Every week brings a fresh story to Nigerians. It’s the season finale of “Xenophobia” and that complex and mouthful word has paled Big Brother Naija and surpassed the excitement over Ekweremadu’s maximum beat up in Germany, Wadume and the host of other interesting Nigerian real life shows.
How do we cope with these humorous drama? It is interesting being a Nigerian! In the midst of incessant power outages, bad roads, insecurity and economic woes, we seem to somehow surpass the threshold of extreme survival.
I think we must truly check our DNA. There is something inside our genes that travails and hardship cannot extinguish. “Nigerianess “ is the ability to defy normalcy and thrive in conditions that would obliterate any other human!
Now, the drama in vogue is “Xenophobia” and “Xenophobic” and Xenoawareness (I formed that word please).
Do I really blame South Africa? No. Does South Africans owe us their existence because we fought against apartheid? No. Aside Nigeria, every other nation that attempted to behave like good people fought and stood against apartheid.
So, brothers and sisters, South Africa owes no one. Stop thinking that way. If South Africa starts being grateful to the whole world, then she risks being raped continually.
Nigeria is to blame. After helping in liberating South Africa, what did we do with our liberty granted us since 1960?Now we want to boycott DSTV, but tell me who killed HITV? Did HITV not chase DSTV to the woods some years back?
Tell me, who killed TSTV and made it share the same destiny as Air Nigeria? Mere dreams!Now, you want MTN to go but please why are the indigenous Telcoms perpetually gasping for breath?Where is NITEL/MTEL? What happened to it and made MTN the doyen of telecommunications in Nigeria?
We were here when that brat, Julius Malema watered down President Goodluck Jonathan. Did some of us not cheer Malema and circulated the insults like a trophy on social media?
It is only broken people that will do that! We urged a South African trouble maker to reduce our President to an inglorious rubble and now, we ask South Africa to respect us?Is that possible? No one respects the citizens of a broken nation. No one will respect us if we do not fix our nation.
Until we place value on human life and stop exchanging it for that of animals, the lives of our people will not be valued elsewhere on this planet.
Check prisons all over the world, I doubt if there is any that does not proudly host a Nigerian.We are fast becoming a global nuisance yet we enjoy our deadly slumber.
By next week, we will have a different drama to savour. For now, enjoy your XENOAWARENESS?
Ajibua, a public commentator writes from Ibadan.
