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kosovo

why am i a pig

kobojunkie

if i may go back to the analogy you used earlier of the relationship between two lovers - britain's relationship with nigeria pre independence was far from a loving one it was an exploitative one so i think it would be more appropriate to refer to it as a relationship between a love-vendor and a prostitute - the love-vendor would farm out the prostitute to do its bidding and the love-vendor wouldnt care how much harm or damage the prostitute sustained as long as the love-vendor was getting paid at the end of the day. the prostitute didnt care either because at least she was getting enough money to sustain her expensive crack habit it didnt matter that her physical and mental well being were going downhill in the process.

now the love-vendor realises that its actually safer for him to make himself less visible around the prostitute because the prostitute's relatives are beginning to realise that the relationship is extremely abusive and its having a knock on effect on them so the love-vendor decides to communicate with the prostitute by way of long distance phone calls only, PROVIDED the prostitute continues to do the love-vendor's bidding ie persecute and murder anyone who is a threat to the love-vendor's position, underdevelop the prostitutes country , destroy the economy, take on humungous loans which lead to humungous debt etc, whatever is bad for the country but good for the love-vendor's interests is fine - its called NEO COLONIALISM and despite not being as overtly detectable as colonialism is just as destructive.

the white man is not stupid - he needs natural resources and he knows he can get them on the cheap from the greedy, stupid black man (the prostitute) without having to go to war with him and losing the lives of his own people so this is an ingenious way around it.

the love-vendor (the white man) knows also that in a country like nigeria, people's loyalties are split along ethnic lines, he knows this because he shoved these disparate groups of people together knowing full well that they wouldnt be able to work together as a united country but that was okay because he had no intention of wanting them to work together, what he wanted was for them to fight each other because this would strengthen his position and he would be able to continue to play them off against each other (divide and rule)

3m innocent lives were lost in a needless war because of the treachery of the love-vendor (britain) he conspired with the prostitute (the north) who he felt was easier to control in order to rig the first elections and deny the rest of nigeria their rights as citizens in order to protect his interests (oil).

now to answer your question what has this got to do with the failure on the part of the nigerian govt to deliver education, healthcare , adequate standard of living to its people etc - well a lot, when i mentioned earlier that nigeria was still paying off money it borrowed from imf and world bank you didnt understand what i was talking about well these are some of the conditions that nigeria agreed to be bound by in order to qualify for these loans: cuts in public sector employment, cuts in social service spending such as education and health, currency devaluation, privatisation of public services by foreign private investors and all these dramatically lower the living standards of ordinary people.

despite this you will see that the north is still much more developed than the south even though the oil wealth does not come from that section of the country, the south on the other hand is a different story - take for instance Aba in Abia state - a cesspit of a town with terrible pot holed roads, disgusting rubbish heaps in town centres and dilapidated buildings, the place is like an open sewer but this is no coincidence who are the leaders of these southern towns - lapdogs and agents of the same oligarchy who have been handpicked as a result of their loyalty to their northern masters, these rogues and thugs who do not have the interests of their own people at heart are not the people's choice anyone who tries to bring about constructive change is either removed or hounded out of office for failing to stick to the northern oligarchies agenda of underdevelopment or non development of the south - that is the scenario in a nutshell. therefore change has to come from outside the oligarchy ie the grassroots, only a person who has no allegiance to the oligarchy and is able to TRANSCEND ethnicity as well as win the confidence of the people (no easy task in a multi ethnic nation) can genuinely deliver the people's mandate of justice and equality for all, NOT agents of the oligarchy.

kobojunkie i apologise if i came across as rude but this is a very emotive topic and i get really angry when people fail to accept britain's culpability in nigeria's subsequent demise post independence.

britain has in its national archives, documents which remain classified until 2057 setting out britain's involvement in the rigging of the first elections which enabled the north to win and retain power. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/nige

now the question is why dont they want us to see these documents? to my mind it must be because they have something to hide, therefore to dismiss britain's involvement and subsequent control over nigeria post independence would be a serious oversight.

i attach a link of an interview between a former us economist and the western media detailing how he used to collude with the US in order to impoverish various third world countries by lending them more money than they could ever afford to repay - nigeria is one of the countries he was involved with.
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man


i also attach a link detailing the west's current plans for africa's natural resources

