I was worried and depressed with the
fanfare with which President Muhammadu Buhari recently received a
42-member team from the United States, purportedly in our country to
support three priority areas – security, economy and governance – of the
Buhari administration.
The Barack Obama delegation was led by
Ms Samantha Power, the current U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN. I
hope we have not forgotten how the US used its former ambassador to
Nigeria, Ms Robin Renee Sanders to spy on this country during the days
of Yar’dua’s illness. As revealed by Wikileaks, Sanders was invited to
help by those around late Yar’Adua but she took advantage of the
opportunity to spy and was sending back vital information to her
country. Have we forgotten this experience so soon? Suddenly, the
Americans are again offering to help us with security, governance and
economy. Haba! The Americans have never genuinely helped any country
with security or any of these two other areas.
They have never and will never help any
country to attain development. When you open up to them as Buhari is
trying to do, they will only use the opportunity to spy on us and take
away anything of interest to them. It seems Buhari and his men have
forgotten about America’s hypocrisy. The fact that theDeputy Commander
of the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM), Vice Admiral Michael T. Franken
was on the team should send a clear message to us about their
intentions. I sincerely hope smart and genuine patriots around our
president will move swiftly to stop him from further exposing Nigeria to
the Americans. We have to abort this American spy mission.
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