Yevgeny Prigozhin who led a failed mutiny against Russian army has spoken praising the coup in Niger. He also offered his services to bring order to Niger. He described the emerging news as an overdue liberation from Western colonisers. He posted this on a Telegram channel.
“What happened in Niger is nothing other than the struggle of the people of Niger with their colonisers. With colonisers who are trying to foist their rules of life on them and their conditions and keep them in the state that Africa was in hundreds of years ago,” said the message, posted on Friday, July 28.
“Today this is effectively gaining their independence. The rest will without doubt depend on the citizens of Niger and how effective governance will be, but the main thing is this: they have got rid of the colonisers,” the message said.
Wagner has always boasted about his group’s alleged efficiency in assisting African nations to stabilize and develop.
“Thousands of Wagner fighters are capable of bringing order and of destroying terrorists and of not allowing them to harm the local populations of these states,” he said.
On Wednesday evening soldiers declared a coup and held President Mohamed Bazoum hostage in the presidential residence.
Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of presidential guard, named himself the head of a transitional government in Niger. This was just two days after his guards detained the democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum.
Niger achieved full independence from France in 1960.
This new message confirms that Prigozhin and his Wagner Group are still active in the African continent. The group still has security contracts with some nations such as the Central African Republic (CAR). Now they want to expand their tentacles.
Yevgeny Prigozhin who led a failed mutiny against Russian army has spoken praising the coup in Niger. He also offered his services to bring order to Niger. He described the emerging news as an overdue liberation from Western colonisers. He posted this on a Telegram channel.
“What happened in Niger is nothing other than the struggle of the people of Niger with their colonisers. With colonisers who are trying to foist their rules of life on them and their conditions and keep them in the state that Africa was in hundreds of years ago,” said the message, posted on Friday, July 28.
“Today this is effectively gaining their independence. The rest will without doubt depend on the citizens of Niger and how effective governance will be, but the main thing is this: they have got rid of the colonisers,” the message said.
Wagner has always boasted about his group’s alleged efficiency in assisting African nations to stabilize and develop.
“Thousands of Wagner fighters are capable of bringing order and of destroying terrorists and of not allowing them to harm the local populations of these states,” he said.
On Wednesday evening soldiers declared a coup and held President Mohamed Bazoum hostage in the presidential residence.
Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of presidential guard, named himself the head of a transitional government in Niger. This was just two days after his guards detained the democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum.
Niger achieved full independence from France in 1960.
This new message confirms that Prigozhin and his Wagner Group are still active in the African continent. The group still has security contracts with some nations such as the Central African Republic (CAR). Now they want to expand their tentacles.
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