Thread by @DefenseNigeria

It is no hyperbole to say France will use every trick in the book to remain engaged in West Africa. Few weeks after pulling President Buhari by the side and offering Nigeria military assistance in the battle against insurgency during a COVID-19 Summit hosted by Macron in Paris

France offered Nigerian Navy support to secure the Gulf of Guniea. Soon after France Defence Attaché Nicolas Rambaud, visited the Nigerian Navy Hydrographic School.

"France has a very big interest in good bilateral cooperation between our two great nations." He said

.and of course the latest rhetoeic
France will not tolerate threats to Chad. To quote Macron verbatim

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France will not let anybody put into question or threaten today or tomorrow Chad's stability and integrity.

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We are dealing with a malicious colonial power

Macron said ties betwee France and West Africa had them bound. Until the region is rid of any vetsiges of France, stability in West Africa will remain a pipe dream. A country that keeps offering military support is a country that forsees conflict in the horizon

Contrast pre 2012 West Africa posy 2013 West Africa when Nigeria dropped the ball, giving France the opportunity to intervene in Mali. The the G5 Sahel alliance and headquatered it in Mali. This singlular act alone was proof Mali will never be the same again.

They paid $17 million in ransom to Boko Haram, and this was a chanced discovery. Make you wonder what lies beneath their clandestine covert operation in the region. They hijack and sabotage the ECOWAS Single Currency Project ECO, by forcing the Ivory Coast and other

..francophone states to peg the ECO on the CFA, knowing fully well Nigeria will never subscribe to it. A decade of preparation and millions of dollars spent down the drain. Just like that. GONE

Inaecurity has worsened in the Sahel. Mali close to being a failed state. A murderous campaign against English speaking Cameroonians glossed over.

Abachas death offered Nigeria the opportunity of a fresh start, a democratic future. The demise of Idris Derby was supposed

..to do the same for the people of Chad whose oil wealth has been squandered by a 32 year long autocratic regime. Instead pro democracy moves were promptly squashed, and in defiance to the African Union Emmanual Macron proclaimed :

"DEMOCRACY CAN WAIT" for the people of Chad

Eight consecutive coup d'etats in a 12 month span. Threw by violent overthrow. Insecurity in the region has quadrupled. Why? They need access to uranuim mines in Niger. $500 billion in annual colonial taxes from the poorest and least developed countries on the continent