Tuesday, June 28, 2011

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [OmoOdua] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Walmart to open BIG BOX Stores in NIGERIA

RE: question for the ambassador from Nigerian Publius:

A question for Mr. Ambassador. How many of the products will Walmart source from Nigerian manufacturers?

Nigerian Publius

Answer given by Ifuemi Adepoju:

Nigerian Publius,
Ahhhan.......are you the one asking this question???....
The answer is easy...walmart will create farms and establish factories right there in Africa/Nigeria (saving on high cost of shipping)  and enslave our people by paying them little sums of money and overwork them. At least it is believed in the western world, just a dollar or a pound would get us water or buy us a much cherished goat which we would milk to feed our families.
And......maybe, just maybe, if the massa is kind enough, he could allow the negro some bread from walmart after a good day's job of scrubbing walmart floors as a good negro is supposed to. 
The Negros needs are limited.
What does the Negro know??

Your Nigerian sister
Ifuemi Adepoju

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:59 PM, N. H. Ibanga <ibanga.nh@gmail.com> wrote:
 

A question for Mr. Ambassador. How many of the products will Walmart source from Nigerian manufacturers?

Nigerian Publius


On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Wharf Snake <wharfsnake@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

"Nigeria is yet to recover, and may well never recover, from the decisive blow struck against our manufacturing base by IBB and his SAP-IMF draconian policies." - Erica Yoola


Erica Yoola,

Are you telling us that before IBB, SAP-IMF, Nigeria was competing on the same bar with the Asian tigers? 

Erica, you really need to shine your eyes, because the frequency at which you spew is beginning to astound. Who are you trying to fool? If you think IBB, SAP-IMF was the problem of Nigeria, then you have confirmed that tag of imbecility assigned to you recently.
 

   

                                                                                                                                              


Agwo emeghi nke o jiri buru agwo,umuaka achiri ya hie nku

Agwo anyi na ya no bu kwa agwo isi na-buo!: the snake we are dealing with has two heads!


monamona ni ologun ngbe, ologun to ba gbe paramole o gbe iyonu        

                                                                                                                                              

Wharf  Aiseokhuoba Snake 

Idi-oro, Lagos.


 



From: "ericayoola@aol.co.uk" <ericayoola@aol.co.uk>Sent: Tue, June 28, 2011 6:28:42 AM

Subject: Re: [OmoOdua] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Walmart to open BIG BOX Stores in NIGERIA

 

Mr Odumankin, are we surprised? No! And your friend would have done well indeed to heed your warning. Even countries with goo business environment and good infrastructural and manufacturing base struggle to compete with the cheap products from China, Indonesia etc etc, talk less of a country with a highly parlous infrastructure and a decimated manufacturing base.

Nigeria is yet to recover, and may well never recover, from the decisive blow struck against our manufacturing base by IBB and his SAP-IMF draconian policies.

And countries like China, and India and other Asian tigers are able to compete with the West by investing in infrastucture, business friendly measures, well educated and serious minded work force and cheap labour.

I was watching a programme on TV yesterday and we were shown the manufacturing of medical surgical equipment in Pakistan. Items such as surgical forceps, scissors, etc etc were being produced cheaply, efficiently and in large numbers in makeshift workshops for export to the UK, USA and Germany. I did not see one single noise making, smoke belching, diesel gulping generator in sight.

Many UK companies have outsourced their call centres, IT services etc to India

Nigeria has the labour, cheap labour, but we are unable to compete for any of these increasingly outsourced services and business because our citizens are largely ill- trained, ill-educated and our government is extremely corrupt, we have no light, no water and bad roads. We lack security at our homes and on the streets and we are just not making any move towards redressing these malaise.

And to top it all up, rather than electing intelligent, visionary and capable President, people of the SS, SE and SW opted for the feckless, languid and clueless Jonathan Goodluck. Well, GRIDLOCK don come!

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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:00:28 +0000
Subject: Re: [OmoOdua] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Walmart to open BIG BOX Stores in NIGERIA

 

A friend returned to Nigeria sometime ago and asked me to help get some land to do a factory.He was interested in producing baby wears.I warned him to reconsider his decision to go into production in this kind of environment.
He went ahead. By the time he rolled out,his cost of production was higher than the prices of imported baby wears in the market!
Yinka.

