S’Africa, the Pharaoh that knows not Joseph and the imperative of curing madness with madness - Ik Muo,PhD.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind( Gandhi) but our people say that a snake that does not bite will soon be used as a rope!
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I was on leave and decided
to leave this blog business for a while and the blog nearly left me. I am back
and I appologise for the long absence. I also apologise for this lengthy
intervention. Going forward, it must be more regular and…SHORTER!
People
thought that June this year was the
apogee of the ‘madness’ and ochlocracy inspired by Jacinta and her March&March
Movement(M&MM), building on the notoriety and ‘successes’ of 5 year-old operation Dudula in South Africa . Indeed, it appeared that as
if the situation had calmed down. But far from it; the fire is still alive but deceptively hiding under the cold ash . In the first instance,
the M&MM has declared that September 30 would be the FINAL deadline for all
illegal immigrants and we all know what that means She has also just asked all
her ‘worshippers’ to request for leave
on October 15, because they are planning something NEW in pursuit of their agenda!. Last week, Nigeria warned SA about the growing
threats, killings and Xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other Africans.
This followed the recent murder ( 4&5th Sept) of Bishop MT
Fakunle in his residence and Mr JU Nwankwo who died from excruciating police
interrogation methods. These brought to 8 the number of Nigerians murdered in SA
in 2026 including Big Joe who was
murdered outside his shop on 28/6/26 and
about 100 Nigerians murdered in SA since
2022 without a single arrest. The protests were from the Ambassador Designate
and the Ministry of External Affairs, which highlighted SA nonchalant attitude
to this matter. As I write, SA has not responded.
Furthermore,
on Friday.11/9/26, the National Assembly suspended
In 1978, SA Ukeje, UJ Nkamuke, AA Falade together with the Son of Man ( by then, I was known as Castro! I had no beards but I was filled with revolutionary fervor) formed the Association for Solidarity with South African Peoples(ASSAP). The acronym was close to ASAP, (As Soon As Possible) because of the ACUTE URGENCY of the moment. I was the genuine Director General, though we had no account with CBN, no office at Federal Secretariat( both then situated in Lagos) and no hefty budgetary support. I had just turned 20. Our key goal was to show solidarity with, and support for, the suffering people of SA then under the excruciating and vice-like grip of white supremacist Apartheid regime. We were then students of Economics at the University of Ibadan. By then, Cyril Ramaphosa was studying Law at University of the North and was an active student Unionist. He had ‘enjoyed’ detention for 17 months in 1974 and 1976 for his roles in Anti–Apertheid struggles. Jacinta Ngogbese-Zuma was then in ‘liquid form’ !.
Anti-Apartheid struggle was the daily bread
of Nigeria and Nigerians and indeed, the entire black Africas who
saw apartheid as an unacceptable slap on their faces . By then, Nigerian civil servants committed 2% of their
salaries, while students forfeited lunch so as to pay the Mandela Tax. ‘Free
Mandela’ and ‘NO to Apartheid’ were in
the lips of everybody and no social gathering was complete without those songs
and related speeches. Nigeria became a frontline state, and threw her weight economically
and diplomatically against SA and under Obasanjo, contributed raw cash to the struggle,
nationalized the British Petroleum ( on 30/7/79) and refused to sell petroleum
to SA. It also punished countries and businesses trading with the Apartheid
regime. Nigeria roared and the world
listened. That was when there
was a country!
The cash contribution of Nigeria to the anti-apartheid
struggle according to SA official sources
was $61bn while we lost up to $40bn by not selling oil to SA. We made South
Africans honorary Nigerians by issuing
them with Nigerian passports, took their students into our schools, hosted
their revolutionaries including Thabo Mbeki and Nelson Mandela (housed by Late Mbazulike Amaechi, AKA ‘ the
boy is good’). This was, and is, the highest investment globally in the anti
Apartheid cause and because of our church-mind and Afrocentricism, we
did not attach any conditions; it was gratis! The Americans and Europeans would
have tied the assistance to their natural resources in perpetuity.
