Niger coup: Residents in Niamey denounce ECOWAS' involvement
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00:00 West African nations may have announced the deployment of a standby force of possible
00:05 armed intervention to restore Niger's democracy.
00:08 But here in the streets of Niamey, residents denounce the bloc's involvement, saying its
00:13 intervention is uninvited.
00:18 We must call this intervention what it is, an aggression against our people.
00:23 No ECOWAS text authorises heads of state to decide to send troops into a member country
00:28 for any reason whatsoever.
00:34 ECOWAS needs to understand what the people of the various member countries expect of
00:38 it.
00:40 What is expected of ECOWAS is to attack the causes of coup d'etat, not the consequences.
00:50 Before the announcement, envoys of ECOWAS president and Nigerian head of state Bola
00:54 Tenubu held talks with the Jansa leaders on Wednesday, raising hopes a dialogue would
00:59 form.
01:00 And in Nigeria's Lagos, it seems Niger's southern neighbours are calling for peace through further
01:06 negotiations.
01:07 It should be by dialogue.
01:08 They come to the roundtable and talk.
01:09 Because of the human resources there, we don't want anything to happen.
01:10 Nigeria and Niger, we are brothers and we share the same border.
01:11 Nigeria should not waste its resources in going to fight in the war.
01:12 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:13 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:14 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:15 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:16 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:17 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:18 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:19 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:26 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:27 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:28 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:29 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:30 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:31 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:32 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:33 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:34 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:35 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:36 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:37 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:38 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:39 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.
01:40 We should not waste our resources in fighting in the war.