PRESIDENT GOODLUCK WELCOMES AFRICA FULL POWER TO MANAGE ITS OWN SECURITY ISSUES

President Good luck Jonathan, left the security summit house in france happy, as he expresses his happiness over the chance and support given to Africa to take full control of its own security issues as, to stand and respond to any security threat by force, without waiting for any foreign intervention, as he boldly thanks Mr President Francois Hollande of France, whose country organised the summit , where a stand in by force to take charge of member country security issues, immediately any crisis emerges. As he said;
“We totally support it because we also believe that by having a robust stand-by force, it is much better than the ad hoc contributions by nations,” he said.
“They can mobilise very quickly whenever we have challenges, and there is the need to deploy them.
“You cannot have people to trade with if there are crisis. Though you can trade on weapon, but that is just a negative aspect of trade.
“To have balance of trade and robust economic development, nations must be at peace.
“Europe must be worried when there is always conflict in Africa because they will not want to invest in managing crisis but in development,’’
“So, we support it and we thank the president and people of France for supporting Africa in this regard.”
He also added;
“At the beginning of ECOWAS, it was meant to concentrate on economic issues, but we have seen that you cannot achieve that without interfering in the internal affairs of member states.
“We realised that you cannot talk about the economy in a very unstable state. States must be stable before you can manage their economy.
“So, whenever we have situation that we need to intervene, we intervene and that has brought some reasonable stability.’’
The stand in by force peace keeping, is aimed at helping Africa take the full security power to resolve crisis in Africa including member state who may want to resist security aides.