Guinea’s interim president, Col. Mamadi Doumbouya has said recent coups in Africa are attempts by the militaries to save their countries from presidents’ “broken promises”.
Doumbouya during U.N. General Assembly in New York, on Thursday, also rebuffed the West for boxing in the continent of more than 1 billion people.

Doumbouya, who was sworn in as Guinea's interim president following the coup in 2021, told the gathering of world leaders that beyond condemning the coups, global leaders must also "look to and address the deep-rooted causes."

"The putschist is not only the person who takes up arms to overthrow a regime. I want us all to be well aware of the fact that the real putschists, the most numerous, are those who avoid any condemnation - they are those ... who cheat to manipulate the text of the constitution in order to stay in power eternally."

Guinea is one of several nations in West and Central Africa that have experienced eight coups since 2020, including two- Niger and Gabon in recent months.

The military takeovers, sometimes celebrated by citizens in those countries and condemned by international organizations and foreign countries, have raised concern about the stability of the continent, whose young population of at least 1.3 billion is set to double by 2050 and make up a quarter of the planet´s people.

Doumbouya accused some leaders in Africa of clinging to power by any means, often including amending the constitution - to the detriment of their people, Daily -Mail reports.

He said he led soldiers in Guinea to depose then-President Alpha Conde in the September 2021 coup to prevent the country from "slipping into complete chaos."

He said the situation was similar in other countries hit by coups and was a result of "broken promises, the lethargy of the people and leaders tampering with constitutions with the sole concern of remaining in power to the detriment of collective well-being."

Doumbouya also rebuffed attempts by the West and other developed countries to intervene in Africa´s political challenges, saying that Africans are "exhausted by the categorizations with which everyone wants to box us in."

"We Africans are insulted by the boxes, the categories which sometimes place us under the influence of the Americans, sometimes under that of the British, the French, the Chinese and the Turks," the Guinean leader said.

"Today, the African people are more awake than ever and more than ever determined to take their destiny into their own hands."

While the Guinean leader defended the coups in his country and elsewhere, concerns remain about the effectiveness of such military takeovers in addressing the challenges they said made them "intervene."

In Mali, where soldiers have been in power since 2020, the Islamic State group almost doubled the territory it controls in less than a year, according to U.N. experts.

And in Burkina Faso, which recorded two coups in 2020, economic growth slowed to 2.5% in 2022 after a robust 6.9% the year before.

“A government having forced itself into power in a similar way the putschist did in the Niger Republic, cannot be arrogating itself the honour to lead a puritan force against a sovereign nation.

The process leading to any electoral activity is a lot more important than its outcome.The processes that led to the 2023 general election were skewed, manipulated, and rigged.

A government that came into office through such illegal means does not have the moral justification to begin to query a similar process perpetrated outside the shores of this country. If the election is wantonly manipulated, a govt that emerged from such a process is similar to a military coup.

A coup is actually where people extend their limit beyond what is being provided by the constitution. When you rig yourself into election, it is also a coup..." The process or procedural sequence is being contested

"The putschist is not only the person who takes up arms to overthrow a regime. I want us all to be well aware of the fact that the real putschists, the most numerous, are those who avoid any condemnation - they are those ... who cheat to manipulate the text of the constitution in order to stay in power eternally."

"We Africans are insulted by the boxes, the categories which sometimes place us under the influence of the Americans, sometimes under that of the British, the French, the Chinese and the Turks.

Today, the African people are more awake than ever and more than ever determined to take their destiny into their own hands."

Racoon:

christejames:
Exactly...



Like democratic coup plotter which Tinubu is the henchman


Grab it!

MrBiGGEST:
At the end of the day,
They are all sit tight leaders

Michailveer:
This is Tinubu first time .If you are talking about sit tight African leaders then Uganda, Cameroon etc president

Raskimonojendor: