THIS IS NIGERIA THE
WORLD KNOWS
A little 2-year-old girl named Chimamada was playing a game she
had learned at school . The time was October, 2015, the year the white man believed
that Nigeria would go up in cataclysmic smokes. The setting
was Anambra village which is caught up in the crunch of poverty and
wretchedness, and neglect. Anambra was formerly one of the more vibrant
states of a rich country The name Cimamada is Igbo meaning My God Shall
Never Fail.
Talk of the disintegration of Nigerian was rife in the air as
the white man wanted to demonstrate once and for all the inevitability of his prognosis
that the black man cannot be trusted to rule without the white man’s tutelage.
It is generally believed that to succeed, a black needs the white man’s
instruction, teaching, coaching, wing, expert hand, sponsorship, or protection,
particularly in African country.
Africa was once known for centuries as the white man’s
burden. Africans have was been in dire need of the white man’s guiding hand. Had
the white man not laid down his life on the line, which would protect 2-year-old
Chimamanda who would save Nigeria from being a wretch?
Indeed, the country is wretched. You look at the white man
and you shake your head. You shake your head twice when you look at Nigeria.
Why shake the head? You shake the head because you are alive and the head you
are shaking belongs to you, isn’t it? You are overwhelmed, flabbergasted, even driven
as nutty as a fruit cake.
The purpose of this essay is to talk about destruction of land you call your home and
to try to grapple with the concept of Pygmalion Effect or the self-fulfilling
prophesy. Like you, many of your fellow Nigerians (if they are truly Nigerians
with skulls) are supposed to make use of the cranium’s grey matter to grapple with
why Chimamada was reciting a poem describing the ills apparent to a 2-year-old.
You ought to stop shaking your damned head because the white
man has conditioned your minds and you have been behaving like rats in the
Skinner box. You are participants in a successful operant conditioning
experiment. The billion Dollar question is:
Why are we the people of Nigeria pressing the lever that delivers a pellet of
food to a caged rat? Why are we Nigerians in the habit of pressing the lever in
a depressing situation six decades after gaining independence from the white
Britons?
The white man is happy we Nigerians are pressing the lever.
We have a thorn in the flesh, and it is good to grapple with this thorn in the
flesh, meaning that our aliveness seems to be dependent upon our unwillingness
to face the thorn, deal with it, cope with the gnawing inconvenience, or handle
it to the best of our ability.
We look everywhere to find some scapegoat to blame for the
thorn when we ought to grab it, shake it, pull it out with tremendous force. Is
this possible? No, we don’t even see the thorn at all. We see the white man as
our savior to blame if anything goes wrong under the sun. It is a type of symbiosis,
an aggressive –dependent relationship.
The white man jeers, meaning he boos and taunts: “We gave
you schools, didn’t we? We gave you
Christianity, didn’t we? We taught you British administration, didn’t we? Now, what? We don’t want your money, but you
keep bringing your cash to us in truck loads. Every time we look you people are
breaking our Bank of London’s doors hauling in your Pounds, Shillings, Dollars,
Francs, and money in all currencies. What seems to be your trouble?”
The tragedy is this: although we know the thorn is there,
piercing our lung, punching out our side, and choking the breath of life out of
us, yet we are content to let the thorn remain where it is. Some Nigerians blame
the white man for positioning the thorn where it can and often does deliver the
greatest pain to us to the threshold of wishing we were dead.
The effects of the thorn in our flesh are multifarious and
multiparous. That explains why we are in pain, we are hungry, our young people
are addicted to drugs, our women sell their naked bodies to strange men in
exchange for a plate of jollof rice, and some men unknown to us sell our youth in
open slave markets. We worship a god that exacts a painful toll on us in that our
faith brands us with iron roasted in red-hot coals as Muslim, Christian, and
Other. How wretched we are!
Several forces are at work against us to destroy Nigeria. Muslem
religion divides Nigeria while the tribe drives a wedge in the unity of the
nation. Christians don’t seem to get beyond tithing and belief in God’s pie-in-the-sky
promise to make us like Abraham the father of many nations and inheritor of
great riches. Education in Nigeria is at its ebb, its lowest infancy as few
people are tutored enough to read the Constitution to understand what rights
and responsibilities are guaranteed therein.
Fewer Nigerians are able to understand or abide by the rule
of law, nor do they fathom the political process, the two party system, and the
duties the elected officials owe to
those who selected them, and the powers the voters have over their
representatives. Why don’t the Nigerians
teach and push for the separation of religion and politics? Do they know the
functions of the legislative, judiciary, and executive? As the Nigerians fight
each other over the issue of religion, little is known about the religious
books (the Qumran and the Bible) that teach there is only one God who wants us
to love each other, live as brothers, and enjoy our food.
