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Bernard Allotey Jacobs has kicked against President Nana Addo sending Ghanaian troops to join ECOWAS military intervention in Niger after a military junta took over the country in July this year.

Niger's coup d'état has become a serious matter of concern to ECOWAS and countries in West Africa including Ghana.

Leaders of ECOWAS, days ago, agreed to a "standby" military deployment to Niger as they call for reinstatement of their President.

Allotey Jacobs, commenting on the ECOWAS military intervention, asked President Nana Addo to exercise restraint in involving Ghanaian military personnel.

Speaking on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' show, he agreed to calls on the President to resort to the use of dialogue to settle the Niger conflict.

"We've had the (coup) experience and that experience should guide us in all decisions. Even if it's peacekeeping that we are going for, we should know that we are going by the rules and regulations or laws governing the United Nations, thus every nation has appended their signature and that when you are called upon to send, then you send (the troops)," he said while reminiscing on the coup d'états that have characterized Ghana.

"I will plead with President Nana Akufo-Addo that he should dialogue with leadership of this country," he insisted.