CAN TRADE RELATIONS WITH CHINA TANTAMOUNT TO RE-COLONIZATION OF AFRICA?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(LOOKING AT NIGERIA'S POLITICAL SYSTEM FROM A GODLY PERSPECTIVE)

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 7. NO 265. 9th September, 2018.] “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

CAN TRADE RELATIONS WITH CHINA TANTAMOUNT TO RE-COLONIZATION OF AFRICA?

The Forum on China and Africa Co-operation (FOCAC 2018), 7th Summit held recently in Beijing (3rd-4th September, 2018, had been concluded but the ugly misinformation that the host's gesture was a disguise for a fresh in-road into Africa for the purpose of re-colonization is still trending in the social media of several African countries!

China hosted many African Leaders and Heads of State. The theme of the summit was "Towards an even Stronger China-Africa Community with a shared future". President Buhari first visited China in April 2016, and gains of the visit are visible in Nigeria's ongoing power, housing, solid mineral. Road and rail infrastructural developments across the nation have enjoyed over US $6 billion dollars in Chinese investments!

For the records, the United Nations (UN), as the umbrella body of 193 countries of the world, recognizes the independence and sovereignty of each member country and as such accords each country the dignity and respect it should enjoy among the comity of nations as a democratic entity!

And in pursuance of these goals the UN co-ordinates all activities of the various countries through Charters and Conventions that bind all together as one united family.
Africa as a continent is united under the African Union (AU), as its umbrella body, with several sub-regional bodies catering for the collective needs of their members.
Nigeria, even as the most populous nation of black people is a member of both the AU and the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS), and President Muhammadu Buhari, is its current Chairman!
Neither the UN nor the AU, nor any other union of sub-regional groups of nations would sit idle to watch any if its conventions or charters violated either by member nations or any external  meddlesome interlopers without resisting such moves either diplomatically or through military confrontation if need be!

It is therefore the height of insensibility and an act of unpatriotism for anyone to reduce the lofty ideals of China's Economic Policy of trade support for the African Continent to mere rhetoric’s and beer parlour gists!

The sudden rush for African markets by the super powers and major European countries of Britain and Germany in recent times is an unfolding drama that the black continent is the commercial destination of the world! In the past these same countries because of technological advantages in sea-faring and land exploration, had manipulated the natives of the old continent, harvested their natural resources as raw materials (virtually free of charge), for their various industries only to export the finished products to the same continent for massive gains from the brazen exploitation!
Now, fortunes have been reversed as the 21st Century Africa has become the global beautiful bride to be pampered and wooed even by the super power nations of the United States and China, because they would lose their prestigious positions if they cannot dispose their large consignments of manufactured products in order to garner sufficient foreign exchange earnings to cater for social contracts and also to maintain status quo in the ever-advancing and challenging industrial/manufacturing market places; revolution in rocket science/nuclear power rivalries; including the information communications technology fields!

China is now the largest investor in Africa in areas of infrastructure development in energy, agriculture, mining, healthcare, humanitarian aid and response to climate change. Nigeria's partnership with China through FOCAC has attracted projects worth over five billion dollars to the former while the 3050 Megawatts Mambilla Hydro-Power project is also under consideration for completion through the latter's expressed financial support from early 2019.
Universal trading - exhange of commercial goods and services - had been in existence from time immemorial!
No country is an island to itself! Can USA or China produce commodities or achieve scientific inventions only to utilize or consume all by themselves without exporting to other nations
Foreign external loan is a universal phenomenon! US and China also borrow from the world bank to improve and boost their large economies because loans are not free lunches, they are repayable at the appointed time!
President Xi Jinping says china has no colonial ambition - contrary to the absurd insinuations orchestrated by western powers and chorused by illiterate African politicians!
Alliances, confederations and alignments are bi-lateral ingredients of agreements for nation-building in areas of trade, technology, science, war etc.

During the six-day visit of President Buhari, several Agreements and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) were signed between Nigeria and China in areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the economy.He described China's "increasing investment in Africa and the Sub-Region of ECOWAS as a way of building a prosperous and shared future."

UNESCO's INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY (ILD) - SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER, 2018.
World's Literacy Day has become an annual event aimed at raising global awareness on issues that necessitate adult and child literacy since its debut in 1966, and also now, part of United Nation's (UN's), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's), programme adopted in 2015, aimed at raising global  awareness on literacy development in partnership with governments, charities, local communities and experts in line with the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO), cliché, "LITERACY IS THE BEST REMEDY!"

Education is better than illiteracy but knowledge is far more preferable than ignorance! Talk is very cheap because it is legalized by the constitutions of most independent nations through such enactment classified as, “Freedom of Speech"!
A nation without well-educated leaders and citizens is bound to remain backward, uncivilized and analogue! Although the technology of internet website services was designed by creative minds to develop human capital assets for positive social contracts, interactions and ease of doing business by governments and citizens, what obtains in Nigeria's social media is the complete opposite of the good intentions of the inventors!
False/fake news, defamatory/inflammatory statements, hate/speeches, slanders, uneducated publications under the guise of political discourse, disrespect/dishonour of personalities (retired or in active service), irrespective of whether they were respectable people, elder statesmen/women, who had served meritoriously! President Muhammadu Buhari has not been spared from all manner of unwarranted assaults in spite of his highly revered, exalted position and globally-acclaimed integrity, - because desperate illiterate politicians were mis-interpreting educative national discourse on social development, infrastructures, restructuring, state police, resource control etc, to heat up the polity through their illiterate followers!

In spite of the fact that the present administration had, enumerated its achievements of rapid transformation from comatose to buoyant economy in the areas of speedy infrastructural developments in roads, transportation, agriculture, solid mineral resources, tourism, entertainment etc, within a limited period of about three-and-a-half-years of its Change mantra, (29th May, 2015, to date), opposition PDP detractors still maintained that nothing had changed from the chaos which they left behind from 1999 - 2015!

PDP SHOULD BECOME A LITERATE OPPOSITION PARTY!
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which never lost any general elections until 2015, believed that the role of an opposition party began and ended with criticisms of every action, inaction or policy of the ruling government! In charting this erroneous course, they have exposed themselves as totally naive to the understanding of the mechanisms of political science as practised in governance!
They have failed to understand that being in the opposition does not alienate them from governance and the citizenry; in fact that strategic position should give them the leverage needed to reach out to the electorate to find out how they got it wrong, make restitutions and strategize fresh social/people-friendly agendas to re-gain the electorate confidence. They did not also realize that the more unwarranted opposition raised against the performing ruling party, the more they would be alienated from the masses whose lives had been positively affected through the Change mantra!

The role of an opposition party in a democracy is to constructively monitor how or whether the ruling party was fulfilling all of its promises according to its manifesto and draw attention to any dereliction. The opposition should form a "shadow cabinet" as obtains in other climes to keep the incumbent government on its toes in the discharge of all of its social contract so that governance would be more robust and meaningful than the "assailant/bad blood" posture of the PDP!
The public image manager of the opposition party has not helped matters either; when he was not castigating the President for being too old to performing, he would condemn all the ministers as "square pegs in round holes", or even allege that members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), were more corrupt than those of the past PDP failed administrations and that the war against corruption was one-sided and directed against the opposition!
Constructive, not myopic criticisms are permissible in every democracy in order to achieve reasonable success that would ensure meaningful lives of safety, employment, living wages, qualitative education, safe health facilities, motorable roads, functioning railway network, portable water, and credible accountability by the management team at all times!

"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. Prov 6:6-8(KJV)

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.