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Lekki Peninsula, now synonymous with luxury living in Lagos, Nigeria, boasts of some of the world's most expensive real estate, but it was once a dirty swamp.
He appears more or less like a mobile x-ray image or a famished orphan salvaged from a war-stricken third-world country. The rescue was not just bold. It was also timely.
Following independence, the "African WorldWar" devastated the country, and was largely financed by "blood diamonds" brutally mined from the rivers and floodplains that dot the region.
Social media videos verified by AFP showed bodies covered in blood and dust on the floor of a building, where mattresses had been wedged under school tables.
Some of our members, who were forced to drink poisoned water, have been defecating blood and we are also treating them. About 76 of our members were dumped in Aba prisons under the most inhuman condition and many of them are ill.
They suffered unmentionable atrocities under Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great and the Greeks, Nero and the Romans, under the Turks, and Hitler. Under Russia they have and are now suffering.
The decisions made in the weeks that followed changed the world forever: soon, all of Europe was at war, spilling over into Asia and Africa not long after.
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