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Niger: Spring cleaning at the top of the state

By on October 19, 2010
While watching with admiration, the conduct of the democratic transition, recent events have pushed the Niger in uncertainty.

Four senior officers, members of the junta that seized power on February 18, have been arrested and detained in Niamey. They are suspected of attempting to destabilize the country, and it seems clear that some within the junta do not wish to see the transition being completed, even if a thick haze still surrounds the arrests the Colonels Amadou Diallo, Abdoulaye Badie, Sanda Aboubacar and  the Lt. Col. Abdou Sidikou, considered as the brains. Their homes were searched Sunday and Monday. Some sources do not hesitate now to speak of an “attempted coup” and even “assassination”.

The question now is what would be the consequences of these arrests? Are they just a sign of the nervousness of the junta, or a deliberate act of regaining control on the democratic transition process from the general Selou Djibo. Observers are now watching whether the General will emerge strengthened or isolated, since the military coup that ended in February with the ten years of President Tandja. The Niger will now engage in a planned constitutional referendum of October 31, a transition intended to lead to the presidential election of January 2011.

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