Chapter 273: Key Person Witness
"Tim worked as a security officer with Huff Boña before retiring from the army and has been in the service of the Bonia family ever since. This time, the Boniah family conspired with the Jidam family to smuggle crude oil in Akwa, and he was the liaison, and when the Jidam family's smuggling fleet was intercepted, he was with Baja Jidam, but he escaped without being injured, and was captured by the Beninese military and held until yesterday's release. Benin had no intention of getting involved in the political dispute between Akwa and Kanem, claiming that it was only fighting a group of pirates of unknown origin, and that the eleven people arrested were not handed over to the judiciary, or even interrogated. Tim was also released by the Beninese military yesterday in Porto-Novo – so he doesn't exist in the records of the Beninese military, and the Beninese military doesn't even know his true identity......"
Cao Mo motioned for little Kushi to remove the curtain on the wooden door, and let Maye Mantar look inside the room, and saw a middle-aged black man with unkempt hair and a skeletal shape, his hands tied behind his back, curled up on the damp mud floor in the corner of the room, his eyes tied tightly with black cloth.
The middle-aged black man heard a voice coming from the corridor outside the room, and struggled to sit up, but his feet were also tied firmly by ropes, and his mouth was stuffed with a black cloth, and he let out an angry roar, completely unable to understand why he was abducted here by the "bandits" as soon as he was released.
It is a hunter's wooden house in the forest on the border between Akwa and Benin, the passages and corners of the walls are covered with moss, and the room has a strong smell of mold.
The air at the end of January '07 was humid and muggy, and Maye Mantar felt uncomfortable standing in the hallway and looking at everything in the room.
Before returning to China, Maye Mantar worked as a journalist for two years to fight against the oppression and cruelty of the descendants of the Akwa colonizers by the Saweiyi authorities, and rushed back to Akwa after her father was released from prison to assist him in the organizational development of the Front for Democracy.
When Saweiyi staged a coup d'état and incited the Akan and Kanwa people to murder the descendants of the colonizers, she was studying in France, and the bloody truth about the mutilation of her compatriots was only glimpsed through pictures and other people's accusations.
When Cao Mo informed her father, she just said that she had found the key witness involved in the coup d'état of Ufu Bonia, and they needed to send someone to take the person away, but looking at the situation in front of her, this "human witness" seemed to have not explained anything, could it be that Cao Mo wanted her to watch the interrogation process?
Maye Mantar took a slight breath, stared at Cao Mo with bright beautiful eyes, and said: "In the past few days, it has been said everywhere that the smuggling fleet of the Jidam family was annihilated by the Beninese military, and someone must be giving a message to the Beninese military - probably no one would have thought that you are the black hand behind all this, right?"
"There's nothing you can feel sorry for the Jidam family, Bonia is looking for them to cooperate, mainly to raise funds for the military government," Cao Mo asked as she looked at Mey Mantar calmly, "Politics is never about doing anything
Clean—would you be willing to be this black hand if you had the chance, or would you like to use the lives of your countless compatriots to fight for the power they deserve?"
"......" Maye bit her lip and looked down at the somewhat rotten wooden aisle.
"The Bonia family can't imagine that their coup plot has been exposed for the time being, but Tim is such an important figure, they will inevitably do everything possible to inquire about his whereabouts, so the time left for us is very limited, and we must hand him over to Saweiyi before Houff Boniah is alert," Cao Mo looked at Mey Mantar and said, "Only by exposing the coup plot of Houff Bonia, Saweiyi will clearly realize that there is no turning back for him except to accelerate political change." This is the most pragmatic option that the Front for Democracy has ever fought for the descendants of the 600,000 colonizers living in Akwa, and you will all have to pay a hundred, a thousand times more than that. ”
Cao Mo believes that Tim, as a close confidant of Ufu Bonia and Uto Bonia's father and son, should be well aware of the plot of military mutiny, and may even be one of the core figures.
He brought Mey Mantar with him this time so that she could personally observe the interrogation of Tim, and then they would hand him over to the Saweiyi authorities as quickly as possible.
This will also be the largest vote given by the Front for the Promotion of Democracy to the Saweiyi authorities, in addition to its political statement.
The reason for the separate interrogation of Tim on the border between Akwa and Benin was, on the one hand, to confirm that Tim was indeed aware of many details of the coup plot by Huf Bonia, so that it would not be counterproductive to send a dud bomb that could not play a key role to Saveyi, and on the other hand, they had to keep a copy of the countermeasures in their hands at the same time that Tim handed it over.
