I was at a UBS event on Friday, when an English woman said that the northerners were marginalized and poor... I retorted by asking whose fault was that? If my memory served me right, the northerners have ruled the country until the last decade. Why did they not develop their land? Why kill southerners who brought businesses and developed their land!!
Sanusi is an Islamic scholar borderline fundamentalist. Didn't Nigeria sustain itself on pure Agriculture (cash-crops) before oil was discovered? Did majority of that not come from the North. How can the North be poor when they still have this and can develop it.... Are the governors of the Northern states asleep? Or just as corrupt as their brothers and cousins in the South.
There is no excuse for BH. No excuse for exterminating the Christians or Southerners that live in the North. Those who have brought businesses there and tried as much... to develop the North. There is wealth in the various states and parts of Nigeria apart from oil... There is no excuse for the Poverty in the North and the Niger-Delta areas inter alia. I missed Mallam Sanusi's event at the LSE last week. Just as well. The Q&A session would have been uncomfortable and probably piss him off. The irony is that I admire his intellect and confidence and actually respect him but he does yank me in unpleasant parts sometimes.
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