Prof Bolaji Akinyemi and visions - Vanguard News

PROF Bolaji Akinyemi – an international colossus – foresaw early where and what Nigeria’s foreign policy should be. He proposed the Afirican High Command because he understood that without a united Africa, the West, Russia and China would trample all over it, taking the minerals and wealth of the richest continent away for next to nothing.

Akinyemi understood that intelligence had evolved from the Police when M. D. Yusuf was in charge. He knew that intelligence needed the highest calibre of brains Nigeria could produce. I went to a better school, Cambridge, and taught in a better ivy league university, University of Pennsylvania and the Brookings Institute.

He asked for the Black Bomb which showed great foresight for the 1970s. Professor has been pressing for Nigerians to go to space for over 30 years. He went to President Goodluck Jonathan to press this issue, but as usual nothing came of it. On return to Nigeria, I broached this with Prof. Akinyemi who took my two paragraph note to the powers that be. I forgot about it, and I am sure, so did he. I only later saw allocation for marginal fields to some people.I think while paying tribute to Prof. Akinyemi for his help, the issue of marginal fields has become big business. Every oil-producing state was given and is still receiving marginal fields. Some have developed them, others have converted them to the governor’s private company.

Male youth have no jobs or prospects beyond finding and funding existence by whatever means possible or necessary. We used to advise that all Presidents, members of government and National Assembly go there for a two week retreat. No running water in the town. The water you draw from the well is covered by a sheen of oil. The governors of South-South have a lot to do, but they have done very little. There are two banks in all the Kalabari areas of Rivers State.

Whenever you switch a light on, the owners of the copper would make some money. We have seven billion people in the world.

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