We
fought with ALL our might and resources against those who held our South
African brethren by their ‘blokos’; subdued them with unimaginable savagery,
fed them with bread of sorrow and water of affliction ( Isaiah 30:20)and
gave them the type of treatment that made
Pharaoh look like a saint!. Today, these SAn blacks have barbarically turned against Nigerians
and other blacks , killing and maiming our people, destroying their
businesses, hounding them like common
criminals and chasing them away from SA, which they had help to redeem and to build. The June 30
deadline was themed "Mabahambe"
(They must go!), as if the departure of black Africans would cure ALL their
problems! The hen has forgotten those who sheltered her during the rainy season; the dog has excreted
at its dining space! The M&MM dragged foreign blacks out of hospital beds,
(The Human Rights Commission has declared that there was NO evidence that
foreigners contributed to overcrowded hospitals) drove their children away from schools, where they paid fees, chased them
away from Mosques, looted and destroyed
their shops, brutally attacked, killed
and maimed some of them and forced them to flee South Africa without
their assets and families. They even
fought as they shared the loots! The police looked the other way but whe the
rascals looted Chinese shops in W’Cape, Milnerton and Bloemfontein, they acted,
arresting the
brigands, among whom were some law enforcement personnel. Our people went to SA in search of the proverbial green
pastures. Some of them succeeded to a large extent but they have been forced to
return as destitute, with nothing apart from the clothes on their bodies.
Our brothers are accused of being illegal migrants, ‘taking over our jobs & women’, domesticating and democratizing drug business and turning the country into a den of criminals. The questions they should ask and answer themselves are Who lets them in? Who hires them? Who buys the drugs? Well, the fact is that there are less than 300 Nigerians out of the 28000 foreigners in SA prisons. Furthermore, no Nigerian was involved in one of the biggest drug hauls in SA, worth 2bn Rand, which involved two Mexicans and two South Africans. The Mexicans are free in SA of today but the blacks are not. A black SA woman was arrested with drugs in Lagos while 5 SA females were arrested in OR Tambo airport, attempting to smuggle drugs into China. The whites and coloured, who humiliated, colonized and cornered SAn resources are free; they are saints. Of course when they tried this M&M rubbish with the whites, they were shot point black and they fled with their tails in-between their legs. The marching cowards went for the low hanging fruits, those they could easily oppress. Why didn’t they march at Sandston, where the high and mighty, including blacks, live? What of illegal migrants from India, Lebanon and even Europe, the original illegal immigrants? I agree with the position that documentation or not does not justify using vigilantism and half naked folks to fight the immigration crises caused by government corruption and inefficiency. At the end of the day, the immigrants are hated for being smart, successful, hardworking and preferred by the women!
LOOTING Unlimited!
Surely,
some South Africans are against this barbarism unleashed by Jacinta and her
gang on fellow blacks. Some openly condemn it as being unjust and unfair. Some
still remember our anti-apartheid contributions. Some refuse to support the
M&MM while Limpopo Province, Cape
town and others gave red-cards to M&MM in their territory
. The courts have ruled against them and some are outraged that a country, which took Israel to the ICC
for highhanded treatment of Palestinians
and genocide, watched as Africans are gruesomely murdered on African soil by a
bloodthirsty and lazy mob united by hatred of blacks. Malema accused the
Government of being complicit, holds that no African can be a foreigner in
Africa, pleads with other African countries to show mercy and described Jacinta
and her gang as a group of thugs who
want Africa divided
One unfortunate aspect of this madness is the
utopian and simplistic mindset of these M&MM people. They believe that they could just take over the
jobs of the fleeing blacks( without the
skills and pro-work attitude). They even believe that there is enough money for
the government to pay them so that they will to enjoy life without working as the ‘Chief
Anarchist had promised them. It was even rumoured that they marched to
the airport DEMANDING to be employed as pilots! One even went for an interview
as a project manager with his lion-skin attire!
Economists
have always argued that policies have some lags but negative externalities
act with immediate effect. Within a week of the forced departure of the
black brethren, black SouthAfricans were already
regretting and suffering the backlash. Factories are closed because those who operated the
machines were mostly black Africans; the shops are closed and the roads are empty, transporters
are unable to redeem their hire-purchase
obligations because there are fewer passengers and movements. People travel to
buy basic items because owners of spaza
shops have gone and locals who took them
over cannot manage them. At times the pot becomes heavier than the water as the
cost of transport to buy a loaf of bread is more that the cost of the loaf.
Even the shops that are open have no patrons and landlords have no locals to
replace the
Empty Streets, closed shops, & schools, closed factories, lost jobs, lost opportunities….
the immigrants. They have chased away more
than 200000 blacks and rather than taking over their jobs, they are busy
marching! Of course they lack the skills
and the willingness to work and their salary demands are outrageous relative to
their skills and what the foreigners received
happily. They are not even ready to
denigrate themselves to do some of those things that our brethren do in SA
like hawking brooms in the cold. And they do not want to confront the poor
attitude to work by the marchers. They have not asked themselves why the
immigrants are doing well while black South-Africans are getting poorer and poorer in the same environment. Salif
Keita from Mali has cancelled his commercial performance in SA while Tyla was forced by
backlash to cancel her show in Lagos.
