When we work with the teeming youth of a nation, we realise that we must have hope for the future. A major part of this hope comes from economies of JUSTICE.
Corporate monopolies centralise power. For
revived local regions there must be decentralisation of economic power.
A monopoly situation can be defined as a
state where too much economic power is concentrated in too few hands.
For local development, employment,
opportunity, and allowance for the ingenuity of youth, local communities must
own and develop their own resources.
When my wife and I first came to Nigeria in
1986, we saw so many small industries owned by people we knew. Kano and Kaduna
were major African textile producers. All these have been closed down and taken
away or bought out by very big, centralised corporations.
This is why we have banditry.
These big corporations bribe governments
around the world to pass laws in their favour. These bribes are called “lobbying
gifts” or “campaign financing.”
Britain and America have set up offshore secret
banking, allowing these corporations to funnel billions of dollars away from
developing nations. All of this money belongs to the local communities and to
their infrastructure, educational and health development.
These secret offshore accounts can also be
used to finance nefarious activities, like insurrection, because the flow of
funds is very difficult to trace. These secret offshore accounts must be closed
by the governments.
It is the duty of governments to protect
local communities and the teeming youth from the power of monopolies, from monopolies
taking over resources from local ownership, and monopolies’ control of labour
markets and their ability to reduce wages. Governments must break up monopolies
and not allow them to grow in the first place.
Third, the International Monetary Fund and
the World Bank, make loans to nations to take control over the nations through
indebtedness. This enables global corporate powers to take over and control the
resources of local communities. This devastates local wealth, bringing poverty.
These debts must be cancelled, by what is called “Jubilee.”
Without Jubilee, we cannot have peace. With
Jubilee, youth will have a future, and peace will reign. I say again, If the international community truly cared for our youth and their future, they would
initiate full banking Jubilee now, without delay.
Forth, institutions like the United Nations
have in large extent been taken over by private corporate interests. This
allows enemies like terrorists and viruses to grow unchecked because they
become profitable to corporations involved in bringing “on going solutions they
sell,” but that never eradicate the problems.
The United Nations, when influenced by
these corporations, sees the teeming youth as the problem, the disease (the
“over population: a debit”) and not as a great credit, to be supported, trained
and encouraged for a bright future. We must not see our youth as the problem,
but as wonderful blessings to be built up. The Government must take back
organisations like the United Nations and not allow them to be controlled by
the private corporate sector.
Fifth, health has been centralised and
taken over by large pharmaceutical monopolies, which now largely control
organisations like the World Health Organisation. This also must be stopped by
government regulations. Local health development, local scientific research,
the development of local drugs with local herbal remedies, must be encouraged,
to once again lift our local economies and wealth.
Take Professor Wannang (Professor of Pharmacology,
Jos University) and his recent laboratory tested treatments for example, useful
for Covid and malaria. When local science is no longer squashed by global monopolies,
our university graduates will have jobs and our farmers will have wealth.
We have a vision of local communities being
released from global corporate corruption, to once again flourish in JUSTICE.
We owe it to our youth. The policies that work and must be enacted are clear as
light.
Prof. Kent Hodge
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