A former minister of aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode blames “international criminal cartels, foreign governments and intelligence agencies” for the terror attacks being witnessed in Nigeria that have seen thousands including school children forcefully taken from their homes to deep forests.
Fani-Kayode said on Sunday that the West is the “hidden hand” behind Nigeria’s numerous travails, accusing it of a long-term conspiracy to “literally end our nation” because they feel threatened that Nigeria’s growth would signal an end to their imperialist agenda.
Without physical facts or proofs, Kayode stated that, “There are two reasons for the mass abductions and kidnappings that we are witnessing in our country today. Firstly, to garner cash which is then sent abroad to buy more arms and fund terror and secondly, to destabilise our country and to discredit and undermine the credibility of our President and the Federal Government.”
In his opinion, Kayode continued, “Nigeria has been targeted for destruction, division and disintegration by those that see us as a threat to their regional hegemony, strategic national interests and imperialist aspirations but most of us still don’t get it and perhaps never will.”
“They do not want a strong, united, prosperous and regionally dominant Nigeria but would rather turn us into a pathetic and pitiful shadow of our former selves, a cowardly and quivering caricature of what we once were and a weak, divided, incredulous and headless pawn and set us up for self-destructive economic and military annihilation.”
“They know that a strong Nigeria, like a strong South Africa, would stand up to them in the arena of world politics and international affairs and ensure that our collective interests as Nigerians and Africans would be protected and they do not want this.”
“As a matter of fact for us to achieve that enviable status is not just their greatest fear but their worst nightmare. They ask themselves in their corporate boardrooms, presidential palaces, cabinet meetings and legislative chambers, who can stand up to a strong Nigeria?”
“They wonder where else they would get their free mineral resources and be in a position to manipulate and dictate to servile leaders if not Nigeria? And if Nigeria were to fail, fall and go the way they want us to who would stand and speak for Africa and the black man in the comity of nations?”
Fani-Kayode wants Nigerians to wake up from their slumber and fight back to save Nigeria.
“It is time that we confront the matter with an iron hand and fight back to save Nigeria,” he said.
“It is time for us to get off our knees, to throw away the begging bowl, to stop constantly seeking validation from those that do not wish us well, to stop blindly implementing their disastrous economic models which seek to impoverish and destroy our people, to uproot and reject their well-planted seeds of division and to stop tolerating their subversive activities.”
“Ask yourself, who funds the terrorists and bandits and where do they get their weapons from? They did it in Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria and so many other countries over the years and decades and now they are doing it here.”
“All this nonsense must stop and we must desist from refusing to acknowledge that we now have and indeed have always had a major problem which needs to be acknowledged and be solved.”
“None of these things happens by chance and what we are witnessing is a deep-seated and long-term conspiracy to end our nation as we know it and throw us into a state of fear, poverty, anomie, anarchy, fratricidal butchery and carnage. Worst of all is the fact that our so-called “best friends” and “allies” in the West and the international community are the ones behind it.”
“We need help and if we can get it from the Russians, the Chinese and even the Iranians in order to restore our peace, self-respect, freedom, dignity and prosperity we should do so.”
“Asking the West for help either in intelligence gathering, advice or covert military operations when it comes to the fight against the terrorists and insurgents in Nigeria is like asking the big bad wolf to save little Red Riding Hood. It cannot work because ultimately they are the hidden hand behind our numerous travails and they are the enemy.”
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