Guineans In Lagos Seek Exit Of Camara Regime

Guineans in Lagos have called on the international community to intervene in the military dictatorship in their country and sack the government  of captain Dadis Camara.

The Guineans, who stormed the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) office in Lagos, Tuesday, in their hundreds also accused Captain Camara of masterminding the killings of 158 Guineans at the stadium during which several women were raped last month.

Some of their placards read “stop the military regime in Guinea”, “Yar’Adua, the Guinean people need your help, we need justice to prevail” and “Freedom for all Guineans”, among others. Some of the placards were written in French.

Two Guineans were seen carrying a mock coffin of Captain Camara, while many  of them wished him dead because of the travails he had made the people to go through.

Mohammed Ba, one of the protesters said: “we don’t want military regime in Guinea. ECOWAS please help us. We are protecting because our president is killing innocent people”.

Others who spoke to The Tide supported the call for Captain Camara to quit.

“This president must go”, said Jalloh Yinusa, “in one year, he has killed a lot of people in Guinea. We are suffering, we need a new government, we don’t want military and soldiers again but we want a leader chosen by the Guineans”.

Mariam Bari was very bitter in calling for the sac of Camara from office, saying that, “he is a criminal, he should go, we don’t like him”.