Ousted Guinea Prime Minister Ahmed Souare yesterday arrived in the country to meet President Umaru Yar'adua in connection with the crisis rocking his country.

Souare, whose head was wrapped in bandage, narrated to journalists the torture he and others went through in the hands of the military junta. "We are in Nigeria to discuss with the leaders from other West African countries on how to stop the political killings and restore democracy in the West African country.

"We are going to Abuja to meet with the ECOWAS leaders and discuss on the current issues in our country. "The wound on my head is a mark from them. Absolutely, they beat us directly and they killed some. More than 200 were killed by the junta," he said. He said they resolved to come to Nigeria after several attempts at making the military relinquish power to a democratically elected government failed.

"You know on September 28, we had a mutiny in our capital and we had about 200 people shot dead by the army," he added. The civilians had gathered at the main stadium in Guinea's seaside capital, Conakry, to protest the rumoured plan by the military leader, Capt. Moussa Camara, to run for the presidency.

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