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=203853194&blogId=501185582

kobojunkie

do you understand the meaning of the word neo colonialism because it seems from your ignorant response you dont the analogy that you have used of the relationship between someone who has been dumped and subsequent mistakes that they have gone on to make displays just how ignorant you are of nigeria's relationship with the west.

first of all nigeria was NEVER dumped by britain - as a matter of fact britain retained its economic hold over nigeria albeit by way of puppet leaders - do you seriously beleive that britain would give up an oil rich nation just because a few nationalists wanted independence - how naive of you to totally lack understanding of what realpolitiks is all about.

please snap out of your deluded state nigeria is "independent" in name only - it is too valuable a country to the west to be left alone.

for your information the current hausa fulani oligarchy are in power because they are backed by britain - they are armed by britain and they are consolidated in power by britain - yes it is up to us to remove them from power in order to stop the looting but are we willing to put ethnic differences aside and sacrifice our lives in order to acheive that objective because i can assure you that they will not go without a fight.

if you are unaware that we're still paying off imf loans then you're beyond help - to dismiss this is an indication of just how far behind you are in your understanding and knowledge of africa and its relationship with the west.

ogajim

ill tell you why he should help us out of this mess because he has been responsible for setting in motion the following chain of events that have systematically destroyed our economy -  slavery, colonialism and now neo colonialism - furthermore he has collaborated with our nigerian kleptocrats to loot our economy by imposing huge imf and world bank loans on us with draconian conditions which have caused so much hardship to our people

we need him to cancel these imf/world bank loans that we are still tied to because in actual fact HE OWES US REPARATIONS for the years of  economic exploitation that we have been subjected to and are still being subjected to.

we also need him to  lift the conditionalities that stipulate that they only lend us money subject to us selling our oil at rock bottom prices which current  and previous corrupt regimes signed us up to and we need him to renegotiate  more equitable trade agreements with us so that we can start rebuilding the economy.

i think some people are missing the point - "education" does not necessarily make you intelligent - we like to pat ourselves on the back about how "educated" we are. has this so called education enabled us to prevent the destruction of our country at the hands of the hausa fulani oligarchy over the past 40 years.

we are greedy, selfish and have no long term vision - we are NOT a nation - look at the 3m innocent lives lost during the biafran civil war - history will continue to repeat itself as is happening now with the niger delta crisis - the white man is standing by watching us rape and murder our own people and they couldnt give a shit cos at the end of he day as long as they're still able to buy the oil at rock bottom prices thats all that matters to them.

when are we going to wake up

the hausa fulani oligarchy are lackeys and houseboys of the western powers, all the southern leaders that we have had are hand picked by this northern oligarchy they have the power to veto any southern leader that they dont want and this is how the country has been run and will continue to be run if there is no change.

the only way out of this mess now is secession. let each region go its own separate way - but my fear now is that the western powers will fight tooth and nail to stop this from happening as they did in the case of biafra they will continue to aid, abet and arm their hausa fulani collaborators until the oil dries up.

i totally agree with the above statement, despite being a nigerian myself.

fela said it in sorrow, tears and blood -

but its not just our failure to stand up to oppression its our inability to see that there is something extremely immoral about standing by and watching our fellow citizens being raped, beaten and murdered by the nigerian military - this pathetic reliance on religon without wanting to take your own destiny in your own hands like citizens of other great nations have done before - look at venezuela (an oil producing country like nigeria) - when america tried to overthrow chavez - ordinary people came out en masse and revolted - the army were sent in to fire on their own people but when they saw the overwhelming numbers of people who came out to revolt they laid down their weapons - can that happen in nigeria - i think not because the average nigerian will not want to take that first step to challenging the system and therefore the cycle of tyranny continues.

ive just finished arguing with some numbskull who refused to condemn the current genocide that is currently being perpetrated by our nigerian military against the people of the niger delta region, his argument was that these militants are a bunch of thugs and criminals instead of condemniing the rape and murder thats being carried out by the nigerian military he chose to bleat on about how formidable our military is - what a joke!

every oppressed group in the history of man has risen up or at least attempted to rise up to throw off the shackles of oppression but not us - no we cower away and think of increasing ways to brutalise each other instead of focusing on our real enemy.

i dread to imagine how nigeria will end up if africom succeeds in locating a military base there.