Annkio Briggs blasts U.S. govt over fake foreign aids

The Convener of the Niger Delta Self-Determination Movement (NDSDM), Ms. Annkio Briggs has berated the President Donald Trump-led United States government over threats to withdraw its $1.5 billion aid to Nigeria.

Annkio Briggs, who made the remark in a memo made available to ElombahNews while reacting to a report, said the foreign aids are fraudulent.

According to the report, a former United States National Security Adviser, Mr. John Bolton said President Trump once argued that the $1.5 billion aid given to Nigeria annually should be stopped.

, while funding for military operations in Afghanistan and Syria should be cut.

Mr. Bolton reportedly stated this in his highly anticipated book titled, ‘In the Room Where It Happened’.

Bolton, who left Trump’s administration last year, said President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed that Nigeria was receiving a lot of money from the US annually.

Trump, however, lamented that despite all the money Nigeria was receiving from the US, Nigeria was still refusing to buy American agricultural produce.

He wrote: “‘Trump asked, Why are we in Africa?’

“He soon made it clear he wanted out of Africa altogether, expounding for some time on our $22 trillion national debt, followed by the problems of our balance-of-trade deficits, followed by complaining, again, about how Nigeria received $1.5bn annually in foreign aid, as he said the President of Nigeria had confirmed to him in an earlier visit, even though they wouldn’t buy US farm products.”

Reacting, Annkio Briggs stressed that any Country, or Agency giving aid to Nigeria is just as greedy and corrupt as Nigeria.

She noted that the Nigerian government loots, steals and rips off the oil and gas producing states and the people she claims to govern.

In the treatise titled “Nigeria is rich, stop telling us we are poor“, Annkio Briggs wrote:

It is clear that the Federal Government stand by and watch as a religious and ethnic cleansing war is wagged against Christians.

The Christians are displaced, murdered, slaughtered in the aim to drive them away from their ancestral homelands.

The states targeted are known as the stable food producing states and communities.

The food grown in the states attacked and the crops destroyed every year since 2015 are meant for the Middle Belt region claimed into the Northern part if Nigeria.

In reality the attacks are carried out by Fulani herdsmen, and Boko Haram.

The Southern part of Nigeria faces starvation, as the Ethnic Nationalities are denied the rights go back to their ancestral homeland and denied their basic human right to feed themselves, their families and to engage in their local source of income- farming.

The United Nations, European Union, USA, and World Bank and the UK are the culprit in this centuries old creation.

Across the world they forced their government on a people who existed before the British Empire arrived, in the case of the ‘Lugard made Nigeria’ .

While quick to accept the Fulani and terrorist created refugees is very slow in tackling, the true fact is that Ethnic Nationalities that have been displaced are the original owners of the land/.

The Fulani displacing them are not indigenous to ANY part of Nigeria therefore the Fulani are immigrants to the Nigeria Lugard created for the growth of the British Empire.

The claim from countries that knowingly hold the stolen monies of the oil and gas producing states claim to return what they have found or traced to a particular man recently, the late Abacha, it is hypocritical.

‘We The People’ of the Niger Delta and All The Indigenous Peoples of What Lugard named Nigeria while disregarding and disrespecting our identities as he met us is the result of the injustice Africans have endured for centuries.

Across the world today and in Nigeria we do not see your democracy; we see your refusal to accept the wrongs you did to the African continent and her people.

Some Africans are no longer fooled. NDSDM is not fooled, we see the lies and deceit, we see justice and we see right and wrong.

Nigeria is rich in human capacity and natural resources.

Many so-called developed Western Nations, UN, EU, USA, UK World Bank, AID Orgs, WHO and other Agencies, while we in NDSDM do not desire to make us see you as our helpers, we take this opportunity to inform you, not only that we are rich, but we know our ancestors were stolen and kidnapped to be sold as slaves to work your plantations and build your nations .

We are aware (unlike our present day corrupt men and women) you use us against us to hold us down.

We know you use our the money from our resources to buy some heartless and shameless men and women of Africa (we say some, not all of us are for sale).

Just as the Niger Delta people of yesterday our ancestors had no business with poverty and ignorance.

You met indigenous peoples who trusted your ancestors, when our ancestors saw the true colors of your ancestors they resisted, the facts are in history books and records.

It is in our view a thing of offence for any nation to claim to offer Nigeria aid or loan for any reason, it is more of a shame for the Federal Government to collect such on our behalf.

It is weak and we do our great people a disservice if the NDSDM keep quiet on any loan, aid, and partnership on our behalf if we do not say No when we must say NO.

International Extracting, Exploring and Exploiting companies take our natural resources and proceed to tell us the quantity they take and the Corrupt Federal Government accept the figures without checking as long as they individually get their ‘cut’.

The International Extracting, Exploring and Exploiting companies tell us how much our natural resources are worth and how much they will pay for what they take from us.

OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT!

The world have a long way to go, but the world won’t get to where it is going without Africans in Africa or Africans across the world.

Black and justice is the new reality.

Africa does not need aid.

Africa is rich.

Stop telling us to be grateful for what you stole from us.

[Annkio Briggs is an ardent and fervent defender of human and environmental rights in Nigeria, especially the Niger Delta region.]