The former Civil Prime Minister of Mali Choguel Kokalla Maïga, dismissed in November 2024 by the military in power since 2020 after having made criticism against them, was placed in police custody on Tuesday August 12 as well as former collaborators. This occurs in the wake of recent arrests of army members accused of conspiring against the junta.
Among the police custody are his ex-cabinet-director, Issiaka Ahmadou Singaré, and three ex-administrative and financial and financial and financial and financial and financial and primaturers. Police custody, “Notified” Tuesday in Choguel Kokalla Maïga, “There is an investigation into allegations of public goods issued by a report by the Auditor General” occurs as part of an investigation. From the State, said Choguel Kokalla Maïga’s lawyer, without further details.
According to a source at the economic and financial center – a court responsible for judging economic crimes – “Maïga and several of his former collaborators are in police custody in the context of surveys on their management at the Prime Minister’s Office. In principle [mercredi] or [jeudi]they will be presented to the prosecutor at the Supreme Court ”.
“Break consumed”
Choguel Kokalla Maïga is one of the figures of the June 5 movement-Greshing of the patriotic forces (M5-RFP), which had taken part in 2020 in the popular challenge against the civil president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, finally overthrown by the soldiers in August 2020.
The former Civil Minister had in February stated that the « rupture [était] consumed “ between her political coalition and the junta, notably invoking “Arrests” and “Extrajudicial detentions” against members of the M5-RFP. At the same time he called the soldiers to “Create the security conditions for the holding of credible and peaceful elections, by associating political and social forces”while no new deadline is fixed for a return to a civil power.
The junta has silenced the opposition by coercive measures, legal implementation, the dissolution of organizations, restrictions on press freedom and the pressure of the dominant discourse on the need to be one around her in the face of a multitude of challenges.
Security and economic crisis
Mali has been plagued since 2012 to a profound security crisis fed in particular by the violence of groups affiliated with Al-Qaida and the Islamic State organization, as well as those of community criminal groups. This security crisis is added to a serious economic crisis.
The military in power turned away from Western partners, in particular the former French colonizer, to turn politically and militarily to Russia in the name of sovereignism.
