Ahamefula Ogbu
25 June 2011
Libya has called on Nigeria as leader of African Union to intervene with a view to stopping the continued bombardment of their country by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces since the protest for regime change that hit the country some months ago.
Libyan Foreign Minister, who doubled as President Moammar Ghadaffi’s special Envoy, Abdullahi Oubaidi who took the save our soul cry to the Presidential Villa, Abuja Friday, lamented that the action of NATO was in strict violation of the sovereignty of his country.
He said the matter which ought to have been allowed for internal resolution has been blown out of control by NATO which has been bombing and allegedly killing innocent civilians while totally destroying the infrastructure they took time to build.
Responding to questions from State House Correspondents during the visit, Oubaidi said he extracted a promise from President Goodluck Jonathan to help table the matter before the AU meeting coming up in Equatorial Guinea next week.
NATO commenced attacks on the Air defence system of Libya after they alleged that there were repressive activities by Ghadaffi against the people who were exercising their fundamental human rights by embarking on peaceful protests.
After the first missile was allegedly fired by France aircraft, other world power joined in and have been pounding Libya with missiles from war planes until they felt it was safe to start using combat helicopters which have been bombing parts of the country believed to be in the hands of Ghadafi forces.
Last week, NATO after an initial denial, admitted that a faulty missile went off target and demolished a building where at least nine people including babies were alleged to have died.
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