Address by Evangelist Skidd Ikemefuna at
The "World will never be the same again" Rally- Trafalgar Square 2^nd December 2000

We are not just asking for total cancellation of debt, but we are also asking that all stolen money stashed away in banks in Europe, America and Asia by dictators who have connived with lending institutions from these countries specifically in coded accounts in Swiss banks be repatriated back to African countries and other indebted countries across the world so that we can use these monies for the provision of basic necessities, primary healthcare, medicine, water, education, electricity, roads and communication and provision for jobs.

This will make the difference to the quality of life of the downtrodden, poor and oppressed people of debtor's nations.

We are tired of promises and double stick. This is the time for definite action. If these nations are sincere about their intention, then I don't see why it is taking them so long to act! It just shows that they are hypocrites who do not mean what they say.

The blame for these debts rests squarely not only on the borrowers but also the lenders! How do you justify lending money to a dictator who you know has no intention of using such loans for the development of their countries but are more interested in keeping these monies in banks in coded accounts in these creditor nations?

How do you justify demanding of these loans from the countries in question when you know that the loans never got to those countries in the first place!

Human slavery may be over but economic slavery is certainly not over.

Check this out! Nigeria borrowed $7 billion and as for today has repaid $15 billion and now owes $ 30 billion. What is this? If not economic slavery.

The IMF and the Word bank were specifically set up by these creditor nations to ensure that the debtor nations remain perpetually indebted.

This is why we are saying that it's unacceptable. This is man's inhumanity to man and is unjustifiable before God or man.