{"id":96858,"date":"2024-09-27T05:03:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T05:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/benin-arrests-three-men-over-suspected-coup-plot-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T05:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T05:03:46","slug":"benin-arrests-three-men-over-suspected-coup-plot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/benin-arrests-three-men-over-suspected-coup-plot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin arrests three men over suspected coup plot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three men in Benin, including a former minister and the man in charge of President Patrice Talon\u2019s security, have been arrested on suspicion of plotting a coup, the state prosecutor has said.<\/p>\n

Ex-sports minister Oswald Homeky was caught on Tuesday while handing over six bags of money to the head of the Republican Guard, Elonm Mario Metonou, the prosecutor told a press conference.<\/p>\n

Investigators said Col Djimon Dieudonne Tevoedjre was being bribed not to resist a coup d\u2019etat planned for Friday in the small West African nation.<\/p>\n

Also detained was a businessman, Olivier Boko \u2013 a friend of President Talon \u2013 who had recently indicated he had political ambitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Boko\u2019s lawyers and supporters condemned what they called his \u201cabduction\u201d and have demanded his immediate release.<\/p>\n

Investigations are ongoing to identify further suspects, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n

Benin, once praised as a multi-party democracy, has taken a more autocratic turn under the presidency of Patrice Talon, rights groups say.<\/p>\n

President Talon announced he would not seek a third term in office in the 2026 elections.<\/p>\n

There have been eight military takeovers and several other coup attempts in West and Central Africa since 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Three men in Benin, including a former minister and the man in charge of President Patrice Talon\u2019s security, have been arrested on suspicion of plotting a coup, the state prosecutor has said. Ex-sports minister Oswald Homeky was caught on Tuesday while handing over six bags of money to the head of the Republican Guard, Elonm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}