THE Junta in Niger is concluding plans to try the ousted President, Mohamed Bazoum, on charges of high treason.
The Junta made this known on Monday through a spokesman, Colonel Amadou Abdramane.
While speaking on State Television, the Junta said that it had “assembled the necessary elements to prosecute the ousted president for high treason and undermining the internal and external security of Niger.”
The move comes shortly after General Abdourahmane Tchiani, the Military Junta Head in Niger, had consented to a sit-down with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
His nod follows after an earlier meeting he had last week with a delegation of Islamic scholars led by Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau, the national leader of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS), to the Niger Republic.
Earlier, as well, Nigerian Islamic scholars met with the Junta just last weekend in a bid to peacefully resolve the ongoing Niger crisis.
The readiness of General Tchiani to dialogue with ECOWAS was also confirmed by the Prime Minister of Niger, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine.
‘’We have agreed and the leader of our country has given the green light for dialogue.
“They will now go back and inform the Nigerian President what they have heard from us…. we hope in the coming days, they (ECOWAS) will come here to meet us to discuss how the sanctions imposed against us will be lifted,” the Prime Minister said.