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A family friend of ours was admitted to a hospital in the United Kingdom last year. She had driven her children to school, and on getting there, she couldn’t get out of the car. Other parents who saw her in excruciating pain quickly notified the school authority, and the paramedics were called. She was admitted at the Royal Infirmary Hospital in Leicester.

When I visited her at the hospital, alongside my wife, she informed us that the doctors told her it was sciatica. Since it was not a life-threatening condition, I just assumed she would be out in a few days. I was wrong, as she spent weeks in the hospital. She was later transferred to another hospital, where she spent a couple of days before she was discharged. During another visit, she informed me that they wanted to move her to another ward, but they couldn’t, as there were no bed spaces. I was surprised, and I remembered telling her while in Nigeria, if someone had told me this was happening in the UK, I wouldn’t believe it, but here I am witnessing it with my very eyes. I then wondered why our leaders are always rushing abroad over minor health issues as if they are guaranteed to live forever. At least. If they want private care, there are many private hospitals in Nigeria today with world-class facilities that can handle any medical issues like their foreign counterparts. Why then is the craze for always going abroad for treatment?

The immediate past president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, died last Sunday at the London Clinic located at 22 Devonshire Place, Marylebone, London, at the age of 82. While I offer my condolences to his family, especially the former First Lady Aisha Buhari and his children, I am happy because he died at an old age, as 70-80 years is generally the length of life for mankind, given the scriptural passage in Psalms 90:10.

What I find nauseating, however, is the statement made by another former Nigerian leader, Abdulsalami Abubakar. The former head of state, who handed over the reins of power to a democratically elected president in 1999, disclosed that he and the late Buhari were admitted to the same hospital in London shortly before he (Buhari) passed away. Speaking in an interview, Abdulsalami said he had only just been discharged when the news of Buhari’s death reached him.

Abdulsalami said: “We were actually in the same hospital. I had been discharged, and not long after, I heard the sad news. I went over to condole with the family and help with arrangements to prepare his body for the journey back home.”

Imagine the scenario. Buhari spent days in a highbrow London hospital receiving treatment. Nobody knows how much the payment costs in pounds, although a newspaper claimed it is £3,000 per night. Unfortunately, he died and a federal government delegation led by the Vice President was mandated by President Bola Tinubu to go and repatriate his remains for burial. All that would have been unnecessary and millions of naira saved if he had chosen to be treated in Nigeria.

In the song, Colomentality, the late Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti sang ‘He be saying you are a colonial man. You don be slave man before. Dem don release you now. But you never release yourself'.How apt! The actions of these shameless leaders who keep frittering our monies away all in the name of receiving medical treatment abroad are a huge slap in the face of the likes of the late Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa, Anthony Enahoro, and other nationalists who fought for Nigeria’s independence from the British colonial government. You asked the British government to go away, claiming that you have the full capacity to govern your country. Yet, 64 years later, you are still running like poor slaves to the same country to seek medical solutions to ailments that can be conveniently cured in your country. Yes, the British government has released us from slavery, but we have refused to release ourselves, no thanks to a selfish, short-sighted, corrupt, and inept leadership that has plagued Nigeria for years.

Buhari was to the United Kingdom as the current president, Bola Tinubu, is to France. In 2006, 2Face Idibia released his album Grass2Grace. In one of the tracks titled ‘4 Instance,’ he sang, “For instance, say emí ní Baálẹ̀ of Nigerians. Shey, I go dey respect your own stance. Shey I go create the scenery for better to plenty. Today they make us give a chance. Instead of packing the money dey go France. They make suffering full in abundance.”

When I listened to the song recently, I wondered if 2Baba foresaw what President Bola Tinubu is doing today with his almost monthly visits to France. By frequenting France in the name of medical tourism, President Tinubu is technically packing our monies there, as his treatments are being funded with taxpayers’ money, which could have been used to develop our country, especially the moribund health sector.

Recall that in 2017, Aisha, the wife of the late Buhari, publicly upbraided the chief medical director of the State House Medical Centre, Dr. Husain Munir, for the poor state of the health facility established to take care of the president, vice-president, and their families, as well as members of staff of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to a newspaper report, “Mrs. Buhari admitted that Nigeria was unstable in the last six months owing largely to the President’s ill health that forced him to remain outside the country for months. She wondered what could have happened to a common man on the street if Buhari could spend several months outside Nigeria for health reasons. She recalled that she was sick recently and was advised to travel abroad because of the poor state of the clinic. The president’s wife explained that she had to go to a private hospital owned by foreigners when she was told that the X-ray machine in the State House Medical Centre was not working. Mrs. Buhari told Munir, who was present at the event, that the budget allocated to the clinic must be accounted for.”

