by Admin
Nov 11, 2024
An individual with an identity withheld has been arrested in Ouagadougou, the capital of the country, while attempting to bribe a fraction of Burkina Faso soldiers with Five Billion CFA ($8.2 million dollars) in cash to carry out a coup against the Ibrahim Traore government.
The individual who made contact with a few columns of soldiers in the Burkina Faso military and liaised with them to carry out a coup to topple Captain Ibrahim Traore’s administration.
While unknown to the individual the soldiers who he reached out to made him believe that they were on board with the plans and arranged a meeting point to accept the payment in cash.
The payment was brought in the back of a Toyota pickup truck and the money was stored in eight different traveling luggage, as soon as the soldiers confirmed that the money was in the luggage the Burkina Faso military secret services swung into action and arrested the unknown individual.
The identity of the individual has yet to be revealed by the Burkina Faso intelligence service they said they are currently carrying out investigations on the sponsors of the coup and how such an amount of money was able to get through the Burkina Faso Central Bank.
Prodesq gathered that this is the sixth coup attempt to topple the Ibrahim Traore administration since he took over the government through a coup in 2022.
Our team further gathered that this was the fourth coup of the year that was foiled by the Burkina Faso military ever since Captain Ibrahim Traore’s severe ties with the French government and expelled the French military from the country.
Things further went sour between the French government and Burkina Faso when Ibrahim Traore withdrew the mining license of French companies in the country and expelled them stating that Burkina Faso would take sole responsibility for mining and refining the country’s gold.
No official statement has been issued by the Burkina Faso government over the sponsors of the coup but the money recovered from the unknown individual has been taken to the country’s treasury department in the capital.