Brain Drain: Is This An Act of War?

The type of immigrants that Europe and America want from Africa are precisely the people Africa needs to overcome her challenges and eventually be as economically viable and stable as the West. Africa cannot keep spending billions of dollars annually to educate doctors, nurses, teachers, and STEM graduates only to lose them to the West.  

If we want to develop as a continent, we must act against any foreign country that has immigration policies targeting our best-educated people. For example, suppose England has a highly skilled migrant program offering visas to Nigerian doctors, nurses, and other skilled workers.

In that case, the Nigerian government should consider placing a fee, not on the immigrant, but on England. If you want these people to leave, you must repay Nigeria’s money spent on their education, plus a convenience fee. Otherwise, the Nigerian government will not let them leave Nigeria because to do so would be an act of economic sabotage against Nigeria.

Suppose the United Kingdom gives Nigeria £25 million in development aid, and Nigeria spends $150 million annually to train 1000 doctors, nurses, and other highly skilled workers, who end up relocating to the UK as soon as they qualify. In that case, we are actually the ones giving development aid to an already developed country.  

As long as skilled Nigerians and Africans leave for the West, we will never develop at the pace we need to grow to compete with other regions of the world. If Europe and America want immigrants from Africa, let them send boats and ships to the Mediterranean to pick up the tens of thousands of Africans that try to cross the Mediterranean each week.

Educate them and then use them for whatever purpose they like. But it is almost evil to know that there is a very acute shortage of medical personnel in sub-Saharan Africa, and a deficit in the number of STEM graduates, yet deliberately introduce policies to wait for us to train Africans at public expense and then suck them up to Europe and America.

  If you try that with China, they will consider it an act of war. And maybe it is.  Because remember what I said at the beginning: ‘The type of immigrants that Europe and America want from Africa are precisely the people Africa needs to overcome her challenges and eventually be as economically viable and stable as the West.’ When you consider the above, we need to ask ourselves if these immigration policies are not an act of war by other means against Africa. Economic war is actually as old as physical warfare. Reno Omokri Gospeller.

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