PART 2: HOW ARE THE RIGHTEOUS NIGERIANS GOING TO RULE OVER THEIR OPPRESSION?

Dr. James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com

This is Part 2 of the essay which elaborates on a sermon this writer heard a preacher deliver at a Redeemed Christian Church of God. The good pastor took his sermon from Isaiah 14: 5, which reads: “The righteous shall rule over their oppressors.”  Part 1 asked “Where Are the Righteous Nigerians To Rule Over Their Oppression?” Part Two is asking “How Are The Righteous Nigerians Going to Rule Over Their Oppression?”

The question of oppression in Nigeria is so urgent that we are going to state the conclusions of this essay at the beginning and at the end . Oppression is a real thing that is tearing Nigeria apart at the seam.  Nigeria is a democracy owned by We The People, ruled by We The People, for the pleasure of We The people. Therefore, We The People are in charge. We have absolute power with the ballot. We must decide to do things differently.

 We must be very, very careful about who we chose to govern us; we shall begin using our ballot and voting power as judiciously as possible. No more sending Kadiri to the governor’s  mansion because Kadiri is Yoruba from your village in Ondo, or Chief Emekuku to the senate because he is Igbo physician who has impregnated your mother  20 years earlier. It is senseless to support a Moslem from a particular tribe in order to maintain grips on power. Doing so will only extend the problems Nigerians are presently complaining about.  Choose s a truthful person irrespective of tribe, religion, or ethnicity. Let the TRUTH reign.

President Buhari  is no  more and no less than our Public Servant Number One. Without us he can do nothing. The senators would not be there to mismanage and steal  if we hadn’t given them the green light. Governor Okorocha or any other State governor is there because we put him there.  Remove the students from the classrooms and the teacher is jobless and must go home without a paycheck.

As  a college professor, I make it known to my students that they are the BOSS. I am not the boss. The students are my Boss. It is my duty to see that my students succeed in my classes, not fail; and that so long as they complete my reading and written assignments on time and earn at least a 70% (undergraduate) or a 80% (graduates), we shall get along well.  Have you now gotten the gist of where this writer is going? Does it make sense?  It has to make sense unless you have no commonsense.  Idiot! Perhaps, you are a blockhead and cannot think or read or understand the major point of this essay as if you had no brain in your head.  Are you one of those persons oppressing and stealing from Nigerians? If you are, get out from among us this moment. We don’t want you.

What is the effective weapon to overcome oppression? Our most powerful weapon is concentrated in one authoritative word—TRUTH. Truth is so indestructible you can cut it up with a knife, beat it flat with a hammer, or pound it into powder with ikwe  na odo (mortar and pestle). In the end, it is still TRUTH.

People who trade in oppression ( even the senators  stealing our money, boko haram criminals killing our villagers,  young hoodlums kidnapping and raping our women or arsonists igniting or bombing our oil wells and other pieces of property) all have one thing in common. They are all afraid of the TRUTH. They cannot withstand the TRUTH.  They know their fight is against the immortal TRUTH, and their fight against Truth is and will be unsuccessful. TRUTH  is a frightful thing.  It is undying. It is dreadful, It is as the Igbos say agwu-agwu (eternal). You better not play with TRUTH.

How do we use TRUTH to fight oppression? First, we are going to elect young Nigerians aged 30 years or so,  born in Nigeria, and have lived righteous and blameless lives. Second, we are going to know from stories we hear about them that these men and women are honest with faultlessly unimpeachable public service, good moral standing and sound education. Third, we are going to ensure that these leaders are NEVER in the military, having not dipped clammy hands in shedding innocent blood.

A killer will kill again, just as a thief will graduate from stealing Naira to stealing people to enslave and sell for Naira. Fourth, we are going to demand that these young leaders agree to uphold and abide by the TRUTH embedded in our Constitution. They must vacate offices as soon as we cast our votes of no confidence in them. Government is by consensus; you direct people by accord; you administer by harmony, or agreement. You cannot govern people by use of tyranny, domination, totalitarianism nor is it by cruelty. People are increasingly aware of freedom and will fight for their freedom to the point of death. The American people told Britain: “Give me freedom , or give me death.”

Our nation shall not be taken over by lawless, trigger-happy Nigerians who would kill when the devils tell them “Oga, na you get power; make una use una power. Hehehe.”  If you are  a leader and you disregard the TRUTH, we vote you out of leadership. Period. It is as simple as that. If we vote you out, you ought to go farm or raise animals because you are woefully and hopelessly incapable of managing people with love and commonsense.

 You are a fool to not understand your people and their needs. You are a bigger fool to want to govern a hungry people. According to psychologist Abraham Maslow, before people will listen to your nonsense about leading them and agree to follow your leadership, they shall have opportunities to satisfy certain basic  human needs. First:  physiological needs for food and water. Second:  safety needs for financial security, light and freedom from threats of robbery and uncertainties. Third: Love and belongingness in political parties and religious organizations. You are a fool to want to lead and you don’t understand how to help your people meet their pressing  needs. You ought to be voted out.

If you are a Nigerian leader and we vote you out of office, you are better off managing animals because you cannot handle Nigerian citizens in a peaceful manner. But we shall stop you raising animals if we find you guilty of animal cruelty. Psychologists have found that people who are cruel to animals as children will grow up to be cruel killers of neighbors as they mature to adulthood. If you doubt this, please read this up in a General Psychology book, Better yet: don’t run for a Nigerian political office because you are a potential killer and a cheater in disguise. You are an oppressor of your people.

What is oppression?  Oppression is a spiritual thing, and dealing with oppression shall be in the secret place of righteousness.  Righteousness is defined as the state of being in the house of virtue (good value), morality (honesty, integrity) , justice ( fairness, fair dealing, impartiality), decency (politeness, civility), or uprightness. Leaders worthy of our time should be scrutinized before, while holding offices, and after leaving offices. If you want to be a leader and don’t like scrutiny, you are advised to hold no offices in Nigeria. You must be a nincompoop or a fool to not want to be examined, pored over, or inspected. A true leader is as transparent as the reading eye glass on his/her nose.  

 Therefore, if you want to be our leader, it is advisable that you keep your heart and hands squeaky clean.  A lawmaker who steals public funds under his/her watch, or a judge who takes bribes, is immoral, criminal, unjust,  and disrespectful. He/she is a person whose conscience is dead.  His/her heart is full of iniquitous darkness and his hands are diseased, unsightly and made unattractive with leprosy.  

