The UN Secretary-General assured President Tinubu of the fullest support of the UN system for ECOWAS in light of the series of military coups which have occurred in the West African sub-region in the past few months and years.
President Bola Tinubu has called on the United Nations to back African nations in their fight against smugglers of mineral resources., at his UN Headquarters Office in New York City, on Wednesday.
"We are facing the great challenge of scavengers ravaging our lands and oppressing our people in illegal mines--taking our gold and mineral wealth back to developed economies by stealth and violence against Nigerians. Where one's human right ends, the rights of another begin. Most especially for self-protection. If we fight, they say 'human rights,' but we will now be aggressive and we will question motives. We will stop what is happening in our land.
"The poverty ravaging our continent and the question of security and counter-terrorism requires us to work in close and effective synergy. The world will ignore Nigeria at its own peril. If we engage in talk shops as real challenges wreak real havoc in real-time, we will fail. The time to strike is now. The time to achieve real results is now. I fought for democracy. I was detained for democracy.
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