The president’s wife added: “I am happy the MD of Aso Rock Clinic is here. Dr. Munir, I am happy you are here. As you are all aware, for the last six months, Nigeria wasn’t stable because of my husband’s ill health. We thank God he has fully recovered now. If somebody like Mr. President can spend several months outside Nigeria, then you wonder what will happen to a man in the street. A few weeks ago, I was sick as well. They advised me to take the first flight out to London; I refused to go. I said I must be treated in Nigeria because there is a budget for an assigned clinic to take care of us. If the budget is N100m, we need to know how the budget is spent. Along the line, I insisted they call Aso Clinic to find out if the X-ray machine is working. They said it was not working. They didn’t know I was the one that was supposed to be in that hospital at that very time. I had to go to a hospital that was established by foreigners 100 percent. What does that mean? There is a budget for the hospital, and if you go there now, you will see a number of constructions going on, but they don’t have a single syringe there. What is the purpose of the buildings if there is no equipment there to work with?”

Aisha Buhari was advised to go abroad for medical treatment, but she said no! I must be treated here in my country like the common man. That is what leadership is all about. Yearly in Nigeria, billions are budgeted yearly to build and equip hospitals; the monies are looted, yet nobody is held accountable, as those in charge of the hospitals are aware that the president and other political office holders, including their families, don’t use the hospitals but hop on private jets and the next available flight to the UK, France, and other foreign hospitals. Who monitors how these monies are being utilised? None!

In February, the coordinating minister of health and social welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, said that patients from the UK, the US, and other countries of the world are now coming to Nigeria to receive medical treatments. While the minister’s claim is true, it must be noted that these people coming from abroad are making use of private hospitals in Nigeria with world-class facilities, which are beyond the reach of the common man. If foreigners are coming here to receive medical treatments, why can’t the president also lead by example by opting to be treated here instead of ‘packing our money to France,’ like 2face sang?

When President Tinubu announced the removal of the fuel subsidy in May 2023, some analysts hailed the decision as a bold step toward fiscal discipline. They argued that though it was hasty, the removal would free up significant revenue that could be redirected toward infrastructure, education, health, and other pressing national priorities. I had expected that President Tinubu would utilise the monies realised from the subsidy removal to initiate projects that would benefit the common man.

Imagine using that money to renovate and equip Federal Medical Centres (FMCs) and hospitals like the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan, Oyo State, to world-class standards, and handing it over to the private sector to manage and subsidise healthcare for the poor masses. Rather, the president shared the money with state governors in what many have alleged as a ploy to buy their loyalty. No wonder even the governors in the opposition are defecting to his party. A state governor in the south-west even announced the renovation of the state’s government house for a whopping N63.4 billion while the major hospital in his state is in a parlous condition.

May the soul of former President Buhari rest in peace. Whether you seek treatment abroad or locally, on the moon or in the subterranean world, you will die when your time is up. Why not just improve the medical facilities here so that you and every member of society can benefit? And for Oga Femi Adesina, who said Nigeria lacks the expertise needed to handle Buhari’s health and that he would have died a long time ago if he had relied on Nigerian hospitals to manage his health, I am sure he is reading the reactions of Nigerians online.

Akinsuyi, former group politics editor of the Daily Independent, writes from Abuja. He can be reached at shabydayo@gmail.com

https://www.thecable.ng/foreign-medical-treatment-and-self-colonising-mentality-of-nigerian-leaders/

The western nations are not forcing them to come and get treatment abroad. It is our leaders that gat no shame

Okay, we want to have a healthcare system like the UK....let us find something like 750 billion dollars a year to get that kind of healthcare system...ie 750 billion dollars for health.

Want to know how much it costs to build a world class hospital in Nigeria? It will cost at least 6 billion dollars. Our health care budget is at least 2-3 billion dollars. And the poor won't be able to go there, because they need to pay back the loans they took for the hospital..so rich people need apply.

