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Angry Nigerian

[Auggie The Serenading Psychic (🚰❤️‍🔥♣️) @CryptoMuse01]

I'm convinced that the collective national hate and fake trauma that people in their 50s and above exhibit toward Abacha — apart from being a product of propaganda and social engineering — has been most useful as a shield and a badge of honour against accountability and the absolute ignominy of having watched the country go to hell while they did nothing.

It's a defensive projection and a psychological coping mechanism to mask their failure.

They see themselves as the eternal victims of the "worst regime in the world" — and damn you, if you try to change their perspective with facts or logic

They want to use the supposed horror of "surviving Abacha's regime" and the "Abacha Stove" as a badge of honour to demand respect and make themselves into some kind of heroes.

Young people, this might be us tomorrow, if we do nothing to take back our country today.

30 years from now, we too will have some stupid take on national issues, having handed over a worse Nigeria than we met it to our children.

[CHIGO @iamChigoo]

“G0d is anğry with Black people because we’ve refused to use our brains.”

— Ibrahim Traoré

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products this month maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I have a personal relationship with at least one of them who was part of a group receiving paramilitary training from CIA trainers at a facility in a neighbouring West African country in 1996. They were being trained to launch a full scale national insurgency in Nigeria before the end of 1998, but their sponsor got to Abacha first.

Afterwards, he got a green card for services rendered, and has since left the "fighting for democracy" scene.

If they didn't assassinate Abacha when they did, they would have made sure that all these idiots would have grown up facing "Nyanya bomb blast" every week from the 90s. And surprise surprise, as soon as their handpicked puppet left office and a nationalist came into power, "UN building explosion" actually became a thing in Nigeria.

Kayode Fayemi and Wole Soyinka had direct CIA handlers. They should come out and deny it if what I'm saying is not true, so that all these long overdue conversations that have been suspended for 30 years will finally be had. The budget funding Radio Kudirat came from the same budget that funded Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe - USAGM/VOA.

The wrong side won in 1998 and we are all fools who have spent 28 years celebrating the death of the man who was keeping us from becoming exactly the externally controlled tub of useless nothing that we are today. The bad guys won and they are literally in power now! The fact that people are STILL fighting with their ego instead of admitting to themselves what is so obvious 3 decades later is proof that one way or another, Nigeria is destined for a mass extinction event, either at the hands of its current American owners or at the hands of whoever will fix the damn place.

There are far too many human placeholders eating our food and breathing our air in that country!

[Victoria @Vicky]

Thinking the empire that crucified Jesus became a trustworthy custodian of his teachings is advanced silly goose behavior.

[stache X. @ElStachioo]

The traitors he refused to unalive are the ones leading us today.

But that wasn’t even his greatest failure. He failed to educate the masses—to expose the machinery behind our predicament and teach people how to recognize it.

That failure of enlightenment was his greatest undoing, and by extension, ours.

[Onyeka ☭ @R_eq_uin]

General Sani Abacha

What a man. A true Nigerian patriot.

Only problems he had was that he didn't off enough people, and he didn't appreciate the power of the narrative.

While he was crushing inflation and protecting our sovereignty the traitors then and their Western backers held a firm grip on public opinion.

That, in the end, was his undoing.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Some countries have presidents...must be nice🫤

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

I've been thinking about what David said on the ego in our last conversation on #MaishaKazini. This issue of the ego is a big problem, especially in the Anglo-American sphere of influence. The Anglo-American education philosophy is based on inflating the ego and depressing knowledge to disconnect people from reality. The school masters of the English public schools said that's what they were doing, point blank. That's how they produced young men who came to wreck havoc in Africa while saying they were civilizing us.

In the neoliberal era, this ego-inflation mechanism through depressing knowledge has evolved into motivational speaking and education grandstanding, while at the same time, waging an anti-intellectual propaganda campaign against actual knowledge. So our high school kids are told to believe and they will achieve, churches preach that we should conquer the territory God has promised, and the media sing to us about the CEO who dresses in t-shirts and sneakers. I always point out to my students that they spend 4 years avoiding actual academic work and then at graduation write posts about how their education was their achievement. The point is that we have an ecosystem which inflates the ego with ignorance, and makes the actual substance of what we know very very thin, and mocks expanding the mind through knowledge as "theory with no solutions."

