Dr. Tony Ofoyetan is the Director-General of the International Institute of Professional Security, IIPS, a professional security establishment that provides training and certification of protection professionals. In this chat with Saturday Vanguard, he speaks on why the African continent must not depend on technology transfer for her development because the kind of technology transfer African leaders have been clamoring for, is a mirage.
As a matter of fact, anything you buy and replicate without getting the permission from the original owner is stealing. If you manufacture glasses and I had to duplicate it, that is stealing except you franchised it to me. Everything you see was duplicated because one, it costs money to get researchers, sustain them and it would cost me money for them to bring different innovations, produce and reproduce until it gets to the stage of perfection for certification like the aircraft,” he stated.
As the Hungarian-American psychiatrist, Thomas Szasz rightly said: ‘In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. It is high time Africa woke up and take her rightful place in the world. Right now, Africa is being defined by the rest of the world since she has refused to define herself.
“When you tell me that suya and roasted corn are cancerous, I ask, cancerous to who? Is it to me or to you as a white man? If it is to me, you are a liar. If it is to you, you are truthful. God did not create me to stay in ice. No matter how hot the day is, I will hit the road without an umbrella. But if you come from Europe, if you are not careful, you will have skin burn. God created everybody with certain unique features.