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Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Orikinla(m): 1:35pm On Apr 28, 2012
Dear Alhaji Aliko Dangote, MFR, GCON, ETC: Charity Begins At Home and Not On Forbes,

Are you still dining and wining with members of the elite billionaires club of Forbes 100 Most Richest People in the world?

Are you still gloating over being named the richest black man in the world?
Are you still gazing at the glittering trophies you have won as the greatest industrialist in Africa?

Are you still gazing at yourself in the cheval glass mirror grinning as you think you look dapper and better in your designer suit than in your native Babariga?
Are you still playing your Monopoly and Totopoly at the Nigerian Stock Exchange and saying Auzubillah as your billions increase daily?
Who are you impressing?

Your legion of flatterers, hypocrites, praise singing sycophants who are far away in their comfort zones while your motherland is on fire, smoking from suicide bombings and stinking from the acrid odours of charred bodies of corpses, burnt vehicles and razed houses in Kano, Kaduna, Borno, Gombe, Yobe, Adamawa, Kogi, Abuja, Plateau, Katsina, and other danger zones terrorized by the lunatic fringe of your own Islamic religion.

Haba Aliko! But while you are still cutting ribbons to open new industries in the safer southern and western regions and other countries in Africa, your own northern region is burning!
Burning in the catastrophic chaos of Islamic insurgency in the masquerade of Boko Haram.
But who is to blame?
You are not culpable?
You think you are innocent?

How many of you industries are located in Kano and other northern states?
Are you biggest factories located in the northern regions?

How many of the millions of jobless people in Kano are employed in your following Dangote Group of Companies and subsidiaries?

ALCO International Limited
Dangote Nigeria Limited
Dangote Transport Limited
Dangote Cement Plc. - Listed on Nigeria Stock Exchange[4]
National Salt Company of Nigeria Plc. - Listed on Nigeria Stock Exchange
Dangote Flour Mills Plc. - Listed on Nigeria Stock Exchange
Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc. - Listed on Nigeria Stock Exchange[5]
Dangote Oil & Gas Industries International
Dangote Textiles Limited
Dangote Holdings Limited
Blue Star Limited
Dansa Foods Limited
Dansa Food Processing Limited
Dancom Technologies
GreenView International Company Limited - Has invested US$28+ million in cement factory in Ghana.
Sephaku Cement Limited - Dangote Group has 64% shareholding in this South African cement company.
Alheri Engineering Limited
Kura Holdings Limited

Haba Aliko!
Where were you when over 400 industries closed in Kano?
Where were you when over five million jobs were lost?

Where are the cotton plantations?
Where are the sugarcane plantations?
Where are the groundnut pyramids?
What have you done with your billions of dollars to revive the collapsed industries?

What have you done for your thousands of nomadic and rampaging cattle herdsmen who are roaming and trespassing farmlands from the north to the middle belt and to the south when they would fare better if you can just spend only $1 billion to settle them in ranches and let them develop livestock farms all over your northern states and stop their prehistoric nomadic life of trespassing other lands.

What your people need most are not your cement and sugar and pasta factories.
They need livestock farms for large scale dairies, cotton plantations for cotton to use in Nigeria and export to the rest of the world to make billions of cotton products used for clothes, cotton wools and other uses and revive all the collapsed textile industries, sugarcane plantations to produce sugar and stop useless importation of sugar from America and Europe like St. Louis and other unhealthy sugary junk foods dumped in Nigeria and farmlands to grow groundnuts to revive the famous groundnut pyramids and date palms to produce dates and peanuts to enrich the millions of pastries and loaves of bread we eat daily to nourish millions of Hausas and other Nigerians.

One Babariga is sold for over $600 on Coyotes Paw. One Babariga is made of strips of hand-loomed cotton sewed side by side to form large panels of cloth that are then meticulously embroidered with local silk or cotton thread.
Do you know how many thousands of Almajiris and other jobless Hausas would be employed in "Alhaji Aliko Dangote Textile Factories" to produce enough cotton for millions of Babarigas for millions of people in Nigeria and other Africans in the Diaspora?

These would definitely make you a richer billionaire than all your sugar, pastry and cement factories.

When you address the humanitarian emergencies caused by the collapse of hundreds of factories in your homeland Kano and other northern states, and help to create millions of jobs for the millions of jobless Hausas and others and they are gainfully employed to earn good wages to make ends meet, then where would the the devils on rampage find new recruits for their suicidal jihads?



~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, author of Children of Heaven, Sleepless Night, Scarlet Tears of London, Bye, Bye Mugabe, In the House of Dogs and other books and founder of Eko International Film Festival and Screen Naija One Village, One Cinema Project.


