Alpha Conde”returned to Conakry this followingnoon following medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates“, according to a statement read on state television on behalf of the National Assembly and Development Committee (CNRD), the junta’s governing body, and its leader, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya.
Junta assures former president is safe
“The former president will remain in Guinea as long as his health permits. His integrity and dignity will always be respected in accordance with his rank and status.“, assures the CNRD.
At the head of the country for nearly 11 years, Alpha Condé was overthrown on September 5, 2021 by Colonel Doumbouya, who has since been invested as President of the Republic.
Alpha Condé, 84, had left the country in mid-January for medical examinations. The junta is said to have been reluctant to let him go abroad, fearing plots on his part once morest the new power.
Several members of the RPG accused of embezzlement of public funds
The former president returns to Conakry while his party, the RPG Arc-En-Ciel for the Rally of the People of Guinea (RPG) denounces, during an extraordinary meeting this Thursday, “arbitrary actions” and one “relentlessness“of which several of its members are the subject.
The day before, a former Prime Minister, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, and three ex-ministers, all in office under his presidency, had been charged with alleged embezzlement of public funds and imprisoned, becoming the last personalities of the former power to be worried by justice since the September 2021 coup.
Held in Conakry, they will be tried on Monday by a chamber of the Court for the repression of economic and financial offenses (Crief). “They were charged with embezzlement of public funds and sent to prison,” said Me Salifou Béavogui, head of a collective of lawyers. In addition to Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, the former officials imprisoned are the former Minister of Defense Mohamed Diané, that of the Environment Oyé Guilavogui and that of hydrocarbons Zakaria Coulibaly.
