BREAKING: #Tinubu Led #ECOWAS Silent As #Garbon Junta Ousts President Ali Bongo—-The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) appears dumbfounded and taken aback as the ongoing Garbon Coup d’état was reported on Wednesday.
The Economic Community of West African States is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. Collectively, these countries comprise an area of 5,114,162 km², and in 2019 had an estimated population of over 387 million.
According to a BBC report, the Garbon Military announced on TV that it had seized power in the West African country and taken into custody, President Ali Bongo and son.
This is after a just concluded election in the country which handed him (Ali Bongo) a third term in power – a development largely disputed by the people.
Ali Bongo had been in the saddle since 2009 after inheriting the seat from his father Omar Bongo who ruled from 1967 to 2009 when he died.
The people of Garbon in reaction, frown at the fact that a family has held them hostage for decades running government like their personal property at the expense of the people’s future.
Reacting to the ongoing Garbon Coup d’état, Nigerian lawyer Inibehe Effiong wrote:
“This wave of military coups in Africa will not end unless the mindless thugs ruling the continent respect the rule of law and true constitutional principles and values.
“It is duplicitous to accuse military forces of truncating democracy when what we have as government in many African countries are corrupt civilian despots who rig elections violently and kill to remain in power.
“The African Union is largely a failed experiment and should be ashamed of itself for condoning sit-tight despots across the continent. How can one family hold the reins of power in a poverty-stricken country or anything for that matter for 56 years? Is that democracy?
“As much as I don’t endorse military coups, I cannot also cry for deposed civilian despots whom themselves have staged coups against democracy”.
As at the time of filing this report, the ECOWAS which appears to have so much in its hands per the ongoing Coup in Niger where it was vociferous initially, appears to have lost its voice this time. Since the ongoing Garbon Coup d’état was reported on Wednesday, no comment so far has been released by ECOWAS.
