This latest Guinea coup just exposes the suicidal ignorance of the secession argument

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Once again, an African government has fallen and no doubt, the repercussions will spread to Nigeria 

[2] When Somalia’s government fell it became a haven for terrorists. Do you know that Boko Haram’s bomb makers were trained there originally 

[3] When Libya’s government fell, its armouries were raided by criminals. Many of those weapons ended up in Nigeria 

[4] When Samuel Doe was booted out of office, it is believed he stashed Liberia’s loot in Nigeria. Indeed, it is believed to have been one of the sore points between IBB and MKO Abiola 

[5] Whenever, an African government falls, Nigeria always bears the brunt. Be it refugees, arms or stolen loot, they all find their way into Nigeria somehow 

[6] Afghanistan has shown the European Union (EU) that it is toothless with a common foreign and defence policy. Apparently the EU could have secured Kabul airport with 5,000 troops and extended the evacuation for another month but alas, with disparate small states, it lacked the capacity to do so 

[7] When a region is made up of small so-called independent states, it lacks a central authority to impose order. Nigeria’s troops cannot march into Guinea to impose order when we do not have a Federal Republic of West Africa 

[8] If we are to tackle the unique challenges of the 21st and 22nd centuries such as climate change, clean energy, eliminating fundamentalism, mass producing consumer goods, expanding Internet access, etc, we need large, strong regional powers like China, India, The Republic of West Africa, the Federal Republic of Europe, etc 

[9] Our first step towards achieving this is to take on the primordialists with their petty and limited argument calling for mini statelets. Negative ideas like Biafra, Oduduwa Republic, Arewa Republic, Brexit, etc, have no place in a progressive society. As Samora Machel once said: “For the nation to grow, the tribe must die.”

[10] How I wish I could sit down with Kwame Nkrumah and thrash out a way to achieve this. He remains the biggest exponent of the Republic of West Africa to date