GABON COUP LATEST: FIRST LADY RELEASED BY MILITARY JUNTA
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Authoritative sources have revealed to Hotjist that the military junta in Gabon have released the wife of ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
Late on Wednesday night, first lady, Sylvia Bongo; was said to have been released from house arrest where every member of the first family had hitherto been held.
The source was not able to confirm the fate of other members of the first family.
Earlier in the day on Wednesday, Ali Bongo Ondimba had released a video from captivity, calling on well-meaning individuals and friends to help him ‘make noise’ as he was held hostage by the coup plotters.
Also, a son of the president of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was detained for “treason” and placed under house arrest, military officials announced on Wednesday, hours after declaring they had ousted the government.
In a statement given out on national TV, they stated, “President Ali Bongo is under house arrest, surrounded by his family and doctors.”
The two main leaders of the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), as well as Bongo’s son and close adviser Noureddin Bongo Valentin, chief of staff Ian Ghislain Ngoulou, as well as his deputy, two other presidential advisers, and “have been arrested,” according to a military leader.
Among other things, he claimed, they are charged with treason, theft, corruption, and forging the president’s signature.
Earlier on Wednesday, hours after he had been declared the winner of the elections on Saturday, military officers said they had overthrown Bongo, who had been in power for 14 years.
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