Ouagadougou: Burkinabe newspapers this Wednesday echo the release of lawyers Gontran Somé and Christian Kaboré, kidnapped on the night of October 10 to 11, 2024, and the dismissal from the ranks of the armed forces of the former president of Faso, Paul Henri Damiba and other army officers. "Purge in the military ranks: Damiba, Somda and other officers dismissed for 'undermining state security'," is the headline of the public newspaper, Sidwaya.According to Burkina Information Agency, Burkina Faso has dismissed several senior military officials and a magistrate from its national armed forces, according to a decree signed by the President of Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, on October 30, 2024. Among them, the former President of Faso, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba and Lieutenant Colonel Evrard Somda, former Chief of Staff of the National Gendarmerie. The dean of private dailies, L'Observateur Paalga adds that among those dismissed are the former COTN, Lieutenant Yves Didier Bamouni, and Lieutena nt Colonels Boubakar Keïta, Damandi Malick Toguyeni, and Wilfried Ouédraogo.The newspaper states that according to the decree, most of these officers are found guilty of "misconduct deemed particularly serious, consisting of an attack on military dignity..." The private daily, Le Pays, indicates that those dismissed from the ranks of the Burkinabe army number 16 senior officers. On another note, L'Observateur Paalga states that lawyers Gontran Somé and Christian Kaboré are no longer in the hands of their captors after a month of captivity.The Country, for its part, recalls that these men of law were kidnapped on the night of October 10 to 11, 2024, on the Dédougou-Bobo axis, while they were driving a personal vehicle.
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