Photo of Alhaji Aliko Dangote, MFR, GCON, ETC; is the richest black man on earth according the Forbes magazine, but his homeland Kano is one of the most underdeveloped places on earth where over 400 industries have collapsed and over 5 million lost their jobs and now terrorized by the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic terrorists on suicide-bombing rampage in northern Nigeria.

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by ektbear: 1:38pm On Apr 28, 2012
May as well be complaining about some Indian guy who has left his native country and doesn't care about it any more, is just enjoying his life in the UK or whatever.

Just because you were born/grew up somewhere doesn't necessarily mean that you are responsible for that place's well-being.

It would be nice of course, but certainly isn't obligatory..

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by ektbear: 1:41pm On Apr 28, 2012

Your legion of flatterers, hypocrites, praise singing sycophants who are far away in their comfort zones while your motherland is on fire, smoking from suicide bombings and stinking from the acrid odours of charred bodies of corpses, burnt vehicles and razed houses in Kano, Kaduna, Borno, Gombe, Yobe, Adamawa, Kogi, Abuja, Plateau, Katsina, and other danger zones terrorized by the lunatic fringe of your own Islamic religion.

Haba Aliko! But while you are still cutting ribbons to open new industries in the safer southern and western regions and other countries in Africa, your own northern region is burning!
Burning in the catastrophic chaos of Islamic insurgency in the masquerade of Boko Haram.
But who is to blame?
You are not culpable?
You think you are innocent?

How many of you industries are located in Kano and other northern states?
Are you biggest factories located in the northern regions?


This Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima fellow is a lunatic undecided

Maybe I should blame my Iranian buddy here in the US for the turmoil in his homeland...

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by strangerf: 2:03pm On Apr 28, 2012
May as well be complaining about some Indian guy who has left his native country and doesn't care about it any more, is just enjoying his life in the UK or whatever.

Very irrelevant post IMHO

Just because you were born/grew up somewhere doesn't necessarily mean that you are responsible for that place's well-being.

Well, to whom much is given, BY WHERE THEY WERE BORN/GREW UP, much is expected. Its just common sense.

It would be nice of course, but certainly isn't obligatory..


Its all relative. One man's shyt is another woman's mashed potato. Of course to you, it is not obligatory. However, as Africans and because we are socialists by nature, it makes Cents, Kobo, Naira and Dollars to contribute to the uplift of the society that gave you so much. Yes, it is obligatory, because of the circumstances that led to his present status, that he contributes to the society. Meaning, like Abiola before him, he is responsible for the well being of his immediate environment.





This Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima fellow is a lunatic undecided

Not anymore than your flip-flopping, attention-seeking self



Maybe I should blame my Iranian buddy here in the US for the turmoil in his homeland...


Absolutely if it can be proven that he sends money back to fuel the uprising back home.

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by ektbear: 2:15pm On Apr 28, 2012
You seem to have not understood the point, as evidenced by you not understanding the India/Iran comparisons.

In a nutshell, it is up to him to determine what is obligatory for him or not.

Nobody has a right to dictate to him whether he must give a sh1t about his homeland...he isn't the first man in history, and certainly won't be the last to have lost interest in his place of birth.

If he decides to care, good for him. If he doesn't, unfortunate. But that is life.

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Musiwa51: 2:16pm On Apr 28, 2012
dangote have companies in the north.
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by ektbear: 2:19pm On Apr 28, 2012
Musiwa..:
dangote have companies in the north.

Indeed, he does. But if hypothetically he didn't...that shouldn't be an issue. One presumably starts companies to make profit, not as charity...

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by strangerf: 2:24pm On Apr 28, 2012
You seem to have not understood the point, as evidenced by you not understanding the India/Iran comparisons.

Of course! No one ever understand your points. No surprise there. Your points are so complicated only aliens can decipher them. grin No wonder you spend so much time explaining and re-explaining yourself. How do you come up with these stuffs? These complex points . . .

In a nutshell, it is up to him to determine what is obligatory for him or not.

No, it is up to the culture he grew up in.

Nobody has a right to dictate to him whether he must give a sh1t about his homeland...

If no one gave a shit about him, where would he be now?



he isn't the first man in history, and certainly won't be the last to have lost interest in his place of birth.

True. The more reason why we have to help him rekindle the "lost interest."

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by ektbear: 2:32pm On Apr 28, 2012
The culture determines what is obligatory for him, not he himself?

Heh. Free will, liberty, self-determination...clearly all fraudulent ideologies.

Are those who "gave a poo about him" these impoverished boko haram masses? Or his papa, uncles, and family?

