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Olu Ajakaiye Quotes

Nigeria

Olu Ajakaiye is a Nigerian economist, development policy expert, and professor. He is the Executive Chairman of the African Centre for Shared Development Capacity Building (ACSDEV), a former Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), former President of the Nigeria Economic Society (NES), and a consultant to the World Bank.

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They carried our people, young people, valuable people, and they now established the first world.

Let us therefore not be under any illusion and say the market will do it. They have to make sure they provide the market, whatever it takes, including stealing from other countries.

They call it tertiarisation of the economy. Our economy was prematurely tertiarised, and this was the harbinger of poverty.

The developed systems that we have now were as a result of resources taken from here, and they are ahead. Their government didn’t say we would be nice guys, we would not go and steal.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Olu Ajakaiye (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.