The Insult On Buhari... And Nigeria!
I observed that President Buhari was received by a junior minister on his arrival at the United states of America for an official visit as his jet was made to land at an air force base!
I know that it is inconceivable that President Uhuru Kenyatta would not get off his exalted butt and go personally receive Barrack Obama at the airport if he comes a-visiting as promised!
I know that Buhari wouldn't dare deviate from the Kenyatta option were Obama to return his visit.
I also know... surely...that Presidents of nations perceived as low-premium entities must scurry across the Atlantic to go pay homage to the Manor Of The White House as soon as they sign their oath lines lest they be in soup. And if already in soup...hotter soup!
I am aware of the fact that one of the issues the US team of negotiators would likely table at the talks would be gay rights... as they give no damn to our collective sensitivities!
I also know that tracing and recovery of our looted national funds would be top on the agenda.
Yet power disparities would compel us as a nation to negotiate with receivers of our stolen monies than treat them with ignominy along with their "business partners"!
This is no less imperative as the propensities of our citizens to steal their nation's resources and lodge same in foreign nations which have come to perceive us a nation of thieves as those prodigals squander such monies on frivolities and ostentatious lifestyles!
I observed that the nuclear gang of Five-plus-1...an acronym for the "legitimate" possessors of nuclear arms plus Germany... has finally struck a deal with Iran on the question of its right to possess nuclear technology and to what extent and use she can apply such knowledge and means.
And when such nations cannot gain by trade surpluses, they use their espionage apparatuses to destabilize smaller nations...kill off their leaders and install willing puppets... or simply invade those nations under spurrious excuses when all else fails!
It is equally noteworthy that nations like the US have largely frustrated concerted efforts to democratize the United nations and its activities and procedures.
It is crystal clear to all and sundry that a fine blend of all these factors have been veritable enablers of perpetuation of this tilted state in global affairs...
When some nations possess awesome weapons of mass destruction and arrogate to themselves the power to determine which... and which....other nations are "responsible enough" to be entrusted with the right to possess same knowledge... and same weapons, grant those rights to friends...and invade territories of not-so-friendly nations ostensibly to destroy such weapons, condemn an action by a state but justify and support identical actions by other states, while using the instruments of the United Nations to sustain such rape on global justice, how then can there be global peace?
For how can the presidents of other nation be so treated if not for these bents?
My consolation resides in that nations like the United states of America continue to encounter their Nemesis in expending their surplus resources on upgrading and dispensing of technologies related to "security"....
Imagine having to close down the entire airspace of a sovereign nation! Now, would you kindly "confirm" that the whole US airspace was shut down because Buhari or even Angela Mickel came a-calling? These people simply invade your nation and push everybody around! Their president would never personally receive your president at their airport...and as your president personally receives him... and sees him off (he dares not!), he...repeat, your president is barred from coming near their president's jet... About 200 metres! Yet, "mere" journalists and other sundry persons accompany the US president on his airplane...persons all deemed safer than your own president! Nothing really bad in so striving to "protect" their leader...if only the same rules apply the other way round! And then some besotted fellow wallowing in inferiority complex is telling me "how the state department works"! Well, that "way" stinks!
Dr Tosin Akindele is a medical practitioner and public affairs analyst.
POST SCRIPT
Elvis Mark
That is the spirit brother Donald. But the only way Nigeria will ever command that desired respect is to develop that passionate knack for aggressive self reliance which must be totally independent of foreign input except if they are to play complementary roles. America legalized abortion in 1971 in the name of motherhood reproductive rights. And to make up for a possible decline in the perceived decline in the future population growth rate , she further liberalized her scholarship grants for foreign students and years later she launched the so-called diversity visa lottery programme to officially steal the world's best brains to super developed their current economy prowess so as to reduced the cost of raising too many children and to have access to intellectually viable adults who proved possible spies for them in enemy countries. In the name of demoCRAZY they have created all sorts of conflict in countries that have stood up to them-libya, Iraq, Panama, North Korea, Vietnam, Iran Cambodia, Cuba. Congo. Former Soviet countries. Thay have succeeded in making the mentioned countries to look like demons in the eyes of the world. Unfortunately her concept of democracy have only created her to be the real monster. Until Nigerians begin to break away from these capitalist chains of servitude perpetrated by the sodomic empires of the west- which have created this cabal plague burying the light of this country, redemption will never come. It aint about communism, democracy or rule of law that brings the best out of a people, if it were so, then lets look at Saudi Arabi, Singapore, kuwait! They are not democratic economies, but it is a known fact that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have some horrifying human right abuses in the world, even inspite of being tagged the wealthiest countries. America has never dared to interfere in their domestic crises!!
Why the world tolerate democracy is that it technically allows the masses to have their say, taking into cognizance that criminals who control the resources will always have their way.
This is the theory the Chinese have always resisted in character. And today they are now the greatest economy.
LAST NOTE TO IBIKUNO GIFT
Ibikuno Gift is more of a person so enthralled by the apparent ill-gotten superiority of the west that he has lost his identity...and cares less about his roots! I observed that he prefers to say "your" rather than "our" in reference to Nigerian people and our leaders! He identifies with a people who perceive him as shit...mostly based on skin greyscale perceptions. The racially-motivated police killings of Dallas and Baltimore mean nothing to people like him compared to an American Green Card...already gotten or still valiantly sought! Yes, there were....and there still are some African rulers and followers out there who variously collaborate with...and facilitate these disparities in statuses of states, it is blatantly simple-minded to blame it all on such willing collaborations! The west has a rather complex policy of domineering the rest of the world...aptly captured by Walter Rodney's "How Europe colonized Africa". Sabotage. Subterfuge. Espionage. Outright wars of annexation when all "divisive" and other sundry tactics fail! May I ask him what his personal efforts are at "putting Nigeria's house in order"...rather than a put-down of the land of his birth and disgustingly identifying with the west? There is an African adage for those who disparage their father's houses. He would do well to restrict himself to the issues rather than discuss me! And he should please write in long-hand....for easy readability by other members...and in tandem with the rules of this group... We all strive to type in full...in spite of the inconvenience!
AND FOR THE ARTICLE ON HONEY AND CINNAMON.
Ibikuno Gift, it's such a relief to hear you credit me with "being well informed" in medicine...except you even want to modify that to "not so well informed" in tandem with your random vacillations! You sent me an open message by addressing me directly...but now say you "share the article to your forum"! Of course I know my onions on that subject! And please, spare me the insult and keep to the subject! What a way of saying thank you!
Dr Tosin Akindele is a medical practitioner and public affairs analyst.