News:
November 29, 2019
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament’s, Committee on Peace, Security and Political Affairs would meet today Friday 29th of November 2019 to look into Guinea’s country report that was not adopted at the plenary and referred to it.
Presentation of country reports at the Second Ordinary Session underway in Abuja Nigeria officially ended today Friday 29th of November 2019.
Third Deputy Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament, Prince Yomie Johnson referred Guinea’s report to the committee to look into when lawmakers were not satisfied with the political situation in that country, more especially on whether the President would amend the constitution to stay in office.
According to Yomine Johnson, the committee would meet today to deliberate on details of the country report.
He noted in an interview that the Guinea delegation, a lot of them would not want to say the truth at the plenary with the fear that action would be taken against them when they return home.
Mr. Johnson revealed that a similar thing happened during the tenure of former President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, delegations from that country when they came to the floor of ECOWAS Parliament were praising him.
“Jammeh was jailing journalists, people were disappearing, there was bad governance but they were here praising him in their country report, and said positive things about him, when he finally got kicked off, the same people sang differently”.
African leaders most of the time they are imperialist, and people don’t want to say the truth about them at foreign conference like this because when they get back home it becomes a problem for them, he lamented.
“I was the one presiding when the Guinea country report was presented and I said we could not go into details on the matter, we have to go into committee meeting on this issue”.
As to whether the committee would visit the Republic of Guinea for verification, he said it would depend on what the committee would come up with.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com/Abuja