The simple reason is this. IN 2023, you guys voted for the same old chop chop government. The oppositon is made up of the same chop chop government. The Nigerian versions of Lee Kwam yeu, Park chung hee, Deng Tsiaoping, even the Meiji Emperor and even people like Stalin , who was brutal, but took the USSR from pesantry to war prepraredness in ten years, because for all his faults, he could see that palaver was coming as far back as 1931.....you won['t vote for them, because they won't give you free money. They will make you work for your money and only give free money to those willing to set up working industries and suchlike.

You want to go to get paper qualificatons so that you work in office, not technicans and vocational stuff that we need for development. We want free light, free fuel, free everything.

And apparently my pointing it out means I am agbado supporter. Person wey no vote tinubu.

Heck you praise millei in Argentina, but you don't want him coming here to rule us. or voting for his equivalents here.

SO, tell me, where are you going to get 750 billion or more for world klass healthcare from cradle to grave? Na to borrow am? You think say the whites and asians will give you free money?

Seriously on this site, we know how to complain and grumble...but when solutions are pointed out, we cry we are all poor. Ok POOR PEOPLE DESERVE POOR HEALTHCARE. Simple and short.

750 billion dollars to build a well equipped hospital Have you had your meds today

nairalanda1:
Okay, we want to have a healthcare system like the UK....let us find something like 750 billion dollars a year to get that kind of healthcare system...ie 750 billion dollars for health.

Want to know how much it costs to build a world class hospital in Nigeria? It will cost at least 6 billion dollars. Our health care budget is at least 2-3 billion dollars. And the poor won't be able to go there, because they need to pay back the loans they took for the hospital..so rich people need apply.

The simple reason is this. IN 2023, you guys voted for the same old chop chop government. The oppositon is made up of the same chop chop government. The Nigerian versions of Lee Kwam yeu, Park chung hee, Deng Tsiaoping, even the Meiji Emperor and even people like Stalin , who was brutal, but took the USSR from pesantry to war prepraredness in ten years, because for all his faults, he could see that palaver was coming as far back as 1931.....you won['t vote for them, because they won't give you free money. They will make you work for your money and only give free money to those willing to set up working industries and suchlike.

You want to go to get paper qualificatons so that you work in office, not technicans and vocational stuff that we need for development. We want free light, free fuel, free everything.

And apparently my pointing it out means I am agbado supporter. Person wey no vote tinubu.

Heck you praise millei in Argentina, but you don't want him coming here to rule us. or voting for his equivalents here.

SO, tell me, where are you going to get 750 billion or more for world klass healthcare from cradle to grave? Na to borrow am? You think say the whites and asians will give you free money?

Seriously on this site, we know how to complain and grumble...but when solutions are pointed out, we cry we are all poor. Ok POOR PEOPLE DESERVE POOR HEALTHCARE. Simple and short.

bolaayenimo:
Have you had your meds today

You look beautiful today. That pink lipstick is becoming on you and the pink dress you are wearing makes you look divine. How nice, eh?


If you want to hide something from a nigerian, keep it in writing. At least most nigerians.

nairalanda1:
Okay, we want to have a healthcare system like the UK....let us find something like 750 billion dollars a year to get that kind of healthcare system...ie 750 billion dollars for health.

Want to know how much it costs to build a world class hospital in Nigeria? It will cost at least 6 billion dollars. Our health care budget is at least 2-3 billion dollars. And the poor won't be able to go there, because they need to pay back the loans they took for the hospital..so rich people need apply.

The simple reason is this. IN 2023, you guys voted for the same old chop chop government. The oppositon is made up of the same chop chop government. The Nigerian versions of Lee Kwam yeu, Park chung hee, Deng Tsiaoping, even the Meiji Emperor and even people like Stalin , who was brutal, but took the USSR from pesantry to war prepraredness in ten years, because for all his faults, he could see that palaver was coming as far back as 1931.....you won['t vote for them, because they won't give you free money. They will make you work for your money and only give free money to those willing to set up working industries and suchlike.

You want to go to get paper qualificatons so that you work in office, not technicans and vocational stuff that we need for development. We want free light, free fuel, free everything.

And apparently my pointing it out means I am agbado supporter. Person wey no vote tinubu.

Heck you praise millei in Argentina, but you don't want him coming here to rule us. or voting for his equivalents here.

