Affixing Fragmented Nigeria

Human Disaster

The British Government has caused more human destruction in Nigeria than Hitler caused in Europe, the IRA caused in Northern Ireland and Melotovich caused in Bosnia and Kosovo combined.  Her first attack was the slave raids.  Unfortunately her attempts to enslave Nigerians intensified in the last two decades.  These efforts are taking different forms but with the same calamitous results.

Shortly after Nigerians fought to save Britain from the hands of Hitler, a war Britain contributed to cause, the British Government massacred innocent coal miners at Enugu, Eastern Nigeria.  Their crime was a strike for better salary.  British bombers bombed hospitals and churches in Biafra.  They destroyed villages.  The government has taken, and is taking more active and aggressive roles in destroying Nigeria today.  According to a BBC Radio representative in Nigeria, schools in Ogoni are battered and empty.  Ogoni is one of the oil producing sections in Nigeria controlled by SHELL BP.

Genuine West African Force

My opposition to the reestablishing the British or European West African Frontier Force in West Africa must not be misconstrued to mean that I am opposed to the organization of a genuine West African or even African Force.  A West African Force must be truly West African.  It must have a charter with a defined goal or goals.  No country outside West Africa shall participate in any of its activities, or have influence over its affairs.  No single member country shall contribute more than one third of its force.  There shall be War Council.  Its constitution shall resemble that of the security council of the United Nations in function, but not in numbers.  The Council shall have permanent and rotating membership.  Permanent members shall have veto powers.  But their veto can be overridden by four-fifth of West African Heads of States.  The Council may be five, but not more than seven.  Heads of states of the permanent members of the War Council shall take turns as the Command-In-Chief of the Force.  No one single country may command more than one arm of the Force at any given time, e.g. the army and Air Force.  Member states will determine the nucleus number, i.e. the size of the permanent body of service men and women for the Force.  The council of states will have the power to convert all or some of the service men of all member states into a single West Africa Force in times of crisis.  It shall have the power to request the OAU for assistance if the need arises and or appeal to the United Nations for assistance.  Its charter must prevent any former colonial master from rushing men or weapons to any independent African state for any reason.  The Council must approve any military purchase or sale of its members.

Any group of people in West Africa including the military with any grievance against the government can take the complaint to the council.  The council will have the right to look into any reports against any member state.  Its decisions can only be appealed to the OAU, or West African Court of Appeals, if one is established.  This is one way we can start to unscramble Africa.