Ego-inflation based on ignorance is a colonial problem that our so-called psychologists should be aware of, if they read Frantz Fanon. Fanon famously told us to forget about Europe where they always sing about the human being but violate the human being everywhere. But many Kenyan psychologists have never heard of the guy, let alone read him. They are too busy implementing DSM to think. In fact, the DSM is part of inflating the ego, of giving the impression that professionals can define and diagnose all mental issues in the world.

Yet western psychology is the one that diagnosed a slave escaping a plantation as a mental disorder called drapetomania, because the slave did not recognize that his enslavement was for improving his welfare. The British also got a pseudo-psychologist called Carothers to say that the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (aka Mau Mau) revolted because they were mentally unwell. Imperialist psychology is one of the major obstacles to Africans accessing knowledge that helps them confront their social reality.

Watch our conversation with @DavidHundeyin here. https://t.co/PfPQ4U6JbA

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Come here and laugh at "tOmaTo fActOry gUy" if you dare.

First you laughed, now he's shut you up, then you go back and look at your stupid, small self in the mirror and realise you need to clean your room.

Ibrahim Traoré is not your mate!

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Tomorrow he will arrest somebody for “insulting” his wife, and impoverished Nigerians will support him because they feel emotionally closer to him than to the “victims” of their oppression, whose economic realities are the same as theirs.

This emotional attachment leads them to feel embarrassed for these billionaires. They take offence on their behalf because they feel a duty to share the emotional burdens of these billionaires, a parasocial relationship that’s not reciprocated, as these billionaires show them, at every opportunity, that they care only about the interests of their class.

Nigerians, class consciousness = zero.
Race consciousness = zero.

You cannot continue like this.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Syrian terrorist with $10m US govt bounty on his head = "transitional president"

Burkinabé president = "junta leader"

Oyibo empire "journalism" = extremely bad for your health.

As an African who wants to live long, stop consuming this crap. It's literally bad for you.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

@R_eq_uin Aje I cannot wait. I cannot WAIT!!!

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Once a typical Nigerian influencer starts seeing small money, the next thing that follows is a sense of insulation. They are depoliticized and desensitized. They lose sight of how individual choices, when aggregated, produce collective outcomes. “Allow people to do what makes them happy” will become their mantra.

Of course, the system is designed to reward them for successfully reaching the top of the pyramid through arse-licking. A few gigs here and there. Direct and indirect funding. At this point, life can't be any better for them. They have successfully escaped poverty. Or so they think. Collectivity no longer matters.

Until they make enough money to buy a Bugatti, park it somewhere in Lagos, and watch as Agberos surround it demanding money and threatening to damage it. Then they will suddenly start complaining about symptoms, with no understanding of the disease.

SMH.

[Abu The 𓃵 @Abu_The_Truth]

I dig so deep into psychology that I question every belief I hold. I sometimes fear I am shielding myself from truth to protect what I stand for. Yet whenever I force myself to be pragmatic, the conclusion remains: listen to the pan-Africanists.

[Ifeanyi Chukwuani @mindaffairss]

I'm now 31. I can't work as a graduate trainee in most banks or Fintech in Nigeria due to age.

Their criteria is always;
> below 27
> NYSC certificate
>2.1
> atleasg 1yr experience

But if I manage to stay alive till 75yrs, when my brain cells will need more sleep then I'll be more than qualified to be the president of Nigeria that will determine the existence of any bank or industry in the country.
A single Policy made by President Tinubu on May 29th 2023 threw over 30million people below poverty line.

He doesn't have a first class.
He didn't go to any university.
He's not young.

But he's qualified to rule Nigeria because the criteria to rule Nigerians is to be dubious and incompetent.

Make it make sense

We designed a system to have the best in Private sectors and the worst in Politics running the Affairs of the entire nation.

Judicious in Micro economics but dastardly stupid in macroeconomic conditions.

[Auggie The Serenading Psychic (🚰❤️‍🔥♣️) @CryptoMuse01]

Finally, Brethren:

The hate Abacha gets is inorganic and I'll show you why in a few words.

Let's compare the receipts of General Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) to Sani Abacha, and you'll see that the actual destroyer of Nigeria’s foundation lives peacefully as an elder statesman with the title of 'Maradona' (aww so cute 🥰🥰) while the one who cleaned up the mess is treated as the ultimate, boss level boogeyman.

1. The Economic Destruction

IBB: The undisputed architect of Nigeria's structural ruin. He forced the IMF's Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) on us in 1986, willfully, at the behest of IMF and co., floating and destroying the Naira from 60 kobo to over ₦17 to $1.

