The security and intelligence services in Burkina Faso, has disclosed that it foiled an attempted coup in the country on Tuesday.
This was made known in a statement by the military government while speaking on national TV by its spokesperson, Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo.
The statement said that the junta declared that an attempt by some army officers to seize power from Capt Ibrahim Traoré and plunge the nation into chaos was truncated.
It disclosed further that officers who were allegedly involved in the plot had been arrested.
The statement read, “The dark intention of attacking the institutions of the Republic and plunging our country in chaos… investigations will help unmask the instigators of this plot.
“Officers and other alleged actors involved in this attempt at destabilisation have been arrested and others are actively sought,” it said.
The junta promised to explain how the aborted coup played out, saying that it regretted “that officers whose oath is to defend their homeland have strayed into an undertaking of this nature”.
The interim President of Burkina Faso, Capt Ibrahim Traoré had taken over from another military regime through coup in September 2022.
That was the country’s second coup as it grapples with an Islamist insurgency.
