Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Nigeria is to blame for the migration crisis in Libya

By

Iroabuchi Onwuka

It is eagerness that prompt the best of us to mention that Africa, especially Nigeria is not without blames for the crisis of youth migration, many of whom were arrested in Libya possibly on their way to Europe. What we have heard is that Libya helped to organize forced workmanship against the will and the wish of the captives in a manner comparable to slave trade. Why can’t Libya with a trim demographic of 6.4 million approx. allow migrant Africans to settle and work over there in the first place?


The comparison to slave trade is not necessarily over the top, since these individuals were not known to have accepted traveling back to their countries in Africa as a way to stem the tide of migration, as opposed to working in bad condition in Libya or in Europe. For people who necessarily indulge enlightened synthesis in the prevalence of wrong acts on so traditional a continent; the news was pressing – more pressing is why Africa cannot operate under the knife and with each other.


It may not seem that this is the case, but a sacrifice of a few rich areas in Libya for migrant workers, or Nigeria, remove it’s struggling currency for the price of skidding down the row in International Market and World Trade Organization is one way to ensure that Africa remains competitive. I state the facts that none of these strange occurrences would have happened in the way they did, if the big Dogs in the continent were wagging their tails and yelling for interference.


A re-denominated Naira may put Africa in bad light, especially Nigeria, but it may serve as Nigeria as the defacto Oasis for business in the Continent. In essence, a few good roads, steady light and water in such a useful market, these young men and women will not need Europe – even the United States.


Had Nigeria played its role as the leader of the free market in the continent, it would help welter some of the impression we are left with it about Libya, out the African youth and a continent in economic crisis. I beg to move that there is Africa’s parent body for looking at the actions from its member states in terms like this, that Libya is to be charged with advanced color-line misbehavior (misrule) and should pay indemnity within the outlines of AU trans-border rule of accommodation and for truancy.


This, does not mean that Libya can not exert its independence (sovereignty) or use labor as they see fit, but it mirrors the failures of African societies such as Nigeria to serve as the rock upon which other economies in the continent can build.


I believe Nigeria owes Africa certain reasons why the continent does not generate enough International Business – especially among themselves. It is a claim I believe will probably answer to nothing saving the attempt to understand why the youths in Africa – even in Libya are leaving Africa to Europe, as a way to heal the wounds of insult that the only markets left for market is outside Africa.


I take a cue from the fact that business oversea has changed in the decades, or changed since the coming of China to WTO, that lifestyles has also changed so also information technology, to the point that there is nothing in Europe nowadays that is not found in Africa. Africa is the continent to go in 2017, and if we avoid Nigeria because of its population, there are other African countries in West or Southern Africa that is capable on holding their market.


The difference has been the exchange rate, and probably lack of incentives to use the resources but all these can change with Nigeria moving to redeploy its currency. I am not making the argument that Nigeria should re-denominate its currency but am making the argument that Africa doesn’t necessarily need Europe. Historically the collapse of one continent leads to the rise of the other, a Russia-China bi-pedal front considered through to Africa in terms of Europe; its daily life, its market.


It is not South Africa or Egypt, or even Morocco – in fact Morocco is closer to African markets than South Africa and Egypt -that determines the leniency of African market, it is Nigeria and its West Africa, and with Nigeria, Africa may have a front through a Morocco, Ghana, South Africa and to an extent a Libya construct and for Tripoli, we add, Algeria, Egypt to mention. Africa with its open waters in West Africa, high waters in Southern Africa and continent rift in the East, is actually closer to an Island saving the North Africa that link the continent to Asia. It is where to go for all kind of investment including farming in Libya and Nigeria


Continent Europe, less than a third of the U.S.A, and in business half the apple. The place to go is Africa, the wind is soft over here, the land fertile. It is always summer and the metals and metallurgy are still under-growth market. Nigeria, not realizing its leadership role in Africa and in Asia, is to be blamed for all these problems in Libya and in Morocco with Africans heading Europe without effectively looking at what is available to them in West Africa and throughout the continent.


For if we lead the argument that such statement is not likely the case, we would make the second argument that there are few markets in Africa where business and local political operation are capable of generating local growth for local markets. If Libya is an example, the country is not the best placed market in the continent, it’s population is thin, its geography vast - twice the size of Nigeria and there are religious reasons why you need a guide to break into the market. Libya needs as many Africans as they can lay their hands...


Above all, the market is still colonized through its oil by non-Africans, and local power in Libya is complicated. If South Africa is the go to market in the continent, it is managed by super-rich 0.5% with enormous European tie-in, to a point that South Africa can not truly be called an African Market. It is a European market based in Africa and they are placing themselves along already made lines. South Africa once had a burgeoning middle class, but the failures of the competing forces among the groups to resolve their crisis lend reason to the position that they has not arrived as the open basket for business in Africa. As such it is left to Nigeria and its struggles to position themselves as leaders in the market.


In this closing argument, the practical use of the regions Geo-conventional market, a continental structure established since Europe colonized Africa has since remained the basic platforms of the businesses looking to expand their network. Nigeria plays a role in Africa because these Geo-political sectors are not regional enough to compare their border trade. The alternative is one whole economy – poor and ridden to flaws of all types, with nothing but passion for market, and should encourage African businesses looking to survive to do more business in Africa....


This country should continue to do extra-ordinary things like investigate the course of death of many Nigerians off the Mediterranean sea going through Italian borders, its silence is the death of many Nigerians and their Africans, and in extenso, Nigerian should look to retool and re-tune its market.
 

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