North
to the Coast in the interest of British business.
Amalgamation of the South (not of the people)
became of crucial importance to British business
interest. He said the North and the South should
be amalgamated“.
“What is critical and important are the reasons
Lugard gave in his dispatches. They are as
follows: He said the North is poor and they have
no resources to run the protectorate of the
North. That they have no access to the sea;
that the South has resources and have educated
people“
“When the amalgamation took effect, the British
government sealed off the South from the North.
And between 1914 and l960, that’s a period of
46 years, the British allowed minimum contact
between the North and South because it was
not in the British interest that the North be
allowed to be polluted by the educated South.“
Photo: Alhaji Ahmadu Bello | The Sarduana of
Sokoto & founder of NPC.
Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN) recounted not long
ago, “I entered Parliament on December 12,
1959. When the
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