By RFIPubliée le 19-10-2018Modified on 19-10-2018 at 22:14

In Burundi, Pierre-Célestin Ndikumana, an opposition MP who is always quick to criticize power, was accused on national television on 18 October of having planned the elimination of President Pierre Nkurunziza as well as several other high personalities. of State.

In Burrundi, the former servant of opposition MP Pierre-Célestin Ndikumana appeared on the pictures of state television on October 18, very relaxed and sometimes smiling.

He explained in a very calm voice how the president of the independent parliamentary group Amizero y'Abarundi, the "Hope of the Burundians" in French, recruited him to kill a couple of deputies of the ruling party there are two weeks. Also according to his confession, this attack would have failed before having really started.

Then the spokesman of the Burundian Ministry of Public Security chained up brandishing a paper written according to him by the former servant under the dictation of the opposition and in his own car, which details an even larger plot and aims the top of the state.

"A rough montage"

The servant and his two friends were assigned nothing less than the " elimination " of the Burundian head of state Pierre Nkurunziza, his two vice-presidents, as well as the president of the National Assembly, lists the spokesman who he adds, " He quotes Pierre Nkurikiye myself as one of the people who disturb his political formation too much " and thus to eliminate as probably, but nothing on their plan or their means.

The Burundian opponent reacted strongly by denouncing " a rough montage ". " It is an insult to my intelligence to assign me a plan that involves three simple domestic servants for a coup attempt ," he exclaimed.

Pierre-Célestin Ndikumana is now concerned that a procedure for lifting parliamentary immunity will be launched against him. " They want to silence one of the few internal opponents who does not hesitate to denounce the abuses of the Burundian power ," he said.

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