Israel After Nigerian Oil Resources: Analyst
Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, an editor of Pan-African News Wire
Mon May 12, 2014 7:32AM GMT
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To watch this interview with Abayomi Azikiwe over Press TV's Top Five
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Press TV has interviewed an editor of Pan-African News Wire, Abayomi
Azikiwe, to discuss the situation in Nigeria, nearly a month after
Boko Haram fighters abducted over 200 schoolgirls.
What follows is a rush transcript of that interview:
Press TV: Now, we already have expert teams from the United States,
Britain, and France on Nigerian soil and now, Israel is going to add a
whole other dimension to this. How do you interpret that?
Azikiwe: I think the state of Israel has no right nor any legitimacy
intervening in the internal affairs of the African continent. They
themselves cannot embark upon any type of genuine effort to relieve
the suffering of people in the northeastern section of Nigeria,
considering the fact that they themselves have colonized the people in
Palestine for decades. In fact, the Gaza Strip is the largest open-air
prison in the world.
Also, the African migrant population in Israel has been suffering over
the last several years from extreme racial discrimination. Some 80,000
people are there living under the conditions of racism and Zionism and
this is being done with the tacit, as well as overt support of the
United States. I think what is going on right now in Nigeria is an
effort on the part of the imperialist states and allies to further
deepen their intervention in this country. It’s an oil-rich nation. It
is strategically located and their concern is to exploit the oil in
Nigeria to an even a greater degree than they have been doing over the
last several decades.
Press TV: Well Mr. Azikiwe, looking at the actions of Boko Haram in
the name of “Islam,” one really has to question that who is benefiting
here, because what they are doing is against all tenants of Islam, is
not benefiting the Muslims in Africa or the Nigerians, so to speak.
So, who seems to benefit from Boko Haram?
Azikiwe: I think a number of elements, both externally as well as
internally within Nigeria, are benefiting from these actions that have
been carried out by the Boko Haram sect. First of all, there’s an
extreme amount of displeasure with the presidency of President
Goodluck Jonathan. There are many politicians in the north of Nigeria
as well as within the military structure of the country that have in
fact utilized the incapacity of the Jonathan administration to resolve
these internal security issues as a means of making a case for his
removal from office during the 2015 elections. Also, we have to
understand that the United States and its imperialist allies of
Washington are in a position right now to intervene militarily and in
terms of their own intelligence apparatus into the internal affairs of
Nigeria.
This, of course, will weaken Nigeria’s capacity for its own internal
security even further. We have seen this repeatedly throughout Africa
over the last several years with the intervention of the United States
Africa Command for example in Mali, in Sudan, has not strengthened the
capacity of these African states to stabilize themselves and deal with
their own internal problems and security. It has in fact weakened that
capacity and it has in fact provided a rationale for the United
States, France, Britain, and Israel to intervene militarily and in
terms of intelligence in the internal affairs of Africa.
So this is something that is not going to benefit the African masses
to any degree and it’s also significant to note that the situation in
Nigeria, although it is claimed to be the largest economy in Africa,
there still is widespread unemployment and poverty inside the country.
There have been strikes on the part of people in the medical fields,
education fields and the oil industry and the civil service, over the
last two years. So I think Nigeria is actually being set up by the
United States and its allies in order to justify a deeper military,
economic, as well as intelligence penetration of the structures within
this country.
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| Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of the Pan-African News Wire. |
Mon May 12, 2014 7:32AM GMT
presstv.ir
To watch this interview with Abayomi Azikiwe over Press TV's Top Five
world news program, just click on the website below:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/12/362318/israel-after-nigeria-oil-resources/
Press TV has interviewed an editor of Pan-African News Wire, Abayomi
Azikiwe, to discuss the situation in Nigeria, nearly a month after
Boko Haram fighters abducted over 200 schoolgirls.
What follows is a rush transcript of that interview:
Press TV: Now, we already have expert teams from the United States,
Britain, and France on Nigerian soil and now, Israel is going to add a
whole other dimension to this. How do you interpret that?
Azikiwe: I think the state of Israel has no right nor any legitimacy
intervening in the internal affairs of the African continent. They
themselves cannot embark upon any type of genuine effort to relieve
the suffering of people in the northeastern section of Nigeria,
considering the fact that they themselves have colonized the people in
Palestine for decades. In fact, the Gaza Strip is the largest open-air
prison in the world.
Also, the African migrant population in Israel has been suffering over
the last several years from extreme racial discrimination. Some 80,000
people are there living under the conditions of racism and Zionism and
this is being done with the tacit, as well as overt support of the
United States. I think what is going on right now in Nigeria is an
effort on the part of the imperialist states and allies to further
deepen their intervention in this country. It’s an oil-rich nation. It
is strategically located and their concern is to exploit the oil in
Nigeria to an even a greater degree than they have been doing over the
last several decades.
Press TV: Well Mr. Azikiwe, looking at the actions of Boko Haram in
the name of “Islam,” one really has to question that who is benefiting
here, because what they are doing is against all tenants of Islam, is
not benefiting the Muslims in Africa or the Nigerians, so to speak.
So, who seems to benefit from Boko Haram?
Azikiwe: I think a number of elements, both externally as well as
internally within Nigeria, are benefiting from these actions that have
been carried out by the Boko Haram sect. First of all, there’s an
extreme amount of displeasure with the presidency of President
Goodluck Jonathan. There are many politicians in the north of Nigeria
as well as within the military structure of the country that have in
fact utilized the incapacity of the Jonathan administration to resolve
these internal security issues as a means of making a case for his
removal from office during the 2015 elections. Also, we have to
understand that the United States and its imperialist allies of
Washington are in a position right now to intervene militarily and in
terms of their own intelligence apparatus into the internal affairs of
Nigeria.
This, of course, will weaken Nigeria’s capacity for its own internal
security even further. We have seen this repeatedly throughout Africa
over the last several years with the intervention of the United States
Africa Command for example in Mali, in Sudan, has not strengthened the
capacity of these African states to stabilize themselves and deal with
their own internal problems and security. It has in fact weakened that
capacity and it has in fact provided a rationale for the United
States, France, Britain, and Israel to intervene militarily and in
terms of intelligence in the internal affairs of Africa.
So this is something that is not going to benefit the African masses
to any degree and it’s also significant to note that the situation in
Nigeria, although it is claimed to be the largest economy in Africa,
there still is widespread unemployment and poverty inside the country.
There have been strikes on the part of people in the medical fields,
education fields and the oil industry and the civil service, over the
last two years. So I think Nigeria is actually being set up by the
United States and its allies in order to justify a deeper military,
economic, as well as intelligence penetration of the structures within
this country.
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