Note that for 2026, Abuja and Lagos gave Tyla 700000 streams making
Nigeria 1 in her streaming audience, while SA was NOT in the top 10.
There are CRIMINALS everywhere and from all countries
But beyond these ‘ minor
and, immediate consequences’ of these ochlocretic antics, which
are first suffered by the locals, lies
the longterm impact on corporate SA and its multibillion Dollar economy. Many
black businesses, which provided employment, have been closed leading to a
surge in unemployment, which rose to 33.6% in June 2026 from 32.7% in March. This is just the
begining . And there are no evidences of the locals replacing the departing Africans because the
Africans actually created their own jobs and left with those jobs! With
businesses closed, cashflow and economic activities are already experiencing downwards spiral.
Fresh investments will take a hit and the hostility of African neighbours will
adversely affect the economy. This is as African countries are planing
their joint and several response to the
situation, especially as SA appears unrepentant. SA has issues with the US market and are now having iissues with
African market, where it is the highest net exporter. What if their neighbours
delay thousands of their trucks, which ply their roads daily? The farms and the
factories are idle because those who
worked in them have beem chased away by people who would not work. Surely, the macroeconomic health of SA is in
for a jolt.
Unfortunately, it appears that the marchers are ignorant of these grave consequences or
do not care as they continue in their war of misplaced aggression, even when
the consequences are already obvious. They have also failed to hold the
government accountable for the porous boarders, sluggish and corrupt
documentation process that has left more than 4m locals undocumented.
Furthermore, the fact that foreign blacks constitute a mere 5% of the population( while
contributing 9% of GDP) shows that axing the foreigners will not ameliorate the
unemployment, poverty and hunger that pervade the land. They have also ignored
the laid-back approach to life by the
‘locals’. They decided to go for the low hanging fruits, instead of
confronting the unjust and extractive
socio-economic structures , including their ‘former masters’that still hold
them bondage and continuously pauperises them. Why did they not march on the whites who constitute 7% of the population but own 70% of
the land and 90% of the wealth? What
about Chinese and Asian immigrants? Rather they are running after African
hawkers and petty traders! As argued my Lumumba, these are evidences that they
are suffering from the stockholm syndrome, loving their oppressors! It is also called the divide-tripe, when people
at the top create an environment where those below fight each other!Operah
Winfrey has decided to close her
girls free- boarding school that has
been operative since 2004 in SA. We know those who benefited and who will lose
from this development. They are cutting their noses to spite their faces,
destroying their economy in the guise of fixing it. They have also not wondered
who benefits when they fight their black benefactors. It appears that they do
not know what they do but even the politicians who know are defending the
indefensible because as they are setting the country afire the elites are handing the petrol over to them! The SA economy and people
will SUFFER the consequences of this misguided anti-black movement and
the blacks will suffer greater economic degradation than they suffered during apartheid though this is self-inflicted wound
Jacinta, who born post-apartheid, exposed her ignorance when she asserted that Africans did not fight with them. She was childish when she said that she did not instigate violence even though she made fiery statements that all black Africans were thieves criminals, who must leave SA . Even before the M&M, blacks had been beaten, humiliated and their assets and businesses destroyed. She was not conscious of her environment during apartheid but that is not an excuse. The most heart-wrenching of it is that Ramaphosa, who was a witness to our humongous sacrifices watches, without doing anything. Beyond making diplomatic speeches here and there he has done nothing. Indeed, he has strengthened their mojo by rolling out the Locals First policy. This is not a case of Pharaoh that knows not Joseph because Ramaphosa is FULLY in the know of the investments of Nigeria in the SA freedom. He encouraged or at least ignored the mayhem happening in broad daylight, he hosted the Chief Anarchists Phakel Umthakati at the government house and when the FGN spoke about seeking compensation, he told us through his minister, ‘NOTHING for you’! The SA Government rather crudely asked the FGN to ‘show us the drug dens’ but their people are also key operatives in those dens. They also had the guts to demand that Malawi, Nigeria and Ethiopia should reimburse the $18m costs (probably over-bloated) reportedly incurred in repatriating their nationals.
