The chaos in El Salvador before Bukele was never an accident, and the chaos in Haiti today is not an accident either.
The media told you that the gangs were just poor boys who went bad on their own, but that story falls apart the moment you ask one simple question.
Where does a poor sixteen year old boy living in a slum with no job and no money get an AK-47 and an AR-15 and a Glock and thousands of rounds of ammunition, and where does he get a brand new Toyota Hilux and motorcycles and speedboats and drones and encrypted phones and bulletproof vests and night vision goggles, and who pays his monthly salary and pays for his safe house and pays his lawyer when he is arrested and pays the police and the judge and the prison guard to look the other way, and who pays his family when he dies?
A poor boy cannot afford even one bullet, so someone else is paying for all of it.
That someone is the multimillionaires and the billionaires and the wealthy entities who profit from chaos, because chaos is a business and a broken country is the most profitable business in the world.
When a country is in chaos its land becomes cheap so they can buy it, its gold and its drugs and its resources can be stolen without anyone asking questions, its government becomes weak so they can control it, and its people become so scared that they obey anyone who promises them a little safety.
In El Salvador the gangs were not fighting the system, the gangs were the system, paid to keep the poor terrorized so the poor would never rise up and demand a better country.
In Haiti it is the same story, the gangs are not independent, they are funded and armed and protected by rich families and foreign businessmen and foreign NGOs who want Haiti to stay weak so they can keep stealing its ports and its gold and its labour.
And when a man like Bukele comes and says I will lock up all the gangs and end this in two years, who attacks him? It is the same people.
The same billionaires who fund the gangs fund the media that calls Bukele a dictator, the same wealthy entities who arm the gangs fund the NGOs that cry human rights for murderers, the same people who profit from chaos fund the political voices that hate real help in Haiti and sabotage anyone who is actually capable of doing it.
Look at the pattern and it becomes clear, when a gang kills a hundred innocent people there is silence, but when a leader kills a hundred gang members there is outrage.
When a gang rapes children there is no campaign, but when Bukele locks up rapists there is a global campaign against him.
That is because the media is not independent, it is owned by billionaires, the NGOs are not independent, they are funded by billionaires, and the politicians are not independent, they are bought by billionaires.
They do not want Haiti saved and they did not want El Salvador saved, they want them broken, because a broken country is cheap to buy and easy to control.
Bukele exposed them, he proved that gangs can be destroyed in months if you have the will, and that terrified them, because if El Salvador can be fixed then Haiti can be fixed, and if Haiti can be fixed then Africa can be fixed, and if Africa can be fixed then the billionaires lose their business.
That is why they demonize Bukele, that is why they sabotage Haiti, that is why they hate any man who actually helps the poor.
While much of the world innovates, produces, and competes for excellence, too many Nigerians are trapped in the daily struggle to survive, searching for someone wealthy or politically connected enough to pay their bills.
We have built a culture where knowing someone often matters more than knowing something, where loyalty to powerful individuals can be more rewarding than competence, and where bright young people are reduced to defending, flattering or doing the dirty work of those who control opportunities.
Perhaps the saddest part is how ordinary this has become.
We beg elected officials for what functioning institutions should provide. We celebrate politicians for distributing a fraction of the public resources entrusted to them. We mistake personal generosity for good governance and proximity to power for progress.
Of course, poverty leaves people with difficult choices. A hungry person cannot be lectured about political independence. But there is something deeply troubling about a system that sustains dependency and then rewards itself for offering occasional relief.
Nigeria has no shortage of talent, ambition or enterprise. Yet too much of our collective energy goes into seeking favours rather than building anything lasting.
Somewhere along the way, we began to see ourselves as beneficiaries of political power rather than citizens from whom that power derives.
And perhaps that is our most sobering loss: a country of millions, increasingly dependent on the goodwill of a few, forgetting that those few are supposed to serve the many.
Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.
You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.
You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.
You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.
You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.
You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.
Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.