A bad leader will rape the son or daughter of his body without shame. He or she does not need to be our public servant. Vote that man or woman out quick quick! Let the bastard go! Damn! Good riddance!  We Nigerians are in trouble because we are so stupid that we cast our votes for criminals who would fuck their children, sisters, brothers, mothers and fathers. Heck, Shit!  

We are adamantly stating that oppression is real rather than a figment of our imagination; that Nigeria is a real independent nation; and that Nigerians are real people rather than ghosts. Whichever way you see it, the fact remains that we Nigerians and our Nigerian family members are being oppressed each day in more ways than you care to know. Be aware that oppression is evident in our people’s heard and unheard cries and complaints.  That you hear nothing does not mean all is going hunky-dory (about as well as anyone could expect). Things should be better every day or you are a useless leader. Communicate with the people you are leading to make improvements. There is never a time when improvements are unnecessary.

When we complain, we object, we moan, we grieve, we criticize, we grumble, and we protest by peaceful means. If you are our leader and don’t hear our cries, you are a person whose soul is taken over by Satan commanding a battalion of bastards. Bad leaders have ears that are impervious to complaints or souls that are resistant to TRUTH. They are brutes.

We must weaken oppression by peaceful means in order to calm down our complaints. When Nigerians complain in the presence of oppression, three things are likely to happen. First, nobody is listening. Their leaders are too busy robbing the treasury to listen. Secondly, If someone is listening, the listener either may not be interested in the problem or unable to offer a solution. Thirdly, the message is not even being understood due to other issues clamoring for attention. Other issues are thronging the message out. Suffice it to say this: there is a great oppression in Nigeria.

Oppression serves several purposes one of which is to put fear in the heart of the oppressed and render the victim apprehensive. Apprehension is a form of fear, and apprehension is the expectation that something unpleasant is bound to happen unless a certain action is immediately taken. Apprehension keeps oppressed people uneasy.

What does oppression do? We stated that oppression can subdue a man or woman to such an extent as to reduce the individual to feel like nothing. If you feel like nothing, then you are nobody. Feeling like nobody leads a politician to rob the Nigerian treasury and siphon billions of dollars overseas and billions of Naira to private accounts. Stealing millions of public funds makes a thief feel like a powerful somebody.

What are the effects of oppression?  A man or woman (a lawmaker for that matter) with the spirit of “nobodyness” doesn’t stop to consider the effects of what his powerless nobody does. For one thing,  his people are in darkness without electricity; his people are on roads that are non-drivable because of potholes and highwaymen; his nation’s  college graduates remain unemployed years after graduation; his neighbors’ children often go to bed with unfed stomachs that growl with hunger all night; and the health of his constituency is being marred by malaria and dysentery which cut many lives short. A bad leader does not understand that Nigerians get sick and eventually die.

Where are the righteous Nigerians to deliver us from those who oppress us? Delivering Nigerians out of the clutches of the enemies’ oppression is a duty each Nigerian ought to take seriously and perform painstakingly. What affects one Nigerian affects us all. We cannot keep silent when Fulani herders are destroying people’s farmlands and killing villagers. Must we keep silent when Nigerian retirees go for months or years without pension payments?

Don’ t you know that not paying teachers their monthly benefits timely makes people not want to teach and those teaching use class time to trade to provide alternative means to feed their families?   Only a fool doesn’t know that destroying farmlands creates hunger and increases the importation of foodstuffs. Destroyed farms will remove food from the tables, increase importation of food and in turn sap our foreign exchange? The Naira falls. We must make our president and leaders hear our voices of condemnation. We must talk to our public servants and make them understand they are serving at out pleasure.

We must use our telephones to call attention to instances of oppression. We must write letters in support of good laws and deed and letters to condemn evil legislation. Absolute power resides in We The People. We are the voters. It is We that Democracy is for, isn’t it? We must condemn evil actions and pieces of legislation that support the killings of protestors participating in peaceful demonstrations, or that lead to the marginalization of a Nigerian tribe.

Remember that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander. We must take to the World Wide Web (internet super highways) to reach a wider circle to make known our stand against oppression We shall endeavor to vote troublesome lawmakers out of office by the use of out ballots in peaceful elections. 

We cannot keep silent and allow our nation to be destroyed by oppression. If we keep silent and Nigeria is destroyed, we are just as guilty as the persons (politicians stealing teaches’ salaries and pension benefits; Boko Haram criminals; kidnappers and rapists and those destroying our property with fire and bombs) who are actively demolishing our democracy. What do we do to control oppression? TRUTH  shall be our mantra, our  battle hymn in our WAO (war against oppression). We shoot no guns. We waste no bullets. We drink no kai-kai or dangerous drugs to get us in fighting moods.  We tell the TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH. Truth is redeeming.

First, we are going to elect young Nigerians below age of 30 years born in Nigeria, who have lived righteous and blameless lives.  Second, we are going to know from stories we hear that these men and women are honest with faultlessly unimpeachable character and public service, good moral standing and sound education. Third, we are going to ensure that these leaders are NEVER in the military, having not dipped clammy hands in shedding of innocent blood.

We scrutinize these man and women once in a while, from time to time to vote out rotten apples before the whole barrel becomes a latrine full of shit. We must shout, scream, holler, peacefully demonstrate, adamantly demand that the rotten apples either remove themselves voluntarily or be VOTED OUT in peaceful elections called by We The People.

If you agree with me or have ideas you feel I left out, please advise through my email. Thanks! Together, shall extricate or free our Fatherland from oppression.   LONG LIVE GREAT NIGERIA!

Nothing  in this essay should be misconstrued to mean the writer is advocating a change of Nigerian government through the use of force, violence or intimidation.  This writer does not belong to any political party and is not interested in holding any office.     

By Dr.James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com; jamesagazies.blogspot.com

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PART 1: WHERE ARE THE RIGHTEOUS NIGERIANS TO RULE OVER THEIR OPPRESSION?

By Dr. James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com

The purpose of this essay is to amplify a sermon this writer heard a Pastor preach at one of the locations of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). To amplify is to intensify, increase, augment, enlarge, or extend meaning or the effect of something. The good pastor took his sermon from Isaiah 14: 5, which reads: “The righteous shall rule over their oppressors.”

That topic of oppression is both pertinent and germane or relevant to the problems we are facing in our fatherland. In the absence of the righteous Nigerians, oppression has the capability to annihilate or destroy individuals and extinguish the democratic process.

A Nigerian woman enlisted the help of her brothers to kill her husband who was a professor at one of the colleges of technology in Nigeria. In order to hide the crime, they threw the husband’s body into Katsina Ala River. The professor’s crime was adultery with women other than his wedded wife. The woman explained her grisly crime on the basis of jealousy.

