ACF commends FG for ruling out foreign military bases in Nigeria

“We are an independent, sovereign African country in
uncompromising solidarity with all sister African, especially ECOWAS, states in
the struggle against all vestiges of the intolerable stranglehold of
colonialism and neo-colonialism, that have for far too long continued to hold
down Africa in conditions of underdevelopment.

“Enough is known about the experiences of countries like
Burkina Faso and Niger that have hosted foreign military bases for years. Such
bases have to date served only the interests of the advanced countries.
Wheresoever they are located, the foreign military outposts operate outside of
the control and in utter disregard for the national laws of their hosts,
respecting only their own convenient rules.

“For Nigeria, it is inescapable that whatever is unhelpful
and/or detrimental to the interests of African countries cannot be good for us,
due to shared destinies in unbroken historical, socio-cultural, economic and
political ties which predated and antedates the artificial balkanisation of our
societies by European colonial control,” the statement added.