(SomaliNet) Mauritania’s government has charged five of its natives for allegedly trying to take over Mauritania’s current government. Their crime was interfering in a bid to impose term limits for Mauritania’s presidents. The five are comrades of former Mauritania’s president, Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya. “The five accused were charged with plotting to reverse the constitutional order," said Mauritania’s prosecutor, Ben Amar Ould Veta. The five were sentenced to different sentences with some sentenced to spending their remaining lifetimes behind bars in a Mauritania prison. Among the accused is a former advisor attached to Mauritania’s Defense ministry. He is said to be a close pal of ex Mauritania’s president. Mauritania has been under the leadership of Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, who saved the natives of Mauritania from the oppressive rule of Taya. Taya served as Mauritania’s president for 21 years.