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President-Jonathan-armyPresident Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Bissau, Guinea- Bissau, warned that the global community was no longer inclined to tolerate a role in governance by the military in Africa and other parts of the world.

Addressing a special session of the National Peoples’s Assembly yesterday during his visit to Guinea-Bissau, Jonathan called on the country’s armed forces to embrace total respect for democracy and constitutionalism in the interest of their nation. “It is no longer fashionable today to see the military parading themselves as the custodians of political power.

Rather, it is fashionable for the military to embrace the protection, preservation and total respect for constitutional order and democracy in order to build a prosperous and an egalitarian society”, Jonathan said at the session which was also attended by

members of the diplomatic corps and representatives of civil society organisations.

Jonathan said that he was in Bissau to show solidarity to the government and people of Guinea Bissau as part of efforts to ensure lasting peace and stability on the African continent.

He seized the opportunity to re-state Nigeria’s condemnation of recent attacks on the Nigerian Embassy and Nigerian nationals in Guinea Bissau. Jonathan said, “mischief makers in the country should be discouraged from inciting the public against brotherly Nigerians and Africans.” Jonathan called on the authorities of Guinea-Bissau to bring the perpetrators of the criminal attacks to justice.

The president said that the objective of his visit was to identify with the aspiration to transform Guinea Bissau to the status of a stable and democratic society that would guarantee peace and stable democratic governance, which is a fundamental pre-requisite for meaningful economic development.

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