President Emmanuel Macron of
France says his country can not help Nigeria
and Africa solve the problem of insecurity but would intervene,
especially, in the fight against terrorism.
Speaking after bilateral talks
with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Tuesday, Macron said the bigger
responsibilty is that of African countries who should come together and find a
way to fighting terrorism.
“First of all I think the main
plan is an African plan and France is not the one to solve or fix African
situations,” he said.
“So what we want to do is that we
will intervene and maintain our presence in Africa and Sahel to fight against
terrorism especially in Mali and in the region. And we will stay as long as it
is requested by our friends, especially Mali, we discussed yesterday (Monday)
about this issue.
“But what is important to me is
how different African governments organize themselves to fight against
terrorism and get rid of these people and especially Jihadists. That’s why I do
accompany and do promote the G5/Sahel Initiatives and I think as far as we are
concerned, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon are very important to the fight
against Boko Haram.”
Macron said the pressure in
fighting terrorism has to be increased.
“Yesterday at G5/Sahel, we worked
very hard on the different operations to come and I think we have to increase
the operations and the pressure against these Jihadists,” he said.
“We can fix the situation in the
coming month and obviously France will remain present in France for as long as
they want it. But when I look at the past months, we have increased our
resource and delivered concrete results in north and west Mali with for me
positive outcomes.”
Marcon and Buhari signed
agreements for France to assist Nigeria with $475 million for projects in
Lagos, Kano and Ogun states.
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