The military who executed a coup in Niger Republic has issued a stern warning to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) against sending troops to the country to force them to relinquish power to President Mohamed Bazoum.
The Niger
Republic military warned that should ECOWAS use military intervention, they are
also fully ready to defend their country.
Recall
that ECOWAS issued a 7-days-ultimatum to the coup plotters to reinstate
President Mohamed Bazoum as the democratically elected President of Niger
Republic or face stiffer sanctions.
The
directive was part of the communique read by the President of the ECOWAS
Commission, Omar Touray after the Extraordinary Session of the Authority of
Heads of State and Government of the ECOWAS, which held on Sunday at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja, Nigeria.
It also
tasked all Chiefs of Defense Staff of the member-states to proceed for an
emergency meeting to strategize on effective ways to implement a possible
military operation to restore constitutional order to the country.
Reacting
to the plan to use force by ECOWAS, General Abdourahmane Tchiani, also known as
Omar Tchiani, and the military leaders in Niger warned against any military
intervention in a statement read on Niger national television.
“The
objective of the ECOWAS meeting is to approve a plan of aggression against
Niger through an imminent military intervention in Niamey in collaboration with
other African countries that are non-members of ECOWAS, and certain Western
countries.
“We want
to once more remind ECOWAS or any other adventurer of our firm determination to
defend our homeland,” Aljazeera quoted the military spokesperson, Colonel
Amadou Abdramane, to have said.
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