Gunfire and conflicts that ejected in the capital of Guinea-Bissau this week were an "endeavored upset", President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has said.
After National Guard soldiers released two senior government officials who had been detained as part of a corruption investigation, clashes between the National Guard and special forces of the presidential guard continued on Friday in Bissau.
Embalo, who was in Dubai going to the COP28 environment gathering, showed up in Bissau on Saturday and said an "endeavored rebellion" had kept him from returning.
"I should let you know this act will have serious results," he added.
After the announcement that the army had captured Colonel Victor Tchongo, the commander of the National Guard, calm had returned to the nation that had a history of instability by Friday noon.
On Saturday, the security presence in Bissau was decreased however fighters were as yet apparent around specific key structures, for example, the official royal residence, the legal police central command and a few services.
The army said in a statement on Saturday that some officers and soldiers from the National Guard fled into the country's interior, but it didn't say how many.
“Strongly condemns the violence and all attempts to disrupt the constitutional order and rule of law in Guinea-Bissau,” the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) stated.
In a statement released on Saturday, the Abuja-based organization added, "ECOWAS further calls for the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators of the incident in accordance with the law."
The provincial alliance additionally communicated "its full fortitude with individuals and protected specialists of Guinea-Bissau".
A representative for Joined Countries boss Antonio Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, on Friday called for quiet and encouraged the security powers and the military "to keep shunning obstruction in public legislative issues".
Allegations of corruption According to military and intelligence sources cited by the AFP news agency, members of the National Guard stormed a police station on Thursday to free Finance Minister Souleiman Seidi and Treasury Secretary Antonio Monteiro.
On Thursday morning, the two had been taken into custody to be questioned regarding the alleged withdrawal of $10 million from state funds. They had been detained on the orders of president-appointed state prosecutors.
They were subsequently kept again after the military eliminated them from Public Gatekeeper control.
The Public Watchman is heavily influenced by the inside service, which, as most services in the nation, is overwhelmed by the PAIGC party whose alliance won the June 2023 races.
There have been something like 10 overthrows or endeavored upsets in Guinea-Bissau since freedom from Portugal in 1974, with only one equitably chosen president finishing a full term in office.
In February 2022, a failed overthrow of Embalo, who was elected to a five-year term in December 2019, was unsuccessful.
Over the past three years, West Africa has experienced multiple military takeovers, including two in Mali, one in Guinea, two in Burkina Faso, and one in Gabon.