Her husband commuted to college each day but would be home on weekends to stay with his wife and children. She said that the husband had a habit of committing adultery with several women. It appeared that this man, like many sexy Nigerians, could not keep his trousers zipped up; the zippers were often open for quick actions.  Therefore, killing the husband was the last straw that broke the proverbial Carmel’s back and resulted to her husband’s murder. It is obvious that this woman was under stressful oppression.

That there is a heavy oppression in Nigeria is irrefutable. The effect of the oppression is dire, overwhelming, and severe. Fulani cattle herders enter into gardens in Anambra, Benue and Plateau States. The Fulanis allow their cows to eat up hard earned crops and vegetables belonging to Nigerians’ farmers. Nigerians are hungry and stealing from one another. Gangs of unemployed emaciated Igbo teenage boys in rags are terrorizing villages as a result of severe unexplained oppression.

When the police arrested these marauders, many of these kids admit they have killed some people while committing robberies and raping as many as ten or more girls and women. Why do men deal with oppression by zipping their trousers open and raping women? If you don’t see these as oppression, then your heart is made of stones and the milk of humane feelings and compassion does not flow in your breasts. The milk is dried up, leaving behind a residue of I-don’t care meanness or unkindness.

Whichever way you see it, the fact remains that our Nigerian family members are being oppressed in more ways than you care to know. Nigerians are complaining vehemently. When Nigerians complain, three things are likely to happen. First, nobody is listening. Their leaders are too busy robbing the treasury to listen. Secondly, If someone is listening, the listener either may not be interested in the problem or unable to offer a solution. Thirdly, the message is not even being understood due to other issues clamoring for attention (such as embezzlement money or rapping women with the zippers wide open). Suffice it to say this: there is a great oppression in the land.

What is oppression in the Nigerian context? Oppression is any painful act that puts the oppressed person at a risk or disadvantage. The effect of oppression can manifest in different forms. It dominates the oppressed person’s thought processes and actions. A 17-yer old Nigerian lad was paid 50,000 Naira (143 dollars) to lure his neighbor’s 6-year-old son to a vacant school where the older boy killed the 6-year child. The 17-year old had just harvested the heart and pancreas of his victim when the police descended to arrest him red-handed in the very act. 

Oppression led the poor criminal to believe stories he had been told that charms done with human blood and body parts would extricate or free him from the bondage of poverty and nobody-ness. He dreamed of riding agbagba (long and slick) Mercedes and living in nnukwu (large) mansions. He believed that the witchdoctor’s concoctions would enable him to attract millions of  Naira so he would own several homes and employ a number of servants who would be serving him (their Oga) barefoot.

Oppression serves several purposes one of which is to put fear in the heart of the oppressed and render the victim apprehensive. Apprehension is a form of fear, and apprehension is the expectation that something unpleasant is bound to happen unless a certain action is immediately taken. A Nigerian senator siphons billions of Nigeria’s dollars to banks in Switzerland or Saudi Arabia because he fears that a change of government would confiscate his ill-gotten wealth or imprison him for life or kill him as the lessons he learns from the case of Abiola. A thief runs when on one is pursuing.  

Have you ever wondered why many Nigerian secondary and college girls to take to prostitution as a way to avert starvation (hunger) or to have the clothes and jewelry they see on richer counterparts? Be assured, if you have not reckoned that yet, that gang activities in Nigeria, Satan worship and kidnappings for ransom are the works of the most nefarious (baddest) forms of oppression.

Oppression can subdue a man or woman to such an extent as to reduce the individual to feel like nothing. If you feel like nothing, then you are nobody. Feeling like nobody leads a politician to rob the Nigerian treasury and siphon billions of dollars overseas  and billions of Naira to private accounts. Stealing millions of public funds makes a thief to overcome nobody-ness and acquire a powerful somebody.

A man or woman (a lawmaker for that matter) with the spirit of “nobody-ness” doesn’t stop to consider the effects of what his powerless nobody does to millions of his/her country men and women: Nigerians live in darkness without electricity for days; Nigerian roads are non-drivable because of potholes and highwaymen; Nigerian college graduates remain unemployed years after graduation; Nigerian children often go to bed with unfed stomachs that growl with hunger all night; and Nigerian health is being marred by malaria and dysentery which cut many lives short.

The World Health Organization estimates that Nigerian life expectancy is 43 years while people in other developed countries live to be 82 years or more. It might interest those who have continued to oppress Nigerians that they are denying nourishing minerals in the life –giving-and-life-saving clean drinking water to a population of 170 million plus inhabitants.

Where are the righteous Nigerians to deliver us from those who oppress us? Delivering Nigerians out of the clutches of the enemies’ oppression is a duty each Nigerian ought to take seriously and perform painstakingly. What affects one Nigerian affects us all. We cannot keep silent when Fulani herders are destroying people’s farmlands and killing villagers. Don’t we know that destroying farmlands creates hunger and increases the importation of foodstuffs which in turn saps our foreign exchange?

 We must make our president and leaders hear our voices of condemnation. We must talk to our public servants who serve at out pleasure. We must use our telephones to call attention to instances of oppression. We must write letters in support of good laws and deed and letters to condemn evil legislation. Absolute power resides in We The People. We are the voters. It is We Democracy is for, isn’t it? We must condemn evil actions and legislation that support the killings of protestors or the marginalization of a Nigerian tribe.

We must take to the World Wide Web (internet highways) to reach a wider circle to make known our stand against oppression. We shall endeavor to vote troublesome lawmakers out of office by the use of out ballots in peaceful elections.  We cannot keep silent and allow our nation to be vandalized by oppressors. If we keep silent and Nigeria is destroyed, we are just as guilty as the bad persons (Looters, Boko Haran, kidnappers and others) who are actively bent on demolishing our democracy. We say No to the forces of oppression.

 Nothing  in this essay should be misconstrued to mean the writer is advocating a change of Nigerian government through the use of force, violence or intimidation.  This writer does not belong to any political party and is not interested in holding any office.      

By Dr.James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com; jamesagazies.blogspot.com

WHY DO YOU TAKE FISH FROM ONE CAT TO GIVE ANOTHER CAT?

by Dr. James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com

The purpose of this essay is to piece together information gathered about conditions in Nigeria from some Nigerians in America and others returning from home to make sense of what is going on. Exactly, what is going on now? How are our people coping? From conversations and texts, it is very difficult to say: “This is how things are.” Nigerians are always talking about money. Money makes headlines, dominates conversations, and occupies the center stage in a drama that is strictly Nigeria. I say drama for good reasons. Everyone on earth has money problems, and even people who have money are often looking for more money.  I don’t attach any significance to money problems anymore because the world’s problem started with quarrels over money, and the world would be a better place if money were banned and considered poisonous.

