With US invasion of Venezuela, international law has collapsed, Says ex-NIJ President

Former President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr. Lanre Ogundipe, has described the United States of America’s coup invading the sovereign nation of Venezuela and overthrowing its government Saturday as collapse of international law.

Ogundipe’s comes a day after one of the global reactions called for every country to pull out of the United Nations and build nuclear weapons to protect itself from such criminal invasion by any powerful nation.

In a reaction on his Facebook timeline titled “A sitting president in handcuffs”, Lanre Ogundipe said what happened by the hand of United States to Venezuela should not be allowed to stand.

“Not after a UN process. Not after an international trial. But seized by another country and displayed to the world.

“This is not justice; it is power on display.

“If a powerful nation can invade a sovereign state, arrest its leader, and declare itself prosecutor and judge, then international law has collapsed into muscle-flexing. Today it is Venezuela. Tomorrow it could be any weak or inconvenient country.

“African nations and the Global South must cry foul now. Silence is not neutrality—it is tacit approval. It endorses the dangerous idea that one country can act as a self-appointed world police.

“History warns us: when law gives way to force, the weak always pay first.

“This is the moment to speak—or accept a future where sovereignty means nothing.”