There is no end to the opportunity to blame first the
President and legislative branch, then the corrupt politicians and judges,
and finally the white man. The white man
bares his crooked John Bull teeth as he often does to jeer, meaning he catcalls,
hoots, or raspberries: “Any way, thank you, Nigerians, for being our slaves. Your
foolishness is building our factories with your money, maintaining our Harvard,
Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, and our Queen’s Buckingham Palace. But I tell you
this: you are fools. Look at your foolish politicians trying to build
refineries outside the mainland where the white man would manufacture your
fuels for pennies and sell back to you for Dollars.
“You line up in long queues like fools under the blazing sun
and cry: ‘fuel subsidy, fuel subsidy’. Who hears you cry? Nobody. The members of US
Congress and UK Parliament laugh at you. The Queen smiles and goes about her
important job of doing nothing. Your wealth keeps the Queen comfortable. You fight
each other until you faint at the petrol stations. Your foolishly groans, moans, and stupid noise you make in your native tongue-twisting
and unpronounceable dialects, do not impress us. Do we care? No, we don’t.
“ Look at your foolish billionaires buying jets, yachts and
mansions around the world, laundering your money, and pretending to be whites.
Why can’t they invest that money to save their people from starvation, or give
something to that ex-student out of work several years after graduation? “ The
white man hasn’t made an end to making
fun of the Nigerians. He has gotten Nigerians to a place of no return. To turn around is a problem and to go forward
is also a problem.
“Fools,” the white man says, “ smell your arse. Smell your
mother’s arse, too. You thought you were
free from our control with your empty independence celebrations. Where are your
agitators for independence, your egotistical, big-grammar Zik, your ultra-tribalist,
kola nut chewing Sardauna of Sokoto, and the juju priest Awolowo who was upset
because his attempted coup failed while
the Biafran boys carried out the first
successful take-over?
“Awolowo would have been
a better Prime Minister on account of his education had the divisive
Yoruba not divided the State into two-
the West and the Mid-West- leading to
the Awo- Akintola fight that ended with
the death of Akintola’s son. You think you are free, eh? No, you are not free.
You’re still our slaves, aren’t you? Hell, you are getting deeper and deeper
into the hole our brilliant thinkers have dug and are still digging for you.”
That’s not right. The white man is wrong. He isn’t exactly
correct. What keeps Nigerians moored to where
they are is something steeper deadlier,
and more perplexing than the hole the
white man has dug. It is a deeper snare, that robs Nigerians of snore, and that Nigerians
have built for themselves. The snares are much more than physical contraption. You say: “ The snare ? I fear it What’s a
snare?”
The snare is a trap, noose, gin, lasso, or catch whereby the
Nigerians are captured, entrapped, or
ensnared in. The snaring is by, of, from, and to the Nigerians. The snare in
simple terms is a mental enslavement, gross ignorance, insatiable appetite, and
inflexible pride. This essay is all about snares that are grabbing the necks of
the Nigerians in death-hold. The death of Nigeria is from without, but within.
Think of a devise like onya (Igbo for metal trap) which you set
up in your house to catch the pesky little rats you found stealing your bread
and eating smoked fish, which made life unbearable in the
cupboard in your mud house. If you are
afraid to take the little rats outside to kill them by stomping on their tiny heads,
you are not alone.
Consider the giant rodents that drove President Buhari to run the 100-yard dash from beautiful Aso Rock.
You didn’t know the old man could run, did you? The rodents of Aso Rock were
decontaminated through fumigation, but the Aso Rock rodents are nothing
compared to the rats that are bothering the Nigerians and leading to
destruction of their nation. How do you control your rats?
Now that you have the idea about snares and how they operate
to destroy Nigeria, let us be specific about how snares keep
Nigerians confused to the point they are destroying the country and blaming the
white man. How do control what you don’t and can’t see? To repeat, the snare in
simple terms includes mental enslavement, ignorance, undisciplined appetite,
and I-am-better-than-thee pride. This essay is all about snares that are
grabbing the necks of the Nigerians in death-hold, and that are leading the Nigerians
to destroy their country and blame others.
Blame not the white man. Blame not the stars. Don’t blame
God. Look at the mirror. Blame who you see. Blame you the Nigerians, foolish
Nigerians, for your foolishness. Blame your hatred of education, for not supporting
your schools. Blame yourselves for embracing the philosophy of boko haram . You
foolish Hausa and Fulani, wanderers, the least educated of all Nigerian tribes,
why are you running away from education and
running into politics to rob the treasury blind?
