
Former Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Prof Bola Akinterinwa, has said that there were no guarantees that countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, who had accused the Ex- service chiefs of crimes against humanity would accept the former service chiefs as diplomats.
He spoke on a PUNCH Online interview on Thursday.
He said, “It is only in Nigeria where a carpenter will want to perform the work of a pilot and where a pilot will want to go into surgical operation to perform cardiothoracic operation.
“When you bring somebody who is perfectly trained to kill to come and engage in diplomatic negotiations at a critical time that globalization is now a major issue, I think that Mr. President is making haste slowly and in this case, he is killing diplomatic initiatives well in advance, this is killing Nigeria softly.”
He stated, “The main problem any of the (former) service chiefs may have is that the international community have been speculating that they have violated human right, that under their watch some people have been killed recklessly without due regard to both international law and international humanitarian law.”
“It depends on the country they will be posted to. If you send a service chief as an ambassador to the United States for instance, what will you expect? US is one of the countries that have accused the service chiefs of having violated human rights. Do you think they will be able to survive in that case in terms of negotiating skill? Not likely. If you send to Britain, the same
If you send to probably Cote D’Ivoire, Togo, Venezuela, all those places where strategic interest do not constitute the issue, in this case, yes, they may do well but you need someone who is very conversant with a very dishonest manner of operating international politics. International politics is very dishonest, everybody is struggling to undermine the other and you need a sophisticated career ambassador,” the diplomat added.
Continuing, Akinterinwa said, “A country can accept and my not accept (an ambassadorial appointee). The obstacle here even though there is rule of reciprocity if we name one and you refuse to accept, we too have the right to reject your own.
“But it is generally not done. When you present a candidate to a country, rather than writing you a bad letter to say they reject, they may keep quiet. So long silence, no reply simply means rejection. That is the context under which we call them persona non grata – that is unwanted person.”
The former NIIA director general said Nigeria needs diplomatic careerists to engage in diplomatic nothing.
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