I
am not arguing that all immigrants in SA are saints. After all, one Zimbabwean
sold his shop to 4 South Africans and I believe that they are still trying to
untangle that dirty-deal. I weep at the savagery visited on our people and the complicity of the SA Government. It is
only in failed states that NSAs( Non
State Actors) can go on National TV and threaten fire and brimstone against residents( legal or illegal) while the
government watches. Our people say that a boy sent on a thievery assignment by his
father does it with all boldness and that is what these dastardly
SouthAfricans have done. I weep at the embarrassing INACTION of our government
(though they have lately started talking tough and have joined Ghana in taking
the matter to AU). And this is happening in the lifetime of those of us who
bore the brunt of the anti-Apartheid struggle and OBJ who took the bulls by the horns on behalf of our SA brethren. I wonder
how Nelson Mandela will be feeling in the other world! I wonder if Thabo Mbeki
will be able to sleep peacefully at night.
Winnie Mandela was almost in tears when she stated mournfully that ‘I did not know that our
people would be so greedy and ungrateful’! Listen to the irrepressible Malema:
No African is a foreigner in Africa…. You are
defending whiteman’s property. Stop hating your future employers; they are the
most humble people, even when they are educated they do small works because
they know that you need to work to feed your people. These people will hire
you. They were frontline states. They
gave us passage, food and education. They housed us in their homes. Today it is
time to say thank you and we become animals. This is not ubuntu! It is NOT
CORRECT that ALL Nigerians are drug dealers. There are Nigerian Drug dealers. We must isolate them and deal with
them decisively … Even if a Nigerian creates 100000 jobs, you still hate him
because you want the job created by whitemen. You are telling people to leave
your country but you don’t have an apartment; after sending blacks away, the
whiteman will still send you away from the houses. They want us to hate
ourselves. You don’t like black people because you lack confidence in
yourselves
What is happening is is like somebody
whom you cured of arthritis challenging you to a wrestling bout or a
previously lame fellow whom you sponsored his corrective surgery challenging
you to a 100meter dash! It is the case
of nza, the tiny bird, who got so well-fed
that he challenged his ‘chi’ to a fight.
Nigeria has become like Molokwu
who lost weight and strength through
diarrhea, which made it easy for his brother to beat him up at the slightest opportunity. Our
people say that two people should not be mad at the same time; that
when somebody is ‘madding madness’, you let
him be because two wrongs do not make a right. I do not agree
FULLY with them; after all , the quants tell us the ‘negative plus negative equals positive’! In any case, our
elders also say that if you did not
fight it out, those neighbours who turned your farm into a footpath will not
stop. Even the Bible told us that as the kingdom suffereth violence, the violent
should take it by force!(Matthew,11:12).
Our people also say that ala nkea apugo nkwo: a mad person
that plies his trade at Nkwo-Igbo is no longer an apprentice. Indeed, this
madness has gone beyond Nkwo gone to to otu-Onicha( Onitsha Main market), It is time to cure this madness
with madness and when we ‘mad
the madness’ with them, we shall attain what Oshiomhole called a balance
of madness. In this case, I can’t agree more with RD Laing who says that insanity is a perfectly rational
adjustment to an insane world .
This is irrespective of the fact that Ramaphosa and his
government has mellowed down in their verbiages. The President stated that we cannot
trample into the dust, the African fellowship that made our freedom possible;
we cannot allow our legitimate concerns to generate hatred against our African brothers.
He reminded his people that ‘many of our people are in the continent
for work, study and business, called for a united front against
immigration crisis and its root causes, warning that unchecked immigration
could threaten SA sovereignty and
acknowledged the dangers of retaliatory steps by other African countries..
Mamaloko Kubayi Minister of Justice told SA blacks that the government was
against the damaging acts of vigilantism
and self- help and was bent on protecting
legal migrant and repairing its
deteriorating reputation. She reminded
them that Government was the one to
deport illegal immigrants, that the
backlash was hurting and called on them to be responsible. However the gap
between speeches and body language is as wide as the straight of Hormutz..
By body language, the government
supported the public assault and breaking of the law as law
enforcement agents watched. Hosting the
Chief Anarchist in the state house says it all!
It is regrettable that Ramaphosa,
a lawyer encouraged ochlocracy, when popular passion override laws, institutions
and reason, when decions are subject to emotional volatility and justice is
decided by the anger of the crowd In any case, it is already late because the deed has been done.
So, we have to ACT.
