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‎There has been series of coup d'etat happening within Africa countries in the last couple of years, Democratic set up is been overthrown for military take over in some part of the West Africa subregion, the latest being Benin Republic which is still uncertain as ECOWAS(economic community of west African states) military troops are on standby to invade the country to quench the coup d'etat.
Countries that have succeeded in having such coup d'etat in recent times includes, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, niger Republic and a host of others.
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‎But here is my concern, some Africa countries have leaders that have remained in power longer than the stipulated constitutional tenure, so whenever their tenure is nearing expiration they will quickly amend the constitution for another extension of term while contesting as a  incumbent candidate again. In doing so, they use brute force to stifle and strangulate opposition parties and eventually they rig the elections and announce results in their interest. This is not to talk about how corrupt and unproductive some of these leaders have been.
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‎So the prevailing circumstance like this, will it be wise for the military to just sit back and watch without interfering so as to bring normalcy back to the sovereignty?
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I don't think military take over is good for any country, because the first thing that happens after a successful takeove by the military is the suspension of the constitution,  which is not good for any country and also slows the development of democracy,  which in my opinion is the best form of government.
It can be argued that most of the democratic elected government are very corrupt and some of them tends to amend to the constitution for a longer stay in power which is also bad for any country, but I don't think taking over government by the military is the best option,  so I think this is the duty of the legislative to stand firm and not allow the executive too much power, which is the primary reason of democracy. The legislative should be able to stop this amendment of constitution in order to favor the executive longer stay in power, but they are also corrupt and it makes it harder for them to take such stand. I think African have to realize that whatever they do, just keep taking the continent back and they have to take a stand to make it better for themselves.

If they choose to sit back and watch, they're not doing anything wrong constitutionally, but if they choose to fight and take power from Democratic hands for good reasons, then they're not doing anything wrong morally either. The thing is, this game of manipulation clearly has the hands of so many parties in it, both internally and externally. Why will a man want to keep retaining power over and over again like it's his birthright?. People act as if all the coup that has happened in the last 5 years are not justifiable. They're all happening because of the massive failure in the supposed democratic system. The ECOWAS knows this... World leaders as well knows this. But they go about preaching peace and a need to have a system of democratic government that hasn't benefited any west Africa country. They install their puppet with same agenda, and feed the people with lies that makes them become ignorant of the truth.

Identifying a propaganda these days doesn't require much research. It is visible in our very sight.
Personally, I doubt the impact of any military regime, but considering how shitty a few greedy individuals has painted democracy, I think there is a need for the military to take actions against them.

it is just very unfortunate that lately many African countries have seen several Military Coups taking place all because this so call politicians are refusing to do the necessities for their citizens, they will rather focus on rigging elections, manipulating the constitution, suppress free speech and arrest or intimidate their oppositions and such situations make ordinary citizens who only want the basic things to survive lose faith in democracy and it then give roomfor military to exploit because idealy military internvention should never be seen as a solution or option to governance because all it does is to bring instability and can even worsen the situation of a nation

All that the people want is change, which most of the people in democracy are not yielding to, they have been used to running a particular kind of leadership that stereotype them to a single pattern and this has not been helpful to the people, because corruption has been order of the day in politics and the military are appearing to be like robots, only obeying orders on what to do, at the cost of their lives, but the problem is this, will there truly be a change if the military are taking over the leadership.

The same way the military has the power to execute a couple d'etat, and in the process overthrow a sitting government, the citizens has equal power to kick against the policies and agenda of some selected leaders that they placed in position of authority through protest, and alternatively vote for a candidate they feel has what it takes to lead the nation to the right part.

The military never sits back when it comes to overthrowing a government. The only reason why it takes time before they eventually overthrow the government is because of how hard it is like, planning and effectively executing a smooth coup d'etat.  But the other issue is that coup in itself doesn't help any country. Most times, the people that carry out that coup only tries to enrich themselves knowing fully well that they have just a short duration of time to enjoy such privilege. The citizens are the ones that has the higher power but unfortunately, they don't have what it takes to execute the power they have.

The point is simple. The level of injustice and the applause given to social ills are unbearable and has reduced development to a fairy tale. But to think of it, when democracy started in most of these countries, it was not as bad as it has become. Likewise, when military was leading in time past, social ills was not so common as like today. With the level of social ills being applauded today, will military coup be the best thing?
Military coup is not without autocracy or tyranny. Will military coup understand development looking at how deteriorated the system already is

In a situation that  the leaders are dragging the country to a ditch, the job of the military is to protect the country and in such takeovers they are only protecting the country from a lot of damage, take for example Burkina Faso, the military takeover has seen it experience the highest form of development in just 3 years of leadership. most Africans leaders are only puppets to various god fathers from within and outside the country and they always end up very unproductive, a critical example is my country where a president won the election claiming it is his turn and has not done any productive thing for almost 3 years of being in power. Accountability is very hard for African leaders and they squander resources and even compromise judiciary proceedings.

The military do not stay in power forever, they only takeover, restore law and order and after a while transition the government back to democracy. Most African countries really need this coup to sit up, Nigeria included.

The military has there own different work and role in the country, they're not the ones who conduct or appoint personnel's to announce the person who have won the election, if you check all the decision bodies concerning the election you will only see non military person but however when the insecurity is giving a threat to the election holding that's when the military will rise to stop it so actually they are on the securing and protection of the country but is not for using there power on political matters, so actually they have nothing to say whether people are saying that a wrong person was giving the office instead of the right person.