Professor Vladimir Antwi-Danso, an international relations and security expert who doubles as the Dean of Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, has said, that Sierra Leone, Senegal and Chad are likely to witness a coup.
Africa in the last six decades has been one of the most coup-prone regions in the world.
According to the Colpus dataset, a new dataset of coup types and characteristics, the African continent out of 486 attempted or successful coups carried out around the world since 1950 , has suffered a total of 214, with 106 of them being successful more than any other in the world.
A few weeks ago, Africa saw another coup in Niger On 26 July 2023, a coup d’état occurred in the Republic of the Niger when the country’s presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, and presidential guard commander general Abdourahamane Tchiani proclaimed himself the leader of a new military junta, shortly after confirming the coup a success.
It was in the light of this that the Dean of Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College expressed a premonition with a signal for other parts of the African continent to follow and two weeks after this premonition Gabon was next in line.
Late Tuesday into Wednesday, 29-30 August, 11 soldiers in fatigues and a twelfth man in civilian clothes appeared on the screens of the national television channel Gabon 24.
This comes shortly after the provisional presidential election results were announced declaring Ali Bongo Ondimba the winner with 64.27% of the votes).
Prof Antwi Danso speaking exclusively on Oyerepa Breakfast Show Thursday, explained that he is not surprised with what’s currently happening especially in West Africa experiencing coups.
However, he disclosed that there are serious factors accounting for these happenings now which include Governance deficits, non-fulfilment of the entitlements of citizenship, frustrated masses, a state of insecurity and tribal issues surrounding most of these countries.
Surprisingly, he added that Senegal, Sierra Leone and Chad are likely to have this same turmoil as long as the masses are engulfed with many difficulties in the country.
“When you go to Chad, President’s Mahamat Idriss Deby, his own brother can overthrow him, you see he has made him an Ambassador with the fear that he might overthrow him one day and the same thing is likely to happen in Senegal and Sierra Leone,” he said.
He ended by urging African leaders to be careful with how they are practising democracy in Africa for the people are not seeing the true reflection of democracy on governance.
Source: Oyerepafmonline.com/ Nana Freduah Agyemang Derrick
