ECOWAS has condemned the recent political developments in Guinea.
It has condemned the coup carried out in the country on Sunday, September 5, 2021.
An elite national army unit has announced on Sunday that it has seized power in Guinea.
The group said it had also deposed the country’s president, Alpha Condé, in an attempted coup.
The was after heavy gunfire was heard near the presidential palace in the capital, Conakry, on Sunday morning.
Col Mamadi Doumbouya, the head of the unit and leader said: “We are taking our destiny in our own hands,” he said, further criticising the state of the country under the 83-year-old president. “The personalisation of political life is over. We will no longer entrust politics to one man, we will entrust it to the people.”
But ECOWAS has condemned the coup attempt and called for respect for the President.
“ECOWAS demands respect for the physical integrity of the President of the Republic, the Professor Alpha Condé and his immediate and unconditional release as well as that of all the personalities arrested.”
Read the full statement from ECOWAS below
COMMUNIQUE ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF GUINEA
ECOWAS notes with great concern the recent political developments which occurred in Conakry, Republic of Guinea.
She condemns with the greatest firmness this coup attempt on Sunday, September 5, 2021.
ECOWAS demands respect for the physical integrity of the President of the Republic, the Professor Alpha Condé and his immediate and unconditional release as well as that of all the personalities arrested.
It also demands the return to constitutional order on pain of sanctions.
ECOWAS reaffirms its disapproval of any unconstitutional political change.
She asks the defense and security forces to remain in a posture
Republican and expresses its solidarity with the Guinean people and Government.
Done in Accra, Sunday, September 5, 2021
H.E.M. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
President of the Republic of Ghana and
President-in-Office of ECOWAS
By: Rainbow radio online.com/Ghana
