donderdag 24 februari 2011

Nigeria


Hello, I’m in Nigeria now…
And I see a lot of unfinished buildings and places, I see also destroyed buildings and places. I wanted to know why was that and I went on research.
Immense oil riches have been replaced to places like this, but they have not brought the country peace because there are still kidnapping, sabotage, deadly bombing attacks,…
They fear for a new wave of attacks on the oil industry.
Nigeria is a country that earns a lot from its oil riches, but nobody know what the government does with the money they earn from that business.
We all know that Nigeria isn’t a rich country, but they were making good progress and then suddenly a lot of money disappear to expenses where a lot of people didn’t knew about it.
A portion of the money has been spent on failed efforts to upgrade Nigeria’s image, but nobody knows where the other part of the money is.
If they have money, they spend it wrongly. They build a beautiful building next to an unfinished house, this doesn’t give a positive image of the country.
And sometimes a few people decide to invest in huge projects, but the other people of the government don’t  know about something. They didn’t give a great picture of how the money is spend in their country.
The government must do something about it, because some situations are not normal anymore, for example: none of the schools have been renovated and sometimes the students sitting in the rain.

My opinion is that the government of Nigeria must take their responsibility and they have to justify on what they spend the money. It’s not good for the image of the country that there are everywhere unfinished places and buildings because when the tourists see that they never want to go back there (I don’t want to go back there).
Nigeria is not a rich country and if they cannot deal with money, than they have problems in advance.
The government is the head of the country and they must provide for money, so than they really have to do that and not spend the money on pointless projects.
Now, I don’t like to stay here, so I hope I can quickly go to another country.
I’ll talk to you at the next blog.
Bye




Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/world/africa/09nigeria.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=nigeria&st=cse

Charlotte De Hainaut

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