Malaria, Light and Money

My Igbo people have a saying that one does not kill a person he is obliged to

mourn.

This Blog was on a break because I succumbed to Malaria.

I am most grateful to God to be back.

Malaria, Light and Money is about the relationship between the environment, lack of power, Malaria and the business of selling anti - Malaria drugs.

Do Pharmaceutical companies promote hygienic living and keeping mosquitoes at bay?

It is their business to provide anti - Malaria drugs and not to prevent Malaria.

On the long run capital is fluid and can be channeled to wherever it is necessary.

In the urban centres there are less bush and more mosquitoes.

In rural areas, there are more bushes and less mosquitoes.

How come?

In the urban centres, there are more stagnant waters than in the rural areas.

Have you noticed that mosquitoes operate more in the dark than where there is light?

The government neither provides light nor do they care for the environment. Time there was when the government made a habit of regular fumigation of homes and drains but now no more.

I won't be surprised if anti malaria drugs sellers are behind this gap in public service.

While the people are combining Sniper with fans and possibly Air Conditioner in keeping mosquitoes at bay, in the absence of Light where does that leave them?

At the mercy of Malaria. Who smiles to the bank? Pharmaceutical companies and sellers of herbs.

Colonialism ended decades ago. Who is benefiting from Malaria? Foreign and local pharmaceutical companies. I understand a cure or an end could have come to Malaria were Europeans and Americans sufferers or had it  present in their countries.

Now whose job is it to put an end to it? Certainly not our colonial masters but our people.

Killing Malaria could well be an excuse to see us as humane and not all about money and incapable of self rule.

How true?