What a sweet deal...some random guy from the same geopolitical region as you ends up rich, in fact making most of his wealth not even from/in your homeland, yet morons like this Chima and Fstranger will suggest that he donate his wealth to folk who had absolutely nothing to do with him even acquiring it.

Very sensible suggestions.

Then again, this big mannism/"superhero" culture is exactly what has crippled the north economically.

Rather than accountability for those actually who have mismanaged the assets of the north (governors, political leaders, etc), let us instead plunder some guy who had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Poverty mentality...

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Musiwa51: 2:33pm On Apr 28, 2012
I think that person is not been fair to dangote. The factory closed down because of govt policy by Northerners who were in govt... Most of them made useless policy not good for the economy. And that was not dangote fault.

Dangote own sugar plantation. he tried as a person. it is not his fault for the problem in the north. It is just census figures which northerners lied and how to fix it is hard. He can not tell his people to accept the pictures.. Noway, he would be too scared to do that...

The issue is deep........ I dont know , I have run many ideas on my mind to have peace.. It is going to be hard on nigeria. I dont think the nigeria economy is been managed well at the moment. I dont think so.

Dangote have tried his very best.

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by ektbear: 2:34pm On Apr 28, 2012
Well, certain types of "help" are not wanted.

Let me "help" you give your money away to people you don't care about and have only a cursory connection to.

Heh. The type of help that one would be very happy to never receive in life.
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by ektbear: 2:38pm On Apr 28, 2012
Musiwa..:
I think that person is not been fair to dangote. The factory closed down because of govt policy by Northerners who were in govt... Most of them made useless policy not good for the economy. And that was not dangote fault.

Right. The author of that article is looking for a scapegoat, rather than actually trying to deal with the fundamental issues.

Take textiles. You cannot manufacture things in general w/o electricity. Rather than asking Dangote to revive the textile industry for you, simply push those who control electricity to fix it. Once it again profitable to manufacture, then you won't even need to ask Dangote or anyone else to invest...they will all come.

This is a more sensible policy than the homeless-man-on-the-street-begging-for-a-handout mentality of Fstranger and this Chima fellow. At best, it is a short-term fix, not a real solution.

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by ektbear: 2:45pm On Apr 28, 2012
Also..when the fvck did Dangote become the government? That he should be addressing "humanitarian emergencies" in Nigeria? grin

Did the governors all die in Northern Nigeria? What of the local government chairmen? Did someone take away the billions in funding they receive annually?

Mind you, this is a region that receives the highest allocations in all of Nigeria.

Why is there no talk of accountability, and only talk of another handout?

I think that this is why I absolutely hate socialism. Or at least the Africanist socialism espoused by fools like Fstranger.

It warps people's brains...destroys their ability to reason. Saps their will to provide for themselves. And eventually destroys society..

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Musiwa51: 2:56pm On Apr 28, 2012
You see any country, where you have police or govt harrass people who want to do real business, the economy suffer. The more people I employ the more citizen I make their life better. But if a govt or police disturb that it make people life worst. Dangote have not been the one , but his fellow northerners who made policy difficult. I dont think, he ever got involve in govt in the north before.

business is community service, it is not about making money but employing people and getting them out of crime... which make the society better. dangote has tried as a person. many lifes depend on him.

police harrassing people, who want to start business because rival company want to block them, is not good for any economy. You see, if i employ people in any economy, I am making contribution to that economy and I am making people lifes better. And also paying taxes at the same time to the govt.. which is use to built road, school etc.



I have policy to fix the nigeria economy, which are not for the internet..

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Nobody: 2:59pm On Apr 28, 2012
Useless thread.

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by strangerf: 3:02pm On Apr 28, 2012
The culture determines what is obligatory for him, not he himself?

Absolutely. No one exist in a vacuum. I understand it is a difficult concept for you to understand because of the soup you swim in; the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" ideology you were brainwashed with.

Heh. Free will, liberty, self-determination...clearly all fraudulent ideologies.

Well, depends. Good ideologies on paper, but I am yet to see anyone become successful by their own sheer will/self determination.

Are those who "gave a poo about him" these impoverished boko haram masses? Or his papa, uncles, and family?

Those that came before him, looked after him and pretty much put things in place that made sure he didnt end up on the street as a terrorist.



What a sweet deal...some random guy from the same geopolitical region as you ends up rich, i[b]n fact making most of his wealth not even from/in your homeland,[/b] yet morons like this Chima and Fstranger will suggest that he donate his wealth to folk who had absolutely nothing to do with him even acquiring it.

