It is most unfortunate that International Organizations
could pander to a President’s nepotistic suggestions as was done by the
President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, who said on Thursday [October
12 2017] that the bank had concentrated on the northern region of Nigeria in
line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s request.
Kim said, “You know, in my very first
meeting with President Buhari he said specifically that he would like us to
shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that…”
Given that:
1) this is incontrovertible proof of unabashed ethno-regional
bias of the President of Nigeria who himself comes from Northern Nigeria and
subscribes to the ideology of “Northern Nigeria first” (and only), as it
pertains to Nigerian affairs;
2) Nigeria’s tangible financial resources depends solely on Oil
which comes entirely from Southern Nigeria;
3) Southern Nigeria alone (specifically, the South-south and
Southeast bears all the brunt of irreversible environmental damage from Oil
operations;
4) Nigeria’s national burden of foreign debt repayment falls
disproportionately on Southern Nigeria;
5) the President of the World Bank, Kim, and the Managing
Director of International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, acquiesced
willingly to what they should have recognized as at least unethical,
self-serving, nepotistic and unconscionably divisive directive—and carried it
out as such.
The
pattern emerges:
1. The only reason Nigeria exists is to protect and develop
Northern Nigeria at all costs, at the full expense of Southern Nigeria (just
like the British colonialists designed it originally);
2. World bodies and nations collude with Nigeria or watch in
silence.
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