I have never had any regard for Nigerian billionaires because they are all tied to oil money—and oil money in Nigeria is blood money.
-Professor Lumumba
“In America or Europe, you can travel and find people who built real fortunes through business, innovation, or production, and you can trace how they created their empires.
But go to the creeks of the Niger Delta, where Nigeria’s oil wealth actually comes from, and you see extreme poverty—people surviving on less than $1 a day.
There is no billionaire in Nigeria who is not connected to the corrupt oil cabals and cartels. Whenever a government official is exposed for massive corruption in Nigeria, if you dig deep enough, you find it traces back to stolen oil money taken from the people of the Niger Delta.
So why should I have any regard for them?”