He introduced hyperinflation, triggered the first historic mass wave of brain drain (aka japa), and oversaw the complete disappearance of the $12.2 billion Gulf War oil windfall in 1991.

And ruined our growing manufacturing base. (You all should research this especially).

Abacha: Inherited IBB’s catastrophic economic wreckage. He kicked out the IMF, strictly pegged and stabilized the Naira at ₦22 to $1 for his entire tenure, and forcefully crashed inflation from 54% down to 8.5%.

He built foreign reserves by 2,000% (from $494m to $9.6bn) and delivered a $9 billion external debt reduction while oil traded at a ATL of $8 to $15 per barrel. He funded nationwide infrastructure through the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) without a single external loan. That's right -— he never borrowed a dollar.

2. The Blood and Human Rights Receipts

* IBB: Executed his own childhood best friend and best man, Major General Mamman Vatsa, on flimsy coup allegations.

Murdered investigative journalist Dele Giwa via a state-delivered letter bomb to stop him from exposing high-level regime drug trafficking.

After the 1990 Gideon Orkar coup, his regime lined up and executed 69 military officers in a single day.

When citizens protested his SAP poverty, his forces shot down dozens during the SAP Riots.

He topped it all off by annulling the freest election in history (June 12).

Abacha: Ran a ruthless regime that targeted political opponents and executed the Ogoni Nine. His regime is blamed for several hundred to 1,000+ total casualties over five years.

IBB destroyed the currency, vanished the nation's about $12B, murdered his closest friends, and aborted our democracy — yet he gets absolutely zero flack today.

Abacha locked out Western predators, stabilized the economy, built infrastructure, and checked the elite —yet his name triggers a frenzy of attacks.

Why?

Because IBB was a master of "settlement" who bought off the media and political class, and pleased Western powers by devaluing our lives.

Abacha practiced absolute economic sovereignty and crushed the local elite, so the system manufactured an eternal narrative to make you hate him.

Going by empirical data, Abacha is clearly better than IBB, but why does his name inspire you to unwarranted rage, while the other man's does not?

Because national emotions in Nigeria are largely sponsored.

We're told when to get angry, who to hate and even how to hate. And we never stop to ask why.

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

Since you asked , this is what dictatorship did for me.

It will be the closest you’ve get to sovereignty

It took my foreign reserve from 493 million to 9.6 billion dollars under heavy sanctions.

Took inflation down by from 72.8% to 8.5 in two years

Was paying off almost my debt

Was setting up the strongest military power in Africa which old have made it hard for the exploiters to enter today

Was moving money outside SWIFT rails which would have enabled us build our systems eventually

Was rejecting every loan offer

Was rejecting that demonic strategy called Structural Adjustment Program

Was making sure the giant of Africa remained giant.

And what did you to it,

You reduced development metrics to food scarcity

You refused to accept that those who are talking bad about this country needed to go

You refused to follow, coz fuel scarcity is something so devastating, that could not be survived by you

You joined international powers to call it dictatorship even though the international power needed dictatorship out because it didn’t give them access

Your silence gave them concerned and they killed the dictator

It’s been over 30 years, how far.

Democracy has looted more than 600 trillion naira from Nigeria

Democracy took everything that belonged to us and privatized it

Democracy takes loans like a bitch on steroids

Democracy took our currency down by thirty four thousand (34,000%) percent.

Democracy made you believe your voice didn’t matter

Democracy shot at you when you tried speaking up

Democracy killed you at toll gate

Democracy banned you from social media

Democracy destroyed all systems such that your democratically chosen nafdac official laughs at the news of removal

Democracy made both citizens and leaders criminals just with different task

Democracy partners with evil corporations to kill your plants so you depend on GMO

Democracy accepted drugs from everyone because it’s cheap and kids in Kano died in numbers

Democracy made your women reduce themselves to marriage counselors and not leaders in energy

Democracy turned your men to charlatans and criminals

Democracy worked with America in terrorism finance and arms deal

Democracy kidnaps your kids as political pawns

Democracy takes blood from you everyday

If dictatorship were here, you wouldn’t even last a day here, you would be farming and serving your country

I apologize to dictatorship for how much we never appreciated it.

Also welcome to democracy, congrats, everyone loves you now but be careful

You have eaten too much and you might implode

For now enjoy-

[GOŁƊ @vidxn_]

The old proverb says a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they’ll never sit in.

These 70-year-olds in power chose to burn the forests instead.