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| His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga addressing members of the Press in Benin City Edo state recently |
Prince Frank Ukonga
lecture 53: The institutionalization of
Poverty, Hunger, Penury, scavenging, Homelessness, Terrorism, Corruption,
Looting of public and private treasuries, debt burden and its negative impacts
of underdevelopment of Africa & Developing countries of Planet Earth-As
backlash of Decades of living dangerously--A 21st century panacea with focus on the Nigerian project.
Corruption & Looting: Money set aside for capital and recurrent
expenditures are looted away by some of those
entrusted to lead and invest these moneys to develop Africa and developing
countries…thereby under developing the people they are supposed to develop to sustainable
international standard practice; causing as the direct progenitor of virtually
all the problems that plagues Africans and developing countries of the 21st
century mankind of subsequent creation as they only helped to chase the white
imperialist away and replaced them in the exploitation of Africans and many
nations of the developing world which was well orchestrated in the classics of
Lev Tolstoy a celebrated Russian classic writer of all times as ”contradictory
course of historical development and its catastrophic consequences”…these set
of secondary problems caused by some kleptomaniac leadership of the African
continent who loot away all the treasuries of African countries ,and the developing
world have become embarrassing to all and sundry among homo sapiens of all
times leading to the following reactionary backlash :
Debt burden; stagnation,
insolvency and illiquidity: After looting away the frail earnings from
products of primordial resources of the developing countries exports receipts
of basically primary raw materials to feed the factories of the developed
world, the developing countries of the world including Africa ends up in the
debt club of becoming huge debtors Nations of the shame’ a simile of “Nevsky Prospect” of the
celebrated classics of Alexandra Pushkin- “ Queen of Spades”- Pikavaya Dama-
where the personage of Harman youth to
the marrow courted the friendship of Elizaveta
an unsuspecting octogenarian only to steal the secret of the spades, a
source to everlasting riches, as a lover to be; and shakalinsky who was the scoundrel of
Neveksy Prospects fleecing unsuspecting Nation of men and women off their
earnings and yet here Pushkin in his genius described Shakalinsky and Herman as
goods looking, matured, handsome men with good demeanor that you would pass as
good men but they are exactly the opposite and that fit the personage of some
African thieving leaders and in general the third world; the African media
describe these set of leaders as pen robbers=……
Africa and developing
countries becoming net exporter of capital; Africa exports over 60 billion dollars
annually from Africa due to debt default, Re schedulement, illiquidity and
insolvency : the debt burden was so endemic in the past 7 decades of the Human
race while in the previous century the debt burden captured the majour aspects
of public and private discuss of all mankind of that epoch…with debt
insolvency, default and illiquidity being the order of the day resulting in
debt payment re schedulement while interest
continue to accrue and Africa plus the developing world became net exporter of
capital to the developed world- for example, a country like Nigeria that
borrowed about 5 billion dollars from several
financial syndicates of the world became indebted to the tune of 50
billion…ie 5000% due to default, and re schedulement…until a succor came during
the gulf war when many debts of the developing world were written off by the
creditors while Nigeria had to pay 20 billion dollars due to improved earnings
from the mono culture petroleum exports…and had a debt forgiveness …and in the 21 century the debt portfolio of
developing countries and African countries is increasing on daily basis and currently Africa is a net exporter of capital
to the tune of 60 billion dollars annually and if not
checked the situation of the upper quartile of the previous century will soon
manifest again…as history repeats itself..remember the classic maxim that those
who go a borrowing goes a sorrowing…whence there is the urgent need to check
corruption and looting of public and private sector treasuries…and also to
question borrowing and use loans wisely to implement projects that yields
returns…
Miss management and
looting of borrowed money, Loan, developmental finance, grants and Assistances to
Africa and developing worlds: Few Months ago ,the Debt management
Commission of Nigeria came out with a shocking news about the debts of state
governments in Nigeria and identified about 9 states that are under heavy debt
burden and added that in all these heavily indebted states there is little or nothing
on ground to show for these huge state debts. It was published in one edition of News World Magazine you can
go buy it and read it yourself...And that is the real problem where loans,
grants, are looted away…the investments for which these loans were taken not
implemented or shabbily implemented as the bulk of the loan find its way into
private accounts so the case becomes that of double tragedy for the peoples who
have to repay the loan looted away and no investments done ;this would lead to
default, illiquidity, insolvency and the collapse of many states very soon……the
case is pathetic and despicable…a simile of the one improvised by another
celebrated classic writer called Ivan
Goncharov.. In his classics”Oblomov” he captured the exact scenario of the
African and developing countries of today noting that- the “situation of stagnation, uselessness, and
