I hate Capitalism so much...The Global North has used imperialism to fuel labour aristocracy where there's a divide in the working class caused by the imperialists who improve the quality of life of the "higher" working class so that they don't revolute against corrupt systems.👇🏾
From the videos we saw, this lady and her late husband were being held with some other kidnapped victims.
Since you engaged the terrorists and they ran away, where are the other victims?
@aminuyaro_ This is predominant in the north, asides looting most of them have private mining companies that fly gold and other vital minerals out of the country undetected selling to the global market or remitting these critical minerals to the imperial upper echelon.
Nigeria needs a socialist revolution much more brutal than Mao's. The people are too asleep but not all of them is needed for the change. The movement have to begin and it has to take advocacy and reachout very serious.
@FoxNews 100 days of war.
The Strait of Hormuz is open again...
just as it was before the war.
Iran gets $24 billion
from its frozen assets.
And now,
Trump and Fox News
want to sell it
as a historic victory.
Everyone is forced to be in Lagos. And I mean “deliberately” forced to be in Lagos to serve capitalism.
You probably don’t know this because you don’t understand how the capitalist economy of Nigeria is set up to work.
When you extract the value of the whole country and concentrate it in one location, it serves the capitalists, as people will be forced by lack of activities to leave their original location (where they live rent free and grow their own food) to Lagos where they will have no choice than slave for capitalism just to afford to pay for the same rent and food they had for free. Capitalism needs people who are desperate to eat and pay rent to survive.
It was not by accident that every headquarters and every key infrastructure and public service was concentrated in Lagos. It was deliberate. It’s also not by accident that insecurity is trafficked everywhere else before it get to Lagos. It is deliberate.
It’s very important you educate yourself on how systems work, to avoid embarrassing yourself by asking people if they are forced to be in Lagos. Of course, they are forced to be in Lagos.
The problem is not so much what is happening in Nigeria at the moment. The real, terrifying problem is what is absolutely not happening.
Insecurity is ravaging the land, women are and children are being kidnapped en masse, but the people are not carrying massive loudspeakers, hiring flatbed trucks, dragging heavy diesel generators, and aggressively occupying the houses of every single high-ranking security chief, defense minister, police commissioner, and political godfather in the country.
Every single year, a brand new, suffocating tax bill is passed that makes daily survival extremely difficult and mentally exhausting for ordinary Nigerians. This exact economic terrorism has been happening every single year since the dark, exploitative days of Lord Lugard.
Yet, what is critically not happening are ruthless public demonstrations, massive strikes, tires being set ablaze on the open expressways, commercial banks being barricaded, government secretariats being completely shut down, and major businesses being aggressively locked down for weeks as a potent, undeniable form of civic resistance.
It is incredibly difficult to mentally process this pathetic, paralyzing docility from Nigerians. Even if you ultimately intend to vote out the exact government you claim to be incompetent or corrupt, how exactly does that future election magically stop your present-day public demonstrations? A democratic election is a painfully long four-year cycle. In four brutal years, tens of thousands of innocent citizens will have been kidnapped, dragged into terrifying forests, and held for impossible ransoms. In four years, thousands more will have senselessly lost their lives to this unchecked insecurity, rural banditry, and total state failure. In four years, millions more will violently crash below the poverty line, lose their jobs, close their shops, and join the swelling ranks of the utterly destitute. And if, by some absolute miracle, those long four years finally come to pass, you will sadly still have absolutely no other strategic game plan other than timidly pressing your ink-stained thumbprint onto fragile pieces of paper at highly compromised ballot boxes.
You have absolutely no structural game plan for protecting this sacred vote that you have been patiently waiting for while quietly enduring all the brutal hardships, the escalating bloodshed happening across the nation, the extortionate electricity tariffs, the astronomical fuel prices you are violently forced to pay, the skyrocketing food inflation, and all the brilliant business ideas you desperately tried to launch but were ruthlessly crushed by the wealth-destroying monetary policies of the administration. After four agonizing years, when it is finally time to change the system, sack the oppressors, and open a brand new chapter for your future generations, you arrive at the polling units with absolutely zero capacity, physical strength, or organizational intelligence to aggressively protect the very vote that is supposed to be the master key to your prosperity.
And then, when all is predictably said and done, it is these exact same ruthless politicians who have aggressively plundered you, starved you, and beaten you over a four-year period that you blindly entrust to handle the vote counting, the result collation, the electronic transmission, the final verification, the server uploads, and the ultimate declaration of the winner. And now, in a spectacular display of political naivety, you are religiously hoping, fasting, and praying that these cartel bosses will suddenly grow a conscience and do the right thing. In the inevitable event that they absolutely do not do the right thing, and you somehow magically manage to gather raw video evidence of blatant electoral malpractice, violent ballot snatching, voter intimidation, and brazen thumbprinting, your only supposed last hope is the Nigerian judiciary. This is a hopelessly compromised institution where every single wig-wearing judge that would table your case, listen to your grievances, and supposedly fight for this electoral injustice has been carefully groomed, heavily sponsored, quietly handpicked, aggressively promoted, completely bought off, and permanently pocketed by this exact same cartel of political thieves that are currently looting your national resources completely dry.
So our fundamental problem in this bleeding country is absolutely not so much what is happening to us, but the massive, deafening, and cowardly silence of what is not happening. This pathetic, self-destructive docility really has to violently end today if we ever truly intend to reclaim our stolen country, secure our borders, and guarantee a living future for our children.
That's actually the mentality that "abroad" (mostly Western Europe and America) instilled in you: forget that it was they who initially made you poor, then shifted their exploitation strategy by using middlemen who share your skin colour, who are the ones involved in poor leadership and wickedness you mention, and constantly blame them for every little thing.
Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38.
His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.
There are no bandits in Nigeria.
The belittling of the murder and atrocities these people commit by calling them bandits, is a media propaganda by their sponsors in government to diminish the level of horror of what these criminals do to innocent Nigerians.
People who massacre citizens, kidnap schoolchildren, attack military formations, burn communities, and hold entire regions hostage are not bandits.
These are terrorists
The media must stop sanitising their crimes with softer language. Calling terrorists “bandits” trivializes murder, kidnapping, rape, arson, and the destruction of lives.
Call them what they are
They are terrorists.
Anything less is a disservice to their victims and a crime to the pain they inflict on every Nigerian.