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President Muhammadu Buhari has raised the alarm that the expulsion of foreign fighters in Libya, in consonance with a UN resolution, may worsen militancy and terrorism in West Africa, the Sahel and Lake Chad region.

Buhari raised the issue at the ECOWAS summit in Accra on Saturday.

He said it is important that fighters be disarmed first and insisted that the expulsion must be done in collaboration with with regional stakeholders.

Buhari has always linked the civil war in Libya to the emergence of insurgency in the Sahel region and his country.

”On the security situation in the region, our organisation must note with serious concern, the recent decision by the United Nations and its Resolution to expel all foreign fighters in Libya, without first, ensuring that they are disarmed and that neighbouring countries and the sub-regions were engaged, to put in place modalities for containing or managing the movement of these fighters.

”While this action was aimed at bringing about sustenance of peace in Libya, non-collaboration with regional stakeholders on this critical decision, has now created newer threats to peace, security and stability in the region,” he said.

He further maintained that this could lead to lack of coordinated management of huge humanitarian crisis across the Sahel, North, Central and West Africa, including the Lake Chad region.

He reiterated that these regions faced the clear possibility of instability with the invasion of the foreign fighters that were fully armed.

”It is imperative that ECOWAS leaders, at this Summit, decide how the UN-Sub-regional organisations partnerships should be reviewed to address the dangers that this UN Resolution poses to the region,” he said.

The statement by the Nigerian leader at the Summit also addressed the military takeover in Mali.

”While democracy continues to develop in our sub-region, recent events in Mali are sad reminders that vigilance remains a crucial imperative to protect people’s aspirations to freely choose the form of government they want.

”Pressures are needed to ensure that the transition process in Mali, which is half-way to its conclusion, is not aborted.

”A further slide in Mali could prove catastrophic to the sub-region, considering that about half of that country is unfortunately under the grip of terrorists.”

The Nigerian leader, therefore, appealed to the military leadership in Mali to understand the critical state of their country, which he described as being ”clearly under siege.”

While noting that the principal responsibility of the military must be to protect and guarantee the sovereignty of the West African country, the president cautioned them not to perpetuate acts that would facilitate the destabilisation and destruction of Mali.

”I urge our organization to remain engaged with all stakeholders in Mali through our astute Mediator, former President Goodluck Jonathan, who, I congratulate warmly, for his untiring efforts thus far.

”I encourage him to sustain these efforts to ensure that the transition is completed as scheduled,” he added.

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/06/20/buhari-panics-over-un-move-to-expel-libyan-foreign-fighters/

Buhari panic??

Highly impossicant

Lifeless statement

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Hardworking President

I tire for the brainless people we have in this country o! Must your hatred or bigotry for the president cloud your judgement?

We are still suffering the consequence of impotence of the AU by standing firm against the mess the EU and the US created in Libya by massively supplying arms to Libyan rebels all in the name toppling Gaddafi. And when he was toppled they didn't bother to disarm those war lords they created or mop up the arms they flooded Libya with.

The ECOWAS should not only talk, but walk the talk by ensuring the planned expulsion doesn't further destabilize the already fragile African security architecture

The cabals are scared the boko boys will destroy the north

Buhari is not that intelligent to know the implications of the UN withdrawing troops. I also don’t know what these people want, you are all clamoring for Africa taking charge of their affairs yet when Western organizations want to pull out of Africa we start begging.

Panic indeed

People like Buhari will panic, while presidents like late Idriss Déby will put his army on ready and confront the war from the frontline....


One thing this administration is dummy about is working towards solving problems.... They are very perfect at identifying the problems but making efforts to solving the problem is always a big tasks... Hence, they complain and point fingers....


Don't be surprised, Buhari will blame everyone but himself, if the insurgents finds it's way to Nigeria after the foreign troops are withdrawn. Instead of making efforts to restraining them from finding it's way to west Africa.

Femi adesina and Garba Shehu is doing a nice work...I can bet that it was onyema and Garba Shehu that made that statement and not that lifeless slowpoke

He is afraid that his boys may come for him the way they went for Shekau.

God bless you. Some people hatred for someone becloud their judgement, the fall of the gadafi led government led to the increase or influx of bandits/herdmen/terrorist in Nigeria/sahel region (more reason I don't like the Obama administration). Armed the alternate force to topple a government without a plan of collecting the armunitions back (or stabilising that country).

