Human rights lawyer and social critic, Dele Farotimi, has strongly criticised recent reports of United States military strikes on ISIS-linked targets in Nigeria, describing the action as a violation of the country’s sovereignty and a reflection of leadership failure.
Farotimi made his views known in a post on his Facebook
page, where he reacted to reports of U.S. involvement in military operations
against terrorist elements in Nigeria’s North-West.
According to him, Nigeria’s sovereignty has been repeatedly
undermined by its own leaders, whom he accused of lacking the will and
authority to independently safeguard the nation’s territorial integrity.
Drawing parallels with past regional interventions, Farotimi
recalled an earlier incident in which France, under President Emmanuel Macron,
allegedly influenced Nigeria to conduct military action in neighbouring Benin
Republic.
“Macron sent a now-disgraced Nigeria to bomb coupists in
sovereign Benin,” he wrote, alleging that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT),
acting without legislative backing, subordinated Nigeria’s sovereignty to
foreign interests.
Farotimi argued that the reported U.S. strikes under
President Donald Trump represent a continuation of this trend, asserting that
Trump is “peeing over Nigeria’s sovereignty,” while benefiting from what he
described as the complicity of Nigeria’s ruling elite.
He suggested that foreign powers are emboldened to act
unilaterally because Nigeria’s leadership has failed to assert national
independence or demand accountability in matters of security and foreign
military involvement.
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