Former Head of State, General Abdulsalam Alhaji Abubakar has accused the colonial masters of looting the nation’s treasury.

Abdulsalami stated this to mark Nigeria’s 61st Independence while fielding questions from journalists in Minna, Niger State.

He explained that his generation saw how during the colonial period, the colonial masters plundered the nation’s wealth and ferried to their lands.

According to him, even the rail lines and roads the colonial masters constructed were merely done to transport Nigeria’s resources through the seaports.

“My generation grew up under the colonial rule. And we saw how our colonial masters siphoned our treasury and whatever, out of the country. Even the rail and road system they claimed to have created was in order to cart away what they could to the seaport and export it”, he insisted.

Lamenting the current economic situation of the country, he noted that Nigeria went wrong when it abandoned its first source of revenue (agriculture) upon the discovery of oil in the country.

While felicitating with Nigerians on the country’s 61st Anniversary, he noted the need to celebrate the founding fathers and the country’s leaders who have contributed their quota to the development of the country.

He noted that “despite their peculiar challenges, no leader will like to hurt the citizens deliberately”.

duro4chang:
Always blaming others. You are all failure.

Reflect7:


SHUT UP. HE IS SAYING THE TRUTH. Oyinbo asss licker.

The British ruled for 80 years, exporting our resources, and at the end we did not have a single power plant or university or expressway or industry.

Kainji dam was our first power plant, commissioned by the Balewa administration in 1964.

Prior to that the British merely imported a few industrial generators to power the GRAs they were living in, while the rest of Nigeria used lanterns and candles.

Nigeria was a near total bush in 1960 at independence with mass illiteracy and malnutrition.

What did your 'perfect white man' do with the trillions he made from our exports in 80 years?

You are VERY LUCKY we gained independence in 1960 which led to mass education investment by the black govts.

Or else by now you would be hunting cockroaches and tapping palm wine in the bush like your illiterate grandpa did under colonial rule.

Reflect7:


SHUT UP. HE IS SAYING THE TRUTH. Oyinbo asss licker.

The British ruled for 80 years, exporting our resources, and at the end we did not have a single power plant or university or expressway or industry.

Kainji dam was our first power plant, commissioned by the Balewa administration in 1964.

Prior to that the British merely imported a few industrial generators to power the GRAs they were living in, while the rest of Nigeria used lanterns and candles.

Nigeria was a near total bush in 1960 at independence with mass illiteracy and malnutrition.

What did your 'perfect white man' do with the trillions he made from our exports in 80 years?

You are VERY LUCKY we gained independence in 1960 which led to mass education investment by the black govts.

Or else by now you would be hunting cockroaches and tapping palm wine in the bush like your illiterate grandpa did under colonial rule.

mandax:
But Arewa signed off our oil and gas recourses to the colonial masters.