Given that President Buhari has arrived back home I think he should now write to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking him to organise an African economic growth summit later this year with the following key objectives

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Every African nation should stop exporting wildlife. If anyone wants to see lions, elephants, giraffes, leopards, cheetahs, gorillas, baboons, zebras, rhinos, hippos, etc, they should go to Africa. There is absolutely no justification for the zoo. For starters it is a crime against nature to cage wild animals

[2] Very few tourist operators have invested in the African wildlife industry. Where are the hotels, cafes, bars, restaurants, railway lines, veterinary clinics, etc to attract tourists to Africa? Every tour operator who operates in Africa should be compelled to make such investment

[3] I want to see the World Trade Organisation reach an agreement compelling the rest of the world to spend at least 10% of its capital investments in Africa over the next 20 years

[4] I also want to see a law passed banning the export of raw primary products. If anyone wants African cocoa, petroleum, diamonds, gold, rubber, kolanuts, cassava, plantain, bauxite, platinum, uranium, cashews, guar gum, groundnuts, etc, they should invest in local production

[5] It should be made a criminal offence to export an African primary product without adding at least 50% value to it locally. This kind of unfair trading should attract the same kind of punishment as say poaching, money laundering or human trafficking

[6] Industrialised nations should be compelled to evaluate all export orders from Africa. Before accepting any supply contract, they must first of all examine the options to see if this product can be produced locally

[7] It should be illegal for industrialised nation to allow sitting leaders of African nations to purchase private properties within their domains. As far as I am concerned, this is just another form of money laundering

[8] Whenever sitting leaders of African nations request medical treatment abroad, industrialised nations must be compelled to first of all offer such service within Africa. They should be asked to send out a team of doctors and only accept such patients if it is a life or death emergency with no other option available

[9] Every multinational operating within Africa, must be compelled to invest at least 10% of its profits back in the continent

[10] Given that African nations are going to struggle to afford religious pilgrimages over the next 10 years, the authorities in Mecca, Medina, Rome and Jerusalem should offer free trips to all African pilgrims over the next decade. If they do not, the African Union should place a moratorium on all pilgrimages for the next decade