A law professor and Director-General of the Institute of Law Research & Development of the United Nations, Professor Cyprian F. Edward-Ekpo, has warned the Federal Government OF Nigeria against joining the BRICS bloc.
Edward- Ekpo in a statement , alleged that the organisation has a tendency towards being an organisation “promoted by dictators and terrorism-sponsored states that take delight in perpetrating human rights abuses and invasion of weak nations.”
He noted that the body was borne out of hatred and rivalry against the United States of America and its world leadership with Iran and Russia in the lead. “They founded BRICS as a way to escape financial and economic sanctions, to act unchecked, on their various human rights violations and invasion of weak states.
The lawyer, however,, called on the National Assembly of Nigeria to act fast to halt the union between BRICS and the Federal Government of Nigeria as he hinted that the president had been ill-advised.
He said: “Nigeria should think of how to inculcate the real intelligentsia, not blocked-head academic degrees and professional certificates and titles holders, into its policy planning to transform the country into production-based economy and knowledge-based system to strengthen Naira and enhance the country’s development instead of dragging itself into complex international politics that would harm the citizenry in the long run.”
According to him the BRICS intergovernmental organisation was founded in June 2009, now BRICS Plus after 12 other countries were admitted to join the initial members like Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and after it had earlier added Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates.
