Guinea-Bissau PM says will not resign, and the military power illustration remains significant

Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior said Friday the 2nd April,  he will not resign and situation in the country is stable.
Gomes said he will not resign because he was democratically elected and he considered what happened on Thursday as an incident.
He said after meeting with President Malam Bacai Sanha that the situation in the West African country had stabilized after apparent coup attempts, where the prime minister was arrested by military officers on Thursday morning and released hours later.
“The situation is now stable,” he said, adding that institutions will return to their normal functions. Coup attempts have repeatedly hit the African country since late 2008.

The country’s Minister of Territorial Administration Luis Sanca was also taken hostage after a group of soldiers broke into the office of the prime minister in the capital Bissau.
Mutinous soldiers placed the Prime Minister, Carlos Gomes, under house arrest briefly in an apparent attempt to overthrow the government. They also said they had removed the head of the armed forces.
A crowd of hundreds gathered outside the Prime Minister’s office in the capital in a show of support for the detained leader. Guinea-Bissau is a tiny West African country constantly plagued by coups. Its former President was assassinated last year.
UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon urged Guinea-Bissau to resolve its differences peacefully after the west African nation witnessed a political unrest.
Ban Ki-moon is following the military incidents in the country with concern, said Joseph Mutaboba, the UN chief’s special representative in Guinea-Bissau, in a statement.
Mutaboba said the secretary-general called on the military and political leadership of Guinea-Bissau to resolve differences by peaceful means and to maintain constitutional order.
Ban Ki-moon underlined the need to avoid any risks to the gains made by Guinea-Bissau in its ongoing peace consolidation efforts, Mutaboba said.
Reports reaching here said the situation in the capital in under control as the country’s new army chief Antonio Indjai said that the country’s army is submissive to political power.
Guinea-Bissau is among the poorest in the world, being ranked the 175th out of 177 nations in the U.N. Development Program’s Human Development Index.

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