Corruption in Nigeria is a British legacy, the British colonial masters forcefully merged hitherto independent and peacefully coexisting nations together in order to gain economic advantage. At independence they consciously handed over power to the most backward section of the Nigerian ruling elite to maintained our neo-colonial status.
We don't need any moral lesson from Britain and the US which inarguably are the most corrupt countries in the world. They kept the loot from our treasury in their bank vaults, gave the looters save haven to live and invest same in their economy to sustain it, they expose the filthy lucre to negotiate with successive criminal governments and gave conditions beneficial to their economy before the loots are returned piecemeal, if they are ever returned.
The same Britian, US and other western imperialist arm twisted the Jerry Rawlings government to take IMF loan in 1984/85 and found a willing tool in Ibrahim Babangida who took the IMF loan in 1986 with all its anti people conditionalities that destroyed the social, political and economic fabric of our national life. Are they not drumming it into the head of the Buhari administration now, that taking loan from their imperial controlled IMF is the only way out of our present economic doldrums?
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Though, the Minister of Finance made a public statement that Nigeria will not collect IMF loan, one do not know for how long the government can hold on to this principle before it capitulates to the dictates of the Western powers. Particularly when the FG is tickering on the full deregulation of the downstream oil sector, a policy championed by IMF/World Bank/WTO.
The orchestrated campaigns of calumny by the Brutish press against the Buhari administration is to whip him to order, as his recent bilatera economic relationship with China and attendant consideration of Yuan for external reserve is unhealthy for their economic interests. One should not be taken in that Donald Cameron and a probable president of the US, Hillary Clinton are speaking in discordant tune, they are both working towards a strategic goal to keep Nigeria perpetually as a neo-colonial state.
The antics of Britain , US and their Western allies are too well known to us, they criminalised leaders in Africa and other parts of the world that they cannot easily compromised and manipulate; they labelled Mugabe a thief & dictator and their errand boys kill Gadaffi for sit-tightism yet they are best of friends to Paul Biya.
The collapse of Nigeria will be more beneficial to Western powers than to the people of the small nations that may emerge from its carcass. Rather than fan the embers of hatred and disunity, we should collectively work towards a national rebirth. The Buhari adminstration should be seen as a stop gap for all genuine progressives and revolutionary forces to align and wrestle power from the present forces of darkness and retrogression parading themselves as leaders.
‘Our agenda was to completely exploit Africa. Nigeria was my duty post. When we assessed Nigeria, this was what we found in the southern region; strength, intelligence, determination to succeed, well established history, complex but focused life style, great hope and aspirations… the East is good in business and technology, the west is good in administration and commerce, law and medicine, but it was a pity we planned our agenda to give power “at all cost” to the northerner. They seemed to be submissive and silly of a kind. Our mission was accomplished by destroying the opposition at all fronts. The west led in the fight for the independence, and was punished for asking for freedom. They will not rule Nigeria!
…but ”I still curiously and sorrowfully see now that the British has not let go of Nigeria…her wealth,. her potentials, her future. said Harold Smith
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