Saifullah01:
I tire for the brainless people we have in this country. Must your hatred or bigotry for the president cloud your judgement?

We are still suffering the consequence of impotence of the AU by standing firm against the mess the EU and the US created in Libya by massively supplying arms to Libyan rebels all in the name toppling Gaddafi. And when he was toppled they didn't bother to disarm those war lords they created or mop up the arms they flooded Libya with.

The ECOWAS should not only talk, but walk the talk by ensuring the planned expulsion doesn't further destabilize the already fragile African security architecture

The Nigerian leader, therefore, appealed to the military leadership in Mali to understand the critical state of their country, which he described as being ”clearly under siege.”

WHY THIS MAN NOR DEY REASON WELL LIKE THIS BAYI

F9 F9

OBALOLA55:
The Nigerian leader, therefore, appealed to the military leadership in Mali to understand the critical state of their country, which he described as being ”clearly under siege.”

WHY THIS MAN NOR DEY REASON WELL LIKE THIS BAYI

Don't be stupid.


All in the bid to gain liked and shares, many of you abandon your thinking faculty.

If Iswap could 'kill' Shekau after over 10 years, then perhaps we really should be worried,
Imagine 2 terror groups fighting for hours undisturbed!

Libya is not sharing any borders with Nigeria.

I don't know why you should always blame something on something instead of tackling it headlong.

Herders are slaughtering farmers in Benue state, it is blamed on Libyan fighters.

But you said they are your cousins and you must use national resources to aid their migration through a railway and tarred roads.

Keep confusing yourself.

Now it's panic, aint no shock again . From shock to panic. Las las na combo of both go keel u bastard. Wait for it, until then, collect.

Nice one

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yanabasee1:
People like Buhari will panic, while presidents like late Idriss Déby will put his army on ready and confront the war from the frontline....


One thing this administration is dummy about is working towards solving problems.... They are very perfect at identifying the problems but making efforts to solving the problem is always a big tasks... Hence, they complain and point fingers....


Don't be surprised, Buhari will blame everyone but himself, if the insurgents finds it's way to Nigeria after the foreign troops are withdrawn. Instead of making efforts to restraining them from finding it's way to west Africa.

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They can never think right. Prevention is better than cure. Your wish is that the West Africa battles one insurgency after another rather than caution the idiotic UN from acting stupid? Common man think!!!

Saifullah01:
I tire for the brainless people we have in this country o! Must your hatred or bigotry for the president cloud your judgement?

We are still suffering the consequence of impotence of the AU by standing firm against the mess the EU and the US created in Libya by massively supplying arms to Libyan rebels all in the name toppling Gaddafi. And when he was toppled they didn't bother to disarm those war lords they created or mop up the arms they flooded Libya with.

The ECOWAS should not only talk, but walk the talk by ensuring the planned expulsion doesn't further destabilize the already fragile African security architecture

Yanabasee1 this is the commonsense you should subscribe to.

AroleOduduwa2:
Buhari is not that intelligent to know the implications of the UN withdrawing troops. I also don’t know what these people want, you are all clamoring for Africa taking charge of their affairs yet when Western organizations want to pull out of Africa we start begging.

you have a very serious comprehension problem. Go and reread Buhari's Statement again (twice). FYI, The president is not talking about UN troop withdrawal but about the UN intention of expelling foreign fighters from Libya without first disarming them. This hate for Buhari will always cloud your judgement to think properly.

vedaxcool:
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They can never think right. Prevention is better than cure. Your wish is that the West Africa battles one insurgency after another rather than caution the idiotic UN from acting stupid? Common man think!!!

Why should we rely on UN? This what Ghana president said about African nations.... We cry like babies to seek for help, when we have what it takes to tackle and solve our problems ..


We have intelligence to cut the sponsoring of bandits and insurgents..... Until we build more intelligent units and detective departments and train officers in detecting crimes using Intelligence at hand..... we will always beg for solutions...

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yanabasee1:
Why should we rely on UN? This what Ghana president said about African nations.... We cry like babies to seek for help, when we have what it takes to tackle and solve our problems ..


We have intelligence to cut the sponsoring of bandits and insurgents..... Until we build more intelligent units and detective departments and train officers in detecting crimes using Intelligence at hand..... we will always beg for solutions...

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The problem is you don't even know what you are talking about. Opposition is not the synonym of madness, we should always constrain ourselves to commenting on what we know. You think security networks is like breaking groundnut and sugarcane?