Anytime I hear the word deportation the first picture that comes to mind,my mind anyway,is that of our Edo sisters being shipped in their hundreds after being gathered from all corners of Italy and dispatched off like those annoying black beetles we used to find in boiled beans back in the days.
By the way,those beetles have stopped showing up like a good Dbanj song,they must have peas-ed off someone important!
Apparently,sometime last week,a couple of poor,unprotected Nigerians were picked up on the streets of Lagos in the dead of the night and swiftly 'deported' to a corner of the country more renown for making fake and often times dangerous products than anything else.
Onitsha,that beautiful city east of the Niger where there is more illicit money being made than a Nigerian new-era church!
The story goeth thus,depending on whose account you choose to believe,in the dead of the night while good,law-abiding citizens were sleeping;that would be approximately 90% of the masses and 0.25% of the political class;the Lagos State government through its goons or as the government would prefer to refer to them,state officials,picked up 72 or was it 14,innocent or wandering vagrants,depending on whose side of the coin appears brighter to you,hurriedly packed them into a waiting truck and ferried them off,at break neck speed,dodging pot-holes,avoiding check points and often times driving against traffic(OK,nobody said that ,I'm just adding my own twist) to their final destination.
Under the bridge at Upper Iweka,Onitsha!
To be honest,I'm surprised no one saw them dump these unfortunate fellows.
The movies coming out of Nollywood these days are so poor,I wouldn't be surprised if non-essential crew members sleep under bridges instead of hotels.
Anyhoo,as always with everything in our dear country,ethnic colourations and connotations have been adduced.
The noise coming out of the East has been louder than Chidi Lloyd's mace landing on his colleague's head.
And with elections coming up in Anambra,the governor,who's only remarkable achievement is sharing a surname with a Nigerian soccer star,has chosen to make inflammatory and not very well thought out comments.
The Igbos are Nigerians and they are free like every one else to live in any part of the country they so choose;not like they needed reminding anyways.If I had a he-goat for every luxurious bus that berths at Jibowu park in Lagos every evening with new arrivals,I just might have enough goats to marry a ten year old Egyptian girl and then contest for a Senate seat.
Nobody can deport the Igbo from Lagos.
What will I do without my 'friend' at the viewing center who constantly tells me that 'Arsenal Wenger' is a failure?
They are free to live,do business,procreate and excel in Lagos as they are in Maiduguri.
Well...........................................................................maybe not so much in Maiduguri though!
The Lagos state government has one of the most open-arm policies of all state governments in the country.
With free tuition for students of all ethnicity in it's public schools.
With people of all ethnicity in it's State Civil Service.
With quality roads and public amenities in all corners of the state even in areas that can be conveniently conceived as conurbations that house mainly certain ethnic groups.
For Governor 'Whats his name' Obi to stand on a soap box and try to gain political capital from this,when his state and many in the East have a clear cut policy of paying school fees for only indigenes and employing only such in their civil service smacks greatly of political shenanigans and crinkum crankum(maximum respect Hon. Obahiagbon,respect!).
When hundreds of beggars are picked up and dumped up North,no one bats an eyelid.
When commercial motorcyclists,mainly young jobless boys from Northern Nigeria are being forced back to the grinding penury of home by the Okada ban,not a few of us applauded!
When struggling artisans and beggars were picked up and dumped in Oyo State,a while back,no one listened to Governor Alao Akala's remonstrations.Instead,we dubbed him 'The Bleached One'.
As a respected social commentator succinctly put it,this is not a case of ethnic discrimination.It is simply a case of social discrimination.
The poor are clearly not welcome in Lagos.
My advice to you my dear readers would be to always dress up in your Sunday best even if it's just to buy Indomie from the 'Mallam' across your house,make you no go find yourself for ya village the next morning!
In the immortal words of that store of infinite cultural wisdom,human philosophy and etiquette,American gangster rapper,2chainz,'I'll be fresh as hell if the Feds watching'.
P.S:This is for my friend Brume Bekibele as he gets married,God bless you bro!
Follow @doctorrotcod
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| Errrmmmm....I doubt this is Italy? |
By the way,those beetles have stopped showing up like a good Dbanj song,they must have peas-ed off someone important!
