The Guinean police released the four young people they arrested this Sunday morning when they were demonstrating in Bissau against the dissolution of Parliament decreed by the country’s president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, an official source reported.
A statement from the secretariat of the central council of the African Youth “Amílcar Cabral” (JAAC), of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), published on the social network Facebook, reports on the release of the young people this late.
The young people demonstrated in front of the headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), calling for annulling the decision of the Guinean head of state, during the organization’s leaders’ summit being held today in Abuja, Nigeria.
“We hereby inform our colleagues that our leaders who were arbitrarily detained in the full exercise of their rights have finally been released,” the statement said.
The JAAC demands, however, the responsibility of the moral and material authors of the detention of the young people it calls “combatants in the defense of liberal democracy” in Guinea-Bissau.
The situation in Guinea-Bissau is one of the points of the summit in which Sissoco Embaló participates.
The Guinean president mentioned the existence of a serious institutional crisis in the country and an attempted coup d’état on the 1st, to dissolve Parliament on the 4th, which he accuses of being a source of instability.
The president of parliament and leader of the PAIGC, Domingos Simões Pereira, claims that the president’s decision is unconstitutional because, according to the Constitution, the National People’s Assembly can only be dissolved 12 months after the legislative elections.
Simões Pereira scheduled the plenary session of parliament for next Wednesday, interrupted on the 4th when the dissolution was announced, and asked the Government to guarantee the conditions of inviolability of the space, according to the regulations.
ECOWAS is made up of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Togo.
Source: TSF
