West seeks to make Africa ungovernable: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Douglas DeGroot, a member of the Executive Intelligence Review in Leesburg, to discuss the recent bomb explosions in a mosque in Nigeria’s restive northeastern state of Borno.

What follows is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: The rise of the militancy of Boko Haram terrorists has been 2009 yet there seems to be no control. If this group is actually responsible for the tragic event which happened in a mosque, is this group controllable at any point?  

DeGroot: Well it is made of several groups and they have a long history of local Imams using people who are opposed to education and so on, so they have their power that they could use for various political deployments and things. But there is an overall deployment coming from the top of the London, New York financial world now on this thing. The latest call is from the supposed leader of the group, was urging al-Shabaab in Somalia to unite with them and with ISIS (Daesh) in Iraq and so on. So it is really controlled from the outside.

The entire region has been kept very unstable now. You have from Mali, Niger, Benin, Northern Nigeria, Chad, Central African Republic not Boko Haram, but it is also a destroyed country at this point. Cameroon has been the only one that has remained stable. Now the intervention suddenly started by the United States on Monday although Obama did not announce it until Wednesday - 90 troops, the first troops of the 300 are going there supposedly to aid and [provide] intelligence and so on, have drones and be part of the operation in providing intelligence.

Now everything that for 15 years now that the US has been involved in has either created a problem like this or magnified and made worse some pre-existing problem. So this is very ominous deployment right now on this situation. So it is actually being played and run from forces outside Nigeria at this point.

Press TV: Well who do you think is benefiting from the situation in all these African countries?

DeGroot: Well what is doing is making Africa ungovernable so that because you have a collapse of the trans-Atlantic banking system that is going on and the people who represent that in those institutions are largely behind this and there is an alternative for Africa and other countries to work with the BRICS to provide credit and build infrastructure and so on, so the countries could actually get built up.

So this, I see it as a move against that potential - that potential coming from the whole BRICS alternative development of a new paradigm for economic cooperation in growth which they represent. So this is a way of doing it. The French are working very closely with the Americans I think on this. Some months ago the president of Chad announced that every Boko Haram person they captured, all their arms were always French arms. We just noted that in past. So that is another interesting profile.

The French are very worried about the BRICS coming into Africa and playing this big role because they have seen Africa as their private preserve but this is bigger than just the French. It is the whole trans-Atlantic financial network system working like an empire.

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