We should encourage a similar task force for Gambia..............
-Laye
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Haruna Darbo<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanx Laye for sharing. Elections must not go ahead in Niger on the basis of
> an engineered constitution.
> I encourage Tandja to reflect. Haruna.
>
>
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> From: A Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wed, Aug 26, 2009 2:37 pm
> Subject: Fw: Zainab Bangura and Three Others To Engage Niger's Political
> Stake Holders
>
> http://standardtimespress.net/cgi-bin/artman/publish/printer_4162.shtml
>
> From Standard Times Press News Paper
>
> NEWS
> Zainab Bangura and Three Others To Engage Niger's Political Stake Holders
> By Pasco Temple
> Aug 26, 2009, 01:48
>
>
>
> Four Foreign Ministers from Sierra Leone, Benin, Burkina Faso and
> Nigeria have been charged with the responsibility of saving “a crisis
> situation, and prevent the “return of authoritarian rule and dark age
> in West Africa” by restoring Political Sanity in Niger.
>
> The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gave the
> responsibility to four West African Foreign Ministers including Sierra
> Leone’s Madam Zainab Hawa Bangura and three others from Nigeria,
> Benin, and Burkina Faso to intercede in the political crisis in Niger
> and restore political sanity in20the beleaguered west African Country
> Monday August 24th, during a close session of Foreign ministers of
> ECOWAS countries at the ECOWAS conference Center in Abuja.
>
> At a one day extra ordinary meeting of ECOWAS mediation and Security
> Council held in Abuja on Monday August 24,it was agreed by thirteen
> Foreign Ministers from Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Burkina
> Faso, Cote D Ivoire, Liberia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau Mali,
> Senegal, and Togo that a four man ad-hoc ministerial committee led by
> Nigeria and composed of Benin, Burkina Faso, and Sierra Leone
> immediately start work to restore dialogue and political common sense
> in Niger.
>
> The ad –hoc committee is mandated to work with all political
> stakeholders in Niger, including the National Council for Dialogue
> towards the restoration of dialogue and consensus which characterized
> the political environment before the current crisis, and report its
> findings to an already scheduled extra ordinary summit of Heads of
> State and Government scheduled for first week September. According to
> ECOWAS Commission President Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambers, the call for the
> extra ordinary summit followed the council’s expression of deep
> concern over violation of the 1999 consensual constitution of Niger
> and the 2001 ECOWAS supplementary protocol on Democracy and Good
> Governance.
>
> “Again, it has undermined the progress made in the consolidation of
> Democracy and the rule of law”. Earlier, in his opening remarks, the
>
> Chairman of ECOWAS mediation and Security Council Chief Ojo Madueke of
> Nigeria decried the situation in Niger and described it as a “defining
> moment for survival of hard earned democratic renewal for both Niger
> and the entire West African region. While reiterating the role of
> peace and stability for Socio –economic stability, Chief Madueke said
> the Parliament, the media, and civil society has a critical part to
> play in the consolidation of Democracy in the region.
>
>
>
> He therefore encouraged his colleagues Foreign Ministers “to stand up
> to the Niger Challenge with sincerity candour and respect to the
> various challenges faced by each member state, in order that democracy
> is safeguarded”. Adding “failure would mean a return to the “dark age”
> of authoritarianism and anarchy”. Other members of the Sierra Leone
> delegation include Sierra Leone’s permanent representative to ECOWAS
> H.E Henry O. Macauley and the Director of Africa Region, Foreign
> Affairs and International Cooperation Mr. Borbor Laggah.
>
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