Obviously you dont understand how he came about his wealth. Go do some reading Ekt Bear. grin
Thats your homework, due next week grin



Then again, this big mannism/"superhero" culture is exactly what has crippled the north economically.

You are wrong. What crippled the North was selling our collective property at give away prices to people like Dangote.

Rather than accountability for those actually who have mismanaged the assets of the north (governors, political leaders, etc), let us instead plunder some guy who had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Poverty mentality...

Accountability needs to start with people who served as conduit for those public officials that mismanaged those assets. After all, Yoruba people say: Eni gbe epo laja ko jale bi eni to gba sile ( It is not enough to blame the thief, the accomplice/helper is actually more culpable, without him the burglary wouldn't have been successful)
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Nobody: 3:04pm On Apr 28, 2012
I smell Bigotism...

Well for me..

I believe if an enviroment has given u much .. The best thing to do is reciprocate... North has nt given much to dangote so he gave them little in return.. Bigotism is what will make a man believe that people shud always invest in a certain tribes... If he built industry(ies) in lagos or portharcourt.. Is it not gona be for d benefict of nigeria and nigerians.. Or there are no hausa/fulanis in lagos or portharcourt.. Besides a gud business man dnt build business outa sentiment... U build ur business at a suitable location in which demand for the product is high..

I dnt really see dangotes fault in all what u mentioned above... Ben murray built one of the tallest hotel in africa in abuja.. Why not bayelsa?.. The answer is simple he will make return on his (hotel)investment in abuja than bayelsa...

Besides who would wana invest in the north with the high level of insecurity

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by tpia5: 3:59pm On Apr 28, 2012
trying to get dangote's attention?

@ op.

well, at least you made an effort.

let's see if you'll jam luck.

none of the other billions who want him to notice them, has tried this route, i think.

me sef should have thuoght of this.
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by doofanc: 4:16pm On Apr 28, 2012
The article is complete trash as far as i'm concerned.

Not holding brief for Dangote, but when exactly did he become the government?

The writer is just a soup grapes attention seeker.
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by mykejones(m): 4:26pm On Apr 28, 2012
If i get the msg of this thread properly,what in essence,u r tryin2say is He shd invest in the north as much as he has done in other regions?
Wel,if dats that,i do agree. But u dnt have 2 go blaming him for the problems the north is havin now. Blame the governments of the northern states. Almost all the past leaders of this country are frm the North,most of them are still alive,and most of them still posses in excess of Billions of naira. They shd invest in their zones,then prolly,Dangote would follow suit.

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by violent(m): 4:38pm On Apr 28, 2012
This is just one pile of horse dung!!!!
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Arosa(m): 4:41pm On Apr 28, 2012
Nigeria needs more people like Dangote, at least a hundred: for us to be relevant in the world stage. undecided
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Orikinla(m): 7:33pm On Apr 28, 2012
See what Dangote can do to stop the madness of his people's nomadic herdsmen by investing in live stock and diary farming and not importing shiploads of sugar.

DO YOU KNOW THAT MAJORITY OF DANGOTE]S HAUSA TRUCK DRIVERS ARE ILLITERATES, BECAUSE HE EXPLOITS THE CHEAP LABOUR OF HIS PEOPLE WITHOUT INVESTING IN THEIR EDUCATION.

Have you studied the conditions of Hausa labourers and low income employees working for Dangote?

Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Orikinla(m): 7:40pm On Apr 28, 2012
This article is not about CHARITY you [size=28pt]id-io-ts[/size].

We are talking about needs assessment and investment.

Mr. Dangote made the bulk of his billions from importing goods for decades and what the Hausas needed most were manufacturing industries to produce finished products from their own cash crops and livestock.
If Dangote and his peers in public service and private sector did not neglect their people, Kano and other northern states would not be so underdeveloped.

We spend billions of dollars to import junk foods and other goods we can produce in Nigeria and lack of regular power supply cannot stop that.

Go and study Roger Kaufman.
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Starlett: 10:24pm On Apr 28, 2012
After studying the OP's write up and thinking it over, I must say there are strong points here. I mean, I work in the SW with quite a number of young, urbane, suave northerners who are clearly upwardly mobile, buying and developing property in Lag and other choice parts of the South. these guys know that their investments are safe. Forever, if you like.

But the same CANNOT be said about the investments of Southerners up north. In fact, I very much doubt if any of these my northern colleagues would ever dream of sinking such money into property in their ancestral homelands.

But I don't blame them; they're not government and, for all their emergent middle-class opulence, they have practically zero influence in government economic policies as affects the north; neither could they do more than probably start a small scale business and hire a handful of people. Not Dangote, however.

