Let’s hear the former Attorney General Of The Federation.

Nigeria is a very complex country. Our problems did not start yesterday. It started about 1894.

Lord Lugard came here about 1894 and many people did not know that Major Lugard was not originally employed by the British government. He was employed by companies. He was first employed by East Indian Company, by the Royal East African Company and then by the Royal Niger Company. It was from the Royal Niger Company that he transferred to the British government.

Unless you know this background, you will not know the root causes of our problems. The interest of the Europeans in Africa and indeed in Nigeria was economic and it’s still economic. They have no permanent friends and no permanent interest. Neither their interest nor their friends are permanent. Nigeria was created as British sphere of interests for business.

In 1898, Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force initially with 2,000 soldiers and that was the beginning of our problems.

Anybody that wants to know the root cause of all the coups in this book and our present problems and who does not know the evolution of Nigeria would just be looking at the matter superficially. Our problems started from that time. And Lugard was what they called at that time imperialist. A number of British soldiers, businessmen, politicians were very patriotic. But I must warn you, they were operating in the interest of their country. Lugard became a Lord. Nigerians, too, should operate in the interest of their country.

When Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force with 2,000 troops, about 90 percent of them were from the North mainly from the middle belt. And his dispatches to London between that time and January 1914 was extremely interesting. Lugard came here for a purpose and that purpose was British interest.

Between 1898 and 1914, he sent a number of dispatches to London which led to the Amalgamation of 1914. The Order-in-Council was drawn up in November 1913, signed and came into force in January 1914. In those dispatches, Lugard said a number of things which are the root causes of yesterday and today’s problems. The British needed the Railway from the North to the Coast in the interest of British business. Amalgamation of the South (not of the people) became of crucial importance to British business interest.

He said the North and South should be amalgamated. Southern Nigeria came into existence on January 1900…….At the centenary of the fall of Benin, I wrote a piece in a number of papers but before I published the piece, I sent a copy to the Oba of Benin.

So when Benin was conquered in 1896, .................(READ MORE) This is a secret every Nigerian Needs to Know.

SOURCE: https://odinceblog.com/the-amalgamation-of-nigeria-was-a-scam-chief-akinjide-san-full-details/

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History is essential but forging ahead for the future is critical and this is the bane of our development. We look at the negative side of our history and continue to dwell on it. What is stopping our progress as a people? Nigeria is not even as complex as India and America yet we don't grow. The first coup and war including the discovery of oil at oloibiri in 1957 are major set back if not the parliamentary system of govt at the time with all it's inadequacies I believe is still the best and would have had different constitutional conference setting Nigeria at an enviable economic and social environment