Yes indeed.
"The personalisation of political life is over. We will no longer entrust politics to one man, we will entrust it to the people," Colonel Doumbouya said, adding that the constitution would also be dissolved and borders closed for one week.Colonel Doumbouya, who has headed a special forces unit in the military, said he was acting in the best interests of the nation of more than 12.7 million people. Not enough economic progress has been made since independence from France in 1958, the colonel said. "If you see the state of our roads, if you see the state of our hospitals, you realise that after 72 years, it's time to wake up," he said. "We have to wake up."
Source: https://www.9news.com.au/national/guinea-coup-attempt-army-colonel-on-guinean-tv-says-government-dissolved-borders-shut/753d52ec-6317-41c3-8471-1a3934d0e49b
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