Hon House Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that the President of Benin, Patrice Talon, has ordered that his country's foreign currency reserves, deposited during the colonial era in the French Central Bank, be immediately withdrawn;
2) recognises that the French colonial control of African countries that it used occupy has been hanging unto this important aspect of currency control for many decades;
3) warns that if African countries are to be in charge of their own destiny and choose their development path, they must break ties with former colonisers, and instead trade and relate on an equal footing;
4) advises that the success of the move by the President of Benin also depends on the rest of the other former French African colonies to follow through; and
5) calls on all African countries to follow the example of Benin, and withdraw all foreign currency reserves, mineral deposits and all other assets from the control of former colonisers.
I so move.
Agreed to.