My Manifesto:
1. Withdraw from the UN and every stupid International American organisation.
2. Close the borders to the import of products with local substitutes.
3. Remove all foreign military bases in Nigeria.
4. Annul all existing mineral deals with all foreign countries and nationalise the minerals.
5. Establish a military partnership with North Korea as my very first foreign policy.
6. Bomb the entirety of Sambisa Forest into the Stone Age and rebuild an ultra-modern city in that Area. I don't give a shit; I will only give everyone in the region 30 days to evacuate. If you stay, you'll be counted as collateral damage with zero compensation.
7. Declare myself Permanent Interim Manager of the country. Meaning I'm not stepping down until I'm done with my reforms as a Totalitarian government.
8. Redesign a new political and economic model modified for our current economic and political reality, with its core inspiration being Socialism.
9. Personalise religion. Every state, depending on its size, can only have a prescribed number of religious houses that are heavily taxed and audited.
Churches and mosques must register as business enterprises and must remit some percentage of their profits to the government.
10. Every State must control its resources; there are no guarantees they will be considered states again in the new structure.
11. Invest heavily in agriculture and disincentivise reliance on Crude Oil. The Crude Oil of Akwa Ibom, Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa, Abia, etc belongs to those people. The revenue will not be used to manage l
Lagos or Sokoto. I believe every state has sufficient diverse resources to sustain its growth.
12. If you make yourself a useful tool to Imperial powers to cause unrest in my country. I will kill you.
End!
France killed 5.63 million Algerians from 1830 to the 1962 liberation war.
Approximately 50 million native Americans were annihilated by White Americans invading from Europe. 50 fucking million people were "discovered" according to their language and destroyed.
The United States murdered 300,000 people with the atomic bomb for absolutely no reason at all but to threaten Russia.
The United States killed 3 million people in Vietnam just to invade, control, and steal their resources.
The United States killed 6 million Koreans in the Korean War.
Killed 1 million Iraqis to steal their oil.
The United States killed over 200,00 Afghans to steal their oil
Israel killed 100, 000 Palestinians to steal their land.
Belgium killed over 6 million people in the Congo and cut off their hands.
The Western world should be ashamed of itself, not attempting to teach other people better than them morality.
In Japan itโs illegal to teach your children about Hell or to instill fear based religious studies in others. & They labeled it psychological abuse.
1 liter of fuel in Iran: โฆ38.
1 liter of fuel in Libya: โฆ32.
1 liter of fuel in Saudi: โฆ823.
1 liter of fuel in Nigeria: โฆ1,500.
Minimum wage in Iran: โฆ165,000.
Minimum wage in Libya: โฆ210,000.
Minimum wage in Saudi: โฆ1.4 million.
Minimum wage in Nigeria: โฆ70,000.
Min. wage in Iran will buy 4,342 liters.
Min. wage in Libya will buy 6,562 liters.
Min. wage in Saudi will buy 1700 liters.
Min. wage in Nigeria will buy 46 liters.
The four are oil producing nations.
โThe Reason we have a Thousand Military bases is not for military power, they're lily pads for Smuggling. That's how CIA smuggles GOLD, GUNS, DRUGS, CASH & SMALL CHILDREN for the Elites in the United States. War is a profit Center.โ
โFormer CIA officer Robert David Steele (2017)
The Nigerian Civil War was actually avoidable after the Aburi Accord was signed in Ghana by both Ojukwu of Biafra and Gowon of Nigeria around January 1967. However, Gowon came back and refused to implement what he signed. Instead, he took the agreement to the British, who saw the accord as something that would not benefit them.
Let me analyze what was in the accord in terms a layman will easily understand. If implemented, the regional military governors would have gained more power and control over the resources in their regions. They would then send a percentage to the central government in Lagos. In reality, this would make the central government weaker and the regions stronger. But if it had been carried out, the resources would have benefited the people who owned them.
The British disagreed with this because they would not be able to control several separate leaders in different regions. They supplied Gowon with weapons for the war and convinced him not to implement what he signed in Ghana. After six months of Gowon ignoring the accord, Ojukwu created a flag, proclaimed the independence of Biafra, and the war officially started in Gakem (in modern-day Cross River State) when the Nigerian military fired the first shot on July 6, 1967.
Fast forward to today: those same resources have been mismanaged by the government that still controls them. Poverty and destruction are everywhere, and billions have been looted by foreigners and politicians who will never allow decentralized power or let the grassroots control their own resources.