SO, tell me, where are you going to get 750 billion or more for world klass healthcare from cradle to grave? Na to borrow am? You think say the whites and asians will give you free money?

Seriously on this site, we know how to complain and grumble...but when solutions are pointed out, we cry we are all poor. Ok POOR PEOPLE DESERVE POOR HEALTHCARE. Simple and short.

All you are saying is thrash,all the monies used to treat these presidents can build good hospitals to treat them and can build more to treat Nigerians ,it's not rocket science

Nigeria is just being plagued by useless unaccountable and irresponsible people called leaders

You are right my darling. People like him are the reason why our leaders are taking us for a ride. N750 billion dollars to build one hospital. Nonsense

okpouman:
All you are saying is thrash,all the monies used to treat these presidents can build good hospitals to treat them and can build more to treat Nigerians ,it's not rocket science

okpouman:
All you are saying is thrash,all the monies used to treat these presidents can build good hospitals to treat them and can build more to treat Nigerians ,it's not rocket science

Okay, so we spend all the looted money on good healthcare?

Good, my idea exactly...you are a wise man.

But tell me, dear wise man on the mountain, how do we pay for maintenance, upgrades and the like.

Simple, we vote for leaders who will take us to an economy based on manufactured goods and services/.....like Germany, USA, and JAPAN, and korea and china.....or we keep voting for tinubu, obi, atiku and company.

From your opinion, it seems you regard developed nations as trash economies. Ah well,enjoy your roasted corn then, or should I say, your akpu and miyan kuka...

This is the painful irony of these sanctimonious hypocrites who politically promised the opposite of what they ended up doing. Too bad! So sad!

bolaayenimo:
You are right my darling. People like him are the reason why our leaders are taking us for a ride. N750 billion dollars to build one hospital. Nonsense

So, saying we should have an economy like that of japan, china, korea, germania, even the USA and so forth....means that I support corrupt leaders?

RIGHT...thanks for missing my message.

It costs more than our healthcare budget to build one world class hospital. That is before looting.

And we need far more than the looted money in Nigeria to reach world class...that's why you need to vote for someone who will take us to where the developed countries are, not tinubu again.

But you guys do not see the vision.

nairalanda1:
Okay, so we spend all the looted money on good healthcare?

Good, my idea exactly...you are a wise man.

But tell me, dear wise man on the mountain, how do we pay for maintenance, upgrades and the like.

Simple, we vote for leaders who will take us to an economy based on manufactured goods and services/.....like Germany, USA, and JAPAN, and korea and china.....or we keep voting for tinubu, obi, atiku and company.

From your opinion, it seems you regard developed nations as trash economies. Ah well,enjoy your roasted corn then, or should I say, your akpu and miyan kuka...

The issue with this theory of being a manufacturing country people don't consider is that who will you export to? Who will buy your goods? The market for manufactured goods have already been captured by developed nations it's almost too late to tow that line.nobody will buy Nigerian manufactured goods maybe except in Africa which the demands will not meet expectations.

What Nigeria really needs is effective use and management of its resources then internal production of its own good,manufacturing for export will hardly work,what can work is like what dangote is doing,producing refined or processed products

Ok come and contest in 2027 to replace Tinubu. I will vote for you

nairalanda1:
What Nigeria really needs is effective use and management of its resources then internal production of its own good,manufacturing for export will hardly work,what can work is like what dangote is doing,producing refined or processed products This captures it all

RIGHT...thanks for missing my message.

It costs more than our healthcare budget to build one world class hospital. That is before looting.

And we need far more than the looted money in Nigeria to reach world class...that's why you need to vote for someone who will take us to where the developed countries are, not tinubu again.

But you guys do not see the vision.

For Nigeria to develop to the level of a first world nation, we need a government that is commited to doing the hard work of freeing us from debt and subsides and leading us into industrialization , manufacturing, innovation, and development, not because it is easy, but because it is beneficial.

It does not matter if we suffer even more for a generation, why many nations did the same and suffered until the gains came in.

Running the economy the way APC Is running it, and the way PDP has run it and the army has run it is basically postponing the inevitable decision....work or freebies. The road to heaven is always hellish. We cannot use free loans to pretend all is well, and we cannot pretend that we are running the right kind of government now.

Nigeria must industrialize. It is the only way. We do not need tinubunomics, nor adc, nor buharinomics, nor gej, nor obasanjo nor the army again, we must need a leadership that will take us to the point where we reach the stars, and where should the breakup come, each and every constituent part can stand strong on its own, producing for the world for eternity and beyond.

