Nigeria has given the united state of America Access to it $700 billion worth mineral resources. What best describe modern day slavery than this?
Nigeria's Minister of Solid Minerals Dele Alake and US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau have signed an agreement to deepen American investment in Nigeria's mining sector, formalised at the Nigeria Mission House in New York on Wednesday. The framework covers;
1. geological data and exploration
2. mineral development and processing,
3. And infrastructure and technical capacity.
As a Nigerian, I can't help but question this mining agreement with the US. We have mineral resources estimated at about $700 billion, yet we are again looking to foreign powers to develop and profit from them.
If we keep providing the resources while depending on others for the technology, capital and processing, aren't we simply creating another form of economic slavery?