The story is told of a Nigerian hunter who was carrying an elephant on his head and holding two goats under both arms. If you watch closely, the man could hardly walk upright under the heavy loads. Wait. Don’t go yet till you hear the whole “tory.”  Chimo (my God), this man was trying to pick up mbe (tortoise) with his toes. The moral of the story is that ego adighi eju afo (money does not satisfy empty stomach).  It seems that money is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end of everything Nigerian.  I called up Josiah a bank employee at Abuja.  Josiah proved to be in no mood for talking.  It was Emma, a self-employed entrepreneur in Atlanta, Georgia, that put some meat on the bone, so to speak.

ME: Hello, Josiah, how are things at the bank and in Naija?

JOSIAH:  Things are tough right now.

ME: Meaning?

JOSIAH: Everybody is complaining.

ME:  Josiah, you’re telling me nothing. What are people complaining about?

JOSIAH: Everything.

ME: Like what?

JOSIAH: Like everything

ME: Thank you very much.

I don’t want to call Josiah a fool because he is my nephew, but some nephews are worse than fools. That everyone is complaining doesn’t tell me dooley squat. So what? Who doesn’t complain?  I am complaining of my three cars that aren’t running. One grey Honda needs a new engine. I don’t know what is wrong with the blue Honda, but I am told it needs both the Vtech engine and transmission. The third car needs everything on earth. The radiator leaks muddy water. I am going to junk it. Then I remember Nigerians are excellent mechanics and can fix any vehicle with whatever problems. I say all these things to say five things. One: Tough times never last, but tough people do. Two: Problems are drawbacks in disguise for comebacks. Three: That a man is sick doesn’t mean he is dead. Four: when life gives you a lemon (bad deal) you better make lemonade with what you have. Fifth, that everything is all in the head!  

Wise people don’t just sit on their asses to just complain, do they?  Problems are like that.  When you think you have a handle on Problem A, problem B crops up like a robber who magically appears in your bedroom in the middle of the night. What do you do when the robber holds you tight on your crotches (penis and two scrotums or balls) and squeezes? Yawum, Nyawum! You can jump up if you want your penis and balls to be yanked off. You will be to killed kpamkpam. A wise decision is to pretend to be fast asleep and endure the Yamum to give the robber time to steal all he wants and then get out, leaving your life intact. Do you want to die, my friend?

I jammed (ran into) Emma who is a self-employed Nigerian owning a little business in Georgia. Emma is familiar with Nigeria’s problems from A to Z.

ME : Have you heard Nigerians are complaining that there is no money and  things are tough?

EMMA: Yes, they are always complaining of more than just money, They complaining of aguu.

ME: Do you agu (lion)?

EMMA: No, I mean aguu (hunger). They say they are starving, that there is no food.

ME:  Oh, is that true?

EMMA: it is hard to say. I talked with my mother in Nigeria and asked her “Mama, what do you all eat?” She says they eat sardines and corned beef.

ME’ Does that make sense?

EMMA: No, it doesn’t make sense. Sardines and corned beef are too expensive in Nigeria. You can buy a  can of sardines in America  for just 79 cents  (N275); it costs N3,000 ($8.57) in Nigeria. Corned beef is so cheap in America and Americans don’t care for it or eat it. Nigerians eat very expensive stuffs, they drive,  very expensive cars, dress expensively, and do things that costs too much money. Our people want the best things and yet complain they have no money. They want to ride the best cars, eat the best food,  live in the best mansions. They want the best things on earth, but can’t afford them. They are very stupid people.

ME: Go on. I’m listening.

EMMA: They want the best and when they don’t have the money they complain, thinking the world owes then shit. I’m tired of sending money till I don’t have enough to run my business. What I am doing now is to support my people to come to America so they see money does not grow on trees. I have brought 2 family members over, and I am working on bringing two more .That’s all I can do now.  Getting visa to come is very, very, very tough.  Do you know what I spent to bring two of my people?

ME; No.

EMMA:  Twenty eight thousand dollars. That is fourteen thousand dollars apiece,

ME; Wow! That’s a lot.

EMMA: How do you take fish from one cat and to give to another cat? Buhari is collecting monies from all over the world. What is he doing with all that money? Is he banking it somewhere to be re-stolen by others? Why can’t he use some of those billions just to build roads all over the country? I say just roads only.

ME: Thanks. I think I have gotten the gist of what you are driving at

The gist is this: Nigeria’s problems cannot be solved with just money. When you send money to a brother or sister the whole village hears of it , and pretty soon your cell phone is ringing itself to death. Everyone is asking for a handout . You are in trouble if you don’t send money and in trouble if you do send money. It is a no-win situation. You never hear them say “Thank you.” It is always “My brother, Send dollar.” Why don’t they say “Please” or add ”Thank you?” They won’t say “Please” or “thanks” for all the rice in China.  It is as if you owe them an everlasting debt for sharing blood with them, and you will sooner or later die if you don’t do as they want. 

 It is a messed up situation.  You cannot just keep pouring money into a bottomless latrine that refuses to fill up with shit and urine. You know what a latrine is?  It is a hole you dug in the ground over which you squat and allow your  anus to open up while tightening  the muscles of your abdomen. You let some stinky stuff out. What happens when a latrine fills up? You abandon it and dig another? You don’t really abandon a well.  You drink it when it seeps through the soil into a nearby well and ends up in your tumbler. Then, you’re a shit eater, my friend. A shit eater!

The third person I talked with is a clever Nigerian named Ochapa  from Pleteau.  Ochapa is returning from one of his several trips home. He rents a storage where he stores things he purchases from yard sales and thrift stores  like the Salvation Army, Goodwill, and America’s Thrift Store. Ochapa carries those  things he buys in America to Makurdi by the way of Abuja. This is the time he stocks his shop full for the year. I followed him to his storage and nearly fainted. Ochapa is as busy as a bee and his storage is as packed  as an anthill. I followed Ochapa on his shopping at a thrift (second-hand) store to observe and watch. Ochapa is a painstaking genius.

He specializes in selling “used but extremely very good materials” to Nigerian greedy, rapacious buyers,  He spends countless hours going from store to store, selecting things with the patience of Biblical Job eyes darting back and forth, and side by side as he selects and chooses. Ochapa is as longsuffering as the Igbos, though he is not an Igbo . He sees ladies shoes and sandals going for 99 pennies  (N345) in America, and he calculates selling  them  for thousands of Naira in Nigeria.

