They are fighting over power and position, backed on both sides by powerful outside interests, whose main target is access to the rich resources of Sudan – gold, oil reserves, and gum Arabic. They were allies previously when they worked together to oust Omar al-Bashir, the dictator and butcher of Sudan, but now the two Generals have turned against each other. Sudan, Africa’s third largest country, is on the brink of disintegration, because two belligerent Generals – Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan of the Sudanese Army and General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, head of a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – are determined to destroy their own country for selfish reasons. It is painful that a country like Somalia is able to rescue its nationals from Sudan and my own country is busy telling moonlight tales. If Nigerian officials have nothing intelligent to tell us, the minimum that they can do is to bring our people home, and until they have something concrete to tell us, they should do us the favour of avoiding plainly stupid excuses. Their families at home want them to be safe. Nigerians in Sudan want to be rescued from a war situation. Nigerians stranded in Sudan, after the evacuation bus catches fire in the desert.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |