France Supports Terrorism In Nigeria—-Bolaji Akinyemi

<p><em>France supports insecurity<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Professor Bolaji Akinyemi&comma; former Director General&comma; Nigerian Institute of International Affairs&comma; NIIA&comma; has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s presence at the just concluded Financing Africa Summit in France as wasted efforts&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The former Minister of External Affairs stated this on Arise TV programme on Thursday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He stated that President Buhari’s attendance was a function of ignorance&period; The president left Abuja Sunday for the summit which was hosted by President Emmanuel Macron of France&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The summit which attracted 19 of the 55 African heads of state&comma; the African Union Commission chairperson&comma; and leaders from European nations and organizations aimed to discuss &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;massive support package for Africa&comma;” an important prospect in the context of Covid-19&comma; the current debacle around unequal vaccine access&comma; and the much bigger challenge of equitable economic recovery&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to Mr Buhari’s spokesperson&comma; Garba Shehu&comma; the summit drew major stakeholders in the global finance institutions and some Heads of Government&comma; who collectively discussed external funding and debt treatment for Africa and private sector reforms&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;During the visit&comma; President Buhari met with the French President to discuss growing security threats in Sahel and Lake Chad region&comma; political relations&comma; economic ties&comma; climate change and partnership in buoying the health sector&comma; particularly in checking spread of Covid-19&comma; with more research and vaccines&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;President Buhari also received some key players in the oil and gas sector&comma; engineering and telecommunications&comma; European Council and European Union Representative for Foreign and Security Policy and Commission&comma; and members of the Nigerian community&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Specifically&comma; he met with the Total team led by its Chairman&comma; Patrick Pouyanne&comma; in Paris before returning to Nigeria on Thursday evening&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Buhari was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs&comma; Geoffrey Onyeama&semi; Minister of Finance&comma; Budget and National Planning&comma; Zainab Ahmed&semi; Minister of Trade and Investment&comma; Adeniyi Adebayo&comma; and Minister of Health&comma; Osagie Ehanire&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Also on the trip are the National Security Adviser&comma; Babagana Mohammed Monguno and the Director-General of National Intelligence Agency &lpar;NIA&rpar;&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nairametrics&period;com">Ahmed Abubakar&period;<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; Professor Akinyemi stated unequivocally that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am opposed to French involvement in Africa’s affairs&comma;” adding that it was mere waste of time and energy in view of his belief that Nigeria &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Will not get what she wants from France&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The professor of international relations stressed that France is partly responsible for the unending insecurity in Nigeria saying &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;French fingers are dripping in blood for supporting terrorism in Nigeria and Africa&period; We have evidences to support our claims including how they sponsor helicopters to supply arms and ammunition to terrorists&comma;” he stated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Akinyemi emphasized that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;French should limit their interests and investments to francophone countries&period; They don’t mean well for Nigeria and Buhari must have been ill advised to embark on that travel&comma;” he stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;