{"id":153862,"date":"2019-09-20T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T11:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=153862"},"modified":"2019-09-20T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T11:48:04","slug":"nigeria-labour-coalition-vows-to-frustrate-buharis-trade-agreement-with-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=153862","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Labour Coalition Vows To Frustrate Buhari’s Trade Agreement With Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A coalition of labour and trade unions have vowed to frustrate
\nNigeria\u2019s fish and fertilizer trade agreement with Morocco.<\/p>\n

In a press briefing on Wednesday, the 20-organization strong
\npartnership \u2013 Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara
\n(NMLWS), accused Rabat of selling phosphate and seafood from the
\nSaharawi Arab Democratic Republic to Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The group chaired by Ibrahim Gambari, Nigeria\u2019s former foreign affairs
\nminister, said it would picket companies in Nigeria that process
\nfertilizer from phosphate supplied by Morocco.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put all those dealing in stolen Western Sahara natural resources
\nincluding their fishes on notice that they cannot continue to do
\nbusiness as usual,\u201d the group stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter giving this notice to the Nigerian companies dealing in stolen
\nWestern Sahara resources, we will picket them across the country and
\nbring them before our courts. This also includes supermarkets selling
\nsardines and fishes from Morocco because 92 percent of these fishes
\nare stolen from the Western Sahara coast. The group accused President
\nMuhammadu Buhari of supporting the self-declaration of independence by
\nthe Western Saharan state in 1984 and doing the opposite 35 years
\nlater.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigeria in December 1984 then led by General Muhammadu Buhari,
\nrecognized the SADR as an independent African country. This was after
\nthe Saharawi had thrown off the colonial yoke of Spain. It is,
\ntherefore, inconceivable that 35 years later, under an elected
\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria would tolerate the occupation of
\nthe same country by a sister African country and be receiving the
\nnatural resources of Western Sahara plundered by Morocco,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration had in December 2016,
\nreached an agreement with the state-owned Moroccan firm OCP, to
\nproduce 1 million tons of locally manufactured fertilizer annually.<\/p>\n

The memorandum of understanding signed with the company included the
\nsupply of raw materials for fertilizer production such as phosphate.<\/p>\n

The group insisted that while it wanted Nigeria to develop its
\nfertiliser capacity, it will not permit the use of stolen resources.<\/p>\n

It stated further, \u201cThis movement supports the development of Nigeria,
\nbut not with stolen resources. We insist that although our country
\nneeds fertilizer, but not that produced with the blood of our brothers
\nand sisters in Western Sahara. About this, we are definite. This
\nprinciple is planted in the Nigerian culture of non-exploitation of
\nother peoples and defender of colonized peoples as we did in the
\nstruggle for the liberation of countries like Guinea Bissau,
\nMozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite a 1975 judgment denouncing Morocco\u2019s claim to SADR by the
\nInternational Court of Justice, Morocco went on to forcefully occupy
\nthe territory. After a bloody war, Moroccan forces pushed most of its
\npopulation into refugee camps in Algeria.<\/p>\n

Morocco left the Organisation of African Unity now African Union in
\n1984, for recognizing the independence of SADR. It recently rejoined
\nthe AU but is still laying claim to the mineral-reach Western Sahara.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A coalition of labour and trade unions have vowed to frustrate Nigeria\u2019s fish and fertilizer trade agreement with Morocco. In a press briefing on Wednesday, the 20-organization strong partnership \u2013 Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara (NMLWS), accused Rabat of selling phosphate and seafood from the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic to Nigeria. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[41,13282,1412],"class_list":["post-153862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-marocco","tag-nigerian-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}