Over time aid has been a long aged debate matter among political thinkers and general readers in perspective. The word "aid" is now no more a new phenomenon because of the happenings around us and what we see. In this paper work we shall be looking at the discourse "aid is destructive " and not destructive but destructive to bring about the disatatrous slow progress and development in a country, most especially the Third World system.

In catching the rat in it hiding place, one must first know how to catch the rat. This implies one must first conceptualize the concepts in giving us proper understanding and meaning of our discourse. What therefore are the concepts. -----Aid, destructive. What therefore is aid?
In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid , foreign aid or foreign assistance ) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of resources from one country
to another. Aid may serve one or more functions: it may be given
as a signal of diplomatic approval, or to strengthen a military ally, to reward a government for behaviour desired by the donor, to extend the donor's cultural
influence, to provide infrastructure needed by the donor for resource extraction from the recipient country, or to gain other kinds of commercial access. Humanitarian and altruistic purposes are at least partly
responsible for the giving of aid. Carol Lancaster defines foreign aid as "a voluntary transfer of public resources, from a government to another independent government, to an NGO, or to a international organization (such as the World Bank or the UN Development Program) with at least a 25 percent grant element, one goal of which is to better
the human condition in the country receiving theaid. Lancaster also states that for much of the period of
her study (World War Two to the present) "foreign aid was used for four main purposes: diplomatic [including
military/security and political interests abroad], developmental, humanitarian relief and commercial." The word destructive means damaging, desssembly etc. Now that we have been able to understand what AId and Destructive means it is now very imperative to now understand how has aid been destructive.

African which is the case study here will still continue to amaze me. Africa which is a resourcefully blessed continent with the availability of human and natural resources flowing like milk and honey. Foreign aid is a very good now only when it is proper utilized in the correct manner. However it has been destructive to African state because it get it more worse than before. Africa which is rich,why can't it lift her country out of menace but only lift the pockets of the African leaders.

Aid is however destructive because It is claimed that even under most favourable
circumstances, foreign aid can only contribute a small proportion of the investment needs of a
developing country.The major growth effort has to be its own. It is,therefore, a risky strategy to depend upon foreignaid for growth, particularly because of the risksinvolved in the form of growing external indebtedness and other possible ill-effects. There is a risk that foreign aid may be taken for those projects for which no imported inputs are needed and which can be implemented with domestically available inputs.Aid-receiving history of India is full of such examples, which include construction of irrigation canals, forestry projects, sewerage facilities and
the like.All such projects needed only local material and rupees to buy them. Depending upon foreign aid (say US dollars) for such projects retards the social and economic growth of a country and India also suffered on this account. The causes of these ill-effects include the following:
i. The legislators and general public are not
aware of the fact that foreign funds for such
projects means sanctioning of loans in foreign
currencies. And, foreign currencies are not
needed for procuring inputs including labour
from within the country.
ii. Projects which do not need imported inputs but arc still highly helpful for social and economic development of the country are not taken up unless “foreign aid is available for them.” Foreign aid, therefore, becomes a barrier to growth rather than a help for it. It becomes a hurdle against domestic growth efforts. There is a strong possibility of an aid-receiving country being unable to add sufficiently to its export earnings.Consequently, there is an inherent tendency for its external indebtedness to increase cumulatively and become Unsustainable. The destruction of aid is also brought about the Aims of Aid Givers,
Aid-giving countries have been using it as a
means of promoting and protecting their own
interests, including political ones. They have been trying to impose highly stringent conditions on the aid- receiving countries.
They have also used their economic strength for imposing unfavourable terms of trade and
specific monetary and fiscal policies.


countries.
Recently, China borrowed certain corrupt regimes in Africa ( Knowingly, hiding under the noninterference policy) money to carry out certain developmental programs and as identified by Alexander Sack 'the odious debt', this money has been misappropriated; being channelled to certain tribes thus the reason for borrowing such money won't be accomplished and yet, a debt crisis would occur. A major element of imperialism is putting the language of a country in another. During the fashola administration, he wanted to introduce the Chinese language in Lagos state government schools because money was borrowed to the Lagos government.

More recently is the Two(2) billon dollars China is planning to borrow The Federal Republic of Nigeria in yuan ( the Chinese currency). This is another form of imperialism; a device of devaluing our naira more and creating a dependency on the yuan for trade with China. The amazing thing here is that China is placing Nigeria under a condition, that is all materials needed for the project to be undertaken will be purchased from China and according to governor Fayose of Ekiti in his letter to the Chinese government of recent, the country's debt burden would increase and the implication of this is a 'increasing floating rate' and a ridiculously compound interest that the country would then need a debt relief to pay back at the end of day. What we should know also is that China is devaluing her currency intentionally in order to gain favourable market for the African states. It is predicted that the Chinese currency may appreciate against the dollar in the near future thus creating a problem for African countries that borrowed money; implication of this can be linked to the petrodollar recycling of 1970.
(Gbadegesin Onyekachukwu John;2016)

Of the Third World, Africa contains many lessons for the fraud of ‘aid’. It has lost self-sufficiency in food production that it enjoyed before development assistance was invented, and during the past few decades, has become instead a continent-sized beggar hopelessly dependent on the largesse of outsiders---per-
capita food production has fallen in every year since the 1960s. Seven out of every ten Africans, are furthermore, now reckoned to be destitute or on the verge of extreme
poverty, with the result that the continent has the highest infant mortality rates in the world, the lowest average life-expectancies in the world, the lowest literacy rates, the fewest doctors per head of population, and
the fewest children in school. Tellingly, after Africa became the most ‘aided’ continent in the solar system in the last decade, its Gross Domestic Product per capita shrunk by an average of 3.4 per cent per annum. Sob,
sob sob!!!. In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the
recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse. In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of
postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have
steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer.



At least six million children in Ethiopia face critical food shortages as a result of the worst drought in 50 years.Aid agencies and the government said that they must
raise more than $1.4bn of aid to handle the crisis, but that only about half of the amount have been collected. Here, Ethiopia has been receiving aid no for years from aid government, still yet crises is still going on. This is what we are saying that Aid is destructive.

On this final note we have seen that aid is more destructive than good most especially the Third World country. Africa can grow and transform again only if our government aren't myopic to the things aroun them, and most especially interest based is very paramount. African leaders should always have their on the people and not their pocke.

Reference:www.nairaland.com/3055194/new-pattern-africas-neocolonialism-nigeria by Gbadegesin Onyekachukwu John

Written by Joseph K. Theophilus political science student of Olabisi Onabanjo university

We in Africa hate our fellow country men. That is why many people see no wrong in watching a brother die of lack, scarcity and poverty while the very tool they need to dig themselves out of the rot they are in is been kept away from them so that they will perpetualy be subjected to servitude of those who consider themselves higher beings.

You encourage a man to learn to fish yet you use your power to sandfill all the rivers and lakes around.