The group described the insistence of Nigeria-led ECOWAS on adopting military action in resolving the political crisis in the Niger Republic as mindless.
In a statement issued on Monday, the United Action Front of Civil Society said the decision of the ECOWAS Extraordinary Meeting in Abuja on Thursday, August 10, 2023, to put the military on standby was unwholesome and portends potential threats to peace across West African region. "The decision of the ECOWAS Extraordinary meeting is thus coming across as pandering to the dubious agenda of interested forces outside ECOWAS. It would thus appear that the leadership of ECOWAS is largely unpersuaded by overwhelming consensus amongst well-meaning stakeholders in Nigeria and across the sub-region who have cautioned against turning the situation in the Niger Republic into a full-scale proxy war.
"ECOWAS can only ill-afford to be sensitive to the division within its rank and moreso that Burkina Faso and Mali that shared borders with the Niger Republic are currently under military rule with the proclamation of opposition to the continuing overbearing control of France.
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