Ochapa buys very nice, used, and expensive looking men’s trousers and matching shoes. These things are  supper-dupper luxury items for Nigerian millionaires who want to show off things others don’t have.. Chapa spends 500 dollars (N175,000) on things that he could easily sell for N4,000,000 (15 or 20 times what he pays for them).  I noticed shoes Americans throw away as worthless. Ochapa buys them for a few pennies s and sells for a sum that would make you wonder if you  have been wasting your life away dying on professional jobs . Ochapa once bought a Mazda for $3,000 and resell it for $18,000 in Nigeria to one Big Man Oga.   Ochapa is as cunning a fox  and has tongue of a serpent  with which he beguiles and deceives those-called millionaires who have expensive tastes for the “best foreign things.” These are the people Ochapa targets and makes millions of Naira from. Wait a minute o! Ochapa has completed a house at Makurdi and is buying land to begin another house. His method of operation is simple: TARGET STUPID NIGERIANS WHO WANT THE BEST, TAKE THEIR MONEY , AND KICK THEIR ASSES. PROMISE THEM TO BRING MORE “AMERICA-SPEC” STUFFS.

Let us talk with my former student who now has the PhD. His name Is Dr. P. Chike.

ME: Dr Chike, our people are complaining of no money, no food and things are hard.

CHIKE: They are stupid. Let them starve. And, Doc, don’t mind them. Nigerians are lazy, and very lazy. Igbos are the laziest of the bunch.

ME: What do you mean?

CHIKE: I mean what I mean, When I was at Jos, I noticed the Hausas and other Jos people get up before dawn, in darkness to go into the bush with tractors and farm implements to cut bushes down and till the soil to be ready to sow seeds.

ME: In the dark? Are you sure? Remember I taught you, and you cannot lie to me . You just can’t lie

CHIKE: I saw it. There is plenty of food in Jos in Plareau and Markurdi in Benue. Benue and Plateau are  Nigeria’s  food baskets.

ME I know that. I once drove from Abuja to Jos and saw plenty of food displayed on the roadsides. But when I drive through Anambra…. Is it because of lack of land?

CHIKE: No. Why are Igbos complaining of hunger? Let them starve to death. Igbos are lazy and always dreaming of becoming multi-millionnaires. Idiots! Let them starve. .

ME: What? Dr. Chike, do you mean it? Let them starve? And you’re Anambra man, not Jos man?

CHIKE: Yes, let them starve to death, Doc.

CONCLUSIONS: Why are things very hard for igbos. They are smart, very educated, and so-called movers and shakers of Nigeria, aren’t they? Why are they suffering? Why do my Igbo relatives na atakasim (biting all over me) for money? I sent a text to a relative and his wife, both Igbos . I was seeking to help them go into farming. The man ignored my text; his wife responded with anger and insults.

MY TEXT I hear the Nigerian government is giving loans and equipment to people to grow food. Can we start farms to grow cassava, yam, corn, and rice where my parents once lived in the former Benue Plateau? I will provide the money and you hire workers to do the work and I pay them?

WIFE:  U want my husband to go farming so thorns will wound him? Prof, you’ re a stupid man.

By Dr.James C. Agazie, jamesgazie@gmail .com, jamesagazies. Blogspot .com

THE 12i’s NECESSARY FOR THE TRUE NIGERIA’S  INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION

Dr. James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com

 On July 4, 1776, the thirteen American colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on July 4th, also known as Independence Day, Americans celebrate this historic event with the American flags, hot dogs, beer, cannon guns, and 250 million tons of fireworks..

on October 1st, 1960, the 3 Regions of Nigeria  gained independence from Great Britain. Each year, on October 1^st, the Nigeria’s Independence is celebrated both in the capital Abuja and 36 states, with  the Presidential speech on television and radio to mark the commencement of Independence Day celebrations. There will be flag raising ceremony to honor the nation, armed forces parades, cultural dances followed by dance troops, singers, and students from all states taking part in the parades. Nigerians celebrate Independence with rice, beef, goat meat and foo-foo  .

Unfortunately, in both countries, the USA and Nigeria, violence erupts a few hours after the Independence Day celebration is over. Let us celebrate forthcoming October 1^st, 2016 Nigeria’s Independent by acquiring the following 12i’s as stated below:

First, IGNITE, set fire to, or put a match to  a pleasing personality that makes the world turn around and exclaim : “There goes an excellent  Nigerian.”

Second, IMMERSE, submerge,  plunge into, or throw yourself into  the study of Nigeria’s history, geography, and personalities to ensure you’ll pass a test on Nigerian culture  with flying colors.

Third, IMPERSONATE, mimic, copy, pretend to be, masquerade as, or pose, or copy the good things you want Nigerians to have or be, because impersonation will turn dreams  into reality.

Fourth, IMPRESS. amaze, astonish people where you are such as the 15 Nigerians at Howard University in Wash D.C  who had people spellbound by grabbing the highest honors at graduation.

Fifth,  IMPROVISE, make do, manage, cope, or fashion a way where there is none, by getting into the deepest recesses of your being to survive because indeed you , being Nigeria, are meant to stay alive.

Sixth, INCLINE, predispose or bring round your 5 senses to absorb instructions from people or environment that would best serve you or others after your footprints fade away.

Seventh, INFLAME, arouse, set afire, stir up , provoke, agitate, ignite as a bomb all the good feelings and pleasurable attitudes that would make Nigeria a good place to live harmoniously thereafter.

Eighth, INJECT, insert, bring in, instill, infuse, and introduce goodwill, humor and friendliness in every organization you belong to, rather than division and/or caustic tribalism.

Ninth, INSIST, persist, be adamant, do not take no for an answer, or be firm in honesty or fair dealing in business and social intercourse

Tenth, INTERROGATE, quiz, question, interview, and cross-examine your political leaders to be sure they are carrying out the mandate aright, since it is your money and they are your public servants.

Eleventh, INVENT, create, discover, formulate, originate, or redesign something in America you can carry home to make Nigeria better than you found it.

Finally, Twelfth but not the least, ISOLATE, cut off, segregate, separate, or detach yourself from any unbecoming acts like 419 that would bring shame or embarrassment to Nigeria and Nigerians.

COPYRIGHTED today, 4^th of July, 2016 at 3:03 pm. However, permission is granted upon request, for educational purposes only.

