There a pandemic among the various bodies of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
All of them dey obsessed with having their own"special forces".
And there's probably no substance to most of them beyond the patches and the gear.
I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Ghanaian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all.
The Ghanaian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Ghanaian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr GHS2.1K/month Ecobank Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all.
At. All.
The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that GHS 10M townhouse in Cantonments. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you.
So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable.
Statistically as a Ghanaian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Cantonments. 99.99% of Ghanaians who have existed since 1957 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen.
That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the GHS 2M house in East Legon that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing.
If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7.
Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place in all the fancy estates in town, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to the flashy neighborhoods. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist.
Them no really send any part of your papa at all.
@BattleRapBum You not gon' leave the chrome .40 got that gleam,
Blue steel aquamarine Glock 18,
Soon as they saw the piece, a couple off the team,
The bling dropped two zeros faster than a Swatch AP
That payslip showed me my future bruh. Complex in midrand, beautiful but disgruntled wife who knows that she deserves better, kids in private school(who resent me for not being as rich as their classmates), 2 Chinese cars and a coastal holiday every 2 years. That’s my ceiling.
I’m not much of a CIA essentialist, but it’s telling how confidently you people wear ignorance as a badge of honour. What exactly makes you so impervious to evidence?
People who raise the CIA argument are not claiming that foreign intelligence was directly responsible for every failure visible in Nigerian governance.
What they typically do is map the specific dimensions through which foreign intelligence shapes and penetrates your institutions, dimensions you could verify independently if you chose to.
What the dismissive and unteachable people like you do instead is construct a strawman and assault it. You fabricate positions that were never advanced by those who warned you about foreign interference, then congratulate yourselves for dismantling them.
None of this forecloses local accountability. Both postures are actually compatible and necessary. Hold your leaders responsible, and simultaneously remain alert to the precise mechanisms through which external forces condition your government and your daily life.
This is, after all, a country where foreign governments and institutions exercise influence over your agriculture, your medicine, your financial architecture, your immunisation programmes, and your military infrastructure. That warrants serious attention. No degree of domestic accountability, however rigorous, can resolve what has been structurally compromised from outside. This has always been the point.🤦🏾♂️
I used to be a kind hearted man, now I derive joy in watching peeps suffer without flinching
Learnt that humans tend to hate later those that helped them in their lowest
Cos despite the fact that you’ve helped them up, they still feel embarrassed about u knowing their low past
How Would You React?
He signed up for it, so I understand this dude’s frustration—going through all the training just for him to freeze up mid-fight. Definitely a liability. I’m a Infantry guy, we had guys who were stellar in training but freaked out in combat 🤔
50 Cent's music aged so badly that he was able to do 105 shows across the globe 20 years later. Music was so bad he was able to sell out arenas across the globe. Music so bad he performed in the Patil Stadium in Mumbai. He has no catalogue.
Ghana belongs to a few people and their kids. And a lot of you are so far outside of that circle that you will never know these people. However their decisions will keep determining your quality of life.
3rd world "Special Forces" will give themselves a badass name, release slick videos of them jumping through flaming hoops and doing handstands on motorcycles and then get wiped on first contact with the enemy.