Guinea: Former Minister of Economy Charles Zogbélémou thrown in prison ...

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Africaguinee Nov. 20, 2021 1 p.m.

They searched me, I had 250,000 Gnf plus my phone which they took and left me in the bush there to continue to Nzérékoré.

During a trip that went wrong, the young Kolié was severely beaten before being abandoned in the bush late at night by the ex-minister and his companions, he explains.

We kept fighting, I hit the knife against the broken glass and we fell from behind (…) I received several stab wounds.

He has been working in one of his oil factories for quite some time.

This is how I made my way to Zao where a friend picked me up to drop me off in Nzérékoré.

That's how it is, on Tuesday he had me arrested and jailed.

So I asked the driver to take me out of the vehicle at Bellevue Satin in the suburbs of the city, because I did not understand his attitude.

On the road the old man (the former minister) started to insult me.

“I asked him to come with me to solve a problem I had with my wife.

He threatened me, saying that if I don't pay back his broken windows, he's going to put me in jail.

That's when the old man said: what he wanted, we gave him.

The driver told me we weren't going to last.

After that I went to the hospital for treatment.

It was on this basis that they were arrested..

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