….. No! 2
By Abbati Bako,psc,bsis Kent-alumni UK’s European University
Why does the US and France want to have military bases in Nigeria and for what purpose? And again, why did the Government of President Bola Tinubu refuse to welcome the idea?
*The analysis of the situation——-
This writing understands that the answer to this question is very simple. Meaning we have to look at what experts have said about why the African Nations are still in the position of under development compared to other countries of the North or even within the South South Nations.
This writing is on the same page with Professor Paul Collier of Oxford University, London (recent research 2024 indicates that Oxford University is number one top best University in the world and superseded Yale, Harvard, California University of Technology and the rest of them and my alumni BUK at the position of 1,001 and congratulations to V/C Professor Sagir) African Economies at the Oxford University. Collier is the world-renowned expert on development issues and expert on African Continent’s economies. This scholar mentioned four key issues that restricted African nations to develop (“The Bottom Billion,UK,2009”).
1. Bad governance
2. Conflicts
3. Trapped resources
4. Landlocked.
Let me start with the number 3. It’s a known fact that the African Continent of the World has been under exploitation for the past hundreds of years. It’s true that 35% of global resources has been deposited in Africa (DR of Congo is an excellent example estimate indicates that there are Trillions of Dollars worth resources in DR Congo) unfortunately that the resources has been “trapped” by both advanced and emerging Nations of the World as mentioned by Professor Paul Collier. Had it been that the global leadership is fair and just (for the attention of International Public Policy Makers IPP) Africa could have been the same with at least Asian Tigers’ part of the World. But Africa has been programmed to be the consumer Continent despite the trapped resources of regions and tapping by the advanced and emerging Nations of the World. The African Development Bank asserts that 56 African Nations have no 2% of the global economy.
Unfortunately and again that an expert on global political economy Professor Robert Gilpin observed that “Sub Saharan African Countries cannot account for 1% of the global economy” and it’s true that Africa is still the most backward in terms of economic interplay, economic security and the security of individuals’ daily needs. Africa is the poorest, most underdeveloped among the six Continents of the World.
Hence this writing understands that the essence behind the establishment of military bases in Nigeria must be for the continuation of “trapped resources” as observed by the respected Oxford University scholar Paul Collier especially in Northern Nigeria and other regions of the country. Exploitation of African resources has been the root cause of the imbalance of the global economy especially at this time of modernism or tagged as the era of “Globalization Policy”.
Let’s move and try to analyze number 4
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