{"id":7577,"date":"2013-05-03T05:23:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T05:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/benin-president-was-poison-target-fbi\/"},"modified":"2013-05-03T05:24:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T05:24:07","slug":"benin-president-was-poison-target-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/benin-president-was-poison-target-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Benin President was Poison target&#8217;&#8211;FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The scientific laboratory of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that the contents of the medical drugs and chemical products meant to be administered to Benin&#8217;s President Boni Yayi were toxic, an official source has said.}}<\/p>\n<p>Benin&#8217;s public prosecutor Justin Gbenameto on Monday said in Cotonou that the toxic drugs were to be administered to Benin&#8217;s president by his personal doctor, with the assistance of the president&#8217;s niece.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FBI&#8217;s biomedical laboratory revealed that the president&#8217;s usual drugs were changed,&#8221; the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The content of Dafalgan 500 mg tablets which are usually consumed by President Yayi were changed and replaced by a deadly substance whose toxicity was proven. The contents of the other drugs were equally altered,&#8221; Gbenameto affirmed, citing results from the FBI biomedical laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the examination by FBI revealed the presence of Q26 substance (sufentanyl), Q27 (atracurium\/Cisatracurium) and Q28 (Ketamine), whose sale is formally prohibited due to their high toxicity levels.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the fingerprints of Ibrahima Mama Cisse, Yayi&#8217;s personal doctor, were discovered on the cartons containing the deadly drugs.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 22, 2012, three people including the president&#8217;s niece, Zouberatou Kora Seke, his personal doctor Ibrahima Mama Cisse and Benin&#8217;s ex-commerce minister Moudjadou Soumanou were arrested for attempting to poison Yayi by use of medical drugs.<\/p>\n<p>A High Court in Cotonou issued two international arrest warrants against two of Benin&#8217;s economic operators, Patrice Talon and Olivier Bocco, who were suspected of having hatched the plan to poison President Yayi.<\/p>\n<p>At the Paris Court of Appeal, a case has been filed for the extradition of Talon and Bocco, so that they can face justice in Benin.<\/p>\n<p>{wirestory}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The scientific laboratory of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that the contents of the medical drugs and chemical products meant to be administered to Benin&#8217;s President Boni Yayi were toxic, an official source has said.}} Benin&#8217;s public prosecutor Justin Gbenameto on Monday said in Cotonou that the toxic drugs were to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}