Why Have Nigerians Migrated to Every Corner of the World?
In almost every country on Earth, there is a Nigerian prisoner. However, no one wants to go to Nigeria. Moving abroad is in the top five career categories in Nigeria. They have ruined their country so terribly that it has become uninhabitable. Police stations look like a pigsty, whilst government buildings look like building sites. Corruption in Nigeria is no longer frowned upon; instead, it is praised. Criminality is celebrated in every echelon of society. The people themselves do not elect decent Nigerians; they elect criminals. You know a country celebrates corruption and crime when it is 99% corrupt, but never has any top government official ever been convicted and imprisoned for corruption.
In Nigeria, communication is conducted through screaming, hand gestures, and sometimes the fist way. You’d see diplomats, police, and militarymen fighting in public. Tens of thousands of fistfights should be recorded in Nigeria every day. Every building has a generator, some with up to ten, all running at the same time, forging an epic monopoly of noise. Nigerian motorists communicate with their horns. An average Nigerian motorist beeps their horn one hundred times per day. Imagine the noise pollution!
In Nigeria, the pastor is corrupt; the doctor, the engineer, the teacher, the professor, the customs official, the police, the passport official, the teller, the banker, the ministers, and the president are corrupt; and everyone is corrupt. I’m not sure you understood. I will elaborate. You can get to the Nigerian border with explosives, bribe the officials, and they’ll let you in. You can bribe your professor to give you the best grade, bribe the passport official to delete your name from the system and create a new identity for you, or pay the police to arrest someone who annoys you. Nigeria is a complete shithole!
Now, imagine people raised under such a chaotic system coming into your country? From the day they were born, they bribed their way through the authorities, school, and even employment. When a government job opening becomes available, the person in charge sells it to the highest bidder. You see, this is not talked about enough. I’ve given this serious thought before writing this article, and it breaks my heart that I have to make it. Nigerians have no sense of queues, keeping the street clean, respect for authority, law and order, or the faintest idea of customer service. There is only one thing on the mind of a Nigerian: make money and buy respect. They have succeeded in creating nations within the country. The Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo effectively have quasi-nations within Nigeria. You should see them bashing, fighting, hating, and disparaging each other instead of working together to fix up the world’s greatest human shithole ever put together, called Nigeria.
Let me take you around the world. There are Nigerian prisoners in South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Gabon, Cameroon, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Indonesia, the UAE, Qatar, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, the USA, Colombia, Brazil, and even countries as poor as Chad, Congo, and Mali. Their conviction typically surrounds drug trafficking, pimping or pandering, 419 fraud, which includes dating scams, credit card fraud, and other fraudulent activities. The world has every reason to scrutinise Nigerians five times more or even ban them altogether.
Nigerians give Black Africans a bad name. I bet you Namibians, Batswana, Kenyans, Angolans, Senegalese, Burkinabés, South Sudanese, or South Africans commit the least crime among Africans living in the West, South America, and East Asia. Batswana, Namibians, South Africans, and Kenyans don’t leave their countries like Nigerians do. When they do, they do so legally. And when they are in your countries, they are ten times more likely to abide by the law of the land and stay away from crimes.
In contrast, Nigerians would fight in public at every opportunity. They have one of the lowest levels of etiquette in the world. Seven out of every 10 Nigerians have been involved in public fighting, as this is our Nigerian way of resolving disputes. Now imagine letting someone who doesn’t understand law and order, not to litter, not to urinate in public, and how to dialogue instead of yelling and using their fist in your country. What do you think will happen? They don’t get along with their neighbours or other African countries. How do you think they will get along with the world’s most advanced societies in the West or East Asia? The Nigerian sees the humane laws of your country as a weakness to explore. As with everything, nothing is one hundred per cent. There are some good Nigerians, but almost every Nigerian is infested with that corrupt mindset.
Living in Nigeria, I have tried to find something good to sell to the world, but unfortunately, it is scarce. It is a land absent from progress. The Nigerian system is broken. Nigeria is not even a country. A Hausa person hates the Igbo to the extent that they can wipe them out. The Igbo hate the Hausa in the same way. The Yoruba have a fundamental hatred for the Igbo; they would rather die than elect an Igbo person, whilst the Igbo are the world’s most arrogant, self-deluding, zero-etiquette people of Africa. These three major ethnic groups, Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo, each have over 40 million people, with the Hausa nearing 65 million. Imagine putting Spain, England, and Poland into one country. Do you know the type of chaos you’d be creating? That is how Nigeria is. The Spanish, English, and Polish are all European, but they cannot function as one country; so, too, do the Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo. These people cannot function under one country.
When government ministerial positions are declared, they often have to reflect the Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo shares before other minority ethnic groups receive their own share. If the sharing favours one ethnic group more, they fight, yell, insult, and complain until the next appointment; the other ethnic group in charge will now retaliate by appointing their own ethnic group. The presidency has to go to that ethnic group, then that one, and those who come short in the number of ministerial positions fight and yell, and the endless cycle of stupidity continues. This is not a country but a bunch of tribal, unevolved, mentally unstable, over two hundred million stupid people. Why would any country let Nigerians in? I’m not sure, but if I were the prime minister of the United Kingdom, I would impose a total ban on Nigerians. The risk outweighs the benefit.
There are twenty-four million homeless Nigerians, which is almost the same as the rest of sub-Saharan Africa combined, and over seventy per cent of the country’s population lives in poverty. That is over 160 million people. The highest in the world, on average, given that India has over five times as many people as Nigeria. They have the largest arable land in Africa, yet most of that is uncultivated. Their weather is characterised by abundant sunshine during the dry season and ample rainfall during the rainy season. The north is the savannah, and the middle belt is level, with abundant arable land suitable for farming. Still, 56% of Nigeria’s 70-84 million hectares of arable land remains uncultivated or underutilised. You begin to ask yourself, why are these people hungry? The answer is simple: incompetence and a collective lack of skills to run a country.
Nothing in Nigeria is properly managed, from the police to the immigration services, customs to the airport, traffic to the road network, schools to the national grid, and from the people to their very own homes. Nigeria is a chaotic society where people exhibit some of the lowest levels of etiquette and quality known to man. And most of these people are looking for ways to obtain visas to the various developed and semi-developed countries so they can bring the chaotic upbringing from Nigeria to the world.
I have tried to find a better way to euphemise this article. Still, after months of procrastinating, I couldn’t find a better way to organise my words but to say it as it is. If you are a Nigerian reading, with the slightest ounce of honesty, you’d agree with me. We have earned the badge of what the world has to offer. Poverty isn’t why Nigerians are dishonest, criminal-minded, corrupt, and everything else. Nepal is a poor country. How many Nepalese have you seen committing crimes around the world? Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Myanmar, Tajikistan, and South Sudan are poor; you don’t see them going around the world committing crimes. Of the world’s 195 countries, there is a Nigerian prisoner in 60% of them. The highest of any country on Earth. That is not an accident!
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By Ikechukwu ORJI
