Saturday, March 3, 2018

How Nigerians are suffering themselves

   

    It is the business of the government to provide for security and well being of the citizen irrespective of tribal and background.
     Development is human centred, that is the holistic improvement in the life's of individual in all ramifications. Using Abraham Maslow hierarchy of needs as the theoritical framework of analysis in this study, because man must eat before doing anything(Engel). The economical situation of inidividual citizen in the country has been subjected to the rise and fall in dollar- an alien currency (agent of imperialism),this is because the economy of the country was integrated into the economy of the industrial capitalist of the west ( Claude Ake 1981:12).
      With the discovery of oil in the 19's, the agricultural sector was relegated to it minimal level and instead for our past leaders to restore the glory and honour of the sector to what it to be in the epoch of the country as one of the best exporter in cocoa, groundnut, timber and rubber, but the case is vice-versa, and a nation who refused to develop it own resources for consumption for the populace but depend on the external forces for covertion of its resources can not develop, although every nation have the indices of development but utilization of all these indices is the problem. 

     Confronted with all these contradiction it was inevitable for dollar not to rise against Naira, the rational is crystal clear because the bedrock of the state economy is crude oil and the price is falling dramastically in the international market, therefore, the effect will be on our economy, that is all imported goods and services will be inflated in price.
       But the modus-operandi of this write up, is about how local markerters inflate the price of all goods and services lying against rise in dollar, imagine the price of pure water increase just because of dollar, are we importing pure water? Increase in the price of cow meat? Are we also importing cows? Also increase in locust bean from #20 to #30, just because of dollar, even the Yaba made clothes and Shoes labelled made in USA increased, I don't blame the producer of Aba and Yaba goods because one's Nigerians knows that this commodity is made from Aba or Yaba then it is not original, but the made in USA, Germany, Italy are the original.    

       Though globalization is the highest stage of capitalism for now because the more developed the productive force the more advance a society will be, the interaction of the third world with the West is one sided, been to the extent that if America caught cold the third world countries will sneeze ( Causality theory).
      I hereby recommend that will should re-oriented ourselves and the government should make the agricultural sector encouraging for the youth. For you to fight an alien and oppressive culture you must embraced your language, let patronize our local made goods and shun imported goods and services. (Gbadebo Ibrahim 2016)