Help me make noise: Ousted Ali Bongo of Gabon seeks help from house arrest [Video]
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"The people here have arrested me, my family. My son is somewhere. My wife is in another place," Bongo said in the video
Ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon has spoken for the first time, hours after senior military officers announced the end of his government.
Bongo in a video shot in his palatial residence, where he is under house arrest, asked for international help.
He asked those he called his friends all over the world ‘to make noise’.
“The people here have arrested me, my family. My son is somewhere. My wife is in another place.”, he said in the video published by Mimi Mefo Info on Facebook.
Dressed in an embroidered blue kaftan top, Bongo who became the president of Gabon in 2009 after the death off his father, Omar Bongo, said:
“Right now, I am at the residence,” confirming what Lt.Col Ulrich Madoumbi, who announced the coup said.
“Nothing is happening, I don’t know what’s going on. I am calling you to make noise”.
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