Sub title: What sort of government neglects and brutalizes its own citizens while committing billions of dollars and the lives of thousands of its soldiers to serving the interests of other countries?


Normally, a government acts in the self interests of its own country. When it comes to Nigeria, however, that rule appears to turn upside down. Let me highlight a couple of examples.

The Nigerian government, during the seventies, established a Trust Fund of US$ 80 million at the African Development Bank (ADB) in Abidjan to assist needy African countries. This is despite the fact that Nigeria itself was seriously lacking in basic amenities and infrastructure such as roads, electricity, public health care, etc, 

The Nigerian Government gave huge donations to Cameroon to assist their relief efforts after the volcanic eruption they had in 1986. This was the same Cameroon that was fighting with Nigeria over Bakassi and would soon complete their insult of Nigeria in 2002.

The Nigerian government constantly donates huge sums of money to Sierra Leone to help in its development when its own citizens are in an even worse situation in many ways. And they continue to do this in the face of blatant ingratitude from Sierra Leone. Not long ago, the Nigeria government sent a delegation of doctors to Sierra Leone to help bolster their health care. This is the same government that cannot provide adequate health care to its own citizens.

The Nigerian government committed 12 billion dollars to its pathetic efforts to rescue Liberia and Sierra Leone from the grip of murderous rebels. Yet, the same government refuses to fund a proper and effective police force in its own country to deal with the daily scourge of armed robbery. Worst of all, the government sent thousands of Nigerian soldiers to their deaths defending foreign countries when not a single drop of blood has ever been shed by a Nigerian soldier for Nigerian citizens. On the contrary, the Nigerian army has had a record of brutalizing and committing genocidal acts on its own citizens.

The Nigerian government spent decades leading the campaign in Africa against the apartheid regime. Yet, the same government could not resolve, and was unwilling to address, the ethnic conflicts and ethnic oppression that was, and is still, going on in its own country.

The Nigerian government, within the past decade, gave free land to white racists from Zimbabwe who then came here and started making racist statements at Nigerians themselves even while enjoying their land.

Finally, the Nigerian government has shown its willingness to keep its citizens submerged in darkness, not to mention noise and air pollution, in order to do multinational generator-selling companies a favor by forcing Nigerians to buy their generators.

Of course, I know that Nigeria is not a real country, given its ethnic divisions. But it is still amazing and dumbfounding that any government in the world can behave like this. One cannot help but wonder who Nigerian leaders assume they are in government to serve: their own citizens or foreign countries.

True concerns bro! Nigeria is a slave country --- don't mind anyone who tells you otherwise. Africa needs more leaders like Paul Kagame.