Thursday, February 3, 2011

Memo to My President :- What Manner of "Economic Growth/Development"?!

Mr President; while it is indisputable that the Nigerian Economy is still "buoyant" and "growing" ( in reality, Nigeria is not a "poor" country; only a TOTALLY MISMANAGED, LOOTED & MESSED UP COUNTRY!!!) and some people are making "a hell of profit from Nigeria's LOOPSIDED + DYSFUNCTIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH" e.g those FEW “LEGIS-LOOTERS earning N290 Million/Annum, those given contracts to "Import" dust bins from Britain at HIGHLY INFLATED CONTRACT COST ( something that is/can be easily produced in Nigeria), those who "benefited immensely from the N17Billion 50th Independence Anniversary, Government Officials ( FG, State & LG) who MILK THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY/COMMONWEALTH ENDLESSLY INTO THEIR PRIVATE ACCOUNTS,etc, etc; we cannot discountenance the estimated more than 70% of OUR PEOPLE who are EXCLUDED from this "reported" Economic Growth for whom daily existence is a "brutish matter of life and death" in the MIDST OF PLENTY!!!
Your Excellency; I for one am VERY ASHAMED of what is going on not only in Nigeria but in virtually all African Countries (mostly Sub Saharan African Nations), and I will NEVER celebrate what is not worth celebrating at all UNLESS you and others in Government/Leadership are telling us and the whole world that the more than 70% Nigerians who SURVIVE DAILY IN SUB-HUMAN CONDITIONS do not mean/amount to  ANYTHING to you and our other "Nigerian Leaders"!
Refs:
1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/mpi/
2] http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/NGA.html
3] http://www.afriqueavenir.org/en/2010/11/09/sub-saharan-africa-has-highest-multidimensional-poverty-incidence-un/
4] http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/
Respectfully from a Nigerian Citizen & A Stakeholder in the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
~ 'Gbolahan 'Gbolaga Oyeniyi Oyebamiji Olubowale MSW,
Nigeria & Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc,
Maryland, USA.

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