Recently, we witnessed one of the most abominable acts of brutality, yet seen in West Africa, by one of the many blood-thirsty rulers in the region’s long list of such monsters – who emerge suddenly from time to time. During a demonstration by ordinary Guineans, totally fed up with the crazy antics of a bully in uniform, who has usurped power in their country (and is superintending the systematic brutalization of large numbers of Guinea’s citizens), over one hundred and fifty innocent citizens of our sister country were mowed down: victims of trigger-happy troops, drunk with power, who feel they are above the laws of Guinea. Those murdered citizens of Guinea, were doing nothing more than standing up to a man, who seems to forget, that no human being is perfect: and that of necessity, in the 21st century information age, there ought to be limitations placed on the powers of all rulers, worldwide.
The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), particularly Ghana’s leaders, ought to make it absolutely clear to Guinea’s military regime that its actions are unacceptable and cannot go unpunished. Ghana must demand that a full-scale inquiry be conducted by fearless and independent-minded judges selected from Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, into events surrounding those murders – and insist that all those found culpable down the Guinean military’s chain of command, must be indicted for crimes against humanity: and put before a new UN/ECOWAS Special Court for West Africa, which needs to be set up for just such emergencies, as soon as it is practicable to do so.
We must end the impunity of such crazy leaders in our sub-region. As a civilized people, Ghanaians particularly must never tolerate the brutalization of our fellow ECOWAS citizens, under any circumstances. Above all, our leaders must put aside diplomatic niceties whenever ordinary West Africans are being suppressed, maimed, and murdered in droves by any of the rulers in the region, whose ultimate responsibility is to protect and promote the well-being of all those they lead: not murder them for expressing their opposition to tyranny in the 21st century ICT age. Ghana must take the lead – and not leave it to another crafty military dictator successfully masquerading as an elected civilian democratic leader, to mediate in the Guinean crisis. We demand to hear the voices of our leaders, raised to decibel-levels sufficiently loud, for their disgust and disapproval to be heard right across Africa: in expression of their opposition to such barbarities. Ghana ought to lead ECOWAS in the condemnation of such atrocities. A word to the wise…
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