News:
December 7, 2025
Chairman of the Committee on Political Affairs, Peace, Security and African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe Jr. has sent a strong message to the embattled president of Guinea Bissau, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo about his role as the APRM Chairman.
Senator Snowe Jr. revealed at the plenary that some colleagues have developed the penchant of recording conversations and sending them to President Embalo about he (Snowe Jr.) speaking against him, and the former president has gone ahead calling past and present presidents of Liberia to report him.
But he sent this message to President Embalo saying; “Let Embalo know, I came here and was sworn in; I took an oath to protect the Community”.
The Chairman of the APRM who was speaking after the presentation of the state of the Community report presented by the President of the ECOWAS Commission Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, asserted that if ECOWAS as an institution had paid attention to the early warning signs that were on the walls, they could have averted the political situation in Guinea Bissau.
“But the sub-regional bloc failed the test of the early warning signs; Embalo dissolved parliament and expelled ECOWAS and EU officials; Authority of Heads of States and Government even crown him as chair of the sub-regional bloc.
“We are facing a situation where Mr. Sissoco Embalo was defeated in an election but the ECOWAS citizens in his country are suffering for this.”
He further disclosed that one of their colleagues (MP) from Guinea Bissau who was on his way to attend the Second Ordinary Session 2025 in Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria was arrested at the airport all because he is an opposition member of Parliament; and when the roll call was done he was marked absent because of this development.
Senator Snowe Jr. was very candid and pointed out that until the Authority of Heads of States and Government of the sub-region locate Embalo and put pressure on him, the problem of Guinea Bissau will not be resolved as he is remotely controlling things despite being out of the Country.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com