Mali: opponent Housseini Guindo returns home, authorities guarantee his safety
View of Bamako, August 26, 2020 (Illustrative image).
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Text by: David Baché
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Former minister, the one who is nicknamed Poulo is the current president of the Framework for the exchange of political parties and groupings of political parties for a successful transition.
Coverini Guindo had been in hiding since Thursday, November 11, accusing the transitional authorities of having planned his kidnapping.
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Coverini Amion Guindo returned home Sunday evening, November 14, discreetly, around 9 p.m., after dark.
He was in hiding for four days, after having anticipated, according to his explanations, an attempted kidnapping - or rather extrajudicial arrest - programmed according to him by the highest authorities of the Transition.
His political activism and the desire to silence him would have, according to the president of the Framework of political parties and groupings of political parties for a successful transition, motivated this attempt.
Charges to which neither the presidency nor the Prime Minister wished to react.
"Poulo" promises evidence of attempted kidnapping
Finally, Poulo, his nickname in Mali, decided to return to his Bamako home after receiving “
assurance
” from the Ministry of Security “
to watch over
[him]
and
[his family].
"What the Ministry of Security confirmed to RFI without giving further details.
Coqueini Amion Guindo finally claims to have evidence of the kidnapping which was, according to him, programmed against him.
If he has not communicated anything at this stage, he nevertheless promised to reveal them soon and to transmit them to Justice.
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