Four years ago, all 15 heads of state in the Economic Community of West African States were democratically elected, but that has drastically changed.
Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged colleagues to find solutions to multiple coups in the west African region.
He has also called on Ecowas legislators to understand everything about coups if they are to stop them from spreading. Problems in the past four years arose in French-speaking countries that had military coups; namely, Mali was suspended on 30 May 2021, after two military coups in a space of nine months; Guinea was suspended on 8 September 2021; and on 28 January 2022, Burkina Faso was suspended.Dozen soldiers dead after rebel attack in southwest Niger
He spoke about the need to"find solutions to the emerging remilitarisation of governance, the attempted confiscation of democracy by elites, and the wanton desire to destroy democracy by terrorist groups and armed criminal gangs in the region". Akufo-Addo added that those kinds of leaders in the region, were creating fertile ground for"the emerging remilitarisation of governance with the intrusion, once again, of the military on the political scene, who have neither consulted, nor received any mandate from, the people on whose behalf they purport to act".
Akufo-Addo told the parliamentarians that they had to invest more in understanding the root causes of coups and how to stop them from occurring.
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