₦airaland Forum

SSBN:
...........Part 3.

French nefarious and destabilizing actions against the interest of the Nigerian state continued.

In 2008 the U.S administration exprressed concern over reports of a multiple billion dollar arms procurement program with a certain Asian country. Their concern was more in relation to the level of investment the Nigerian government is placing on making this a secrete below the radar deal.

In a meeting with former U.S Ambasador then Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen Theophilus Y. Danjuma told the former American Ambassador to Nigeria, Howard Franklin Jeter that the Nigeria's acquisition of military hardware at the heat of its dispute with Cameron over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula were in response to the arming of Cameroon by France. He cited a series of Inteligence report by the NIA citing the shipment and delivery of an undisclosed number of MILAN -3 anti tank guided missiles . To mask the origin the shipment was made via an Iranian container ship to the Gambia, an ECOWAS member state with allegiance to Paris.

The MILAN -3 is a French made anti tank guided missile. It has a tandem shaped high explosive warhead and an extended range of 3,000 m. It should be noted than the Cameroonian army have no amoured division or tanks. For all practical purposes it was clear these weapons were acquired to negate Nigeria's armoured tank brigades from standoff distances. The Nigerian army had no defence against such weapons.

" The decades long dictatorial regime of Cameroon" he quiped...."will be capable of wiping out Nigerian tanks from standoff distances, " are we not of the right to self defense"

"The Nigerian Army is not and has never been a threat to its neighbours, on the contrary its been a force for peace and stability in the region. Our boys fought side by side with your marines in Somalia"

"If the French Republic sees the Nigerian State as a behemoth to be cut to size and employs her vassals in the region to do her bidden then the Nigerian government will take steps necessary to hold French assets at risk. We will acquire long range standoff long range ballistic weapons technology to put French ships at risk. We will build a National Space Research system to protect our homeland Mr Jeter."


In the world of diplomacy words can carry political and diplomat consequences. Within months the Defense Minister resigned (was relieved ). The North Korean Ballistic Missile Technology Transfer deal was DEAD before it even began and the Nigerian State was marked for destruction by the year 2015, and the CIA was contracted to carry out the "balkanization" of one of Africa's most powerful countries and in August 2009 the United States officially warned Nigeria over nuclear and ballistic missile technology.

Abuja's response was nothing short if cowardice. According to the President's spokesman

"nothing was written in stone" and that any North Korean missile help would be used for "peacekeeping" and to protect its territory and helps Nigeria's Space ambitions. It said it was not seeking nuclear technology or any other weapons of mass destruction.

In a feat of high octane hyperboly the international media ran stories of Nigerian having a nuclear weapons program with a pariah state, citing several high level meetings between Nigeria's Vice President Atiku Abubakar and North Korean official in Abuja as proof. I'm an attempt at appeasement Nigeria's Vice President denied the charges. All planned weapons procurement and upgrades by the Nigerian military was shelved - A mistake the Nigerian government will pay for in blood. A year after the CIA predicted a Nigeria break up in 2015 the most populous black nation the world has ever seen will be fighting for her very own survival.

In defiance of the United States, cash strapped Pakistan offered to share nuclear and ballistic missile know how with Nigeria. The offer was announced by the Nigerian defence ministry in a statement saying that General Muhammad Aziz Khan, chairman of Pakistan's joint chiefs of staff, had made the offer to the Nigerian defence minister, Rabiu Kwankwaso, during a visit to Nigeria.

Speaking at the opening of the discussions, the then Pakistani chairman of joint chiefs of staff ... said that his country is working out the dynamics of how they can assist Nigeria's armed forces to strengthen its military capability and to acquire nuclear power.

The careless announcement provoked consternation in Washington, coming just a month after the mastermind behind Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan, admitted publicly that he had run a black market in nuclear weapons materials.

U.S officials were troubled by Nigeria's persistent intentions, nearly five years after the country restored civilian rule, and at a time when it is " under no threat from its neighbours". Just months earlier Nigeria's vice president's announced that it had struck an agreement with North Korea to gain access to Pyongyang's missile technology. The offer was subsequently played down by a spokeswoman to Nigeria's president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

The French government was furious at these persistent developments. As one French diplomat aptly puts it

"If the Nigerians go through with this purchase, they will have earned the unenviable distinction as the first sub-Saharan African state to introduce ballistic-missile technology to the region. They will become the initiator of a supremely wasteful and potentially deadly arms race," Paris questioned Nigeria's motives which it has alwayed viewed with suspicion.




......to be continued.


Wow..this is really intriguing ; it will never be well with NATO

AnonyNymous:
Died fake. . .

adem30:
Yet thousands of your brothers and sisters troop out daily to board the available buses to your claimed backward state to survive. Keep on yor chest beating. even your Governors always runs here to survive. Just show me how many ex governors from southwest resides in your region

beamtopola:
U do not make sense, let keep it the way it is.
State by state. I believed most of you belong to state that does not have any resources, may be that's why you want to alienate your state with mine to tap from my glory. Leave it, go and invest in agriculture!

beamtopola:
U do not make sense, let keep it the way it is.
State by state. I believed most of you belong to state that does not have any resources, may be that's why you want to alienate your state with mine to tap from my glory. Leave it, go and invest in agriculture!

omoharry:
community? how will that work..is that not the same thing as the local govt? how will this community be form to be a component part of the govt if not through their local govt? or are you saying the local govt should be redefined? family by family is way too complex..