This Government created non-existent problem through witholding payments due for contractors. After the whole system had created suffering and people's nerves had been weakened, they'd tactically start disbursing those funds and make it a success point to themselves.
We've never had such clowns at helm since the return of democracy in fourth Republic like these ones. 🤡
We need to stop promoting these fatuous and simplistic “big bad West” narratives as a counterpoint to African development, which appeal to the visceral sentiment by repeating a “primordial fact of all history”- nations seek to dominate others for the benefit of their citizens.
1) The international market economy is NOT a branch of the International Red Cross
2) African nations are very much capable of directing their own resources and navigating the interminable course of their own destinies. To argue otherwise is to deny them of agency - 60 years after independence (where was China 40 years ago?)
3) You don’t hear that argument in Asia which shares a similar experience of colonialism.
4) Dangote and Kasapreko and Aba leather goods, etc are selling across Africa.
I said the narrative is simplistic. Let me tell you a story. I have spent the last 5 years and millions of my own money having invented a digital system for local currency Exchange (a retail component of the PAPSS currency exchange) that allows Africans (54 countries, 42 different currencies) to use their local currencies for cross-border trade (USD exchange depletes national reserves and attracts $5.3 billion in yearly costs).
The U.S. government through its Commercial Service and Embassies, has left no stone unturned to make this project successful.
And African Central Banks? Only very few have responded positively. Can you guess what it takes to secure a regulatory license in Africa? 3- 4 years of undiluted pain and a boatload of money. (The process takes about 3 months here in the U.S.)
Make of this fact what you will.
We’re not ready for prime time
@AbduljalaalMusa Wallahi kuwa. Allah Kada Ya kyale mutanen nan. Abinda suka mana, Allah Ya saka mana.
It’s painful to see how these useless leaders don’t even care about the country. Mutum yana kan mulki, he’s performing poorly, amma yana neman second term. President & Govs!