I made a post earlier in the day about making it in Africa. Here’s the fact, Ibrahim Mahama made it right here in Ghana . Kennedy Agyapong became who he is in Ghana. Every other millionaire you know in Ghana made it here.

Same way, Dangote made it in Nigeria . Every other millionaire you may know in Nigeria made it in that country. American millionaires got their money in their country.

Chinese millionaires got their money in their country. Traveling abroad can make you a middle income earner but hardly a millionaire.

If you want to make millions, it will have to be in Ghana, it has to be in Africa. Especially because, Ghana is still developing, there are lots of untapped opportunities.

This is not motivational speech, it’s set of facts. We can make it here, do not lose hope.

#iloveGhana

There is the local & international dimension to the Boko Haram & the terrorism ravaging the continent of Africa (especially Nigeria).

The funding, the training & the logistics are coming mostly from the West & the Middle East; the foot soldiers are supplied from right there in my native Nigeria, & the wider Sahel.

It’s a foreign mission with local headquarters.

No Terrorism can carryon for almost two decades without a type of sophistication (a network of endless supply of weapons & funding). Someone must have routes to market to succeed with onboarding such a massive program on such a massive scale. Abacha understood some of these complexities.

The terrorism in Nigeria is nuclear, with many branches. Local champions in Nigeria are not that sophisticated to coordinate & sustain such transnational sabotage on that grand scale (without motivation from external sources).

Wars are expensive, & someone must fund it with hard currency. Foot soldiers must be fed, the war propaganda must be oiled as well.

Religious fanaticism & radicalization are the oxygen, poverty is the cannon fodder. Two peas in a pod; both married each other perfectly. Sabotage added salt to injury.

The multidimensional poverty ravaging Nigeria, alongside the ungoverned spaces up north, are enough motivation for anyone to want to join a group of ragtags. Downplaying the international dimension to an almost 2 decades of nonstop insurgency, is something that I will never do.

Simon Ekpa’s IPOB are not isolated either. The riff raff cannot possibly be the one funding the endless resources he had at his disposable.

A sovereign or conglomerate must have been the muscle directing the orchestra, & arranging the motifs. Simon is not that sophisticated.

Wars are expensive, & someone must fund it.

I have seen enough to know that wherever there is conflict, a whale is paying for it. There is whole economy built around wars & conflict.

Someone somewhere is the beneficiary (pushing their own agenda from behind the scene). It's a perfect collaboration. Nigeria supplies the foot soldiers, the West & the Arabs the funding. In simple language; the Boko Haram is local, the funding is international.