Posted by
GunnyG© on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:36:45 AM
There is NOTHING better than seeing Socialism take a gut punch from those it attacks. In an update to my story on Mugabe kicking out more of those evil oppressive white farmers, dedicated TH'er philosophocon found the Gunny a story on how Nigeria is PROFITING from the stupidity of Socialist murderer Mugabe.
They are ASKING those evil white farmers to "COME ON DOWN!"
Graham Hatty, a 65-year-old Zimbabwean who has spent the past 41 years farming at Norton, 35 kilometres west of Harare, is this week packing to leave for Nigeria and a new life there as a pioneer agriculturalist.
He is one of a team of fifteen white Zimbabwean farmers courted vigorously by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, the head of the African Union, to settle in Nigeria to open up commercial farming. The farmers all lost their properties in Zimbabwe in President Robert Mugabe's land confiscation programme over the past five years.
Hatty and the pioneer party's leader, 46-year-old Alan Jack, were told by Obasanjo on a visit to Abuja, the Nigerian capital, from which they have just returned, "Why leave Africa and go to Australia? We do not want to take away what is good for Zimbabwe from Zimbabwe, but I believe that it is in the best interests of Africa that you do not leave this continent. The more of you who come to Nigeria the better."
"In Kwara we don't have oil, but we have a vast amount of virgin land, 2.3 million hectares, available for agriculture, which has the potential to provide jobs and bring down the cost of food," said Governor Saraki from Ilorin, the state capital. "White farmers were having problems with Robert Mugabe. They saw themselves as Africans and wanted to stay in Africa. We [Obasanjo and Karaki] thought: if you've got what it takes to make it in commercial farming, the opportunities are here."
The migration of these white farmers is the latest chapter in the exodus of white Zimbabwean farmers, who were shown the door by Mugabe and his Socilaist regime. Mugabe's troops often MURDERED the white farmers vice kicking them off of the land and Mugabe called them greedy racists. These white farmers are moving to other African countries where they are breathing new life into moribund farming economies.
Zambia, an importer of maize, its staple food, for the first 36 years of independence, has become a maize exporter since it began giving land to some 200 white Zimbabweans from 2001 onwards.
Karaki said Zimbabwe's loss is Nigeria's gain. Kwara State has given the Zimbabweans pioneer status, which brings with it many financial incentives, including investment by the government of some 1.6 million dollars in irrigation, electricity, roads and housing around an impoverished village called Shonga in the north of the state.
There is NOTHING better than the enjoyment of SCHADENFREUDE!
Neid zu fühlen ist menschlich, Schadenfreude zu genießen teuflisch: "To feel envy is human, to enjoy schadenfreude is devilish." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Socialism takes one on the chin! THANK YOU NIGERIA!
http://iwpr.net/?p=acr&s=f&o=239314&apc_state=heniacr2005