A lot of people do not like me in Nigeria, and I know why. It is because my existence tells them that they are lying to themselves everyday. There are many people whose job description is to sell Nigeria and Nigerians everyday, and the things they tell themselves to rationalise their 21st century slave dealership are: "Everybody does it," "That's just the way things are in this country," and "I have no choice."
There are many Nigerian journalists who receive grants from foreign governments to write blatant lies claiming that "climate change" caused floods that were actually caused by poorly maintained or nonexistent infrastructure. Others receive these foreign grants to accuse people advocating for food sovereignty and political independence of being "Russian sponsored."
There are many Nigerian civil society actors who take money from foreign governments, knowing fully well that this makes them beholden primarily to the interests of those governments and not those of their country. Those foreign governments use them to launder money, interfere with Nigeria's internal politics, execute societal destabilisation and regime change operations, and gather extensive intelligence about Nigeria's conflict zones that even the Nigerian military does not have.
There are many independent actors within the Nigerian civic space who gained access to politicians and international power players, and then immediately sold out for a job as a Special Assistant, a NED fellowship, or a comfortable NGO gig in Nairobi.
What all these people have in common is that once presented with the choice between being truthful and getting zero material reward for it, and becoming a puppet with golden strings, they chose the latter. And they all comforted themselves by saying "Nobody in this country would have chosen any differently - na all of us be tief."
Then along comes this David guy with his big mouth, who isn't owned by anyone, and isn't afraid to rub it in everybody's face. It must be the most infuriating thing in the world to have to wake up everyday and look at walking, breathing, talking evidence nobody in Nigeria is in fact, predestined to be a "thief" - it's actually just the option that you individually chose."
And that's why I won't just give up, carry my ball and go home. That's why despite having a day job and running a whole journalism operation as a (stressful and unprofitable) passion project on the side, I feel like I have to remain in all of your faces. Because both you and the foreign interests that own you people need to constantly be reminded that the basic goal of colonialism in Africa - to reduce the natives to the uniform level of stomach-worshipping beasts of the field - has failed as long as some of us still exist.
Even if Nigeria is still doing nothing and going nowhere by the time I get old and die, it is still very important that the next generation should be able to refer to their history and see that contrary to popular opinion, Nigeria DOES in fact, have champions in every generation. Not every Nigerian is on a mindless, lifelong quest to fill his stomach at the expense of everybody else - that is just British colonial propaganda that has been internalised by many of you who don't think and examine your lives.
So I encourage you people to double, triple and quadruple your efforts to find some dirt on me. Search for whatever you can use to discredit me so that when you spend years searching and find nothing, and the truth finally dawns on you that not everybody in Nigeria is like you, your efforts would have created a reference point for coming generations.
10 years ago, Nigeria was classed as part of the same development bloc as these guys, remember? MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey)?
They chose nationalism and Chinese economic co-operation. We chose ethnic foolishness and CIA economic hitman puppetry.
The results are in.
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I want to raise an alarm about a horrible injustice being carried out against nigerian nurses.
Many of them don’t have the voice, the reach, or the platform for their pain to be heard or seen so I will gladly do it for them.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMcN) is refusing indefinitely to verify license for any nurse who plans and wants to travel abroad.
The license verification is a mandatory requirement for any nurse who trained in Nigeria to relocate abroad for work as a nurse.
The decision by the NMCN means:
1. Any licensed nurse who is in Nigeria now cannot relocate abroad for work. So they can’t move from Nigeria to uk, usa, Saudi or anywhere else.
2. Any licensed nurse who trained in Nigeria but already abroad cannot leave where they are for anywhere else. So they can’t move from uk to usa, Canada or anywhere. They are stuck where they are.
This is a form of professional imprisonment and hostage. And it makes zero sense however you look at it.
Nigerian nurses are overworked, underpaid, overused, under-appreciated and unfulfilled with their work in Nigeria.
This is why they want to leave Nigeria.
The answer to underpaid, overworked and unfulfilled health workers is NOT to hold them hostage in a system and a country they no longer want to be in. We need to address the issues, pay them better, make work more fulfilling and build a country that professionals are happy to live in.
The government is full of lunatic retards.
There is no other explanation beyond this. Otherwise, they should know that the only people who suffer this draconian decision by the NMCN is the patients and populace at hand.
When you force nurses, or any other professionals, to work against their wishes, what kind of care do you think the patients will get? Do you want patients to be treated by nurses who have mentally logged out of the system, who no longer wish to be in the country and who are being professionally held hostage against their will?
If this is not clear madness from the NMCN, then please tell me how else you define and explain insanity.
It’s an absolute disgrace and distasteful shame that rather than engage the nurses in a productive process that addresses their concerns and offers them juicy packages that discourages them from leaving, the NMCN is choosing the shameful path of professional hostage taking.
Tomorrow, when someone goes to a general hospital, and they see a nurse who is morose, irritable, upset and uncaring; you will wonder why. But you will never know that is a healthcare professional who is forced against her wishes to work in a system she no longer wants to be part of.
And don’t get me wrong:
I’m not saying I want all nurses to leave the country. I’m only saying the solution to the problem of nurses leaving is to specifically address the reasons why.
What I’m saying very emphatically is that the answer is NOT to simply place a technical ban on their escape and forcefully make them attend to patients who will only most likely be the ones to suffer potential half-hearted treatment from a nurse who is completely fed up of the entire system but has been tied down and forced to work.
What I’m saying is not a joke.
Canada has confirmed it. Saudi has confirmed it. Texas/USA has also confirmed it.
Today it is the nurses being held hostage. It could be doctors tomorrow. Or dentists. Or pharmacists. Or dietitians. Or opticians. Or optometrists. Or engineers. Or physiotherapists.
It could literally be anybody. It could be you. Please kindly lend your voice. Please let’s speak up for these nurses.
Pls share this everywhere.
Kindly retweet to create awareness.
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