SERIES: NO MORE SLEEP TO LOSE
Tales of the Persecuted Nigerians – the barbarous practice of de-citizenization of Nigerian citizens living outside of their natural States and ethno-geo areas/zones
It is appalling as well as shocking to note that after over 60 years of living together, politically speaking, as a nation, and 105 years after the amalgamation of the two halves of the Niger by the British colonialist, Lord Frederick Lugard, Nigerians residing in States and regions outside of their natural abode – ethnic nationalities/regions are to this day seen and regarded as non-indigenes, settlers, aliens, guests/strangers even as migrants, parasites, leeches, dodders and mistle toes, etc – and so treated very shabbily, more so as outcasts, refugees, ‘assylum seekers’, IDPs, pariahs, harijans, almajiris, pests, nuisances, etc – better still, as political and social endoparasites and ectoparasites – by the so-called indigenes/’hosts’ or aluole, alaje (Yala, for owners of the home, owners of the land, and in Yoruba, simply as (awon) omonile, hence at will, these politico-socio-cultural wolves/predators hound, steal, kill, maim and destroy these ‘rodents’, cockroaches, pests and leeches just for the pleasure of it!
- JOHN ODEY ADUMA, SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
- Nigeria Watch International
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