Ibrahim Traore Sacks Chief of Staff After He was caught selling out his country.

Burkina Faso Sacks Chief of Staff After He was caught selling out his country.

Late September 2023 was an attempted coup on Burkina Faso’s president, Ibrahim Traoré. Sources say the coup was lead by some military forces who were arrested.
President Ibrahim Traoré responded to the coup by sacking Burkina Faso’s chief of staff, Lieutenant-Colonel Evrard Somda from his position as chief of staff of the national gendarmerie.
A report says a decree was signed on October 4th 2023 by president Traoré, stating that Lieutenant-Colonel Somda be replaced as head national gendarmerie by Lieutenant-Colonel Kouagri Natama with immediate effect.
Some sources says he allegedly received as much as 25billion francs CFA, approximately $40 million to betray his country.
The official report says the chief of staff alongside 4 other military officers who were behind the attempted coup have been arrested and are under investigation, there’s no official report that says they collected any money.
Although it is not strange to assume that those who planned to unseat Ibrahim Traore must have received a considerable financial package to do so.
This seems to be a recurring phenomena in African politics wherein influential figures close to leaders are motivated by external forces to conspire against them which is most times backed by a great financial package. A quite good example is the assassination of Burkina Faso’s ex president, Thomas Sankara, who was out-throned by his own friend Blaise Campaoré through a coup that led to his assassination. All this is done in order to bring forth a puppet president which they can easily control.