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I didn't mean they should forget about it in the literal sense. I meant that when Nigeria started putting out the feelers for their loan to put the final nail in the coffin of polio someone in the international community, perhaps Japan, perhaps the US, should have just gifted them the money. The fact that it was a loan in the first place is the problem.



Then Japan is the last of the wealthy countries deserving criticism, since they at least made a loan which had a good chance of default.




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