The Dean of the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College (GAFCSC), Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso, has wondered what the leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will be going to do in Niger.
Building the premise to this question, the security expert said that while the leadership of ECOWAS intends to go into Niger to restore what it calls democracy, such a system of governance can only be defined by the citizens of that country.
He further wondered how ECOWAS can fight a war in a country like Niger when it is obvious it does not know the terrain better than the local soldiers.
“In the first place, I doubt if ECOWAS has what it takes to go to Niger. I doubt if it will, and if they do right now, the consequences will be dire. They’re going to fight a war in a terrain which they are unfamiliar with, number one.
“Number 2, they are going to bring a kind of civil war within Niger. Number three, the point is they want to restore, so-called, democracy. Are they coming to take another kind of democracy from here to go and give to the Nigerien people? Democracy is not imported. It is the people within a country that bring about their democracy,” he explained.
Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso said this in a yet-to-be-aired interview with Etsey Atisu on the Lowdown on GhanaWeb TV.
Source: ghanaweb.com
