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The Solution
What then is the solution to this aberration? The solution is actually a simple one. The solution is common sense – the real education, far beyond nominal degrees or local titles.
When those looting Africa start using their common sense, they will understand that leadership is parenthood, i.e., my country first. Once common sense prevails, the futility of robbing their own people only to maintain secret bank accounts in foreign countries will become apparent. Once the senseless nature of this kind of robbery becomes apparent, they will be building excellent educational system for the entire population, instead of selfishly sending their children to study in better schools abroad. Similarly, they will start building and maintaining excellent hospitals, and staff them with qualified doctors and staff, instead of selfishly flying to foreign countries for medical checkup or treatment.
Here is the point. Rational thinkers, well informed by conventional wisdom, know that it makes no sense for these looters to starve their fellow Africans to death only to feed Swiss people with the loot. They also know that poverty tends to correlate with violence. Specifically, they recognize that the robbery of Africa only to hide the loot abroad has continued to produce jobless, hungry men and women, who find it difficult to live a decent, honest life in several African countries. Therefore, being jobless, hungry, and angry, some of them often resort to "eating" by crooked means. In fact, Governor Tinubu's frustration over the death of 200 Nigerians in "Lagos pipeline fire" on Dec. 26, 2006, exemplifies this point. Here is the report by Vanguard newspaper:
Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State blamed the officials of NNPC and Federal Government. "You can see the shame of our nation. A country that is ranked the 8th largest producer of oil in the world is still made to suffer this kind of hardship," he said, adding: "You can see what hunger has turned our people into. We need to be concerned about the life of people not money. It is a sign of poverty." "What has happened today again is not new; it is not strange to us. It is a shame. Look at how dead bodies litter the whole place. It is sad." "But how do we fight this menace? How do we stop it? Except we fight unemployment, except we fight hopelessness in the country, except we do things right in a good manner." It then goes without saying that common sense – the real education – is the concrete solution to most of our problems.
Therefore, as a part of concrete solutions, African leaders must organize series of economic summits to discuss and combat this robbery of Africa by some of its leaders only to hide the loot abroad. Concrete steps to combat this robbery, and other problems evident in Africa, have been proffered in several works, including the following: Nigeria: Real Problems, Real Solutions, "Educated" to Feel Inferior, The Tragedy of a Value System in Nigeria: Theories and Solutions, and Your Excellency. In addition, those found guilty of corruption and looting, must be brought to justice, no matter whose ox is gored.
A Note to the Critic
There is no doubt that some of us, especially those benefiting from the looting of the present Africa, may react to this article with some disdain. Instead of condemning this senseless behavior that is currently destroying Africa, they may attempt to cover up the atrocity by attacking the writer. Here is a few words to them: Before exhausting your energy on ad homonym attack, it is crucial that you first examine your conscience, and then critically observe how leaders, across countries/continents, serve and treat their own people. We must call a spade a spade. We must look evil in its eye, and condemn it. Enough of the disgrace and the shame, being brought to Africa by some of its leaders whose leadership style is to steal from their own suffering people only to hide the loot abroad. This robbery of Africa by some of her leaders only to pile up the loot abroad does not make any iota of sense; it is not leadership, it is total destruction of Africa and African people.
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