(Voice of Paul) – “If we are not careful, the colonists would come back as businessmen.” Those were the words of several Pan-African leaders some decades ago. Today, the colonist are actually on our soil, drilling our oil, selling cars to us, teaching us their language and their culture. Total Energies, Shell, Chevron, Ford, and Range Rover are a few of the colonists represented as businesses on our soil for years, milking us dry. The military personnel in Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali had already seen the rot in their so-called democratically-elected leaders and they did the needful. They dared and rescued their countries from the claws of the Western puppets who called themselves leaders.
France was one of the countries caught red-handed in Niger mining the country’s Uranium and selling it to itself for 0.08 Euros per kilogram, while the item is sold for 200 Euros per kilogram in the international market. France has no Uranium mining site on its territory but the country generates 75% of its electricity from Uranium. The Uranium story is one of thousands of economic colonialism that Western countries are plaguing our continents with. For the military personnel who overthrew the corruption-ridden governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, they did so in the general interest of their citizens. It was a long overdue action, even though it resulted in ECOWAS president placing economic sanctions on the countries.
Hearing the news that the Nigerian President had lifted the economic sanctions placed on these countries can be likened to campaign after election, it is too late and the scales are off! The three countries have seen the hypocrisy of the Western governments with their hypocritical approach to fending off terrorists – the terrorists that the Western governments planted, armed, and funded. Nigeria still ruled by a godfather of corruption would rather continue to do the bidding of the Western countries that support Western-centric, neo-colonialism, and economic colonialism of the world’s most populous African country.