Because, if you think African migration is bad now, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
The Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule has said that only corruption is stagnating Nigeria from competing with other developed countries like the United Kingdom and the United States. …
‘Nigeria by all intent and purposes is not a poor country, we are not a poor country. I refused to believe that we are a poor country. If the assets of this country were judiciously used, for the purposes that are meant for, honestly Nigeria will be better than the UK, US we are talking about,’ the governor said.
(All Africa, July 11, 2019)
Alas, saying only corruption is stagnating Nigeria is rather like saying only politics is dividing America. This is why it behooves Nigerians to appreciate that waiting for an end to corruption is rather like Waiting for Godot.
Accordingly, one could hardly blame Nigerians if they begin migrating en masse. This abiding continental shame notwithstanding:
I just hope the damning irony is not lost on any proud African that, 50 years after decolonization, hundreds of Africans (men, women, and children) are risking their lives, practically every day, to subjugate themselves to the paternal mercies of their former colonial masters in Europe.
(“Lampedusa Tragedy Highlights Europe’s ‘Haitian’ Problem,” The iPINIONS Journal, October 7, 2013)
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