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President of the US, Donald
Trump called African nations
“shit hole” countries. To some
Africans, it was the right time to
haul insults and hate at the man
but to others, it was a good time
to think and reflect about the
African narrative. But here is
what was going on in my mind
this time as I thought about
Donald Trump.
Remember that it was in that
same December that COP28,
the 28th United Nations Climate
Change Conference, was held
in Expo City, Dubai, United
Arab Emirates. The conference
was held from 30 November to
13 December.
Do you know which were
the countries with the largest
number of delegates to that
conference?
According to reports on the
COP28 website, the UAE has
the largest-ever registered
delegation of any country, with
4,409 badges. This is followed
by Brazil with 3,081 and then
China and our beloved Nigeria,
who had both issued 1,411
badges.
I looked at the number of
delegates that the Nigerian
government sent to Dubai even
with all the austerity measures
put in place in Nigeria and then
compared it to China, which
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has investments all over the
globe, and which Nigeria and
other African countries have
been borrowing money from,
then I was forced to say Donald
Trump must be very right about
the things he says about Africa. grow up and be counted among
If you ask me, what is shittier
than the Nigerian government
that bought no fewer than 107
units of the 2023 model of the
Toyota Landcruiser and 358
units of the 2023 model of
Toyota Prado worth 40Billion
Naira for the use of members
of the Senate and the House of
Representatives respectively,
while the value of the Naira and
the Nigerian economy is almost
collapsing?
What is shittier than the
same government of Nigeria
budgeting 15 Billion Naira to
renovate the official residence
of the Vice President while in
the same country of 220 million,
150 million are living in poverty,
with no stable power supply, the
best brains are running out to
look for greener pastures, 1411
delegates were sent to Cop28
with no reasonable role that
they all want to play?
We need new priorities
I only used Nigeria as a case
study, so don’t excite yourself
Leadership
that I am not talking about
your country. The “shittiness”
of the lack of proper priorities
of our governments stinks in
every corner of Africa because
we have simply just refused to
those making wise choices and
policies that put their people
at the centre of those policies
instead of foreign agendas.
Come to think of it, how is it
that in Africa we still don’t
understand that the climate
crisis narrative is mostly a
money-making scam and an
agenda to herd the global
population towards a globalist-
controlled world?
It’s only in Africa that we
make noise about wanting to
grow our economies or raise
our foreign exchange reserves
but we will not buy the very
products that are manufactured
in our countries. I am referring
again to the 40 billion Naira
used to buy foreign Toyota
cars in Nigeria, while there are
car manufacturers in the same
Nigeria that produce vehicles of
the same if not better standards
than Toyota. It seems we enjoy
living life backwards and then
complaining later.
And, once again, what would
Donald say?
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