dead immobility { shiftlessness} of that genre ruin and corrupt peoples who
were good by nature” and till today that phenomenon of obtuse rabid and wanton
corruption, larceny, squandimania is known in classic circles as “ Oblomov”
Redundancy/Joblessness:
voluntary & involuntary, comatose infrastructures and real sector economy,
AIDS,EBOLA and poor health delivery system etc: The bulk of African continent
have become plagued by this albatross of redundancies of voluntary and
involuntary redundancies of skilled and unskilled labour…men and women youth to
the marrow roaming the streets of African countries and Latin American
countries without jobs nor hope of getting employed in their entire life
span…the money that should be used to create factories . industries and
opportunities of investment and the investment atmosphere would be looted away
or have been looted away , mis managed by the leaders of these countries and
their surrogates and hanger on , so the jobs are not just there so stop writing
application letters,,, and the developmental finance from export receipts, plus loans, plus
assistances from all over the world are eaten up by some greedy leaders and
their cronies leaving the masses of these countries to waste away in poverty,
penury, scavenging, hunger, homelessness, endemic diseases, no water, no
electricity, no roads, no hospitals, no schools and the peoples are forever destined
to waste away in ruins , HIV/AIDS. Malaria, shame and eternal grief and death a
simile of the improvisation of Dostoyevsky the celebrated classic writer
who observed “ the contemporary
generations of mankind simply waste away their lives not capable of heroic deeds
of their ancestor, nor take chances even for the sake of their own happiness-…”…..
and also improvised by George Elliot , a celebrated writer of the Elizabethan
classic genre thus in the Weaver of
Ravelor- the observations of wandering peculiar men and women who are semblance
of a dis- inherited race “…and in this case
Africa was dis -inherited by various acts of commissions and omissions
of which their leaders are most responsible…it is pathetic and a shame to the
entirety of the human race of subsequent creation to tolerate such occurrences
as it is a disgrace to intelligence as well as it corrupts intelligence…and
that is why the gods continue to insulate other realms of creation from being contaminated
by the wickedness and satanic ways of mankind of subsequent substantiated
realms of creation…
Illiteracy, Education,
pseudo intellectualism, mediocrity ,surrogate leadership: After wasting
away the post independence goodwill of the Nations of most developing world the
leadership out of indiscretion, selfishness and the thirst to perpetuate
themselves in power refused to invest in qualitative education of the peoples
of many developing world…and today in Africa the illiteracy level still stand
high as above 60% of its peoples remain illiterates or semi illiterates and
many graduates produced from some of the universities as at today are like illiterates;
as some, it has been alleged cannot write their resume nor write application letter
for job placement and it is the story of mass failure in many exams where less
than 30% passed…a simile of what Turgenev a classic Russian writer of celebrated
genre improvised in his Hunters Sketches- Axotnie Zapiss= about young lads
“youth to the marrow who stupidly jokes away their lives’ while Lermontov
another celebrated classic writer of same genre concluded of his popular
personage Pechorin a miserable exploiter that “and we their sorry descendants wondering the world without any conviction nor
pride; we are no longer capable of any sacrifice either for the good of mankind
nor for our own happiness….”
Poverty,
Hunger,scarveenging,terrorism,penury,shiftellessness,stagnation,urban decay,
crimes, homelessness in developing world; backlash of the global Satanic Production Relations & cooperate
greed : The celebrated classic writer Alexander Herzen captured the situation of today in Africa and many developing
countries in his Memoirs, by noting that the masses have become frightened out
of their wits, by the continuous tyranny
of the ruling genre, the pseudo intelligentsias and liberals languishing in enforced
inactivity of shiftlessness; results in the frightening scenario of poverty,
hunger, homelessness, want , crimes, terrorism,
penury, and all the vices under- developing, emerging democracies of today… and the situation
will pervade the entire 21 century unless we all change our attitude from
passivity to become conscious beings that determines consciousness and awake,
to the fundamental Marxist maxim of human ontology as crested in aposteriori
knowledge; that by and by human beings determines consciousness as in
aposteriori knowledge from whence emanates enterprise and it subsequent various
stages of productions from whence comet productions relations. The situation is
precipitate of the inalienable truth that the contemporary production relations
of most of the developing world countries and even those of the developed world
is moribund and its consequences is the poverty, redundancies,
hopelessness, frustrations, homelessness, hunger , crimes, terrorism, etc….for example
in the United states and most parts of the world less than 10% of the
population owns more than 80% of the entire wealth while 90% of the population is caged into poverty
to live with 20% or less of the wealth of the countries and in the developing
world and Africa it is even more acute as less than 5 % owns more than 90% of
the entire wealth and millions of peoples are caged within the remaining 10% of
the wealth of African countries and the
developing world…in this kind of scenario
of satanic production relations there would certainly be acute hunger,
joblessness ,homelessness, poverty, prostitution, grief and death….