Dr.James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com; jamesagazies.blogspot.com

BELLO: ARCHITECT OF EXTREME HATRED

By Dr. James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com

There was a Nigerian who attempted to destroy the moral fiber of my country, whose words and acts had a profound influence upon this writer, and who would go down in history as author of the darkest and briefest mark as the architect of hatred, bigotry, and disunity. The purpose of this essay is to trace the beginning of Nigeria’s downward slide into infamy to one man. He was named Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto,Premier of Northern Nigeria, leader of the Northern People’s Congress, and champion of the iniquitous Northernization Policy.  What an impressive, jaw-breaking title to be accorded a politician who was so hateful  of one of the major tribes in his nation as to be reserved a place at wherever Adolf Hitler is.   

Ahmadu Bello hated everything about me and my kindred with the most disgusting odium. Odium is defined as the most pronounced abhorrence, revulsion, disgust, loathing, or hatred. After being beaten in intelligence by other boys in school, Bello had a lifelong aversion to the Igbos. Aversion is a strong feeling of dislike, repugnance, or antipathy.  It is amazing how a so-called leader could have extreme dislike for some of the people he was called upon to represent  in his community.  Watch the video  http://www.nairaland.com/1804356/ahmadu-bello-declares-hatred-igbos. Here, Bello bares his troubled soul through his bigoted, hateful, and incendiary remarks. You cannot help but feel pity and sorrow for him.

Though Belo was famous as the founding father of Northern Nigeria, he is now notorious, having   earned a reputation as the destroyer of Northern Nigeria.  It appears that the chicken has come home to roost in that the aim of Boko haram is to continue the destruction  where Sir Alhaji Armadu  Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Premier of Northern Nigeria, had left off.

 In an essay dated 01/16/12, and entitled To Those Who Clamor For “A Continued One Nigeria:” Stop! It’s Too Late, Ikechukwu Enyiagu  (ike.enyiagu@gmail.com) assembled a few anti-Igbo utterances leaders of the Northern Nigeria House of Assembly made between Feb and march, 1964, to support the view that illiteracy is the worst blight or disfigurement a leader in modern Africa should  have  in the 21^st Century.

“I am very glad that we are in Moslem country (sic), and the government of Northern Nigeria allowed some few Christians in the region, to enjoy themselves according to the belief of their religion, but building of hotels should be taken away from the Ibos and even if we find some Christians who are interested in building hotels and have no money to do so, the government should aid them, instead of allowing Ibos to continue with the hotels.”-Mr. A. A. Agigede

“I am one of the strong believers in Nigerian unity, and I have hoped for our having a United Nigeria, but certainly if the present trend of affairs continues, then I hope the government will investigate first the desirability and secondly the possibility of extending the Northernization policy to the petty Ibo traders [Applause].”-Prof. Iya Abubakar (special Member: Lecturer, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria)

“I would like to say something very important that the Minister should take my appeal to the federal government about the Ibos in the Post Office. I wish the members of these Ibos be reduced. There are too many of them in the North. They were just like sardines and I think they were just too dangerous to the region.”-Mallam Mukhtar Bello

“On the allocations of plots to Ibos, or allocation of stalls I would like to advise the minister that these people know how to make money and we do not know the way and manner of getting about this business. We do not want Ibos to be allocated with plots; I do not want them to be given plots.”-Mallam Muhammadu Mustapha Maude Gyari

“I would like you, as the Minister of land and Survey, to revoke forthwith all certificates of occupancy from the hands of the Ibos resident in the Region [Applause from the assembly floor].”-Mallam Bashari Umaru

“It is my most earnest desire that every post in the region, however small it is, be filled by a Northerner [Applause].”-The Premier, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sarduana of Sokoto

Bello did much harm to my nation through his ubiquitous Northernization Policy that denied opportunities to non-Northerners and in turn brought poverty, misery, and  illiteracy to the people he wanted to protect the most. This writer was merely a child when he was kicked out of the North at the instigation of Bello immediately after completion of a secondary school. He was not allowed to complete the Higher School in order to gain entrance into the university. He was sent packing to the south. I was forbidden (not allowed) to enroll in any of the North’s post -secondary institutions. My heinous crime was being Igbo.  Although Bello tried his best to derail my future, providence has a way of working things out.

My family and I were in the North most of our lives. It was in the North that we lived, worked , made our  contributions to what was then Northern Region of Nigeria. It was in the North that we died. Could Bello see thousands of Southerners, particularly Igbos, in the trenches doing what kept him ruling, mismanaging and destroying the North? Haba!  I cry: “Allah, if you really are god, why did You curse my nation through one man’s wickedness? It is dangerous to be in the hands of an angry god, isn’t it?”

Bello’s speeches and activities as Premier of Northern Nigeria did more disservice and harm to the country as a whole and wasted billions of shillings that were siphoned off overseas to the fearful and tearful detriment of my beloved Hausa, Fulani, and Kanuri children to whom Bello’s hatefulness denied quality education.

Bello must have been a closet boko haranist in that he abhorred education having obtained none himself other than rudimentary Arabic and unaccredited koranic training that does not qualify a monkey to hold a wrench much less run a nation just out of the clutches of colonization.

I remember too well, as a child as if it were yesterday, when Bello landed in our then Benue Plateau town on a visit. Bello enquired into the tribe of the principal at the  Methodist Teachers’ College in the town, and upon, discovering that the college had Igbo head, ordered that the principal be replaced with a Northerner. His wishes were carried out promptly (as if a god had spoken), though the college was built and run by Igbos and white missionaries. My little town was engulfed in fear which destroyed and continues to destroy education for Northern Nigerian children.  Most Nigerians remember the feared dictator Sani Abacha, whose death while in power ushered in a return to  a semblance of democracy for the nation in 1999. I swear that Bello was to education what Abacha was to democracy in my nation. Both were paranoid, ostentatious destroyers. Cry for my beloved country!

Bello spelt (spelled) doom and the painful death of education in Nigeria. South African Alan Paton who wrote Cry The Beloved Country urges Africans to shed hot tears for their raped fatherland, must have had Bello in mind. Dear readers, please re-read some of the most ignorant and absurd pronouncements of hebephrenic Moslem heads entrusted with the awesome task of leading my home in the early years of her independence. If these politicians were not early forefathers of boko haran jihadhsts, they must be responsible for shepherding the North on its present path of devastation. 

The speeches made by Bello and his compatriots can make one cringe with anguish. The speeches can be  described as being virulent, vituperative, malicious, slanderous, and unbecoming of worshippers of allah whom Nigerians are increasingly beginning to  associate with an idol that relishes violence, that drinks blood from the necks of beheaded women, that relishes  fetuses gutted out of pregnant women, and enjoys  hatred and murder of defenseless children dying from kwashiokor. People with conscience would wish that Ahmadu Belo and his ilks go down in history’s chapter of infamy  as a leader most  notorious, traitorous, treacherous, faithless, and perfidious.

