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My fellow Africans and friends of Africa. The picture you see of our children sitting on the ground, is of a school in Nigeria. It was posted by Mr. Osamuyi Paul Ogbebor today 14.09.2013. Between May and July this year I supervised the donation of 87 tones of goods to Romania and 82 tones of goods to Poland. We still have about 20 tones in the warehouse to be sent to NGO’s in Eastern Europe. Why is this necessary to point out here? The African Union and Friends of Africa in Diaspora aufad and The African Union and Friends of Africa in Diaspora / Facebook had the opportunity of being the NGO on the ground in Germany and the President, a Nigerian was in charge of the logistics of these donated items. These items were properties of Aloysianum in Lohr a.m. Germany. Mrs. Gertrud Fröhlich an official of Mariannhill Würzburg , made sure these items that were accumulated for over a hundred years, worth tens of millions of euros were given for free to NGO’s and poor countries from Africa, most especially Nigeria, Poland and Romania. It is worth it here to note that the Aloysianum was a very exclusive boarding school that stood through the destructions of the Second World War. We only got two deep fryers, a giant cooking pot, several cooking ports, plates, writing materials, a motor saw, a machine for wood work, a role table for food distribution, a wheeled shelve for food distribution and house hold work tools, totalling about 1 tone. The reasons why we got about a tone, is because the Federal Government of Nigeria, led by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has made it impossible for used school uniforms (white shirts), school furniture’s, student bunk beds, to be imported into the country. The idea behind the Nigerian President’s reasoning is to create employment and encourage local industries. I support the idea if it encourages competition and if the government make subsidy’s available to cotton farmers, primary goods finishers, food conservation efforts and our indigenous manufacturing industries. Unfortunately, the government of Nigeria is subsidising their pockets and Gold-plated iphones. “ "The Chief Executive Officer, Gold and Co., United Kingdom, Amjad Ali, has told a United Kingdom newspaper, The Independent, that the Federal Government has ordered 53 gold-plated iPhone 5S mobile handsets from his firm as part of the memorabilia for the nation’s 53rd Independence anniversary on October 1, 2013. The gold iphones are said to worth £2.65m (about N682m). Each of the gold-plated iPhones costs up to £50,000, said The Independent, in its report on Wednesday. The minimum cost of basic models of iPhone in gold or rose gold is £3,000. The 53 special phones are to be supplied by Amjad Ali, a Bristol-born owner of Gold and Co. based in Dubai.” Ali, who told The Independent that his firm was “fulfilling an order from the Nigerian government for 53 gold-plated iPhones, added, “We will engrave them with the coat of arms, a shield and two horses. “ Let me use this opportunity to beg all Africans in Diaspora to do everything possible to help our poor African brothers and sisters back home. The African governments (50% or more) do not care for the poor. Their policies are too theoretical to make any meaningful change to the lives of the poor. Most of these policies were designed for western economies with infrastructures, mental, social, monitoring and evaluating institutions on the ground. Let us build Africa from bottom up starting from our mothers to our children.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 19:57:35 +0000

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