Long live the republic.

bolaayenimo:
Ok come and contest in 2027 to replace Tinubu. I will vote for you

NO, you run. You guys must free yourselves from your shackles.

okpouman:
The issue with this theory of being a manufacturing country people don't consider is that who will you export to? Who will buy your goods? The market for manufactured goods have already been captured by developed nations it's almost too late to tow that line.nobody will buy Nigerian manufactured goods maybe except in Africa which the demands will not meet expectations.

What Nigeria really needs is effective use and management of its resources then internal production of its own good,manufacturing for export will hardly work,what can work is like what dangote is doing,producing refined or processed products

OKay, we keep on relying on oil then.

Or we industrialize. There is no middle ground.

Even with effective management, and zero corruption, a budget of 33 trillion naira cannot do anything for the masses.

Nigeria must industrialize, and we will find customers. No iffs and buts.

Our leaders are mediocre because they practice resource dependent economics, and short term thinking economics.

Management won't change anything.

Well, it's kind of funny, but apparently saying nigeria must industrialize means i support corruption

The people who are saying that, say it because they want their side to win.

TOmorrow, when their side wins, they will parrot my messages

Wait and see.

APC Out.

I remember Jonathan once patronised a Nigerian hospital

OBJ was also notorious for patronising Nigerian hospitals

All these craze for foreign hospitals came with the APC that shouted Chanji

They only changed their pockets while leaving zombies with 30k

Until we get a leader that will say like Aisha Buhari, treat me in Nigeria, then we are just wasting our time

very true. Buhari and Tinubu started it. Imagine Femi Adesina saying Nigeria lack doctors to treat Buhari here

Kukutente23:
I remember Jonathan once patronised a Nigerian hospital

OBJ was also notorious for patronising Nigerian hospitals

All these craze for foreign hospitals came with the APC that shouted Chanji

They only changed their pockets while leaving zombies with 30k

i don’t need to read it all, self colonizing just explained it all.

Even if you love foreign doctors all much. you have so much money to bring them in. Talking about medical equipments you can afford it. But you can provide electricity to power the equipments.

I tire for these meen

nairalanda1:
OKay, we keep on relying on oil then.

Or we industrialize. There is no middle ground.

Even with effective management, and zero corruption, a budget of 33 trillion naira cannot do anything for the masses.

Nigeria must industrialize, and we will find customers. No iffs and buts.

There are many resources that Nigeria can rely on to come out of poverty then begin gradual industrialisation, the issue is corruption- that is lack of effective management and accountability. Forcing industrialisation will cause more problems than solutions. It will be destructive,it is what we should have done in the seventies,It's very late now,it's like a 64 years old man going back to primary school hoping to become a prof before he dies,it's not impossible but it's almost futile,it would take atleast 20 years to achieve it and that would mean he'd be 84 before he can have a chance of being a prof if he doesn't die before then.

If Nigeria tries to force industrialisation it will take atleast 20 years before we can even be in the conversation by then a lot of turmoil would have occurred and Nigeria might not survive it.we should have done it in the seventies or at worst from 1999.

What Nigeria needs to do is to use what it has to get what it wants ,with a gradual build up we can then industrialise but it shouldn't be the focus now.

Tinubu is not the right kind of leader to make Nigeria a grear nation

okpouman:
There are many resources that Nigeria can rely on to come out of poverty then begin gradual industrialisation, the issue is corruption- that is lack of effective management and accountability. Forcing industrialisation will cause more problems than solutions. It will be destructive,it is what we should have done in the seventies,It's very late now,it's like a 64 years old man going back to primary school hoping to become a prof before he dies,it's not impossible but it's almost futile,it would take atleast 20 years to achieve it and that would mean he'd be 84 before he can have a chance of being a prof if he doesn't die before then.

If Nigeria tries to force industrialisation it will take atleast 20 years before we can even be in the conversation by then a lot of turmoil would have occurred and Nigeria might not survive it.we should have done it in the seventies or at worst from 1999.

