BY ANTHONY ADA ABRAHAM
Following the removal of
Niger President, Mohamed Bazoum from power, by a group of soldiers who appeared on the West African nation’s national television late on Wednesday, hours after the president was held in the Presidential Palace, the Head of Mission, IPC-Nigeria, Amb (Dr) Hussaini Haruna Coomassie has called on African leaders to sit up and work in unison to prevent further coup d’etat in Africa through better leadership peer review and improved security network across the continent.
According to him, his organisation condemns it in all ramification and want something urgent to be done to restore the democratically elected Government of President Bazoum.
His worlds: ” We’re not in support of any coup d’etat in Africa. When other countries of the world are working hard towards peaceful democracies and development. African Union (AU) and ECOWAS have become ineffective as far as curtailing such misadventures as coups in the continent. They really need to take a strong stance on such matters.
“A coup d’etat happened in Guinea, nothing happened , Mali followed nothing was done, Sudan and now Niger. Don’t forget that Cote D’Ivoire, The Gambia are also under threat.
“If this is allowed to continue, other African countries that are fed up with the so-called foreign borrowed democracy, will adopt the autocratic rule of the military, which we as an organisation stands against. We condemn it in totality because no sane mind would support any coup d’etat, no matter how good it may seem,” he advised.
It could be recalled that Colonel Amadou Abdramane was seated and flanked by nine other officers, said defence and security forces had decided: “Put an end to the regime that you know due to the deteriorating security situation and bad governance.” Which is a very flimsy excuses and we will not take it.