DOES A MEMBER STATE LOSE OR SHAR HER SOVEREIGNTY BY JOINING ECOWAS?

The Gambian Election of 1st December 2017, has brought to light interesting constitutional issues hedging on the SOVEREIGNTY of Member States and their relationships and adherence to the TREATY PROVISION OF NON-INTERVENTION.
By virtue of being a Member State, does that State LOSE or SHARE her SOVEREIGNTY?


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The comment of the Research Fellow, Professor Charles Dokoba (Nigerian Institute of International Affairs) reply to the specific question posed by the interviewer of Network Africa - Channels TV:  "ECOWAS THREATENS TO INTERVENE MILITARILY If Jammeh does not hand over...by 19/1/17 - won't this be a violation of Gambia's SOVEREIGNTY...?

He claims - being part of the organisation, the state's sovereignty is "SHARED". "Sovereignty is no longer absolutely at ease, so GAMBIA'S sovereignty being a member of ECOWAS is a shared one". He then refers to ECOWAS Treaty on NON-AGGRESSION which by his explanations contradicts his posits even when he tries to refer to the cases of Liberia and Sierra Leone as precedents; and the NEW UN concept of "RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT"  which has little to do with the present impasse. IS ECOWAS CREEPING INTO WIDER AREAS NOT PROVIDED BY THE TREATY? This is something constitutional luminaries must begin to scrutinise! Because I do NOT agree that Sierra Leone, being a member of ECOWAS will lose her Sovereignty to ECOWAS (or THE AU or Commonwealth or even the UN) for any reason whatsoever.



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