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

— Olu Ajakaiye

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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.

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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