True life
story, please read below:
Mr NGA (real name withheld) started the day early, having set his alarm clock (MADE IN FINLAND) for 6:00am. While his teapot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his clipper (MADE IN HONG KONG). He put on his shirt (MADE IN THE UK), and designer jeans (MADE IN ITALY) and shoes (MADE IN THE USA).
Mr NGA (real name withheld) started the day early, having set his alarm clock (MADE IN FINLAND) for 6:00am. While his teapot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his clipper (MADE IN HONG KONG). He put on his shirt (MADE IN THE UK), and designer jeans (MADE IN ITALY) and shoes (MADE IN THE USA).
After
cooking his breakfast in his new electric cooker (MADE IN INDIA) he sat down
with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) to see how much he could spend today.
After setting his wristwatch (MADE IN TAIWAN) to his radio (MADE IN VIETNAM) he
got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) filled with petrol imported from (SAUDI
ARABIA) and continued his search for a good paying NIGERIAN job...
At the
end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his computer (MADE
IN MALAYSIA), Mr NGA decided to relax for a while. He put on his slippers (MADE
IN BRAZIL) poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN SOUTH AFRICA), while
fiddling with his mobile phone (MADE IN SOUTH KOREA), and then wondered why he can’t
find a good paying job in... NIGERIA.
He felt
achy and sore in his left knee; he decided to take one tablet of his TRAMADOL
TABLETS (MADE IN BANGLADESH) to relieve the pain. Lying down on his bed and
wondering why NIGERIAN External Foreign Reserve has depleted to under $28
billion which has translated to free fall depreciation of Nigerian NAIRA to US
DOLLAR at PARALLEL MARKET.......
Fellow
Nigerians, let's us start producing, let us start buying made in NIGERIA goods
If our economy is to grow and create better jobs.
How can a
country like Nigeria be importing toothpick, cutting bud, cotton wool, matches,
rubber band etc.? And we complain at the same time that there is no job for our
teeming youths?
The
situation is even pathetic now when you see Nigerians (in Lagos) prefer Cotonou
garri to that of Ijebu, buy Cotonou pineapple and they say it is better than
that of Nigeria. That is why frozen foods will be exported to Cotonou from
farms like that of Obasanjo repacked and imported back to Nigeria because they
know Nigerians always prefer made in outside Nigeria goods.
I visited
a friend in Port Harcourt in December, during the festive season and I was amazed
when I discovered that the pepper and fish he used to prepare the food he
served me were from (CAMEROON and GABON) respectively.
That is
why you will see an expatriate remuneration will be juicy than that of his
Nigeria counterpart even if that Nigerian is more certificated than the
expatriate (This also happens in government parastatals).
Any
nation that imports majorly foreign made goods/services rather than producing
their own are hurting its people....
When we
keep importing foreign made products into Nigeria, we keep importing poverty
into our country and exporting jobs abroad...
Let's go
back to the land to grow and patronize MADE IN NIGERIA products...
PLEASE
SHARE FREELY TO ENLIGHTEN ALL NIGERIANS.
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