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Aspiring National Organizer of the People’s National Convention (PNC) Abu Ramadan has described the statement issued by President John Mahama as Chairman of ECOWAS Heads of States and Government against the xenophobic attacks in South African as newspaper report.

In a statement issued on Thursday, 16th April, 2015, President Mahama described the attack as “barbaric, criminal and xenophobic”.

ECOWAS STATEMENT ON XENOPHOBIC ATTACK IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has condemned the barbaric, criminal and xenophobic murder of innocent African foreigners in South Africa, urging the South African Government to act quickly to stop the increasing wave of attacks across its country.

An ECOWAS statement signed by the Choir of the Authority, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana, also condemned the individual South Africans involved in the act.

The West African body described as a pity, the fact the very people, whose nations sacrificed to help South Africans fight, repel and defeat apartheid, will today be considered aliens and hacked to death in such barbaric manner.

“We welcome the statement of our brother, President Jacob Zuma, and his assurances of a peaceful resolution, but we request for an urgent national action plan, backed by a behavioral change campaign against xenophobia in South Africa,” the statement added.

Signed

H.E. John Dramani Mahama
Chair of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government

Commenting on the statement, Abu Ramadan said on Oman Fm’s National Agenda that President Mahama’s statement smacks of a newspaper write-up which does not carry the core message intended to foster a change in the South Africa xenophobia meted out to the African foreigners.

“Have you read the ECOWAS statement issued by President Mahama? Sometimes let’s stop this mediocrity which we display in the international world. When you read the statement from the chairman of ECOWAS Head of State, it is as if they are writing newspaper report; this is a newspaper report the President wrote,” he chided.