Have you read this trending story? I grew to hear about the sale of the blacks by the whites. That was long before I was born. It was a wickedness of a race that profiled itself as being special creatures of God and superior humans to other humans.
As civilization grows and every other nation is declaring sovereignty and independence, the traditional slave trade are no longer popular. Besides the technical modern slavery of the moment in the name of visa lottery and other similar bait windows offered to Africans by the developed nations of the whites (which is resulting into brain drain back in the African homeland), the typical trade of humans as slaves have become literary recipes for the enrichment of our historical property.
At least reading such episodes, we appreciate our metamorphosis economically, politically and socially as Africans.
But sadly, I woke up few days ago to hear the story emerging from Libya in the recent weeks. The sale of Africans by Africans to Africans as slaves is the most alarming story of the centuries! More specifically, the sale of Nigerians by Nigerians to strangers on the same continent of the blacks!!
Over sixty scores of Nigerians sold by their countrymen to Libya in the chains of multiple hand-to-hand transactions have been rescued and flown back to the country. The reports said there are still between 400 to 700 thousand still tramped and yet unrescued back in Libya. The self accounts of these able and youthful men and women, including couples, would leave one stunned.
The most striking revelation which specifically motivated this write up is the response they got while appealing for mercy from their fellow Nigerian brothers in the accursed business: 'No brother in the jungle'!
Where is the jungle? Nigeria, Libya, the whole African continent or the world in general? The truth is that the response is all of the above.
A jungle is a place occupied with people without decent behaviors. A jungle is where living is miserable without living on the flesh, blood and sweat of other creatures like oneself. A jungle breeds the scene of survival for the fittest among human gorillas. It is a place where wickedness is built in the hearts of humans as a result of insensitivity and desperacy of others for money and power. Nigeria is a worse jungle.
Over a million Nigerian is in Libya alone for greener pastures! What is in Libya? We may have no moral justification for asking this when being a postmaster or messenger in foreign lands is more profitable than being a professor or director in Nigeria. This has pushed everyone to a corner where principles and integrity have no marketable values.
People in service have been tempted to join the bad wagons for fear of poverty after retirement. They convert position of responsibility to amass corrupt wealth. They see closeness to moneybags as one lifetime opportunity. Most of them have lived their lives to that position on interests-based loans from cooperatives.
Only politics and entertainment are professions that provide a suplus earning even with extra reserves. Legitimate package in every other sector only keeps you alive with never-reliable funds thereby makes you indebted, frustrated and unhappy. They shout entrepreneural spirit for salary earners and the jobless while they have none and have no plan for any.
Corruption is prevalent at the topmost levels. Out of frustration and bitterness, Nigerians at lower levels result into thefts or dare great risks in desperate ambition to migrate to other lands even the most neighboring African countries. While the majority of those in their youthful ages are unemployed or underemployed, the employed are committing suicide in serial and turns due to unpaid salaries of several months.
The same reason has germinated a strong seeds of wickedness among Nigerians that we no longer cherish the ideas of being our brothers' keeper even at home. This is so serious that we feel no pity over the plight of fellow Nigerians. Our situation has been so terribly bad that we tend to convert every opportunity to help others into monitized adventures.
'No free launch in jungle'! Nigerians ask for money to process files, grant audience to the needy and so on. Even to lend out a pen in the banking hall or give a description of a location address to a passersby are professional services that must be paid for.
Corruption and insensitivity of leadership is fast destroying the sensibility of Nigerians. It is swiftly eroding their senses of decent and dignifying behaviors. It is criminalizing their psyche and psychology. Nigerians are becoming wicked, desperate and inhuman. Badoo, kidnapping, insurgency, human trafficking and now slave trade are few of the indices.
These are what our leaders wanted us to be: Hyenas and eagles of our own selves. They led our deviation from lessons of logic, hardworking and selflessness of the past leaders into this path of laziness to labour and desperate quest for wealth.
They turned the nation into a jungle where an average Nigerian sacrifices the present and future of others for his own welfare and prosperity. The spate of insecurity is a symptom, this is the ailment. Until the trend stops, the change is yet to start. Our neighborhood, workplaces, marketplaces, motorparks, hospitals in Nigeria must cease to be jungles where there are Nigerians but no brotherhood.
