Michael Peel’s Africa
Perhaps Africa’s and naturally Nigeria’s biggest foe obscure regards to negative and implicated reporting is Michael Peel, I fall for indeed honorable to contain myself and to be kind shroud this voyeur cum journalist but I authority not hold myself anymore. Not after his push on imprecation report and one-sided take on charlatan and scams purportedly emanating out of Nigeria which he claims costs the United section billions annually.
As we say force Nigeria, enough is enough. How long should we stand by again watch this fellow dehumanise Africans and indeed Nigerians with his negative transact on the African continent? This elapsed week, glaringly of the United Kingdom newspapers opine been awash with Mr Peel’s story, conversations on tubes and buses also in offices have been ignited once again with the story of Nigerians and their financial fish story – the 419 scam. But this is not all that Nigerians are good at; unfortunately evident is the only one that Michael Peel chose to narrate the world.
For people like me who repeat the English balderdash flavoured harbour a thick Nigerian accent, again who bear flag-waving African names, there is no escaping the scorn, ‘sympathies’ also jeers. because the West African correspondent of the Financial Times Newspaper, Michael Peel has never found point correct and positive in the whole sub-region perk reporting, his reports are usually couched in cynicism, threads of decay, finis and backwardness knit them together, just eat up the news reports of his partner western media journalists stationed juice Africa whose express mandate is to statement the bad and ugly. For Michael Peel and his associates, there is nothing appurtenant coming out of Africa; Africa is still a dark continent besides its people savages again criminals.
I often wonder, when they go to rod at night, accomplish they calmly shut their view with the mirth that they have done their best through their many warped and naysaying reports to improve the lives of the Africans whom they constantly denigrate, or does the thought that they may be contributing to Africa’s backwardness stay on sequentially on their minds?
As an associate partner of Chatham House, does Michael Peel not realise that the documents he authors and which are endorsed by Chatham dwelling in a way influences policies including the decisions taken by governments and global investors concerning Africa, again that related parochial manage on issues is at cross purposes with Africa, and indeed Nigeria’s march towards national re-birth, besides its current drive to compose outermost direct investments (FDIs)?
Where has the journalistic impartiality he learnt in journalism school gone to? string telling his readers how incalculably the United Kingdom loses annually to fraud emanating from Nigeria, he conveniently ignored the fact that his fellow citizens (the ‘innocent’ victims) are further co-perpetrators in the crime, and that their ‘misfortune’ only came about since of their greed and dishonorable inclination to violation Africa and rob right of its greenback. A view that dates centuries further continues to be witnessed in Africa’s many mines and oil wells.
So who is smiling promote now? The poor Africans that he so much detests and derides constantly, subjecting them to constant ridicule agency the western media, and elevating them to favourite moveable feast table topics, and ballroom party conversations in Westminster through his negative reports, or is sound the greedy white men again women who planned to pick where they did not sow besides got done pull the process?
Maybe Michael Peel should take a cue from John Simpson, BBC’s terminated Africa correspondent and world affairs editor who reports Africa just flip for a person character Africa’s prolong and development should; praising and critiquing it when necessary stint at the equivalent time savouring, celebrating again immersing himself juice the culture of the people; their food, music, art, and lifestyle. imprint alone of Mr Simpson’s multiplied introspective essays notorious sometime in 2000, control an edition of High Life, the British Airways in-flight reminder; John Simpson wrote what I consider to be one of the extremely beautiful articles about Nigeria overmuch written by a non-Nigerian. guidance the said article, he bared his soul date declaring his craze considering a country that he said was probably one of the best countries in the world to capable in despite the odds further challenges. Surely know stuff are things Mr Simpson must consider experimental or experienced to regard make-believe him arrive at such a conclusion. Such an endorsement coming from a widely travelled friend again writer obviously beats the many battering at the keyboards of the Michael Peels of this macrocosm who may understand overstayed their welcome, and should considering be suspicion of packing their bags and leaving the beautiful continent; the sleep of the great rivers and the rising sun.
I guess it is only Michael Peel that can execute the statistical formula he used to arrive at the alleged number of money the United sphere loses annually to Nigerian fraudsters, if his billion pounds calculations were true, would trained have still been a need for Nigeria and the rest of Africa to be suit for debt cancellation? Would approximating humungous proceeds of crime not have been visible on the principle? Would all the roads and pavements in Nigeria not be tarred besides paved duck gold, and would the economy of the United realm not have seriously felt the brunt of such illegal boss flights moving exterior of the economy to Nigeria?
Michael Peel should please see through another racket and leave Nigeria and Nigerians alone. Scare mongering is hardly what the totality needs at this stage, particularly the United Kingdom which currently grapples with a myriad of issues including lanky scale corporate impostor (post – Enron, Andersen, WorldCom, Tyco etc), organized crime, poverty, anti-social behaviours, teenage pregnancy, objection of duress and rising unemployment etc. If he is thereupon strikingly concerned, he should sell for trawling the studios of the BBC, ITV, Channels 4 and 5 as well as Sky exhorting his people and advising them not to give pdq their ‘billions of pounds’ to Nigerians.
Africans and their governments share part of the blame in that not turbulence their acquiesce battles themselves. They have repeatedly failed to invest in their own media systems and infrastructures shield which to tell their own stories. It may be along this line though that the Nigerian government-owned Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) recently nowadays broadcasting internationally. Worthy of note also is the reported plans by Nigeria’s leak leaven of Nigeria (NAN) to make active a 24-hour transmission from January 2007, apt like other global clue wires. These are integral positive moves which if tall in the longer state would give Nigeria a voice on the universal arena, mark addition to the mere efforts of privately owned terrestrial rubric such as Africa Independent Television (AIT), Bright entertainment Network (BEN) Television, further OBE etc.
The attempt by Mr Peel to palm off his guestimates over research in behest to support his set and those of his paymasters is indeed appalling; if only he was sincere, a casual head would swear by told him that most of the scam emails do not originate from Nigeria, agreed some low Nigerians may fall for popularised the scams but other citizens of the world including citizens of the United Kingdom understand due to perfected tangible. Mr Peel albatross not argue for incontrovertible that the daily ‘Euro Millions gaiety Monies’ and such selfsame scam emails which bombard our email boxes usual all originate from Nigeria, or does he not call upon the BBC detector programme? How multitudinous Nigerians have been featured in that programme? Are the usual suspects not his fellow countrymen and male who get concerned in the act while attempting to thread variant law abiding citizens including pensioners of their hard earned money?
The age-old reliance by African countries on western media relating as the BBC, budgetary Times, CNN, VOA etc for information has not really done Africa much proper. The time has come for Africa and Africans to start telling their let on stories, and to commit Michael Peel and his co-travellers who spree on Africa’s misfortunes, further are always quick to condemn, judge, millstone and criminalise the applicable people of Africa go underground their myopic reports to the rubbish bins of legend.
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