The party of the overthrown president of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, declared itself Wednesday, February 23 ” worry “ and asked the junta that took power to “release without delay or conditions”a month after his arrest on January 24 in Ouagadougou.
“The People’s Movement for Progress [MPP] calls on the new authorities of Burkina Faso to release President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré without delay or conditions”, writes the president of the party, Allasane Bala Sakandé, in a public declaration on the national situation. He says to be ” worry “ and wonders about the reasons for keeping Mr. Kaboré under house arrest, which “was moved several times with increasingly harsh conditions of detention”.
The former ruling party is also asking the leader of the junta, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, to “keep up with the commitments made to ensure respect for the fundamental rights of all citizens”.
On the day of the coup and his arrest on January 24, Mr. Kaboré was placed under house arrest in a ministerial villa in the Ouaga 2000 district, where he had received leaders of his party and members of a delegation international who came to Ouagadougou shortly after the putsch.
The release of the overthrown president was also demanded by the UN, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
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