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"en.20120314.27.3-546-000"2
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"Mr President, Nigeria is still a recipient of aid after 50 years of independence. It suffers from a lack of economic development and the majority of its inhabitants live below the poverty line.
Is Nigeria so poor because it lacks resources? No. It is the world’s eighth largest oil producer. This really is a puzzle. Nigeria is suffering from civil strife, a euphemism for Islamist violence against native Christians and Europeans working to industrialise the country out of poverty.
What can have caused these problems? It cannot, of course, be because of the nature of Islam or, of course, anything to do with ethnicity. These must be ‘no-go areas’ of course.
A Nigerian I once knew well blamed it on the colonialists, who drew straight lines on the map and included incompatible peoples arbitrarily in the same political state. This undoubtedly contributed to one war, the Biafran Secession in 1967. Of course, we Europeans would not make the same mistake would we? We would not dream of filling up the states of Europe with incompatible peoples. Well, would we? Of course we would not…!"@en1
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