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Mathew,
Except for the parts about nationalization of industries and your preference for us to begin slaughtering ourselves versus letting foreigners have control in Africa, I agree with your sentiments. Please don't get me wrong: I'm not
for foreigners having control in Africa. Just as much as I detest foreign control in Africa, I equally (or even more so) detest the abuses wrought by us Africans against each other. I say yes to getting rid of outsider control, but I wouldn't overlook our own complicity and/or abuses.
- Wilmot
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From: mathew jallow <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 2004/07/22 Thu PM 12:40:46 CDT
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Subject: Re: Shell's first Nigerian Boss
I agree. This is a wonderful development. African faces should be replacing all these foreign employees in Corporate Africa. But my own greatest dream is the nationalization of every industries, from Shell, Chevron, Elf, B.P, to the giant Anglo-American Holdings and De-Beers andall the rest of them. We must now begin to take control of our own wealth and resources. I feel better if we as Africans begin slaughtering each other over our own resources than for an outsider to come, control and tell us how to manage our wealth. It is humiliating, and has been for all these years.
Kelechi Eke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
It is about time! But wait.... 2.5 million barrels per day - Goodness, we should all be in the United States of Nigeria if well managed. Thanks for sharing, bro Richard.
- KC
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Tuesday, 20 July, 2004, 11:52 GMT 12:52 UK
Shell names first Nigerian boss
Mr Omiyi hopes to be the first of many Nigerian bosses
Oil giant Shell has for the first time named a Nigerian to head its operations in Nigeria, one of the world's biggest oil exporters.
Basil Omiyi, 58, will start work as Shell Nigeria's managing director in September, after joining the company 34 years ago.
Localisation has been a key demand of Nigeria's restive oil-workers' unions.
The appointment appears to scotch reports that Shell would leave Nigeria - where it is the biggest oil producer.
"I am honoured to be the first of what I expect will be many Nigerians to hold the post. I look forward to the opportunities and challenges which lie ahead," Mr Omiyi said.
Opec member Nigeria is the world's seventh largest crude exporter, producing around 2.5 million barrels per day and exporting almost all of that.
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