hmmm. The more we look, the less we see

They finally heard the noise i was making. Thank God, my lung won tear

This is Wisdom. Abeg make una borrow Niger army common sense. Cattle rearers and armed herders.

this guy is very lucky

Finally, the noise have paid off.

Ok, noted.

Bongo became president when Omar, his father, died after ruling from 1967 to 2009.

The Bongos were taking turn to rule Gabon even though they were incompetent leaders, same way the two desperate old politicians Buhari and Tinubu decided to take turn to rule Nigeria even though they don't have the solution to the problems facing the country.

Good for him.
When is that criminal and his fellow criminals parading himself as president coming back from India. The drug lord travelled out knowing his men are on ground doing his biddings. Just like wealth gotten from I'll wealth that got diminished, power gotten from bloodshed and people's sweat will get taken away and the idiot disgraced. Thiéfnubu disgrace is coming.

To enjoy his loot after he has handed over the looting baton to the next looter . The new military head of state in Gabon 🇬🇦 is a member of Bongo's family . It's only a cl🤡wn that will celebrate juntas because most of them are backed by a political God father. Late Abiola was the one who sponsord Babangida, Abacha and the likes . Black man & greed

One day Nigeria will be free.

These ones have learned from Niger Coupist. They’re trying to apply logic..

As much as I don't like the coup, I dislike the ousted President's selfishness too.

How could such a sick person hold onto power so much?

Funnily, na him cousin still be the coup leader.

Good move

Another wey no build better hospital...........Looter!

Family business from father to son now to cousin

Power struggles within family.

I bet you the next coup in that country will be bloody!

Peace is all we want in our continent.

For the evil and wicked ones,
The children of perdition that pray for war and coup in our nation,
The evil and deaths they pray for will forever be at their door steps.

God bless Nigeria 🇳🇬
God bless Africa 🌍
God bless the World 🌎 🌎

Good gesture but still a family business...

His cousin.. Hardcore

The day I knew the coup leader is a cousin to the ousted president, I knew coup thing was a scam.


Gabon people are literally still being hold as ransom by 1 family, literally.

Good for him