AFRICASTALLESTMAN INTERVIEWS GENERAL ABDOURAHMANE TCHIANI, NIGER’S MILITARY RULER

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
Bonjour Général Tchiani.

GENERAL TCHIANI:
Do you speak French?

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
Je parlez Français un peu.

GENERAL TCHIANI:
It is okay, I speak English. I forgot to return your greeting. Good morning, Africastallestman. I thought our appointment was in the afternoon.

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
Who wants to die? Tinubu wants to send Alhaji Asari Dokubo and his militia to invade Niger and restore President Mohamed Bazoum. I want to be out of Niamey before the shooting starts.

GENERAL TCHIANI:
Do not mind Alhaji Tinubu and ECOWAS. Did ECOWAS, the EU, and the United States condemn or send armies to remove Tinubu who was rigged into office? No, but they want to invade Niger because I removed a corrupt President.

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
The EU and the United States are not bothered by Civilian Coups such as rigging, vote padding, and vote buying but they are totally against Military Coups.

GENERAL TCHIANI:
Why do you think they approve of Civilian Coups?

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
America also engages in Civilian Coups such as voter suppression, gerrymandering, insurrections, and intimidation of minority voters.

GENERAL TCHIANI:
You are right, Africastallestman, no foreign power can dictate to the Military of any African country, not even a militant group but foreign powers control African Dictators.

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
What about the billions in aid coming from France, the EU, and the US?

GENERAL TCHIANI:
Aid? Is this a joke or a trick question? No Nigerien has seen any of the billions. Hunger and poverty have not improved since the so-called billions started flowing into Niger. Maybe, Alhaji Mohamed Bazoum is keeping the money to permit the French and American militaries to have their bases in Niger.
How can France which steals from Niger claim to be aiding Niger?
It is Niger and other Francophone African countries that are aiding France.

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
General, you talk tough, is any foreign power behind you? Is it true that the Russian Wagner group is in Niger?

GENERAL TCHIANI:
No foreign power is behind this coup. Nigeriens are behind this military election. If ECOWAS, the EU, France, and the US attack Niger, Niger reserves the right to invite any other superpower to defend her.
Didn’t Ukraine invite other powers to come to her aid when Ukraine was attacked?

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
Guinea, Mali, and Burkina Faso have pledged to defend Niger if Niger is attacked by Alhaji Asari Dokubo and his militia from Nigeria.
Nigerian soldiers who are being presently clobbered by Islamic Terrorists do not want to open another front in Niger.

GENERAL TCHIANI:
France has been in Niger for 10 years claiming to be fighting terrorists but our terror problem has not abetted. The addition of US forces has not solved the terror problem.
It makes one wonder how terrorists on motorbikes and armed with knives, clubs, catapults, rocks, AK-47s, and rocket grenade launchers can defeat superpowers.

Maybe, Niger should accept the Terrorists’ demands and make peace with them. Since Terrorists do not manufacture arms, Africastallestman, who arms Terrorists?

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
I am not going to answer that question.

GENERAL TCHIANI:
Why?

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
I do not want the Terrorists or the world powers coming after me.
By the bush, did you label Tinubu as illegitimate?

GENERAL TCHIANI:
Yes, I did. Why are the US, France, and the EU applauding an unpopular Civilian Coup in Nigeria and condemning a popular Military Coup in Niger?
Why not condemn all coups or is Tinubu a puppet of the West?
If ECOWAS declares war on Niger, Niger will declare war on ECOWAS with the help of Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and the Wagner Group.
If the Wagner Group can capture Bahkmut in months, they can capture Abuja in hours!

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
I am getting nervous, thanks for the interview. I want to get out of here before the GRAD rockets and HIMARS start raining.

GENERAL TCHIANI:
Thanks, Africastallestman, have a safe trip.

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
You did not offer me a brown envelope. How did you know that I reject them?

GENERAL TCHIANI:
This is Niger, not Nigeria. We have Polithiefians but we do not give brown envelopes to journalists.

AFRICASTALLESTMAN:
Get back into your bunker before the Raptor drones and F-35s start raining munitions on Niamey.

GENERAL TCHIANI:
They dare not.
Au revoir.