In June, a Sierra Leonean lawmaker laid bare the reality of the West Africa regional bloc Ecowas, by calling it out for the political upheaval being witnessed recently.
It was the first session of the long overdue Ecowas parliament. Ecowas Commission president Jean-Claude Kassi Brou had just concluded his keynote address on the state of the Community, and as expected of the 15-member states bloc, the report was dominated by political issues, from the disputed presidential elections in Benin and Niger, fraught with grievances from the losing sides, to Mali, which was reeling from the aftermath of a coup by a military that acted as saviours by putting an end to weeks of mass protests against a civilian regime that appeared to have all but lost legitimacy.
