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Recently Azerbaijani Parliament has subjected MP Fazil Mustafayev to obstruction for his essay "The Cannibal" and has demanded to apologize to the Azerbaijani people.

As the site Qafqazinfo.az reported, the essay describes how Azerbaijani MP, together with his colleagues from Finland, Romania, the Netherlands and Catalonia went to Africa to check how the funds for the fight against malaria were spent.

He told how a delightful it was to see a university built in one of the remote districts of the world, and no Azerbaijani university can be compared with it. MP was also surprised by the request of people surrounding him, who asked him unanimously to bring a “cannibal” from his trip.

"My attention was drawn to the fact that the stereotype about Africa had not changed with so many different people. I was ready to answer the first question about the expected cannibal that I had promised to bring. I told them jokingly that I had met there a lot of cannibals whom I had offered to come with me to my country, but they knew nothing about this place, and when I showed it to them on the map I received a refusal immediately. When I asked about the reason, they answered "we know about your country, that’s true we are cannibals, but you have such cannibals in your country that may eat us too," writes the Azerbaijani MP.

Mustafayev shares his observations about the crumbling walls after the restoration of facades of houses in Baku and complains of corruption, which has no analogues even in the most criminal states.

"These are the real cannibals, my friend. To spend millions on restoration of a building, knowing that it will be destroyed anyway, and then demolish it after a costly repair when there are hundreds of people in the country needing an apartment, work, bread," writes F. Mustafayev.

Azerbaijani MP notes that such false phrases like "we were defeated in the Karabakh war, because we were not prepared - Vezirov didn’t allow us to stay in Karabakh, Mutalibov didn’t let us buy guns etc." appeared in the lexicon of the Azerbaijani people.

"Today, because of Baku’s wrong planning, we do not know where the city begins and where it ends. We have gathered 40% of the population here and during each earthquake we pray that there was no damage. How would we be ready for Karabakh war with such brains, no matter today or yesterday" the MP says.