Reps condemn military coups in W/Africa, call for sanctions

The House of Representatives yesterday condemned the resurgence of military coups in West African and called for urgent actions.

It recommended sanctions against countries where such undemocratic methods had been used to upstage a people’s government.

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This followed a motion by Rep. Julius Ihonvbere who recalled that there had been at least four coups in the sub-region in the last six months alone with the most recent cases in Burkina Faso and Mali.

“These coups violate the constitutional rights of the people and subvert democratic processes, as they can erode the achievements so far recorded in rebuilding good governance across the sub-region”, he stated.

He said if the trend was allowed to gain traction, the sub-region could return to the dark era of “inconsistencies in governance.”