The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will convene a virtual emergency Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting today, Wednesday, September 8, 2021, to discuss events in Guinea.
President Akufo-Addo, as Chairman of ECOWAS, will lead his colleagues in addressing the coup that ousted Alpha Conde’s government.
Eugene Arhin, the Presidency’s Director of Communications, made the announcement.
He said that the conference would attempt to find a long-term solution to the Guinea issue.
According to him, ECOWAS would also make use of the occasion to restate its view that “ballots, not bullets, should be the sole acceptable method of effecting change in the political leadership of any nation within the ECOWAS community.”
“The president will chair an emergency virtual summit of heads of state and governments of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) basically to reaffirm the long term held belief that the ballots and not the bullets should be the only legitimate means of effecting change in the political leadership of any country within the ECOWAS community.”
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About the Guinea coup
After gunfire in Guinea’s capital, a group of soldiers announced the dissolution of the constitution, the closure of the borders, and a nationwide curfew in a broadcast on state TV on Sunday evening [September 4, 2021].
The soldiers, led by a Special Forces Colonel, Mamady Doumbouya, had said regional governors had been replaced by military commanders and that Mr. Condé was under arrest.
The UN, African Union, and ECOWAS have condemned the coup and called for a return to civilian rule.
The coup in Guinea was the fourth attempted coup in West Africa in the last year with two military takeovers in Mali and a failed coup in Niger.
SOURCE: CITINEWSROOM