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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:41:11 +0000
Subject: Re: [OmoOdua] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Walmart to open BIG BOX Stores in NIGERIA

 

"the end result of WalMart Stores might be a situation whereby more foreign made products mostly
from China will now be sold to Nigerians at cheaper prices--to which local Nigerian manufacturers will not be able
to compete."....

And that is exactly as it will happen.

A few hundred jobs will be created by Walmart but then even more thousands will be lost when local production plants close down.

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From: "Pius Adesanmi" <piusadesanmi@gmx.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:38:20 +0000
Subject: [OmoOdua] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Walmart to open BIG BOX Stores in NIGERIA

 

Dr Kassim sir:

 

Greetings and long time no hear. How is this our Ontario summer that can't seem to make up its mind to be fully summer treating you? Ambassador Adefuye is talking plenty nonsense. The moment the idea to open a neighbourhood Walmart germinates in some capitalist's brain in the US or Canada, you know the stringent process of community/environment impact assessment that immediately kicks in. You know it takes years and hundreds of townhall meetings with poetntial host communities before Walmart actually gets to move from conceptualization to building a store. In Nigeria, Walmart is already "set to open locations in Abuja and Lagos" and Ambassador Adefuye is making feel-good noise about taking peoples opinion into consideration in Washington. Who did they consult before they arrived at that part where they are "set to open stores in Abuja and Lagos"? After sharing the booty in closed door meetings as usual, Ambassador Adefuye is doing medicine after deatn in DC. Awon oni ranu gbogbo.

 

Ambassador Adefuye had better watch it. If I know Nigeria, Walmart has already bribed the usual suspects in government in Abuja (a la Siemens and Haliburton) to secure rights to their locations in Abuja and Lagos, to secure tax concessions they will never get in the US, Canada, or China, and, most importantly,  to clear local businesses and ordinary Nigerians comot for road. Those usual suspects will recall Ambassador Adefuye if he continues to make yeye noise in Washington and he will know that man pass man.

 

I don taya for Naija jare.

 

Pius



 

----- Original Message -----

From: OlaKassimMD@aol.com

Sent: 06/27/11 02:04 PM

To: nigerianid@yahoogroups.ocm, USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com, NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com, omoodua@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] Walmart to open BIG BOX Stores in NIGERIA


 

 

 
 
Dear All:

 
WalMart Inc. is set to open its first two locations in Africa in Lagos and Abuja
followed by a third in Johannessburg SA after the evaluation of the sucess
of the Nigerian oerations. This information was disclosed by Prof. Adefuye,'Nigeria;s Ambassador to the
USA during the cloing gala dinner at the NIDO Americas Inc. AGM held in Chicago on Saturday, July 25, 2011.
 
Even though there was some applause from the audience when the ambassador initially disclosed the initiatives from WalMart,
 during his keynote address some of the attendees later expressed their concerns about this development in private conversations with
the ambassador as he did not take questions from the audience after the conclusion of his address.
.
A few attendees walked up the Ambassador's table to register their objections regarding the proposed WalMart.locations
Their concerns centred mainly on the possible devastating
  impact the WalMart stores would have on neighbourhood businesses especially the small
mama and papa stores. Another attendee was overheard telling the ambassador in a private conversation
that the end result of WalMart Stores might be a situation whereby more foreign made products mostly
from China will now be sold to Nigerians at cheaper prices--to which local Nigerian manufacturers will not be able
to compete. Another attendee, a resident of  the Chicago area, opined that residents in Chicago surburbs are still
fighting to prevent WalMart from moving into their communities.
 
Ambassador Adefuye responded that he is quite willing to take into consideration written comments from
Diaspora Nigerians regarding the proposal to setup WalMart Stores in Nigeria starting with two flagship stores
in Lagos and Abuja.
 
Any one with strong opinions--for and against-- should contact the Nigerian Embassy to the USA
preferably in writing to register their views for and against the propsal form WalMart.
 
We are under democratic governance. The citizenry should theoretically have a voice into what comes into their
neighbourhoods! And that is if the foundations have not already been laid and construction started on the WalMart Stores in Lagos
and Abuja--in which case the complaints will be arriving after the horse has left the barn.
 
Bye,
 
Ola


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