Let’s nip coups within the bud – Akufo-Addo fees Ecowas leaders

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has charged West African leaders to take a willing pastime within the pressure of coup d’etat within the sub-region and take motion in opposition to them.

He stated no nation is insulated from such movements and the sooner they’re nipped within the bud, the easier.

“The deteriorating political state of affairs in our area must be a question of grave worry to all folks,” he warned firstly of a digital assembly of member states of the Financial Group of West African States (ECOWAS) on Friday, January 28.

“No nation is insulated from the prevalence in the neighborhood and we’ve to do so to nip it within the bud.”

The assembly had one time table: ‘The Disaster in Burkina Faso and Its Ramifications’.

It adopted the coup d’etat in that nation on Monday, January 24 after infantrymen ousted President Roch Marc Christian Kabore from place of business.

It comes months after the similar happenings passed off in Mali two times, on August 18, 2020, and Would possibly 24, 2021, and Guinea, on September 5, 2021.

“Added to that is the complicated safety setting occasioned via terrorist assaults and pandemics presenting for us a poisonous state of affairs.”

Ghana’s chief, who may be the Chair of the Authority of Heads of State and Executive of the bloc, seen that the excesses being recorded in some nations is apparent proof that now not each nation accepts democracy as the most popular mode of presidency.

“We nonetheless have some paintings to do to persuade such those that we’re all more secure beneath democracy.

“The resurgence of coup d’etats in our area is in direct violation of our democratic tenets and represents a danger to peace, safety and balance in West Africa.”

Deliberations will search to discover a lasting method to mutinies now not simplest in Burkina Faso but additionally in all the sub-region.

Already, Mali and Guinea are beneath sanctions from the bloc.

“The remainder of the arena is having a look as much as us to be company on this subject and look forward to the result of our assembly.”