After he took power, Captain Ibrahim Traore demanded that unused vehicles be made available to the Army.
The military engineering department is in the process of transforming state vehicles for the needs of the Army, APA has learned from military sources.
Stationed in the car park of the public administration, these vehicles not used by public officials are dented; they are reassembled in military cargo, and repainted in the colors of the national armed forces.
A source familiar with the Army’s news said that these are the Land Cruiser type BJ vehicles sold by the fleet on behalf of the Ministry in charge of the Economy that have just been transformed by the military.
“From now on, these previously unused vehicles will be useful to the Army and the Volunteers for the Defense of the Motherland (VDP). They will be used in military operations against armed terrorist groups,” the same sources said.
Vehicle conversion operations are still underway, while another source said that military equipment is insufficient and several hundred army vehicles have been destroyed by explosive devices and during the fighting with jihadists.
“The acquisition of new vehicles requires resources and procedures that take time, while civilian cars are parked for frequent minor breakdowns,” a military source explains.
When he seized power, Captain Ibrahim Traore asked all permanent secretaries of the ministries to give him an update on the unused cars in the fleet so that they could be made available to the soldiers.
“You have pickup trucks in your ministries, sometimes unused for small breakdowns. Give us an update. We need them,” Captain Traore added.
It can be recalled that Ibrahim Trare came to power at the end of September in a coup against Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, who himself had toppled Roch Marc Christian Kabore eight months earlier.
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