Burkina Faso’s security and intelligence services repelled a coup attempt on Tuesday, according to the country’s military administration.
It claimed that officers and others planned to destabilize and destabilize the country.
“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,” read the statement from Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo, spokesman for the regime.
The military government said it would seek to shed all possible light on this plot, adding that it regretted “that officers whose oath is to defend their homeland have strayed into an undertaking of this nature”.
It said while four people had been detained, two were on the run.
The statement added that the regime launched investigation based on “credible allegations about a plot against state security implicating officers.”
“We regret that officers whose oath is to defend their homeland have strayed into an undertaking of this nature, which aims to hinder the Burkinabe people’s march for sovereignty and total liberation from the terrorist hordes trying to enslave them.”
The junta took control following two military coups last year, which were provoked in part by a deepening insurgency by armed groups affiliated to al Qaeda and the Islamic State, which has destabilized Burkina Faso and its neighbors.
The junta’s head, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, seized control on September 30, 2022, the country’s second coup in eight months.
