“One Coup Too Many” In Round 4? | Features

When asked if ECOWAS planned waging war against a sovereign state Niger as was threatened with a seven-day ultimatum initially to reinstate President Bazoum who has been overthrown in a coup, the ECOWAS Commissioner said the military operation would be a “nuanced” one against the junta/coupists, and not against Niger, should it happen.

In a rebuttal to the semantic ambiguity of a “nuanced attack,” Ibrahima Boubacar Salou in Niger said, any military attack on Niger would be seen as an attack on the sovereignty of Niger! Seydou Aboudou the president of the Ghana Association in Niger added that, an attack on Niger by ECOWAS would jeopardise the lives of Ghanaians and other foreigners as all land borders have been closed in addition to a no-fly zone over Niger’s air space! Indeed, citizens of the attacking armies of ECOWAS would become instant targets.

In the Jerusalem Post article, the large snake went in to swallow a little porcupine, an easy prey in its estimation, and ended up dying!

Julius Caesar ignored the warning, “Beware the Ides of March” in 44 BC and ended up dying!”

After Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso, how come the sudden awakening that Niger’s coup is “one too many” when Constitutional coupists in Ivory Coast, dynasties/dictators elsewhere, and the Senegalese president who recently banned the Opposition party, are still deemed democratic rulers in ECOWAS eyes?

What was supposed to be a “Special military operation” lasting only a few weeks has become a quagmire and eighteen months later continues with heavy casualties in the Russia-Ukraine and dire consequences for the whole world.

Nobody endorses coups! For ECOWAS leaders, good governance obviates coups, and therefore the need for war to reinstate a deposed colleague! Doesn’t Matthew 7:3-5 advise us to remove the log in our eyes before removing the speck in a neighbour’s eye?

Didn’t Shakespeare say “DISCRETION IS THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR?”

Leadership, LEAD! Fellow Ghanaians, WAKE UP!

 
Brig Gen Dan Frimpong (Rtd)

Former CEO, African Peace Support Trainers Association

Nairobi, Kenya

           
Council Chairman

Family Health University College

 Accra

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