I apologize to those who might see this as a rant but that's why I intend to do, rant to get past the anger and look at the bright side. Nigeria will test you, as with most countries too but see this as me pouring my heart out so I can feel lighter and move ahead. I thank you all for your understanding and love.
My Rant.
Welcome to Nigeria. The land of humour and unpredictability. A land flowing with corrupt politicians on every front and they are not ashamed to loud their horns of decadence. They are in full glare, dancing to the sound of broken promises with a parliament full of idle potbellied dead conscience looters.
I am sure most of us have heard the news making the rounds that emanated from our government. We have a bunch of jokers as leaders and that reflects so bad on us, the citizens you would say. Not like we had a choice in the election anyway since we all know how they always get there and the election exercise is just a formality purpose.
Sometimes I am proud to be a Nigerian because of the creativity, the goodness of heart and our awesome personality with rich culture and on the other hand, I just don't want to be a Nigerian anymore or let me put it well, I want to leave this country while still clinging to my Nigerian roots only by blood and no longer by location.
I have never seen or heard of a government like this in Nigeria. I shared a few days ago about not truly having the freedom we think we have. We spoke about freedom of expression and social rights and now, they came up with the Joker that Twitter would be banned in Nigeria. The stress of the crypto ban is still telling on us as I had to pay more charges just to be able to earn since it's passing from one wallet to the other before I can convert it into Naira, now it is a Twitter ban.
Our government feels threatened with everything. I am not surprised, sometimes. The youths protested peacefully during the Lekki Toll Gate scenario, they hacked them down and shot at the youths. We lend our voice over anything, they push the blame to their political counterparts. Our government have never been held accountable for anything nor will they ever take responsibility for anything. It is shameful and disturbing, coming from a democratic state and supposed older leaders. These are not leaders but looters. By their fruits, we have known them. I call them politicians rather than leaders.
The president made an unreasonable remark which can incite violence. As it was done before in time past even to the most powerful of men, Twitter took down his ill-timed statement and now they feel attacked. They wanted to justify themselves so bad and they said they would ban Twitter because Twitter funded the protest the youth had last year. Come on, now, how???
They like dishing things out but they don't like taking it too. If anyone else made such a statement that the president made, I am so sure all hell would break loose as they would fish out that person and make him a scapegoat. It's no longer surprising that when they are in power, they are above the law. Now, the president made it and they are trying to find the sense out of his senselessness. Twitter deleted his tweets and now they have banned Twitter in Nigeria.
The speed at which they pass these laws into being and yet the sluggishness they do in persecuting their fellow looters shocks me. Under 3 days, they have passed it into law and for the past 8 months, the death of the Lekki Toll Gate citizens are still being deliberated on by the panel. This is sheer wickedness with total disregard for consequences. God will judge.
We know we have been cursed with a chronic desire to have our politicians irritate us. Facebook took the same approach too and I am looking at it if they would also ban Facebook soon. Maybe they were also pained that Twitter took its headquarters to Ghana and can you blame Twitter for wanting a suitable environment that is not riddled with corruption and lack of electricity? I believed Jack must have been asked to 'settle' some people and he must have refused, as expected.
When I said they are clowns, I wasn't joking. They banned Twitter and it was even announced again via their handles on Twitter. Isn't that funny? I don't know what is wrong with this country and I am done keeping hope and faith in it. I want out. If you are in the diaspora, kindly reach out to me because my tiredness is tired, I want to leave 🤣🤣😂🤣 so I can start another life outside Nigeria. This country has become a joke. I don't care if it's not green out there, I will water it because I know my effort won't be wasted. I have made it so far in Nigeria, I believe with the same energy and more, I would make it out there too.
Pray for Nigeria 🤣🤣😂🤣😂.
Let hope abound in Nigeria!