Evil things are happening in Nigeria because my People refuse to speak the TRUTH. We Nigerians ought to be emboldened to speak the indestructible TRUTH whenever pieces of absurdity, illogicality, untruth, irrationality, silliness, or bunkum come out of the foul-mouthed oral cavity of so-called Nigerian leaders.  Truth is the only thing that would save Nigeria.

Bello cannot, should not, and must not be accorded a prominent place in my history book. He does not  have the first  or the last word. Nigeria is a joyful  party of song and dance that shall not end until the blissful lady named Truth dances.  Bello’s  chapter is defaced by millions of others whose acts and thoughts will shine light that drives away a darkened, sickening mark in my history book.

There are millions of Fulanis, Hausas, and Bello’s fellow brothers and sisters who disagreed and still disagree with what Bello stood for. They must speak up or forever remain silent. The following thoughts are directed to those Vocal Majority who disagree with Bello, and are taken  from:  https://paradoxologies.org/2010/08/28/martin-luther-king-jr-on-complacency-mlk/

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”

 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

 History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Prepared by Dr. James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com

 

 

 

HOW CHINA IS DESTROYING NIGERIA AND OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES  

by Dr. James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com

Someone ought to tell China to take time, that is, to desist from adding insult to an injury.   The worst insult we have seen a world leader haul at a group of 54 African nations comes from President Xi Jinping of China. Jinping has the effrontery and crass impudence to announce at the United Nations on Saturday September 26, 2015 that China would pledge 2billion dollars as initial investment for development assistance to the poorest countries. That insult was directed at African nations, and it was obtuse, imperceptive, tactless, shiege, ridiculous, gross, insensitive, dull-witted, or stupid.  

What should rub us the most  the wrong way was Jinping’s arrogance and condescending attitude to announce  giving 2  billion dollars to 54 African nations when  Jinping’s China, in a rabid bid  to play an  imperial, majestically imposing role in world affairs, is boasting of a pittance  while confiscating over 2 billion dollars from each African country per month. China is manipulative in its quest to gain trade preeminence by engaging  in so-called philanthropy that centers on building parsimonious railway system and  pitiable roads that wash away after the first rains.

Jinping’s action is audacious, meaning it was daring in a foolish way, bold, brave, and overconfident.  He seems to take Africans for granted and calling us “Stupid jungle people.”  Why? It is because we are too gullible, too trusting and easily manipulated into accepting nsi nkita (dog’s shit)  wrapped in a shinny package marked “philanthropy” . China has the most despicable level of poverty, in case you don’t have the information.

A Nigerian living in China has this to say: “Hey Guys: why are Chinese people so racist towards black people? I mean really. I am from Nigeria and I have lived in Guangzhou for 6 months already and I can tell you that a lot of people here really don’t like black people. What %$^&#* me off so much is that there are so many more Chinese people who live in my country and yet they don’t get hassled anywhere near as much as we do in China! Why?” That the Chinese are extraordinarily racist against dark-skinned people is an understatement, if you want to put it so mildly as to reflect political correctness and you are  a  gentleman whom Western education has refined.

If I were a leader of one  the 54 cowardly African nations China has insulted  with the 2 billion dollar assistance program, I would respond to Jinping’s insult this way: “Thank you, Mr. Jumping Jack or whatever your name is. No thanks, Sir. Please take your Yuan and shove it deep into your ass.” That would serve Jinping right and end the OAU meeting called to consider Jinping’s offer.  All the OAU members would go shopping with Jinping’s 2  billion dollars and then fly home to celebrate. You know when wayo man die, wayo man buryam.

What do you expect from me if you kicked my ass and then asked me to kiss your ass? It is time Nigeria held up its head up and stopped receiving abuses and insults from nations that cannot prove they are superior to us. When Nation A insults Nation B it may be exhibiting inferiority complex or hiding the fact that Nation A indeed  is less developed  than Nation B. With regards to China and India, we Nigerians must not forget that “all that glitters is not gold” and also that “not all that glitters is gold.”

 The two statements are disjoint and  do not mean the same thing. We Nigerians ought to dot our i’s, cross our t’s, when dealing with situations that may encourage others to heap impertinence, insult. or disrespect on us. Someone  should tell us: “Look here, Nigeria, stop running to any country that says: ‘ I have money.’ Stop begging for foreign aid as blind lepers do. Develop your nation with the human capital  and material resources available in your country.  Stop begging like shameless ashawo ( prostitutes) do,  and stop running after lovers that often reject you.” 

 We know that China is parades money stolen from Africa and cheap stuffs they produce. We   can almost swear that China is printing the currencies of each African nations by the billions and using the currencies to its advantage. The burden is on China to prove it is not printing African counterfeits on its machines. If you are in doubt, please hold the Nigerian Naira up to the light and see how easy it is to duplicate on machines manufactured in China. China is the center of piracy and fake counterfeits from utensils and aspirin to penicillin/antibiotics to building materials to jewels, to name-brand clothes and footwear and to whatever-you-name. These fakes are shipped from China in containers to unsuspecting Third World countries, Nigeria included.

The Chinese can fake anything under the sun, including a woman’s buttocks and breasts. They  can design  men’s fake penises that look real until you stick it into a woman’s vagina and it gets stuck half way in the uterus. Nigerian contractors and builders are on strikes against Chinese doors, windows, metal gates, and toiletries because they are inferior and do not last. A Nigerian contractor complains recently: “These things are not strong; they can be easily broken down by thieves.”  He says that similar merchandises  the Nigerian metal workers  manufacture at Onitsha or Nnewi are better, cheaper, and more durable.”

The Nigerian fakers have learned “Igbo-made” stuffs from the Chinese.  Go to Nnewi in Anambra and witness  Igbo fakers at work. China is laughing in the face of beguiled and impressionable African leaders who believe China is a superpower. Yes, superpower my ass. If fakery, quackery, and copy-cat are what you mean by superpower, then any dog is a psychiatrist because he greets the owner happily each time the owner comes  home.  It is believed that a smart Fulani who wants to win the next Nigerian Presidential election can do so if he can persuade  China to agrees to manufacture fake electioneering machines and ballots that can be manipulated  by remote control from a  hut in the Sambissa Forest. China can do anything even rig the Nigeria’s gubernatorial elections

We can no longer accept insolence, cheek, impudence, disrespect, impoliteness, brazenness, or insults from China. It is enough to tell me “waka” by flashing your five fingers in my face , and I ignore you, You would be asking for a big fight when you pull your knickers down to your knees to poop at me, or tell me “ikpu nne gi” (your mother’s private parts). China has gone so far with insults and now wants to bogherem  ike nsi (open nyash full of excreta) at me. 