Our
youths should do their own S’Africans must go movement while the government should
look the other way and continue with the sweet diplomatic talks. It is very
easy because our politicians are experts in
mobilizing youths for demonstration, including attacking PO in Benin
or blocking his way to Yelwata. Nigeria
should also take a joint position with other countries whose indigenes were bundled out of SA. The SA government must be
persuaded or forced to pay compensation for the assets of our people destroyed
or abandoned in SA. I think that we should also look in the direction of SA
businesses in Nigeria as suggested by Adam( or Adams) Oshiomhole. Strangely, as their people were humiliating our people, SA investment in
Nigeria increased by 90% in the first quarter of 2026. Toriola of MTN has told
us that MTN is no longer a S’African business. I don’t know the details. Even
though an eye for an eye makes everybody blind, we have to adopt the
law of kwakam, which states that an unusual problem requires an unusual response. We may make it difficult
for them to repatriate profits or even use those profits to pay compensation to
our people. However, it will be somehow
to press this case because I do not know
the intermingling of business interests between Nigerian and SA elites.
After all, Orji Uzor Kalu told us that they were wining and dining with
Ramaphosa just the other day. Femi
Falana has just advised the FG to take
move beyond diplomatic condemnations and
take SA to African court . Furthermore , we have to be proactive in these xenophobic and related attacks.
Aywhere a market catches fire or is looted, in Nigeria, Nd’Igbo are involved. Similarly, anywhere
foreigners are attacked in Africa, Nigerians are involved. Kenya has just asked
all foreigners involved in petty businesses to leave and their people have taken a cue from SA and are starting their own M&MM
SA
itself should design policies to manage its immigration and other macro
challenges rather than leaving it to charlatans and emotionally charged
anarchists. Explaining the issue away as rage of the
excluded convenniently turns a structural crises into a community
issue and absolves the system. When
violence repeatedly targets the same vulnerable people, errupts with a partern
that defies coincidence and met with inconsistent state response, it becomes
political. Going forward, the SA government should investigate the
funding of this huge M&MM and unravel the inherent political dynamics( that
is if it is NOT involved), which we cannot interrogate from outside.
They should also be prepared to tackle the declining economy, reduced tourism inflows (as people now troop to other
southern countries), and negative impact on creative economy as the cases of
Tyla and Keita have shown. Economic destruction leaves scares beyond rebuilding
destroyed structures. They have to seriously strategise on how to restore trust
and confidence, seek new customers, re-attract investors who have left or are
considering leaving. However, my business is NOT to advise SA Our people say that a dobie Zokwaba, onahu ezuzi (If
you cut a rope and try to join it again,
it will never be up to its original
length). They also say that the cock that perches on a rope will not rest,
neither will the rope rest. SA
has intentionally landed on the restless rope! The inherent contradictions in
the march show that the SA government has a lot to worry about. Some provinces
rejected the M&MM; some authentic S’African’s were targeted because of
their colour and their tongue, bus-drivers are against the march, which
pauperized them, oldies are against the exit of immigrants, which made it
difficult for them to shop for their
basics, young women are up in arms against the marchers for extraditing their
lovers and fathers of their children and while some are against illegal
immigrants, some are after ALL immigrants. Funny enough, as SA was dealing with
us, their investments in Nigeria are engaged in quantum leaps ; there are reports
that more Nigerians are requesting for SA
visas and 4300 of those who were booted out were attempting to sneak back, still illegally,
into SA. Funny enough, in July 2026, SA
approved different categories of
visa-free policies for many African countries… to boost tourism, trade and
regional connections across Africa; True? After
mercilessly throwing them under the bus?
We
should do something because our diplomatese has not helped. Already,
Ghana has refused to host Ramaphosa in Accra; Ghanaian Youths have started the
‘S’Africans must go movement’ and our NANS
and other youths have issued quit
notices to SA people and businesses . Since SA does not
want to have anything to do with black Africans, we may have to place them on
the pariah state, which they were during Apartheid. We may let them be on their
own. We may change their name to just SOUTH, removing the Africa from it! The come has come to become and we shall
be called to become, The time to act is NOW. This is time for egwu
nchisasi anya (to dance with blazing eyes and contorted face), it is
not time for ime anya-ula (acting sluggishly and with sleepy eyes). The
alias of a late woman in my village was ‘Onye mmeli gubalu’( whoever needs
somebody to defeat comes to fight her).
