The House of Representatives Minority Caucus has expressed its displeasure at the growing trend of military adventurism in Africa.
The leader of the Minority Caucus, Kingsley Chinda, identified bad governance, inordinate ambitions and outright disconnect from the citizens as the root causes of military incursions into governance.
In a statement he signed, Chinda cautioned the African Union, AU, against the use of force.
According to Chinda: “It is extremely sad, deeply worrisome, and pathetically shameful that the continent, in the past few years, has witnessed a sudden rise in military coups in some countries, thereby rolling back the gains of the democratic struggles for the return to the civil rule of the late 1980s and 1990s.
“It is totally condemnable that in the past decade, military putschs have taken place in Sudan, Mali, Tunisia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger Republic and now Gabon. The fact that these countries are in the Western, Northern, and Central regions of…