Senegal: Opposition accused of recruiting militia

  1. Posted on Wednesday 22 February 2012 - 12:49
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    Buya Jammeh, AfricaNews reporter in Dakar, Senegal
    With just four days before the much disputed polls, more fear is looming in the Senegalese political stalemate following reports of alleged recruitment of militia groups to force the aging incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade to withdraw his bid for the February 26 presidential elections.
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    However; Malick Noel Seck the leader of the main opposition Socialist Party (PS) Youth wing has also been arrested for allegedly being in possession of arms during anti-government protest in Saint Louise.

    Mr. Seck was convicted in October last year over the contents of a letter, in which he denounced the "immoral" silence of judges over President Abdoulaye Wade's decision to run for a controversial third presidential term.

    Serigne Mbacke Ndiaye, spokesman for the Presidency has accused an unnamed opposition candidate of trying to recruit militia in a bid to create chaos and make the country ungovernable. He said that the unnamed candidate had appointed a retired army colonel to recruit a militia, made-up of 200 ex-soldiers.

    He added that the authorities would reveal the breadth of the plot in coming days. According to him; there are also youths being recruited in the neighborhoods and in the interior of the country.

    Captain Abass Fall; a commanding officer in one of the military battalion in the trouble region of Casamance is also reported to have resign from his posted on Tuesdays amid political tension due to what he called the insufficiency logistics facing his forces to confront the separatist movement in the Senegalese trouble region.

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