The now viral incident on the train in the United Kingdom, involving a woman and a white man, has again brought to the fore the behaviour of some Nigerians who bring the name of our country into disrepute.
Why was she so rude and antagonistic? And why did she tell everyone who cared to listen that we are all like that? She is wrong. We are not all like that.
Many Nigerians, including the Olukumi Yorubas, have a deep-seated and age-long culture of respect.
And another question everybody seems to avoid is this: Why was she triggered when the white man revealed that he was married to a Yoruba woman? Why did that information unleash the response it did in her?
Does anybody know the identity of that woman? Please help me out.
We need to understand that foreign countries are not as dumb as you think they are. They are keeping data. They are aware of subtle differences among Nigerians. Sadly, they are now discriminating against some Nigerians.
I went to Kenya and was shocked how hostility initially directed at me eased when they found out what part of Nigeria I come from.
Google and read what the President of Kenya, William Ruto, said about Nigerians and how he isolated some particular Nigerians for special mention.
It is not good. We need to clean up our act.
I visited Peru and toured a particularly notorious prison with an assistant after Asari Dokubo made an allegation against a Presidential candidate. I have video evidence, because I know my country people. Some of my people's gaslighting behaviour forces me to keep meticulous records.
I can tell you that the allegation made against the Presidential candidate is false, and the candidate, who is now a major opposition figure, is not guilty or linked with anything regarding drugs.
However, in their prison in Lima, Peru, all the Nigerian prisoners there come from only one region, except one, who was a Northerner. I was shocked. So I insisted on investigating further. Long story short, he was also from that region but used a fake Hausa name.
I went to Cambodia, and the situation there is similar.
And let me not talk of India. Please fact-check me: Almost 92% of Nigerians arrested for drug offences in India are Nigerians from one region. Most of the rest of the 8% are Nigerians with names like Gladys Daniel, Remigius Fabian, making it impossible to identify what part of Nigeria they come from.
Just as Edo state has a problem with prostitution (please face the truth. Don't get angry. It is TRUE!!!), one region of our country has a challenge with some anti-social activities.
But all of us bear the consequences.
I kid you not, in Bangladesh and Pakistan, immigration officers go as far as asking for your ethnic origin if you say you are Nigerian. Why do they want to know what ethnicity you come from?
But even our government cannot address it because if you try to address it, people, including leaders from these places, will make it about ethnicity, so it becomes an elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about.
It is not to insult me. Look into these statements. Have I lied? If you know in your conscience that I have not lied, then take group action to do something about it.
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