Friday 16 September 2011

The Scramble for Libya's Oil.

Some dreams could be very terrifying to the extent that you wake up and you still feel scared after having such a nightmare. This nightmare of mine was about the Libya's oil. In my dream i saw a large barrel of oil with the inscription Libyan Oil written on it, with about five giants with big tubes ready to siphon the oil to a nearby ship anchored on the coast. Overheard was a bird which was singing "The deal has been done, the deal has been done, we have finally sacked the oldman from his country, give us our share of the oil to offset the debts incurred during the war". These five giants were salivating upon seeing the big barrel of oil and each was eager to put his hose into the barrel first and siphon the oil. I asked myself why this dream? I then realised that the previous day, there was a top American government official visiting Libya just to shake the hands of the leaders of the NTC who had overthrown Moamar Gaddafi. He was followed by the British Prime Minister David Cameron and the French President Nicolas Sakorzy. This was the beginning of the scramble for Libya's oil. Turkey  also joined suit when one of their top government officials paid a visit to Tripoli. Now the western powers are jostling for the lucrative oil contracts in Libya. Will the Russians and the Chinese who criticised NATO's military action in Libya be allowed to get some of the contracts, since they were left out in the contracts in Iraq after opposing the Americans and British in the invasion of Iraq? They also learnt a big lesson so these two powers have also recognised the NTC of Libya just to get into the good books of NATO and its allies. I knew that these western powers were in for Libya's oil the moment NATO started their bombing campaign in Libya. Just as the western powers scrambled for the African continent, the same is being done to scramble for our resources, and we must bear in mind that Libya was not the first and will also not be the last, God bless the African continent. 

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