This Mediterranean Miscarriage Of Justice
Western nations:
Engage in unfair trade practices with African nations...
Such practices lead to negative trade balances for African nations...
It leads to obscenely huge trade surpluses for western nations....
The spoils of such trade surpluses are often squandered on huge military budgets for arms not likely to ever be used, ultimately tested on Africans or on gluttonous feeding leading to diseases of affluence....
Even excess western farm produce would rather be fed to animals by the white man or as incredulous as it sounds, dumped into the ocean to keep prices under control!
The crumbs, left-overs or remnants of this feeding frenzy are mopped up by equally-greedy African rulers....
Such African rulers stash the spoils of their vagabondery in banks in western nations...
Such western authorities now proud receivers of stolen items are ever so willing to maintain an oath of secrecy on monies kept in their banks by proxy....and properties equally acquired by proxy by African rulers and their cronies!
Such western nations go out of their ways to interfere in the internal affairs of African nations to such extents as to use their secret police to kill altruistic African leaders and install brutish puppets of their choice!
And with the scars of slavery and colonialism yet to fade away from African spheres,
And the mindset of western marauders and their African collaborators ever so durable...to wage wars to colonize....and wage wars to steal resources of weaker nations even to this present day,
And since it would amount to tomfoolery for an individual to stay put in a war zone and get killed...
But more reasonable for him to flee in the direction of safety,
May I ask...humbly and solemnly....
"If you were fleeing from the war in Libya, would you flee southwards into the arms of al Queida in Mali (AQIM)...or Boko Haram in Niger, Chad, Nigeria or Cameroon? Wouldn't it make more sense to flee northwards into Europe"?
In the recent past, close to a thousand full-blooded African migrants were drowned when their over-filled boat "capsized" midstream in the Mediterranean Sea.
We were told the ship capsized...but I do not put it beyond the European authorities to clandestinely sink that boat...say by using a submarine lurking around in the depths of the ocean!
This theory is borne out of the historical antecedents of the forebearers of these Europeans....
And further lent credence by their latest resolution to contain this "menace" using elite naval formations....
And this brings me to Tony Blair's recent visit to Buhari.
Certainly, his brief couldn't have been to merely extend Britain's congratulations to our president-elect...for such would not ordinarily, warrant a "close-door" meeting!
These western goons predicted that our recent elections would end in doom. They worked assiduously to realise this doom. Conflicts expectedly arising therefrom would have led them to up their arms sales...and seize upon the mayhem to pillage our resources. And possibly plant a puppet to rule us!
I don't think Tony Blair would have gone as far as guranteeing "safety" of Buhari's interests in Britain for concessions on British companies...but who knows?
I can vividly visualize Blair's speech at that parley:
" Mr Buhari, the government of Britain congratulates you on your victory. We have always believed that power must reside with the north. I must remind you that the north is land-locked and is unlikely to benefit from a clean break from the union. Our fervent convinction is that northerners are born to rule".
One needs to be careful with these westerners.
They have always used "divide-and-rule" tactics to pulverize nations onto whom they fix their targets!
They are quite a cheeky bunch.
Aren't they?
Dr Tosin Akindele is a medical practitioner and public affairs analyst.