Harold Smith on colonial Britain’s hidden agenda in Nigeria
Friday, 21 January 2011 18:10
The man Harold Smith is not new in Nigerian history.
He is one of the architects of the colonial foundation that led to Nigeria’s
independence in 1960. I met him in a meeting three weeks ago where
he opened up a bit on lingering problems in Africa, especially Nigeria’s
unbalanced so-political relationship. We asked if he could make this
known to the media. His response was “I am in my 80s now;
I have agreed. In the past ‘they’ did not want me to say anything, but
now I don’t want to go to my grave without telling the truth about the
atrocities perpetrated in Africa by the colonialists.
On a Ben TV programme last Thursday, Harold Smith spoke about
what went on behind the scene before independence. The Oxford
University graduate had this to say about his role in Nigeria’s pre-
and post-independence era. “Our agenda was to completely exploit Africa.
Nigeria was my duty post. When we assessed Nigeria, this was what
we found in the southern region: strength, intelligence, a determination
to succeed, well established history, complex but focused life styles,
great hope and aspirations… the East is good in business and technology,
the West is good in administration and commerce, law and medicine,
but it was a pity we planned our agenda to give power “at all costs”
to (one region)... Our mission was accomplished by destroying the
opposition on all fronts. The West led in the fight for independence,
and was punished for asking for freedom".
Harold Smith justified the British agenda of colonialism in Nigeria,
which he believed was originally to help build Africa after the ruins of
slave trade, but lamented that the British only looked after themselves
and not Nigerian interest. “The British really let Nigeria down.
When I see Nigerians being accused of fraud and from what I saw on
the streets of Lagos, the British were the worst fraudsters”, he said.
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