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First of all I must thank you for using a picture to tell many stories. In the picture, is a Chinese businessman making a phone call in the rain and a Nigerian police officer holding an umbrella over his head. I am not sure why we allow our police officers to be used as private body guards for business men and anybody who can afford to pay for it. I am of the understanding that they are law enforcers and meant to protect the community from criminal activities.
The Chinese are trying to be our new colonial masters as their economy is opening wide to the world, we have an advantage if only we can learn from our past mistakes with our previous colonial masters. The term colonial master should be changed to trading partners. They need our oil but what are we getting in return? They have promised us what I term as 'visual development' i.e. construction of roads, railway and many more. Looking very deep into this, are we going to be getting the exact proportion of what we give them or they will be out to exploit us just as we have opened ourselves to exploitation since the dawn of slave trade?
At the moment, we are African's largest economy, apart from our resources, our population dictates the market in Africa but potentials have not been exploited to the fullest. We have to know that emerging nations like India and China are now competing directly with Europe and America. These new market leaders need to get resources from places like Africa for raw materials, cheap labour, petroleum, etc. They also need to make money by exporting products like weapons, textile, machinery, vehicles and many other junks to us.
We as a nation need to be very careful, our territorial waters are spotted by different rigs with flags from different nations all taking advantage of the oil abundance in the region. It is difficult to say how long we will continue to be a foot mart to the world and as that police officer in the picture holds the umbrella over the head of that man continues to do so, we might not find our purpose as a nation.
This is what we Africans are good at, protecting the foreingers who come to steal our wealth and resources, while we kill and brutalise each other.I wonder how long it will take before we make the connection,foreingners stealing our wealth and resources=POVERTY FOR AFRICANS.The guy must be holding the gun to shoot mosquitoes, and the umbrella to make sure , that the Chinese guy does not get too dark for China.
Behold, The Foreign Direct Investor and the Akotileta Kill and Go. No African anywhere on the planet is above the contempt of the one. No foreigner is below the worship of the other.
What stops this eediot in knickers from holding the umbrella himself?
I am angry.............so angry!!
Now how this chinko guy enter Nigeria? Whats the residence status on his passport? Does he pay taxes regularly? Are the contract papers for the buildings in the background passed through due process and bidded openly?
I am wondering if it is the same picture we are looking at. Why are you guys getting all hot and bothered? I do not see any reason on racial grounds (except maybe historically) to get angry in this particular situation. Afterall there are replicates of this same picture around the world of same colour men; white, yellow, black etc with the same postures. These men are only seperated by wealth and priviledge...
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