Your motto Boko haran or Education is a sin is flashed in bold letters across the sky .The world associates you with senseless violence, ignorance, and abduction of schoolgirls. When
shall you send your children to school and leave religion and the hijab at home?
When will you separate Islam and
politics? When? When hell freezes over and virgins inhabit Sambissa Forest?
You Ibos are foolish. You are abandoning education and
running after money like shameless prostitutes you are known for. All you
Nigerians are foolish for your enslavement to other peoples’ cultures,
particularly the whites. When would you be proud of your own culture?
Look here, foolish
Nigerians, you have wasted billions from your oil wells, running to be
fucked in the ass by six false lovers: America, Britain, Germany, Russia, France,
and China your so-called Big Six shakers and permanent UN members. Your governors come dressed as homosexuals
to give all your money to your lovers Amebrigerussfarchan.
Look here, Mr. President , you are unwise for your
enslavement to your tribe and for your discrimination against persons of other
tribes, and for filling all your cabinet ministerial posts with your
incompetent tribesman and leaving out qualified Igbos, Edos, Biroms, and others
who are more qualified than your own
people. Why does every Moslem head
enthrone mediocrity, nepotism, and disunity. Shame on them.
THE NIGERIANS APPEAR TO PREFER ENSLAVEMENT TO FREEDOM
When will the
Nigerians kiss their enslavement to the British farewell? Slavery persisted
long after Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation abolishing slavery in America because
the former slaves went back to former masters asking to continue to live on the
slave plantation to harvest cotton, tobacco, and watermelon. They asked in
great fear and tears: “Where do we now go?”
The Nigerians experience great tears and fear. Since they
are afraid of violence they can unleash on each other, the Nigerians cannot
leave the British overlord alone nor can they overcome Europeanism, a rare form
of mental enslavement, seen in an addictive craving for European foods, clothes,
vehicles, building materials, and even white women.
The Nigerians haven’t
gotten over the child’s separation anxiety which little Abimbola feels on first day of school as the mother
leaves the classroom. The child throws a tremendous temper tantrum, he falls over everything , and cries inconsolably, uncontrollably: “Mama, Mama, where
are you, Mama? Come back, Mama”.
Foolish Nigerians, instead of paving the road to Buckingham
Palace with pure gold inlaid with uncut diamonds, why don’t you buy a doll or hard candy for the little
2-year-old village girl Chimamada? Her parents would appreciate an hour of electric
light. O foolish, stupid Nigerians!
Nigerian seems to have a homosexual relationship with the white Briton. It is like an umbilical cord
that refuses to be broken. A normal child separates from mother and married a
woman. It seems that to be a Nigerian is
to be a Briton, to be tied to a mother’s apron string, to acquire the British
accent and mannerisms, such as placing forks on the left and knives of the
right. Is it like incest when a child desires to have sex with the mother, a
type of Electra Complex?
Why can’t Nigerians fall in love with their people, enjoy things
Nigerian, including eating foo-foo and ogbono soup with mkpisi aka ise na aka
nri (five fingers of the right hand). Why are the Nigerians filling every
available space in the village and township with gigantic mansions in which no
soul lives and which are overgrown with bushes
and teeming with rats, bats, bees,
and, snakes? Why can’t Nigeria go to
farms to produce their rice, beans, wheat, and other foodstuffs which they
import like insane people?
The Nigerians run to
London and American hospitals with ailments as common as malaria, earache, broken
legs, or temperatures above 98.4 degrees when they can spruce up their local
university hospitals and turn them to first-class status. The Nigerian
importers are addicted to everything British, American, or German just to show
off. These people foolishly compete
against each other to the point of
absurdity. Why can’t they cooperate and be stronger?
Their oyibo (white man) addiction is such that the Chinese are
saturating Nigeria with their cheap marbles, cheap roads, and beef made of
human flesh. The Japanese are coming with tea leaves and sushi; the Brazilians
ship in expensive tiles for the Nigerians who want to show off and tell their fellows:
“Look here. We live like the Europeans” Europeanism is a virus that eats deeply
into the Nigerian brains kpatapkata (completely).
The Nigerians even refuse to eat their own food. They are
eating American McDonald hamburgers and drinking carbonated Coca Cola laden
with sugars. They are craving for the Chinese won-ton, the Korean egg rolls,
and the Japanese raw fish. They are dying from the white man’s diseases. Consider
Ebola and Monkey Pox. The Nigerians lose
all their foreign exchange through importation of parboiled rice, black eye beans and soft wheat flour used for making bread. They can’t take their lazy asses to the farms to grow their rice, wheat,
and beans?
The Nigerians look down on local farmers, and import rice by
millions of tons from China and Thailand. They blame the white man for the
inflation that eats up their foreign exchange and renders Nigerian currency
useless and drives prices of goods ceiling high when a Dollar converts to 360 Naira.
