“Make noise, I’ve been arrested,”Ali Bongo of Gabon asks for assistance from his “friends”

Following Wednesday’s revolution, a video of deposed Gabon President Ali Bongo pleading with his foreign friends to raise awareness has surfaced on social media.

In the 51st second, Bongo acknowledged that he had been taken into custody and separated from his wife and son, who he said were being held somewhere else.

The putschists emphasized severe institutional, political, economic, and social difficulties as causes of the coup, which they labeled as “necessary” for the advancement of the West African nation.

Bongo said, “My name is Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon. I am sending a message to all friends that we have all over the world, to tell them to make noise, to make noise”

Alain Bernard Bongo, 64, who was born in Congo-Brazzaville on February 9, 1959, took office as president of Gabon in 2009 after the death of his father Omar Bongo, who had controlled the country for nearly 42 years starting in 1967.