When you're named the richest black man alive, you certainly DO owe your roots some of your investment. I know Dangote sits on the Nat Econ council, but am yet to hear of any efforts he is making to improve the economy of the north, or provide mass jobs there.

He better do something real quick. i suggest he starts with massive investment in Education. Yes. Catch them young and rob these blood-thirsty hounds of their regular cannon fodder by clearing the streets of those urchins parading about in the name of Almajiri!
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Nobody: 10:50pm On Apr 28, 2012
Orikinla: This article is not about CHARITY you [size=28pt]id-io-ts[/size].

We are talking about needs assessment and investment.

Mr. Dangote made the bulk of his billions from importing goods for decades and what the Hausas needed most were manufacturing industries to produce finished products from their own cash crops and livestock.
If Dangote and his peers in public service and private sector did not neglect their people, Kano and other northern states would not be so underdeveloped.

We spend billions of dollars to import junk foods and other goods we can produce in Nigeria and lack of regular power supply cannot stop that.

Go and study Roger Kaufman.

Key point that most people are missing, I guess his billions are far more important than his ancestral home. Y'all can scream all day that he is not the government but he still manages to influence/manipulate govt policies in his favour! Oh! I forgot, that's lobbying, right

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by ektbear: 12:24am On Apr 29, 2012
Forced investment in businesses you don't find attractive or which are outright money-losing...how is that different from charity?

In general, if you are having to beg someone to invest somewhere and rather than trying to persuade them based upon how much money they will make in the deal, but instead want to convince them through guilt or other emotions....well, my point should be clear.

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by strangerf: 3:58am On Apr 29, 2012
^^^

You are really confused you know?

On one hand you come here every night, sometime during the day, advocating unregulated capitalism as the ideal economic policy for Nigeria and at the same time you post tirelessly supporting the biggest socialist party in the country, ACN. Where do you actually belong Ekt Bear? Where exactly? . . . hmmmm, ;little wonder your ideas are so complicated, only retarrrds understand them.

I dont know why this is so difficult for you to comprehend. . . The writer is only asking Dangote to invest in his own people/land for two reasons; their dignity and growth of the Dangote empire. Both are interwoven and intricately connected. For Dangote to continue to grow, those people must be able to live well and afford his products. The more well off they are, the more of the commodities they can afford, which will definitely lead to Dangote's growth. Isnt that easy to understand? This is not socialism, it just makes sense. When will the largest private employer in Nigeria, Dangote, realize that he needs these people to grow? Some decades ago, Henry Ford realized that his company would only prosper if his own workers/people earned enough to buy Fords. Surprisingly, Dangote never seemed to figure out that his lack of investment in his own people would eventually curtail the growth of his own company

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Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by strangerf: 4:12am On Apr 29, 2012
naijababe:

Key point that most people are missing, I guess his billions are far more important than his ancestral home. Y'all can scream all day that he is not the government but he still manages to influence/manipulate govt policies in his favour! Oh! I forgot, that's lobbying, right


Which makes him the GOVERNMENT. grin
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by dayokanu(m): 5:21am On Apr 29, 2012
A business man decides to invest where it would make him profit be it Siberia or in Sahara

He is in business to make money and he would locate his business in environments that would pay him the most
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by Kobojunkie: 5:40am On Apr 29, 2012
Orikinla: This article is not about CHARITY you [size=28pt]id-io-ts[/size].

We are talking about needs assessment and investment.

Mr. Dangote made the bulk of his billions from importing goods for decades and what the Hausas needed most were manufacturing industries to produce finished products from their own cash crops and livestock.
If Dangote and his peers in public service and private sector did not neglect their people, Kano and other northern states would not be so underdeveloped.

We spend billions of dollars to import junk foods and other goods we can produce in Nigeria and lack of regular power supply cannot stop that.

Go and study Roger Kaufman.

Dangote was not elected by his people to make things right, neither was he handed what he has free of charge from them, for him to then turn around and invest it in them.

Please be fair-minded. Yes the man is rich, and from Northern Nigeria but know that you do not make the rules on how another should spend his money. You are being very unfair and very biased in your assessment of what role he can play in this. He is free to spend his money as he chooses . . .you have no say as long as it is not yours.

If you have a problem with importation of junk food, then confront your elected leaders and not some private citizen making his money and spending it as the law allows him to.
Re: Open Letter To Alhaji Aliko Dangote On Northern Nigeria And Boko Haram by VanLab(m): 9:17am On Apr 29, 2012
Dangote shldn't be d only one bt other well to do nigerians as well. The fact is that, some of thez nigerians re behind all thez strange happenings. Lets jst pray that God help us!

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