What Nigeria needs to do is to use what it has to get what it wants ,with a gradual build up we can then industrialise but it shouldn't be the focus now.

okpouman:
There are many resources that Nigeria can rely on to come out of poverty then begin gradual industrialisation, the issue is corruption- that is lack of effective management and accountability. Forcing industrialisation will cause more problems than solutions. It will be destructive,it is what we should have done in the seventies,It's very late now,it's like a 64 years old man going back to primary school hoping to become a prof before he dies,it's not impossible but it's almost futile,it would take atleast 20 years to achieve it and that would mean he'd be 84 before he can have a chance of being a prof if he doesn't die before then.

If Nigeria tries to force industrialisation it will take atleast 20 years before we can even be in the conversation by then a lot of turmoil would have occurred and Nigeria might not survive it.we should have done it in the seventies or at worst from 1999.

What Nigeria needs to do is to use what it has to get what it wants ,with a gradual build up we can then industrialise but it shouldn't be the focus now.

Or we can use the resources to make stuff the world needs.

We must industrialize. It's our only hope

nairalanda1:
Or we can use the resources to make stuff the world needs.

We must industrialize. It's our only hope

The thing is,it's easier said than done,its not easy to make stuff oo

nairalanda1:
Okay, we want to have a healthcare system like the UK....let us find something like 750 billion dollars a year to get that kind of healthcare system...ie 750 billion dollars for health.

Want to know how much it costs to build a world class hospital in Nigeria? It will cost at least 6 billion dollars. Our health care budget is at least 2-3 billion dollars. And the poor won't be able to go there, because they need to pay back the loans they took for the hospital..so rich people need apply.

The simple reason is this. IN 2023, you guys voted for the same old chop chop government. The oppositon is made up of the same chop chop government. The Nigerian versions of Lee Kwam yeu, Park chung hee, Deng Tsiaoping, even the Meiji Emperor and even people like Stalin , who was brutal, but took the USSR from pesantry to war prepraredness in ten years, because for all his faults, he could see that palaver was coming as far back as 1931.....you won['t vote for them, because they won't give you free money. They will make you work for your money and only give free money to those willing to set up working industries and suchlike.

You want to go to get paper qualificatons so that you work in office, not technicans and vocational stuff that we need for development. We want free light, free fuel, free everything.

And apparently my pointing it out means I am agbado supporter. Person wey no vote tinubu.

Heck you praise millei in Argentina, but you don't want him coming here to rule us. or voting for his equivalents here.

SO, tell me, where are you going to get 750 billion or more for world klass healthcare from cradle to grave? Na to borrow am? You think say the whites and asians will give you free money?

Seriously on this site, we know how to complain and grumble...but when solutions are pointed out, we cry we are all poor. Ok POOR PEOPLE DESERVE POOR HEALTHCARE. Simple and short.

An intelligent write up... but we do not need such amount to revamp out healthcare... Healthcare is like ICT... it has its branches... and most have been productively harnessed in Nigeria by Entrepreneurs...

I would rather share with you the sole reason why Nigerian leaders seek foreign medical tourism... I learnt this from an Egyptian colleague...

He asked me what I thought was the reason of Nigerian leaders choice of foreign hospitals... I shared some observations... but he said what surprised me...

Nigerian leaders travel abroad for treatment because they always want to appear to the public and their oppositions as always healthy... so they sneak abroad to get some health check-up... then on arrival... their media team snap them at the moment their pose strongest ...

To sum up the matter... he also said that these government officials are usually managed by Nigerian doctors who are based abroad...

Just bunch of wicked people. Because you are poor, does it mean you can't have access to good Healthcare?

san4P:
An intelligent write up... but we do not need such amount to revamp out healthcare... Healthcare is like ICT... it has its branches... and most have been productively harnessed in Nigeria by Entrepreneurs...

I would rather share with you the sole reason why Nigerian leaders seek foreign medical tourism... I learnt this from an Egyptian colleague...

He asked me what I thought was the reason of Nigerian leaders choice of foreign hospitals... I shared some observations... but he said what surprised me...

Nigerian leaders travel abroad for treatment because they always want to appear to the public and their oppositions as always healthy... so they sneak abroad to get some health check-up... then on arrival... their media team snap them at the moment their pose strongest ...

To sum up the matter... he also said that these government officials are usually managed by Nigerian doctors who are based abroad...

It's not about economics. It's about doing the right thing which they have faiked to do

nairalanda1:
Our leaders are mediocre because they practice resource dependent economics, and short term thinking economics.

Management won't change anything.