"It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow; the evil is not sufficiently brought to their doors to make them feel the precariousness with which their property is possessed.'Thomas Paine I regard as unfortunate all that occurred in the North African State of Libya, and I declare illegal the present occupation of the once-free nation by rebel war lords backed by insidious neo-colonialist Western forces. This aforementioned statement represents my personal view and stance on the Libyan-crisis and the forceful eviction of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.I do not in any way support the tyrannical manner with which Gaddafi ruled his people; neither will I support the hideous attempt by the imperialist West to impinge on the Sovereignty of a State. The urgency with which Sarkozy, Cameron and Robert Gates went around with papers conducting secretarial duties for the United Nations was quite amazing also, and one could easily have forgotten that Libya was entrenched inside the African Continent. One cannot also ignore the expedient manner with which heavy arms and artilleries were moved into the African state; I had hope this expediency had been employed in the Darfur crisis that lingered for more than a decade and the current Kordofan crisis in South Sudan, maybe that region would have been calmer by now. But of course, there were no altruistic intentions in this invasion of Africa, and only the plundering of the oil reserves of Libya kept the Western forces going.One of the articles from the U.N. Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (14 Dec 1960) reads; "All States shall observe faithfully and strictly the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the present Declaration on the basis of equality, non-interference in the internal affairs of all States, and respect for the sovereign rights of all peoples and their territorial integrity." I really wonder where France missed out the part about 'non-interference in the internal affairs of all states' before it decided to sponsor a coup d'tat against a legitimate regime and the free people of Libya' The most devious form of tyrants always find ways to selectively interpret laid down laws to achieve their sinister aims, and justice can NEVER be truly dispensed with selective application of the law.Very much unlike Iraq and Afghanistan before it, Libya had a more stable socio-economic atmosphere and there was hardly any broken spot on hedge for the western serpent to creep in. Like a fox seeking to feast on a bird locked in a cage, the West kept circling Libya with keen preying eyes, watching, waiting for any opportunity to pounce on the richest oil state in Africa. One cannot help but hypothesise that the so-called Arab Revolution that began in Algeria last year was a carefully planned plot that was intended to end in the seizure of Libya! One cannot understand how the UN Resolution 1973 which sought to simply implement a 'no-fly zone' quickly turned into a 'regime change' campaign. Was NATO's involvement in this crisis not clearly defined from the onset as a neutral 'civilian-protection' operation and not a mercenary-styled, rebel-backing offence against the legitimate government of a sovereign state' The sovereignty of the Libyan state was never in contention, there was no call from any group seeking secession, but just an internal uprising from certain sections of the citizenry intoxicated with the adrenaline that shoots off from just watching the Egyptian, Yemeni and Syrian youths fight rowdily against their own governments.It is the duty of any responsible government to protect the citizens from external and internal aggression, and clearly, Gaddafi was doing the latter. I did not see any NATO tanks and fighter jets heading into Darfur when clearly Omar Bashir was killing the Sudanese people! I do not see Sarkozy running around like a man whose wife is in the labour-room as Syrian leader, Bashir Al Assad continues to crack down violently against the dissenting voices in the country. Simple, the West are in deep economic crisis and placing their hands on Libya's vast oil wealth would no doubt ease the pressure on their books. My suspicions were confirmed with the Paris rendezvous on September 22nd, sinisterly dubbed 'friends of Libya' and reminiscent of Versailles after World War 2, the oil territories of Libya were conceded to the scheming imperialist countries led by France by the faceless, structure-less and purposeless rebel government. Mustapha Abdel-Jalil is being brought forward as the leader of the NTC, but it is an indisputable fact that top Al Qaeda Military Commander, Abdelhakim Belhaj, who was made Tripoli's security chief by the NTC has his sight clearly on the top seat and has not been quiet about his ambitions. If Abdel-Jalil does survive long enough to conduct an election and Belhaj does win, will NATO not have helped in the creation of a new terrorist state' While Abdel-Jalil was Minister of Justice under Gaddafi, he was one of those who did not see anything wrong with the brutal attacks on Nigerians and Ghanaians a few years back in one of the worst xenophobic attacks the country has ever witnessed. It was his rebel group that vengefully went seeking out black sub Saharan Africans in Tripoli after the exit of Gaddafi, accusing them of being mercenaries of the Colonel. It is this same rabid non-focused group of war-bandits that the Nigerian Government hastily recognised. Like a dog quickly scampering to its master's calls, the Nigerian Government hastily went against the resolution of the African Union (AU) and gave recognition to the rebel group. Nigeria's Foreign Minister Ambassador Gbenga Ashiru hastily came out to assert that no Nigerian was killed by the rebel group in Tripoli. I hope he would have the decency to resign his appointment when I thrust forward names of two Nigerian citizens who were butchered two days after the rebels took over Tripoli. Let us see the wood for the trees.I cannot help but compare the economic status of Nigeria with that of post-Imperialist anarchy Libya and wonder to myself what moral right this government has to denounce Gaddafi's government' According to the CIA Factbook, as at 2009, Libya was producing 22 million megawatts of electricity as against the meager 3,500 megawatts being celebrated at Aso Rock. Libya had over 77 percent of the Adult male population gainfully employed and inflation rate well below 3 percent and it's GDP per-capita stood at $14,000 as at December 2010 as against $2500 GDP per-capita and 13.8 percent inflation rate for Nigeria. Libya had enough economic sanctions placed on it to cripple it, yet it still fended for its people!
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