Mbodou Wakil feels that one of the major aggravating elements was the deployment of overseas troops incapable of battling terrorism.
According to political scientist Mbodou Wakil, the current government takeover in Niger is the result of a leadership crisis that cannot be fixed by merely criticising the parties involved or by foreign military involvement.
Soldiers in Niamey claimed late Wednesday to have deposed Niger's democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, stating on state television that the government had been dissolved due to the country's deteriorating security.
The president of the West African country declared that some members of the head of state's security detail, who were reported to have detained the leader, were involved in a "anti-republican" campaign.
Bazoum, a Western-backed ally in the fight against the Islamic insurgency, agreed with France last year that Paris could move soldiers from Mali to Niger.
Wakil told RT that important unaddressed concerns, such as the failure to eradicate the country of terrorists and officials utilising democracy to benefit themselves, prompted this week's apparent sedition.
He stated that "bringing in military forces from foreign countries that are unable to fight terrorism," as well as the conditions that "allow terrorists to come in," are "real problems" that have been the "motive of this new system of coup d'etat in Niger."