who is this radical pan-Africanist activist arrested by the DGSI?

Beninese pan-Africanist Kemi Seba, suspected of “maintaining intelligence with a foreign power,” was arrested Monday and placed in police custody in the premises of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI). He is suspected of “maintaining intelligence with a foreign power”.

A person who worries the French authorities. This Monday Kemi Seba, pan-Africanist activist, was arrested and placed in police custody in the premises of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI).

The man, stripped of French nationality in July, is suspected of “maintaining intelligence with a foreign power with a view to provoking hostilities or acts of aggression against France”. A criminal offense punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

He is also suspected of “maintaining intelligence with a foreign power likely to harm the fundamental interests of the nation”.

Multiple convictions

Real name Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, the former leader of the Tribu Ka, a small group which claimed anti-Semitism and advocated separation between Blacks and Whites before being dissolved by the French government in 2006, was condemned several times in France for inciting racial hatred.

He is today at the head of the Pan-Africanist Emergencies group and has a certain aura on social networks.

Since the beginning of August, Kemi Seba has had a diplomatic passport issued by the junta in his capacity as special advisor to the head of the military regime in power in Niamey, General Abdourahamane Tiani.

In recent years, Kemi Seba has organized or participated in several demonstrations hostile to the CFA franc in Africa, during which he was regularly arrested, expelled or turned back, notably from Ivory Coast, Senegal and Guinea.