Cao Mo and the others will not be directly involved in the handover, but it is difficult to say that there will be no accidents in the process of Juan Mantar handing over Tim, a key witness, to the Saviyi authorities, maybe the Bonia family has become vigilant, and maybe there are people around Saweiyi who are involved in the coup plot.
Cao Mo has experienced too many accidents in this land, and he has developed the habit of taking more precautions in advance, and even after the interrogation is over, he and Stari will not be in a hurry to return to Akva.
Maye Mantal bit her lip and nodded, motioning for Cao Mo to start the interrogation.
Little Kusky motioned for the staff to turn on the monitor, he put the hood down, grabbed a pile of materials and walked into the room......
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Compared with Niz Oppenheimer, who had to take the lead in initiating a special investigation into Rumisu Jidam in the Ogun State Assembly, the Saweiyi authorities were much more decisive and harsh in their crackdown on those who plotted the coup.
Saiweiyi also had to be quick and decisive.
Tim disappeared for no apparent reason after being released by the Beninese military, and how could Houff Boña not be alert at all?
On the third day after Maye Mantar brought Tim back to Akwa, at a high-level meeting of the army, Saweiyi secretly arrested 27 middle- and high-ranking officers headed by Ufu Bonia on suspicion of smuggling, corruption, and conspiracy to coup d'état
The Ka military camp consists of seven companies armed mainly from the Kanwa people.
Of the nearly 30 million people of Akwa, nearly 600,000 descendants of colonists are an absolute minority, the second largest ethnic group, the Kanter, who make up only 18 percent of the population, the first largest ethnic group, the Akhan, who account for 55 percent of the total population, and 17 other ethnic groups who make up 25 percent of the total population of Akwa.
During the colonial period, in order to better balance and restrain the national forces within Akwa, the British authorities chose to vigorously support the Kanter people, whose population was one-third of the Akhan ethnic group, and the middle and low-level positions in the colonial government and the army were mainly occupied by the Wakan people.
Because the Kanter have historically been treated more favorably than the Akans, their relations with the descendants of the colonists have been much more modest. After Akwa's independence movement became irresistible, the British authorities also chose to retreat after handing over Akwa's power to the Kanters.
For a long time, the Kante people had an absolute advantage in the government and the army in Akwa, so the situation of the descendants of the colonists in Akwa was not very bad in the early days of the Kante military government, until the military coup d'état of the Akon officer Saiweiyi and his fellow officers in 95.
Although Saweiyi reorganized the civilian government and army after seizing power, giving the Akans an advantage in the civilian government and army, in order to win greater support at home and resist the wave of democracy movements that had been surging in West Africa at that time, Saweiyi also threw an olive branch to the Kante people, advocated a policy of ethnic reconciliation, and directed the hatred of both ethnic groups to the descendants of the colonizers, and continued to set off a wave of anti-colonialism in Akwa.
Ufu Bonia himself was a general from the Aken ethnic group, but in order to oppose political change, the officers and companies who jointly plotted the coup d'état this time were mainly from the Kanter ethnic group, which is a bit strange to think about.
However, this is precisely the key reason why Ufu Bonia has been plotting for a long time, but has never been noticed by Saviyi.
Of course, Juan Mantar is also very sober, and does not think that after Hopho Bonia seizes power with the help of the Kante people, it will be beneficial to the descendants of the colonizers, and even the descendants of the colonizers will once again be doomed to become victims.
Cooperation with the Saviyi authorities is the most pragmatic option for the FDD, as evidenced by what happened next.
Although Saviyi's purge of the country will continue for some time, he will soon appoint Juan Mantar as the deputy minister of economic affairs, and at the same time promote and appoint more than 20 civilian officials from the descendants of the colonizers, sign a document to lift the restrictions on the participation of the descendants of the colonizers in the political and economic activities of Akwa, and promise to open the restrictions on the participation of foreign capital in the economic construction and development of Akwa as soon as possible.
These are not the results of cooperation negotiations between the Front for the Promotion of Democracy led by Juan Mantar and the Saviyi authorities, but mainly because Saviyi clearly understands that the urgent need of the Western society for Akwa is not a democratic or political change, and he wants to exchange the Western society's personal support for him on the condition of limited liberalization of foreign capital controls, so that he can let go of the coup d'état in Akwa and not lead to international criticism......