With a population of over 3 billion people, China ranks at the top of countries  notorious for human rights violations, exploitation of minorities and women. China uses brutality and intimidation to muzzle its  3 billion citizens from agitation and exposing awareness of how bad  things really are in China. Things are really bad in China while Jumping Jack parades his propaganda machine among Third World nations, boasting of creating utopia, pies-in-the-sky, and heaven-on-earth magic kingdom.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/world/asia/president-xi-jinping-of-china-pledges-2-billion-to-fight-poverty.html?_r=0

What  is happening from China in my lifetime is an invasion; an offensive attack, assault,  raid, foray, or incursion into African countries. The presence of China in Africa is a break-in, the most despicable forced entry undertaken in broad daylight with the complicity or connivance of gullible African leaders. The Chinese have blanketed Nigeria with their cheap, disgustingly sordid merchandise. During one summer I spent  at Abuja, I had the misfortune to see how the Chinese operate.

This writer asked the hostess for a brewed cup of tea. As my hostess steeped the tea bag in the cup of boiling water, I glanced at the package and noticed “made in China”. Sure enough the tea was  imported from China. The tea tasted so bad I wanted to poop. In fact, I did poop.  Lord, my poop smelled like a rotten egg.  Imagine being offered a mug of watery feces, or waste product from  an Igbo man’s digestive tract after he swallows cassava foo-foo and egusi soup and washes the food down with a calabash  of palm wine.

Growing up as a child at Utonkon, I did notice dogs gobble up the brown stuff Aunt Euniece’ s baby expelled through the anus. I swore  I would never own a dog. Here at Abuja I was drinking a made-in-China tea that very much resembled Aunt Euniece’s baby’s shit. Atamaja (I don chop sand). I begged the host to please give me a gallon of water to wash out the terrible tea from my mouth. Chim o, China egbunam. Gini bu ihea? (My God, China has killed me. What’s this?). I asked for sugar to sweeten the devil’s bromide and the hostess gave me powdered stuff made in China. The sugar tasted like talcum powder you rub on a baby’s bottom to keep the heat from burning your baby’s ass.  For salt, the hostess  gave me China-made powdered stuff that looked and tasted like white chalk soaked in urine. I don die-o (I’m dead).

The Chinese are insulting Nigerian in more than one way. Nigerian importers are virtual slaves to the Chinese manufacturers and middle men, especially the so-called Nigerian millionaires who import shiploads of Chinese building materials and rice. Prices of rice and building materials are sky high as the Chinese believe my country is kpumkpum (full and bursting open) with money. If you import from China, you must be ready to pay full price up front, with no discounts, plus full cost of expensive container rentals and taxes, and insurance to cover the ship, containers and your merchandise.

Lord help you if you fail to empty and return the containers on time; you will be forced to  pay expensive doomrage that runs in the millions of Naira. Many Nigerian importers are unable to continue doing business because the Chinese are greed and demand that Naira be converted to .dollars or British pounds  to the nearest penny before you see your goods.

 Down with the Chinese. Why can’t Nigerians manufacture most of the products they pay through their noses to import from China? I shall tell you why in a moment. Nigerian businessmen are as corrupt as the Chinese or even more corrupt because they ask their Chinese manufacturers to produce the cheapest , most diluted and most inferior stuffs to maximize profits and dupe poor fellow Nigerian buyers. This is corrupted behavior.

If you go to any Nigerian market at Lagos, Onitsha, Abuja, Enugu, or any Nigerian place, you would be accosted by things that are adulterated/made impure/polluted by the  Chinese. If you are a meat eater, welcome to China imports of dead and infected chicken, beef, and hotdog and meat made from real dogs, cans of rotten tomatoes and fruits that you eat and go to the hospital to die. I once watched a video of what China ships to African countries that the FDA certifies as anu (meat) for Africans to eat and get sick. Chinese villagers ride bicycles to every village farms , collecting dead fowls. The dead chickens have their feathers removed after being soaked in hot water and chemicals. The defeathered  chickens are soaked in some oils to make them look pretty. Finally,  the dead chickens are frozen and shipped to you to eat.

Do you know how many Nigerians go to China and India for specialist medical treatments and never return home alive. They are shipped home in akpati ozu (wooden coffins). I tell you one thing: China is dangerous.  One more thing before we go. It has been reported that thousands of Nigerians languish in Chinese prisons  for as long as 7 years without trials, without legal representations, and without understanding the frivolous charges.  Most of the made-in-China products you see in Nigerian markets are made by Chinese prisoners who are paid below the minimum wages.  There are widespread allegations that the Chinese authorities are harvesting  body organs of Nigerians who die or are killed in Chinese prisons. http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/03/17/nigerians-languish-in-chinese-jails/

There are instances of Nigerians being killed for no apparent reasons. For example, a  Nigerian businessman was murdered in China over his passport. http://www.nairaland.com/176112/nigerian-businessman-murdered-china.

If you a Nigerian in China, you are repeatedly stared at or even swarmed by curious crowds, and treated as a spectacle by picture takers. You are an animal in a zoo. The Chinese will be touching your hair, rubbing your skin to remove the paint, and asking you stupid questions that reflect ignorance (do you fuck like moneys?).  You are looked down upon because the Chinese believe the whiter skin has more beauty. Being black, you are considered as poor, uneducated, violent, play basketball, are barbaric and wild, and even eat each other. Upon all these insults and inhumane treatments we Nigerians are given in Chine, yet the Chinese are all over Nigeria, monopolizing our retail markets, bribing our leaders, carrying off our minerals, fucking up our beautiful women, and driving our economy to the ground. Do you remember the Ghana-must-go drama? Did someone say:  “China, una go go?” What of “Nigeria for Nigerians!”?   

CONCLUSIONS. Watch what you guzzle, gobble up, wolf down from China. Next time you go to the Chinese restaurant to dine on Chinese noodles ,wonton soup and chicken wings, say prayers before leaving home  and repeat your prayer after returning. Congrats! You survived this time. Not all  things that glitter are  gold, and all that glitters is not gold, particularly if it is gleaming, glinting, sparkling, glistening, shimmering, oscillating, glistering, flickering, and the tag says “made in China.” 

Prepared by Dr. James C. Agazie, jamesagazie@gmail.com  See also  jamesagazies.blogspot.com