President Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo isn’t the least satisfied concerning the emerging incidents of coup d’etat within the West African sub area.
It follows fresh army takeovers in neighbouring Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso.
He thinks the occurrence of coup d’état, ongoing jihadist actions and the COVID-19 pandemic has made the area a poisonous one.
This was once when he opened an emergency digital summit of Heads of State and Governments of the Financial Group of West African States (ECOWAS) held this morning.
He mentioned the ECOWAS Supplementary protocol on democracy and just right governance followed in 2001, is being breached via army takeovers within the area whiles quoting provisions of the ECOWAS Supplementary protocol on democracy and just right governance “any ascension to energy will have to be thru unfastened, honest and clear election.”
He additionally indicated that “unconstitutional exchange is against the law in addition to any undemocratic way of gaining or holding energy”, “0 tolerance for energy got or maintained via unconstitutional way” and “the Armed Forces will have to be apolitical and will have to be beneath the command of legally constituted authority. No serving member of the Armed Forces might search to run for elected politics place of business.”
For him, “the happenings within the area let us know that now not everyone has authorised democracy as the most popular mode of governance”, insisting “we nonetheless have some paintings to do to persuade such folks that we’re all more secure beneath democracies.”
“The resurgence of coup d’etat in our area is in direct violation of our democratic tenets and represents a danger to peace, safety and balance in West Africa” he added.
Within the final yr and a part, there was 4 coup d’états within the ECOWAS sub-region by myself.
On 18 August 2020, the primary army takeover befell in Mali the place the second one additionally befell at the twenty fourth of Might 2021.
The 3rd unconstitutional takeover of energy came about at the 5 September 2021, in Guinea and the newest energy seizure came about at the 24 January 2022, in Burkina Faso.
Except Burkina Faso, ECOWAS heads of state have instituted sanctions towards the army leaders in Mali and in Guinea and demanded that the army junta within the two nations take speedy steps to revive democratic rule within the affected countries.
By way of Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent