THE BRAIN DRAIN

THE BRAIN DRAIN which is flight of skilled workers from one country to another for better employment opportunities and security from harm cannot be stopped unless faith in the rule of law and human rights is denied. Corporate United African States suffered serious damages from the assaults inflicted by the ideas which undermined constitutional democracy, the rule of law, and human capital development. The brain drain should be controlled in the corporate United African States (UAS) for better quality of life for Africans through adoption of the core solution – African Central Bank with a single currency and monetary policy. The old School imprisoned the talents and the genius of Africa, denied access to finance for development, distorted competition for Africans, and destroyed freedom in Africa. The Tyrant of the old School must be deposed through professional education for skills in order to establish a balance of justice and the rule of law under the new School.

The cause and solution is within our selves and not in the stars. The best asset of a nation is its human capital. The human capital is the human resource base of any country, which Mr Mats Karlsson, the World Bank Country Director and Apostle, described as “human gold”. That remark was the only one near the truth from the World Bank School. The human capital is the intelligent labour force which cannot be replaced in a short term, if lost. This is the software of the computer and the hardware cannot work without it. This asset is carved out from the principle of self determination, self discipline, love, belief, self control, and true conditioning, and it is invaluable. The World Bank and the IMF cannot afford to buy it. No gold or platinum can buy it.

Professional education is vital for all countries. The top five non-EU countries which sent students in the year 2003/04 to the United Kingdom for education and training are China (47,740 students); India (14,625 students); USA (13,380 students); Malaysia (11,805); Hong Kong (10,575 students).

The top five big University recruiters of overseas students are: Warwick University, London Metropolitan University, Nottingham University, Birmingham University and University College London.

The United Kingdom is poised to lift its UK entry visa embargo on young Nigerians aged between 18 and 30 and who intend to visit the UK for the first time. The ban was due to the inability of the UK visa office staff at both Abuja and Lagos to cope with the high volume of visa applications estimated at 24,000 applications monthly. The lifting of the ban in the year 2006 is not likely to reduce the number of visa applications. Most of these visa applicants are potential students in the UK. Provided the students have financial sponsors and they can profit from their courses there is no valid reason why they should be denied student visa for education and training in the UK. Britain is a tolerant and disciplined nation and foreign students should be allowed to come to Britain to learn British tolerance, culture and technology. Nigerian students are serious and can focus. 

The UAS will need lawyers and judges to uphold freedom, justice and the rule of law. The UAS will need entrepreneurs and risk-taker champions in all sectors of the UAS economy. The UAS will need financial consultants, bankers, information technology consultants, scientists and engineers, hospital doctors, technicians and nurses, construction engineers, surveyors, architects, and plumbers, teachers and educationists, food technologists and farmers, economists, publishers, journalists, radio commentators, and statistic editors, and accountants. The USA will need the cultural, music, dancing and entertainment industry of youngsters, and disk jockeys to keep alive the spirit of the hilarious African nation and the joy of being an African 24 hours a day under the education of an African media, television and radio. A new economic model for employment creation in the USA will guarantee full employment, national health aid, and old age pension for all in the single internal market.

n the telecommunication, the computer, and the Internet technology, all these benefits are within the reach of the UAS and the technology can hasten the establishment of the UAS. The UAS cultural, music and dancing groups can come on blazing worldwide with massive foreign exchange earnings for the UAS reserves. African music and football can become better organised with African capital investors. In the absence of the UAS, African music, entertainment and football became victims of the brain drain and had to reside outside Africa for the benefit of other nations. They who pay the piper take the lion share. This is not an accident but a carefully calculated outcome to destroy the unity and diversification of an African foreign exchange reserves policy. 

With a sound financial system under one African Central Bank (ACB) with a single currency and monetary policy, the UAS can compete against the European Union, India, China and the Unites States, Canada and Japan. All of them are competitors against the UAS. At that stage the G8 will be compelled to invite the UAS to join the G8 on the merits of the UAS. That result will create political and economic sensitivities in the world about Africa and foreign investors will not hesitate to finance the ACB deficit for reconstruction of the infrastructure because the return is reasonable and liquidity is awash and the risk is little. Justice must be seen and done without delay: justice delayed is denial of justice and individual freedom for about 800 million Africans. The European Union has about 500 million people. The United States has about 270 million people. The difference is strategic planning mixed with some legalised fraud on the developing countries: farm export subsidies and dumping, visible and invisible tariffs and denial of finance for reconstruction of the infrastructure. African leaders should sacrifice themselves and not Africans for the development of Africa: too far is Golgotha for Africans. African leaders should be normal. If they want their followers to stop smoking they themselves must stop smoking. We live in a world strongly influenced by smoking which is bad for our health. African leaders must do the work and they will be trusted. True leadership is good advertisement. Leadership must be separated from self congratulation diplomacy. Leadership game should be played at that level. African leaders can be trusted, but not all of them. A sacrifice call is wrong. A call to tighten your belt is wrong. Too many innocent people are dying. Unitary monetary and fiscal policy is what is needed in the UAS prompt. Financial discipline in the UAS will stabilize the world economy: interest rates, price of shares, currency exchange rates, commodity price, house price, and wages will fall in a worldwide shift. 

Reward for trust is better quality of life here and there. The quality of life in the world as it is now is the creation of human beings. Africa must increase the professional education and training for its people in the new School in order to make Africa a hilarious nation united. The UAS offers the way forward for African business, Universities and Schools and for equal gender opportunity. The London Graduate School of Law (LGSL) exists to increase your knowledge and to challenge your ideas. The UAS agenda is the only way, the truth, and the life. Trust is better than sacrifice! Africa must be specific. The cause and solution of better quality of life for Africa and for Africans is not within the World Bank or the IMF but within Africans. This is the African echo!