President of Ghana’s chapter of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ambassador Daniel Kufour Osei, has indicated that the overthrow of Guinea’s leader did not surprise him, because he warned Alpha Conde about it two months ago.
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Speaking in an interview with Joy News, Ambassador D.K Osei revealed that, “in fact, discussions have been held about this eventuality and two months ago when I was in Conakry, I spoke to the President about the possibility of this happening,” he recalled.
“I have always held the view that given the nature of the attempts made to change the Constitution and the very dynamic role that the National Council for the Defense of the Constitution had played in the last two and half years, and the sacrifices which had occurred, it would not have surprised me that this would happen,” he stated.
Having worked in Guinea for several years, and as a close friend of the ousted leader, Mr Osei said he is disturbed by the current situation as he also sees the country as a second home.
“I am very concerned about the future of the country which is one of the countries I call my second home. I’m concerned about what’s going to happen to the people of Guinea and all my friends who are in all sides of the equation.
“President Condé and I have been friends for a long time. He was President of a structure built by President Nkrumah to be a meeting place for radical Francophone students in Paris and he’s been my friend all the time that I was a diplomat in Conakry so I was deeply concerned,” he said.
President Alpha Condé was on Sunday, September 5, overthrown in a coup led by a Guinean Military officer, Mamady Doumbouya, following allegations of presiding over several cases of human rights abuse and harassment of his critics, despite some economic achievements under his watch.
The Military officer, who seized the airwaves announced that the country’s constitution has been revoked, and the mutinous soldiers vowed to restore democracy.
Mr Conde secured the mandate to run for a third term in a referendum which he won with 59.5% of the total vote cast.
The Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS), has, however, condemned the military’s arrest of Alpha Condé, and demanded his release and immediate return to constitutional rule.
