AFRICA STORIES: NIGERIAN PRESIDENT BUHARI WARNS OF NATO WEAPONS FALLING TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
A feeling of déjà vu has descended again in the Sahel region of Africa. For the second time in a row, there is a strong fear that NATO weapons intended for the neo-Nazi Banderite Ukrainian regime could end up being diverted to sub-Saharan Africa as happened in the aftermath of the Libyan Civil War.
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SIDE NOTE: During the NATO-induced Libyan War of 2011, Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama air-dropped loads of weapons to jihadi terrorists hailed as "pro-democracy freedom fighters" by the usual Western media propagandists.
As feared by many in the Sahel region, at the end of the Libyan war, those NATO weapons crossed parts of the Sahara Desert and jumped into the hands of jihadi terrorists in Mali and in Northeast Nigeria with disastrous consequences.
Prior to 2011, Boko Haram was a poorly armed, doddering terrorist group on the verge of being suppressed by the Nigerian Police. After the successful overthrow of Gaddafi in October 2011, streams of NATO weapons moved quickly from Southern Libya to Niger Republic and then on to Northeast Nigeria. That resulted in the overnight transformation of Boko Haram into a heavily armed military force requiring the intervention of Nigeria's federal army and airforce.
Some of the NATO weapons passed from Libyan Jihadists to Algerian terrorists controlled by Mokhtar Belmokhtar and from there it crossed the border and entered the Republic of Mali where it fuelled an Islamist insurgency, which compelled the government of Mali and Tuareg separatist rebels to suspend their conflict and band together in the fight against the al-Qaida intruders.
France, which had troops and military bases in the country, offered to help. It organized a multinational EU force that included troops of Germany's Bundeswehr. The French-led European Union intervention was a total disaster, which eventually led to Mali kicking out the entire multinational force. Russian Wagner Mercenaries took over the role of fighting the terrorists. Emmanuel Macron protested to Mali. The military regime running Mali responded by asking Macron to close all French military bases and remove all remaining French troops in the francophone country.
Had he been alive today, General Charles de Gaulle would be shocked and dismayed to observe the steady unravelling of the "La Francafrique" policy he had carefully devised in the late 1950s in preparation for the nominal independence about to be granted to French colonies in West and Central Africa.
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For months, Nigerian security services (SSS, DIA and NIA) have been submitting reports to the federal government of President Muhammadu Buhari about the diversion of NATO weapons intended for the flailing NATO puppet state of Ukraine to the international weapons black market and the possibility of these weapons showing up in Borno State in the far northeast of the country and seven other countries that share the Lake Chad Basin with Nigeria.
In his capacity as the Chairman of the Lake Chad Basin Comission, President Buhari informed leaders of seven other african countries about the danger of NATO weapons meant for Ukrainian Banderites finding their way to the Lake Chad region and other parts of the Sahel. The President updated the attending leaders on the work of the troops of Multinational Joint Task Force fighting Boko Haram/Islamic State terrorists operating in the Lake Chad region with NATO weapons donated by Libyan jihadists who are now preoccupied with their thriving slave-trading business. The Multinational Joint Task Force is a multinational military organisation comprising troops from Nigeria and all four countries that share a common border with it, namely: Benin Republic, Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic
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SIDE NOTE: A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF THE LAKE CHAD BASIN COMMISSION
The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), formed in 1964, consists of eight african countries that share access to the water resources of Lake Chad. The member nations of this inter-governmental organisation are Algeria, Libya, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Sudan and Nigeria.
For history buffs, during the reign of Caeser Augustus (a.k.a Octavius), Roman Empire troops, accompanied by Roman merchants, explored the areas around Lake Chad, which Claudius Ptolemy dubbed "The Lake of Hippopotamuses". These areas largely fall within the present-day borders of Nigeria.
So why were Romans poking around Lake Chad area in the 1st Century? Well, they were prospecting for gold, which was bound to unsuccessful as they were searching in the wrong place. The right place to search would have been in the areas around the Atlantic Coast in what eventually became the British Colony of The Gold Coast in 1821 (now the Republic of Ghana).
Surprisingly, the Romans did not seem to habour any intentions of conquering sub-Saharan African territories they had explored; an area which stretched from West Africa to East Africa, incorporates several modern nations including Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Gambia, Kenya, Tanzania.
The Roman apathy to conquest in search of gold was not shared by those Europeans, who several centuries later, would go on to conquer parts of Africa, parts of North America and South America in search of that shiny precious metal.
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The PUNCH, a daily newspaper with the second highest circulation in the Nigerian federation, has published a government report of the Lake Chad Basin Comission meeting prepared by Buhari's Special Assistant, Mr. Femi Adesina. It can be read here: https://punchng.com/russia-ukraine-war-weapons-coming-into-lake-chad-buhari/
First photo shows all 8 countries bordering Lake Chad Basin. Second photo shows troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force fighting Boko Haram