NIGERIANS APPEAR TO BE HATEFUL OF KNOWLEDGE:
The Nigerian primary
and secondary schools are in shambles for lack of textbooks and non-payment of teachers’
salaries. Education minister Prof.
Is-has Oloyede laments that about 2,000,000 candidates sitting the JAMB
examination for the year 2818 have paid N12billion in fees but there are not
enough schools to absorb the candidates.
.Fewer Nigerian youngsters are passing the WAEC exams to get into the
universities. Literacy rate is down. The Southerners are driven further South,
and Northeners slaughter Igbos because the North is unable to measure up.
Every Nigerian prefers politics to education because there are numerous ways to collude and
defraud the government. There are high failures
in WAEC examinations due to lack of qualified teachers and inadequate efforts
to motivate students and instill discipline and reading habits. There was a court battle when the governor of Kaduna State dismissed 21,000 teachers who flunked a recent test for
teachers.
Fewer Nigerians are
interested in intellectual pursuit. The few that are making names for
themselves are in obodo oyibo (white
man’s land) and do not want to return home to help because there are no
employment opportunities, salaries are not competitive, and one has to watch
out for insecurity created by armed robberies and kidnappers.
The Nigerian government does not express the desire to want
to recruit overseas educated Nigerians to help build the nation. Intellectual pursuit
is not rewarded in Nigeria so young people gravitate to trading. Instead of paying teachers and strengthening
schools, the government doesn’t pay teacher on time and sometimes owes several
months of teacher salary in arrears.
Instead of strengthening academic programs and teacher
preparation, the government employs unqualified teachers and lowers the JAMB
scores so unqualified students can get into universities. There is the
proliferation of private schools which compete for students with State schools
but whose standards have not been verified. How does one establish a private school when one has not gone to a university but have a fake diploma in Arabic studies from a bird's nest?
The Nigerian government appears to be unable to lure our
brilliant Nigerians- in medicines, mathematics, technology and engineering from
overseas to help build the nation perhaps due to the climate of jealousy and tribalism or fear of kidnapping.
The government ought to reckon with others and recognize that education is the
backbone of a developing nation.
The senators and governors and government officials are
barely literate beyond primary school or Arabic studies. Many have fake
diplomas and certificates from institutions they cannot name. The general philosophy
of education is boko haram, meaning to hell with Western education.
The Nigerian schools and universities are neglected, have dilapidated infrastructures. Very little money is budgeted for schools in a nation that produces
millions of barrels of crude oil per year. Budgets meant for education are
siphoned away as wealthy Nigerians have no pride in their country’s educational
system but are proud to send their
children to schools in Obodo oyibo (Eton, Harvard, and New England schools).
THE NIGERIANS SEEM TO HAVE INSATIABLE APPETITE AND LOVE OF
EGO OYIBO (WHITE MAN’S MONEY).
The fear of being kidnapped in Nigeria for ransom is real
since Nigerians have the unquenchable desire to live like the wealthy white men
and women, Hollywood stars, or football and basketball players they watch on
television. Wealthy Nigerians do not pay adequate taxes, and do not help the
poor relatives struggling with school fees and accommodations.
The wealth of Nigeria is concentrated in a few hands-
fraudsters-senators, governors, judges, merchants who steal money meant to
develop the nation. Rather than help others, the Nigerian wealthy class builds
mansions all over Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa. Who occupies these places?
The Nigerians are boastful braggart as they brag: “This
money is my money. We get this money; Nigerian belongs to us. We have seven mansions, each with seven
vehicles of every make in every continent, even in Australia, Canada, the Alps,
China, Singapore, and so forth.” Fools
they are. They are uneducated, illiterate billionaires. They die and the money
is lost because the children and wives do not know the bank account numbers.
NIGERIANS ARE SELF-CENTERED,
AND GIVEN TO EGOCENTRISM
A self-centered Nigerian often thinks of “I-Me-Myself. A
governor drinks himself senseless with alcohol brewed in the brewery he helps
to set up. Almost all members of his
household are members of his cabinet. He is a creature of nepotism which is
known as favoritism, partiality, preference for members of his religion,
political party, or tribe. Nigerian governance is based on tribalism which engenders
prejudice, discrimination, one-sidedness, or preferential treatment.
The Nigerians are ethnocentric, xenophobic, chauvinistic, intolerant, and hateful of
their nation . Who do we blame for the poverty and wretchedness we saw in Chimamada’s face? Hink: there was no white man in the
village, not even one albino.
Submitted Friday,
January 5, 2018 at 7:12 pm Nigerian Time
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