Is Nigeria surrendering responsibilities to Foreigners?
Bankole Adefolaju
Africa is doomed! What is going on? Has something, some
god, suddenly decided to get rid of this unthinking race
called African? What sort of people are making decisions
which continually display a level of ignorance and
stupidity unbelievable even in the 18th century to
ridicule and expose its citizens to a treatment only the
Romans of the 1st Century AD noted for their barbarism
and cruelty are capable of, Even animal lovers would not
dare to expose their pets, let alone their servants to
such degradation. Where else in the world, which race on
this planet would be inviting a race hater to come and
discover its secretes and technologies because the
advisers are so thick to think of the ramifications of
such a decision? Nigeria is the only place in the world
where its Governments would fail to make use of her
intellectual properties but allow other races and
Governments to carry them over to improve their own
infrastructure and services forgetting these
intellectuals drained the state‘s resources to acquire
the skills they are giving away to other states for
nothing.
Part of the African dilemma is the lack of comprehension
of the bases for decision processes and why a country
like Nigeria with a population close on 130 million
people has failed to be able to run even a simple
airways, a railway system, a transport system, water
supply system, electricity supply system or a police
system despite the billions of dollars flowing into the
coffers of the authority there which should be directed
at the immediate needs of the country: Roads, railways,
knowledge, structures, materials processing, health,
etc. Our hospitals are devoid of doctors and nurses, our
universities, our research institutions, our security
services, and hundreds of other state apparatus are left
to rot while our enemies drain the country of its
materials and human resources (intellectual properties)
for menial jobs as street cleaning in the Caucasian
cities across the world. Amidst all these, an African
Government has, allegedly, decided to hand over the
security of our hard-earned independence to the enemy
who occupied our continent for 500 years and stripped
our resources to develop their continent and people.
Our failure on that continent is a consequence of
occupation: loss of our intellectual properties, failing
to carry out research and discoveries, failure to devote
our resources to materials processes, failure to
acknowledge the fact that development is the inculcation
of an understanding that man is his own boss and we need
to create our own man-made world by processing our
resources to make the world to our taste which is
security, building structures - roads for land
transport, steel for construction, engines for road and
water transport. The effectiveness of the police and
other security services depend on our capacity to make
the materials we need by ourselves as making things
generate income and remove the temptation to defraud and
open the masses to corrupt practices.
How will the present Government explain to the future
generations that in the 21st century, after nearly 70
years of independence, an African Government decided to
hand back our country to our enemies with the
consequences of shaming every African on this planet?
It must not happen. It is degrading, it is denigrating.
It is stupid and irresponsible. Is there nobody in the
Government to remind the people making such a decision,
if it is true, that many Africans including Nigerians
are killed almost weekly in the British police custody?
Nigerians must say NO to this hearsay which I like to
believe is not true. Do not hand over our security to
our enemies.
Are Africans not aware of what has happened to Iraqis in
the past four years? Americans have killed more than
300,000 of them, their country have been reduced to a
beggar state, structures and thousand years of
antiquities expropriated, their oil has been stolen or
in the process of being stolen, more than 4 million
Iraqis, if, they are lucky, have been forced out of
their country and now spread across the Middle East as
refuges. Is Bush now using the British to carry out its
intention to take over non-Caucasian races to reinforce
their grip on the world institutions and resources?
Africa says NO to a Nigerian government alleged proposal
to hand back our nearly 70 years’ independence.
B Adefolaju
Okeotun
Irele Ekiti, Nigeria.
