A CIVIL society organisation, the Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM), has commended the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for its role in resolving the political impasse in The Gambia, by ensuring that former President Yahya Jammeh left office involuntarily.
The CPPM, in a press statement signed by its Executive Chairman, Mr. Nelson Ekujumi, also commended the Gambia people for their perseverance, despite the provocative comments and actions of the former dictator in his bid to hang on to power.
Ekujumi said: “As we rejoice with the people of The Gambia over the restoration of democracy and the aversion of a needless crisis that would have been generated by the crudity of former dictator, Yahya Jammeh, to cling on to power unconstitutionally and against decency and civilised conduct, may we admonish them to remain faithful to democracy as the only legitimate means of determining who rules them.
“We congratulate President Adama Barrow for his tenacity in keeping faith with the mandate of the Gambian people and urge him to repay all the sacrifices put in place to reclaim his mandate, both locally and internationally, by ensuring the delivery of dividends of democracy to the populace.
Ekujumi added: “We view this action of the ECOWAS, in restoring democracy to The Gambia by chasing out the expired despot Yahya Jammeh as highly commendable, a victory for democracy and an unambiguous message to other despots on the African continent that the time of reckoning for assaulting the people’s right to freely choose their leader, is over.”
He said the ECOWAS action in Gambia would be a wake-up call to the electorates in Africa to boldly take their destiny in their thumbs, to vote out despots who have mismanaged their economies and caused strife on the African continent.
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