By Christian George
A Canadian based Nigerian has revealed a secret about the growing quest for ‘japa’ to Canada for greener pastures that Nigerians are unaware that they are living in luxury in their country home.
Nigerian Kenneth Osadolor who has lived nearly a decade in Canada expressed that he is planning to return to Nigeria with reason that he has nothing to gain from his foreign base anymore.
In an interview with Punch, Osadolor explained that everything in Canada is monitored including work, adding that there is a timer that is reading your productivity thereby leaving no room to gallivant around.
He said that there is no free money in Canada and as such one has to work for every dollar earned.
The Canada based Nigerian, according to Punch, said he is not condemning traveling abroad but it is best enjoyed when going on vacation and then turn to Nigeria.
He suggested that “If we can just develop Nigeria a little, put some things in place, invest in tourism here and there, Nigeria is a beautiful place.We have beautiful places in Nigeria that the world needs to see, but we have a very bad government that knows nothing about tourism and even if you want to attempt to travel around the country, you can be kidnapped,” adding that the government can decide to invest money in tourism and people in Nigeria will be travelling within the country without a need to travel out and the money will be circulating in the economy.
“I’ve had the opportunity to visit a few places in Nigeria and I can say for free that tourism can fetch this country millions. It’s the same oil money that Dubai has used to develop their tourism to number one in the world, it’s same oil money that Qatar used to host the most expensive World Cup in history. What are we using ours to do in Nigeria? Just take a look at our budget, it’s all about debt financing. How can we have a budget in deficit of N12trn and revenue N9trn? Is that a joke?” He queried.