Apparently,sometime last week,a couple of poor,unprotected Nigerians were picked up on the streets of Lagos in the dead of the night and swiftly 'deported' to a corner of the country more renown for making fake and often times dangerous products than anything else.
Onitsha,that beautiful city east of the Niger where there is more illicit money being made than a Nigerian new-era church!
The story goeth thus,depending on whose account you choose to believe,in the dead of the night while good,law-abiding citizens were sleeping;that would be approximately 90% of the masses and 0.25% of the political class;the Lagos State government through its goons or as the government would prefer to refer to them,state officials,picked up 72 or was it 14,innocent or wandering vagrants,depending on whose side of the coin appears brighter to you,hurriedly packed them into a waiting truck and ferried them off,at break neck speed,dodging pot-holes,avoiding check points and often times driving against traffic(OK,nobody said that ,I'm just adding my own twist) to their final destination.
Under the bridge at Upper Iweka,Onitsha!
To be honest,I'm surprised no one saw them dump these unfortunate fellows.
The movies coming out of Nollywood these days are so poor,I wouldn't be surprised if non-essential crew members sleep under bridges instead of hotels.
Anyhoo,as always with everything in our dear country,ethnic colourations and connotations have been adduced.
The noise coming out of the East has been louder than Chidi Lloyd's mace landing on his colleague's head.
And with elections coming up in Anambra,the governor,who's only remarkable achievement is sharing a surname with a Nigerian soccer star,has chosen to make inflammatory and not very well thought out comments.
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| Peter???Peter???................St Peter? |
The Igbos are Nigerians and they are free like every one else to live in any part of the country they so choose;not like they needed reminding anyways.If I had a he-goat for every luxurious bus that berths at Jibowu park in Lagos every evening with new arrivals,I just might have enough goats to marry a ten year old Egyptian girl and then contest for a Senate seat.
Nobody can deport the Igbo from Lagos.
What will I do without my 'friend' at the viewing center who constantly tells me that 'Arsenal Wenger' is a failure?
They are free to live,do business,procreate and excel in Lagos as they are in Maiduguri.
Well...........................................................................maybe not so much in Maiduguri though!
The Lagos state government has one of the most open-arm policies of all state governments in the country.
With free tuition for students of all ethnicity in it's public schools.
With people of all ethnicity in it's State Civil Service.
With quality roads and public amenities in all corners of the state even in areas that can be conveniently conceived as conurbations that house mainly certain ethnic groups.
For Governor 'Whats his name' Obi to stand on a soap box and try to gain political capital from this,when his state and many in the East have a clear cut policy of paying school fees for only indigenes and employing only such in their civil service smacks greatly of political shenanigans and crinkum crankum(maximum respect Hon. Obahiagbon,respect!).
When hundreds of beggars are picked up and dumped up North,no one bats an eyelid.
When commercial motorcyclists,mainly young jobless boys from Northern Nigeria are being forced back to the grinding penury of home by the Okada ban,not a few of us applauded!
When struggling artisans and beggars were picked up and dumped in Oyo State,a while back,no one listened to Governor Alao Akala's remonstrations.Instead,we dubbed him 'The Bleached One'.
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| The knuckles bro!That's the first thing they teach in Bleach 101 |
As a respected social commentator succinctly put it,this is not a case of ethnic discrimination.It is simply a case of social discrimination.
The poor are clearly not welcome in Lagos.
My advice to you my dear readers would be to always dress up in your Sunday best even if it's just to buy Indomie from the 'Mallam' across your house,make you no go find yourself for ya village the next morning!
In the immortal words of that store of infinite cultural wisdom,human philosophy and etiquette,American gangster rapper,2chainz,'I'll be fresh as hell if the Feds watching'.
P.S:This is for my friend Brume Bekibele as he gets married,God bless you bro!
Follow @doctorrotcod
3 comments:
Awwwww.....Congratulations once again Dr. Brume.
Oga Dayo,for not being physically present at the wedding,your case file has been forwarded to the magistrate court at Erhuemukokwarhen,Delta state....this serves as a summons notice.....N
Lolz. Crinkum crankum
Akala dey bleach but him nor knw say e dey bleach dts d problem
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