The Niger Junta is attempting to charge the former president with high treason

The military coup that overthrew Mohamed Bazoum as president of Niger stated on Monday that he might be charged with high treason.

A spokesperson for the junta, Colonel Amadou Abdramane, revealed this on state television.

The junta had, according to Abdramane of Reuters, “assembled the necessary elements to prosecute the ousted president for high treason and undermining the internal and external security of Niger.”

General Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of the military junta in the Niger Republic, had reportedly consented to talks with the ECOWAS, according to Opagnews.

This follows his meeting last week in the Niger Republic with a delegation of Islamic academics led by Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau, national leader of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS).

General Tchiani has indicated a willingness to speak with the regional grouping, according to the Niger’s Prime Minister, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine.

“We have reached a consensus, and the president of our nation has approved of the dialogue. We expect they (ECOWAS) will return here to visit us in the coming days to discuss how the sanctions placed against us will be lifted. “They (ECOWAS) will now go back and inform the Nigerian President what they have heard from us,” he said.

A meeting between Nigerian Islamic clerics and the coup leaders took place over the weekend in Niger, according to a previous report by The Voice of Nigeria (VON).

They met after the coup leaders rejected regional bloc threats to forcibly restore the country’s deposed leader, Mohamed Bazoum, if they did not do so within a week.