As civilization grows and every other nation is declaring sovereignty and independence, the traditional slave trade are no longer popular. Besides the technical modern slavery of the moment in the name of visa lottery and other similar bait windows offered to Africans by the developed nations of the whites (which is resulting into brain drain back in the African homeland), the typical trade of humans as slaves have become literary recipes for the enrichment of our historical property.
At least reading such episodes, we appreciate our metamorphosis economically, politically and socially as Africans.
But sadly, I woke up few days ago to hear the story emerging from Libya in the recent weeks. The sale of Africans by Africans to Africans as slaves is the most alarming story of the centuries! More specifically, the sale of Nigerians by Nigerians to strangers on the same continent of the blacks!!
Over sixty scores of Nigerians sold by their countrymen to Libya in the chains of multiple hand-to-hand transactions have been rescued and flown back to the country. The reports said there are still between 400 to 700 thousand still tramped and yet unrescued back in Libya. The self accounts of these able and youthful men and women, including couples, would leave one stunned.
The most striking revelation which specifically motivated this write up is the response they got while appealing for mercy from their fellow Nigerian brothers in the accursed business: 'No brother in the jungle'!
Where is the jungle? Nigeria, Libya, the whole African continent or the world in general? The truth is that the response is all of the above.
A jungle is a place occupied with people without decent behaviors. A jungle is where living is miserable without living on the flesh, blood and sweat of other creatures like oneself. A jungle breeds the scene of survival for the fittest among human gorillas. It is a place where wickedness is built in the hearts of humans as a result of insensitivity and desperacy of others for money and power. Nigeria is a worse jungle.
Over a million Nigerian is in Libya alone for greener pastures! What is in Libya? We may have no moral justification for asking this when being a postmaster or messenger in foreign lands is more profitable than being a professor or director in Nigeria. This has pushed everyone to a corner where principles and integrity have no marketable values.
People in service have been tempted to join the bad wagons for fear of poverty after retirement. They convert position of responsibility to amass corrupt wealth. They see closeness to moneybags as one lifetime opportunity. Most of them have lived their lives to that position on interests-based loans from cooperatives.
Only politics and entertainment are professions that provide a suplus earning even with extra reserves. Legitimate package in every other sector only keeps you alive with never-reliable funds thereby makes you indebted, frustrated and unhappy. They shout entrepreneural spirit for salary earners and the jobless while they have none and have no plan for any.
Corruption is prevalent at the topmost levels. Out of frustration and bitterness, Nigerians at lower levels result into thefts or dare great risks in desperate ambition to migrate to other lands even the most neighboring African countries. While the majority of those in their youthful ages are unemployed or underemployed, the employed are committing suicide in serial and turns due to unpaid salaries of several months.
The same reason has germinated a strong seeds of wickedness among Nigerians that we no longer cherish the ideas of being our brothers' keeper even at home. This is so serious that we feel no pity over the plight of fellow Nigerians. Our situation has been so terribly bad that we tend to convert every opportunity to help others into monitized adventures.
'No free launch in jungle'! Nigerians ask for money to process files, grant audience to the needy and so on. Even to lend out a pen in the banking hall or give a description of a location address to a passersby are professional services that must be paid for.
Corruption and insensitivity of leadership is fast destroying the sensibility of Nigerians. It is swiftly eroding their senses of decent and dignifying behaviors. It is criminalizing their psyche and psychology. Nigerians are becoming wicked, desperate and inhuman. Badoo, kidnapping, insurgency, human trafficking and now slave trade are few of the indices.
These are what our leaders wanted us to be: Hyenas and eagles of our own selves. They led our deviation from lessons of logic, hardworking and selflessness of the past leaders into this path of laziness to labour and desperate quest for wealth.
They turned the nation into a jungle where an average Nigerian sacrifices the present and future of others for his own welfare and prosperity. The spate of insecurity is a symptom, this is the ailment. Until the trend stops, the change is yet to start. Our neighborhood, workplaces, marketplaces, motorparks, hospitals in Nigeria must cease to be jungles where there are Nigerians but no brotherhood.
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