Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has come out to say that the cooperation of EU and the UK is needed to deter coups in West Africa.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the cooperation of the international community including other global, regional bodies and financial institutions will concretise the efforts against unconstitutional changes of government and deter coup plotters.

He added that there is a lot of attention being paid to coups d’etat going on and solutions will be provided.

His words, “There is a lot of attention being paid to coups d’etat going on, especially in the West African sub-region, I think it is important that we take a closer look at how to prevent and deter coups detat and adventurers of various kinds who want to take over governments by force.”

“One of the critical things which have been discussed at various ECOWAS meetings is how to cooperate with the rest of the world, bodies such as the UN, EU and some of the Development Finance Institutions to give our sanctions more teeth.”

“So, we think that if there is some cooperation at the multilateral level, we might be able to deter some of these coups. I think that it is an issue that we should engage even more on because it is troubling that one after the other, countries are experiencing coups detat.”