Moms Against Bullshit

You demand that we celebrate the biggest bank in the world moving into Nigeria. Well, the biggest oil companies in the world are already here, yet 65% of Nigerians are still suffocating in multidimensional poverty. International Oil Companies currently owe Nigeria a staggering $62 billion in unpaid taxes, unremitted royalties, and evaded ecological fines. They have drawn a sharp line in the sand, boldly refusing to pay back a single cent of money that could easily build world-class railway networks across the country. Their high-profile executives are foreigners. They refuse to open local industries to manufacture their equipment, choosing instead to siphon our wealth overseas to import machinery. The technicians servicing their advanced technologies are all expensive private contractors flown in from Texas or Europe. Cartels like Chevron and ExxonMobil are strictly here to drill oil out of our sea beds, take the lion's share, and ship the capital out of the country. Even if they operate here for another 50 years, they will never build local manufacturing plants or set up specialized institutes to train indigenous technicians. JPMorgan is coming to do the exact same thing. Their presence here is strictly to serve as a sophisticated conduit for the ruthless extraction of wealth. Nothing more, nothing less.