By Christiana Ekpa
The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has described the rising spate of military coups in some African countries continues, as global condemnation, stating that yhe growing trend of military adventurism on the continent is worrisome
A statement issued by the Leader of the Minority Caucus, Rt. Hon. Kingsley Chinda, outrightly condemning the ugly developments, saying that “it is extremely sad, deeply worrisome, and pathetically shameful that the continent, in the past few years, has witnessed sudden rise in military coups in some countries thereby *rolling back the gains of the democratic struggles for the return to civil rule of the late 1980s and 1990s
“ It is totally condemnable that in the past one decade, military putsch has taken place in Sudan, Mali, Tunisia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger Republic and now Gabon. That these countries are in the Western, Northern, and Central regions of Africa, which represents more than half of the entire continent calls for serious concerns and debilitating worries.”
Chinda identifies bad governance, inordinate ambitions and outright disconnect from the citizens as the root causes of military incursions into governance, he added that, “confronted with the pains and miseries foisted by these sit-tight leaders on hapless citizens, who have been going through years and decades of bad governance, collosal economic hardship, serial social deprivation, deep-rooted poverty, deliberate intimidation and corrosive lack, military interventions of any guise will not only be welcomed but celebrated by citizens of these countries.
