Burkina Faso’s navy chief Capt Ibrahim Traore sparked fear when he attended Tuesday’s establishing of Ghana’s President John Mahama with a holstered pistol at his waist.

Some have described this strange go as a breach of safety protocol.

Others have evident it as a dearth of agree with within the skill of Ghanaian officers to give protection to the Burkinabe junta important.

It isn’t sunlit if Traore had permission to hold the weapon and the unused Ghanaian govt has now not replied to a BBC request for remark.

Mahama used to be sworn in later beating the candidate from the later governing birthday party, Mahamudu Bawumia, by way of a massive margin in extreme past’s election.

Traore, used to be considered one of 21 heads of surrounding provide, and his discuss with got here at a era of diplomatic rigidity in West Africa.

Burkina Faso, in conjunction with two alternative military-led states – Mali and Niger, has damaged clear of the regional bloc Ecowas to mode their very own alliance.

Safety analyst Vladmir Antwi Danso mentioned that it’s strange for a head of surrounding to hold a sidearm to an establishing rite as the protection of the visiting chief is the duty of the host.

He indicated that Ghanaian and Burkinabe safety workforce must have mentioned the problem to safeguard the proper protocols had been being adopted. “Either that wasn’t done or it was poorly done,” Dr Danso advised the BBC.

Year any other safety analyst, Retd Col Festus Aboagye, is of the same opinion that the host public is in most cases chargeable for protective visiting presidents, he says bilateral preparations can top to diversifications.

He advised {that a} consensus will have been reached to permit Traore to put on his navy apparel and lift his sidearm, in conjunction with a few of his private safety quality.

“I don’t think it’s a security breach in the context of how people are saying, [as] if he had taken out the weapon to shoot. That’s a bit far-fetched,” Col Aboagye mentioned.

The Alliance of Sahel States, made up of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, has accused Ecowas of seeking to destabilise their nations. Traore will have had that in the back of his thoughts when attending the establishing rite.

However the truth that an army chief used to be “wielding a gun demonstrating that they have that power of the gun because they’re military leaders and attending an investiture of a democracy is a bit awkward”, Emmanuel Bensah who works on problems with regional integration, mentioned.

Members of the family between Ghana and Burkina Faso were strained, in particular later Ghana’s former President Nana Akufo-Addo accused Traore of harbouring Russian mercenaries.

Traore’s attendance on the establishing used to be evident as a vital diplomatic officialism geared toward normalising family members between the 2 nations.

Ghana’s aid is an important in serving to Burkina Faso deal with its tragic militant jihadist insurgency, which poses a warning to coastal West African states.