Religion strives,
civil wars, crimes, drug trafficking, terrorism local and regional conflicts
& its negative impacts on the development of sustainable democratic,
cultural, economic and infrastructural institutions: when a nation is well
governed there would be less civil strives
as novel definitions of conflict resolution would be adaptable to resolving conflicts
but when a nation is ill governed many ills like crimes, frauds, arm rubbers, terrorism
,and all sorts of conflicts would germinate mainly because of the fact that
peoples becomes frustrated and vices become the order and no more an aberration…whence
there is the urgent need for developing countries to strengthen their institutions
from the democratic institutions to that of judiciary, economic ,real sector,
cultural etal so that the institutions would be stronger than individuals this
would ease the cases of corruptions, crimes, cooperate greed, etc
A wasted generation?;
Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka summarized the some miss managed developing world dilemma as “a Wasted Generation”: this miss
management Exacerbate discrimination on global scale, racial
intolerance and promote restrictions- After wasting away through mis management
of the receipts from exports earnings of these developing countries and the
developmental loan for development looted away to private accounts the creditor
countries begin to feel unsafe in the in workability of the proffered solution
to the problems of developing world ,as the endemic poverty and frustrations of
the peoples of developing world begin to wear a tertiary level of mass exodus
of the peoples of developing countries to the developed countries in search of
greener pastures…the develop countries began to put restrictions on travels of different
sorts…for example when Nigeria was rich and well managed in the Gowon Era and
the Murtala Mohammed Era most countries of the world allowed Nigerians to
travel to their countries without visa and at best the visa would be issued at
the point of entry because they are cognizance of the high standard of Nigeria
and those two great leaders; but After the death of Murtala Mohammed , all the monies
he left in the account wasted away in mundane adventurism and looting , Nigeria
began to borrow from all over the world; the developed countries of the world
began to demand visa to be issued from their embassies in Nigeria and till
today many barriers and restriction are being put forward by developed countries
to frustrate peoples from checking out from their miss managed countries to
come and become a liability to them and you cannot blame these developed
countries for doing that …
Sanitary condom of
the imperialist west and other well managed economies of the world:
recently the United Kingdom planned a 3000 pounds VISA bond for would be travelers
to the UK on some developing countries of the world..if these countries had
good well managed economies that is upward mobile, sustainable and well managed
institutions they would not place them on VISA bond but rather would welcome
then with two warm hands..Why are they not placing VISA bond on India and China
that used to be in the category of developing countries a few years ago but
have managed their countries so well to the admiration of all men and women and
the gods alike..why are they not putting VISA Bond on South Korea and Brazil,
South Africa, Indonesia, etc who are also developing worlds that suddenly
emerged as Economic tigers of the world with strong well managed institutions..……but
if we had managed our country well the white , the Asians, the Americans, the
Europeans also would have loved to come and visit us, to come and join hands
with us in our countries of developing world , to come and live side by side
with us and contribute their quota in the development of developing countries..even
some can even come and seek for citizenship of our countries but as it is now nobody
even the gods does not take joy in associating with failures, weaklings and
scallywags;… the gods only tolerate failure… they are not happy when we
fail….it is well spelt out in the bible of the story of the master that gave
three of his servants talents when going on a journey…when he came he asked of
them what they did with their talents..he took all the talents from the
servants that did not use it well and gave it to the one that invested it well…When
Saul was made first King of Israel and he failed God, he was rejected by God
and God went for David a village Sheppard boy to replace Saul Since then the
entire world and the gods identify with David , name their sons after David and
his heroic exploits; I have travelled
round the entire world and have not seen any person identify with Saul nor
Judas Iscariot, nor name their sons after them………so it is clear, and no
argument here that the leadership of most developing countries have inadvertently wasted
away their talents in what our Nobel Laureate of all times, Professor Wole Soyinka
summarized as a “Wasted Generation,…”
Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga- Publisher and President National peoples
News, is a Noble prince from the kukuruku provinces, principalities and powers
of the Mid West Region of the Nigerian Federation; a pan African intelligentsia
speaking over 10 languages of the world; vast in mathematics, structures,
engineering, literature, classics, arts, painting, philosophy, political
economy, artificial intelligence, dialectics, ancient, medieval and
contemporary history and thoughts: believe in Prince Frank Ukonga for he is an
acetic noble man of goodwill who want the best of best for all members of the
human family of substantiated realms of
subsequent creation. gratitude.
