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G/Bissau turns to Angola for military support
Thursday, 09 September 2010 23:22
By Kemo ChamGuinea Bissau’s discordant military chief is looking up to Angola for support in “urgent restructuring” of his country’s military.
Lt. Gen. António Indjai, chief of Staff of Guinea Bissau’s Armed Forces, during a visit to Luanda on Tuesday said his country’s army needs urgent restructuring, Angolan Press Agency reports.
Lt. Gen. António Indjai is the subject of controversy between Guinea Bissau and its traditional Western backers who see the army chief as a major part of the country’s current problems. His apparent ties to well-known drug kingpins made him one of the hated men in Washington.
Both the EU and the US have announced a halt in their support to Guinea Bissau for failure of the government to rescind the appointment of Indjai, architect of last April’s military unrest in Bissau that saw the country’s prime minister briefly ousted and the continued detention of former army chief Admiral Jose Zamora Induta. Calls for the release of Admiral Induta, widely praised for his anti-drug stance, have constantly fallen on deaf ears.
Like the rest of the international community, the Bissau Guinean army chief considers as pertinent the restructuring of his country’s defense and
security sector, only that his mode of approach contradicts the popular one.“We are asking for assistance from our Angolan brothers, namely the Armed Forces' General Staff, the Ministry of Defence and the Government," he was quoted by the Angolan press.
He said that so far most of those integrating in Guinea Bissau’s military forces were former combatants, with over 60 years on duty, under poor living conditions, which requires a re-arrangement of the sector.
Both Angola and Guinea Bissau share a colonial heritage being former Portuguese colonies. And Angola has recently taken increased role in Portuguese speaking nations’ interest in solving the West African nation’s problems.
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