{{The Benin state prosecutor said last week that the doctor of President Boni Yayi, along with his niece and a government minister, were behind a failed to plot to poison him. The trio were arrested.}}<\/p>\n
The Benin president\u2019s doctor and his niece were a part of a failed plot to poison the leader of the West African nation by changing his medicine with something toxic, the state prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Justin Gbenameto said Tuesday that Dr. Ibrahim Mama Cisse, one of the president\u2019s nieces Zouberatou Kora and Former Minister of Trade Moudjaidou Soumanou have been charged with conspiracy and attempted murder. <\/p>\n
The three were arrested Sunday and have been in a civil prison in Cotonou since.<\/p>\n
Gbenameto said that the niece and doctor were each promised payment of 1 billion CFA ($1.9 million) if they carried out the poisoning, and that a fourth person was involved in the plot, businessman Patrice Talon.<\/p>\n
The plot to poison Benin President Boni Yayi, however, was foiled the president\u2019s niece had informed her sister who then told the president, the state prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor said the plot was largely planned during the president\u2019s recent visit to Brussels, Belgium.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe niece who accompanied President Boni Yayi during this trip would have been contacted and invited to the hotel where the businessman Patrice Talon was staying,\u201d he said, adding that Talon asked Kora to give her uncle the drugs through the physician.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will deliver an international arrest warrant against Mr. Patrice Talon. He must respond to his acts,\u201d said Gbenameto.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor said they determined that Soumanou picked up drugs at the Cotonou airport on Oct.19, and gave them to Dr. Cisse.<\/p>\n
The drugs from Soumanou are \u201cdrugs that the head of state usually takes but were this time substituted and replaced by toxic ingredients,\u201d according to the prosecutor\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe judge will decide what happens next,\u201d Gbenameto said.<\/p>\n
The lawyer for Dr. Cisse and the former minister said, \u201cWe can\u2019t say under what conditions the statements were obtained and what was in those statements. I have not even been able to consult them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is sufficient evidence to suggest that a plot may have existed, but we can\u2019t say by what side at this moment,\u201d said the lawyer Joseph Djogbenou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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