Burkina Faso,Mali, and Niger turning their backs on ECOWAS

The West African bloc ECOWAS has warned that it risks disintegration and worsened insecurity after Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger formalized their breakaway union. It comes after the military leaders of the three countries said on Saturday that they were "irrevocably" turning their backs on the 15-member ECOWAS to form a confederation of their own. David Monda, political science professor at City University in New York, tells Africa News Tonight Host Yeheyes Wuhib, the move is nothing but an assertion of their efforts to consolidate their illegal ascension to power through military means and basically using it to negotiate diplomatically with ECOWAS.