NIGER COUP: ECOWAS SHOULD AVOID THE WAR-TRAP!
Member-nations of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) should avoid falling into the war-trap set by Western nations following the military overthrow of the civilian leadership in Niger Republic. The coup in Niger is a product of a long-running leadership deficiency in Africa. Western imperialism in Africa feasts largely on mass impoverishment and political destabilization.
African leaders should use the current political situation in Niger to reflect on their stewardship. Have they done well-enough for their citizens and for their Maker to praise them?
Widespread abject poverty does not constitute an antidote to mass resentment which constitutes the core basis for coups. I must add that Western powers are known to orchestrate military coups against African leaders that tilt towards favoring their citizens' natural and Constitutional right to comfort and happiness.
Instead of engaging the coup in resource-endowed but wretched Niger from the West's Afro-sensitive and manipulative moral perspective, West African leaders should use the mood of that country's masses as the basis to decide the best possible political solution. A people who are well-catered for do not celebrate the overthrow of the government that caters for them. Love does not breed hate. It does not produce resentment.
The coup leaders in Niger, as arrow-headed by General Abdourahamane Tchiani, should be encouraged to set-up a peaceful transition process that will end at handing power over to a civilian leadership that is morally and ideologically consistent with the right of the people of Niger to comfort and happiness.
Remember in our journey towards Africanocracy, the Europeans threatened war before, on or after the 2015 elections and failed it is not gain saying that the coup and planned attack on the country is as a result of heavy manipulation to achieve their failed aim to destabilize Nigeria the largest concentration of blacks in the world who accounts for 40% of the worlds human and material resources as a threat.
Are ECOWAS leaders aware that one in every three light-bulbs in France is lit by uranium extracted by French authorities from Niger, where over 90% of the population live without electricity supply?
General Tchiani has stopped the shipment of uranium to France. The military leader in Mali has taken the same decision. In Burkina-Faso, Captain Traore speaks of the need of African leaders to stop their subservience to Western imperialist pedagogy and caprices.
Other African leaders should wake up and look into the state of their respective countries and commence actions that will actually free their citizens from abject poverty and its life-souring social concomitants by asking for the return of all the funds meant for developing the countries of Africa but stolen and stashed in European, Asian and American banks. I urge ECOWAS leaders to support a political process that will free Nigerien masses from extreme economic impoverishment, instead of plotting to use force; as subtly instructed by Western powers, to dislodge the military government in the semi-desert West African country (Niger).
Few weeks ago, it was Mali followed by Burkina Faso, while we should take steps to avoid Africa spring the like of the Arab spring which saw many Arab countries falling away due to corruption, nepotism and disregard for the rule of law.
France has been robbing and raping Niger for a very long time. France laid the foundation for the anti-imperialist military coup in that country. It is either France reverses the damage it has done to Niger or the people of Niger rise up against France to terminate the rot without compromise to peace and national sovereignty.
We are supremely blessed.