We should not allow anybody that needs someone to defeat to come for
Nigeria! Whenever a goat is pushed to the wall, it bites but
when a Nigerian is pushed to the wall, he breaks it and moves further back. I
hope Nigeria is not becoming Nigerians, absorbing all sorts from its African
brethren. When the come comes to become, we shall be called to become. I think the come has
come to become!
On
27/4/26, I asked a townsman, a friend and a distinguished Nigerian in SA I hope you are safe over there? His
response was an emphatic and resounding
‘Yes’ On 11/7/28, I asked
him again How are things with you, your
family and your business over there? I am getting worried because of the
news from SA and he replied: we are surviving by his grace. The issue is
not so good but we thank God that we are alive. The truth is that it is no
longer business as usual. The two responses show that
things are no longer normal This is someone who has lived and done
business in SA as long as I can remember..
Our people say that the chicken should be saved
from the hawk before being blamed for making itself vulnerable. Nigerians are
being butchered, their businesses destroyed and their houses burnt in Nigeria without the government doing
anything about it. None of the Igbos and other southerners chased out from the
north during the various ‘religious’ crises and herdsmen mayhem, have been
compensated and the only compensation to the northerners have been consigning
them to IDP Camps where they suffer
further indignities. Nigerians are being threatened today,
especially with eyes to the 2027 election
and there are no official condemnations, not to think of concrete actions. IMG( Igbos must Go) is an ongoing movement (like the M&MM) and
Lagos is the key culprit in this matter. There are indications that the Oba of
Lagos and the current first lady had sympathy for this mindset.
We
are also facing the grave sociopolitical
challenge of internal xenophobia. Evidences abound of patterns of institutional
behavior that that reinforce exclusion
and thus widening the distance
between Nigeria and its citizens. People who possess the legal status of
citizenship are experiencing the existential conditions of strangers within
their own homeland. This is the concept
of internal xenophobia, which exists
when people perceive their institutions as operating with psychological
distance and discriminatory logic
ordinarily associated with foreign domination.
It is argued that this quiet profoundly consequential crises, less
visible than inflation, insecurity and political gangsterism, is arguably more corrosive to our national
long term cohesion. When a large segment of the population no longer
sees the state as a guarantor of justice, security and equal
citizenship, the future of the country
is hanging on the balance( Internal Xenophobia and the Nigerian State: How
citizens become strangers in their own country. Dr EA Ibeshi, Global Patriot
News paper, 17/7/26)
So, I believe that the government should put its house in order before confronting SA and other countries, which treat Nigerians like trash. Another matter has just been thrown into the mix. Nigerian traders in Lagos are demonstrating against Chinese involvement in local petty trading. I think we have a law against that. And now that Zimbabwe has just invoked that law and our people are protesting, how should Nigeria react… if 2027 frenzy will allow us to pay attention to this!
During
the last xenophobic attack, a townsman and an elder in his own rights shared
his thoughts as follows …I was stunned when the Nigerians airlifted from
South Africa started singing the national anthem!. What could have prompted
this impromptu choir? Is their escape to Nigeria a clear escape in the real
sense of the word? How are we sure that the escape will not end up being from
frying pan to naked fire or Or escaping from quick death to death by piece-meal. Some of us wondered
if these returnee Nigerian were not the ones that left this country in frustration...
Now some even returned as empty as they
were before they left Nigeria … it will soon dawn on these returnees that they
were too quick in singing the national anthem. A country whose leadership
believe that hungry citizens must be grateful to them for their mediocre
performance, can not be trusted to come to the aid of these deprived victims,
not when the politicians are still struggling to recover their 2019 election expenses.. Nigeria may need to
rethink it's Afrocentric foreign policy. It is nothing but stupidity to
continue practicing charity from abroad,
while your citizens are roasting in poverty, want and penury: Senseless! Nze Umeugochukwu Okonkwo, NIGERIAN
RETURNEES FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM. This is our PREDICAMENT.
It shows that this is not the first xenophobic affront and it will not be the
last and that the government is not trusted to create the enabling environment
that will goad N-gerians into everywhere but home
Meanwhile, I advise our young and not so ones
again, that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Nigeria has
thrown our youth under the bus but this attitude of ‘everywhere but Nigeria’
will do us more harm than good. On a concluding note, I find it embarrassing
that the chief anarchist of SA proposed to vist and encourage us to hold our
government accountable. That is one thing that is in acute short supply in
Nigeria. But should Phakel be the one teaching us that? Have they held their
government accountable in SA? How can a mobocrat
who indulged in escapism-rather than
confronting the government, preach aluta to Africans?
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