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I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Nobody: 8:01am On Jan 12, 2009 |
Renouncing My Nigerian Citizenship Do you think Soyemi went too far or was he right even though his presentation might be wrong for some people?. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by meexteriox(m): 8:55am On Jan 12, 2009 |
The man is filled with so much bitterness, and i could feel his pain. Nigeria is a country, regretably, we hate to love. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by hajifaty: 9:28am On Jan 12, 2009 |
I think the the guy don win VISA Lottery |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Muza(m): 10:11am On Jan 12, 2009 |
oyo for the guy. Thru thick and thin,come rain or shine, i'll still be a Nigerian. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by jookco(m): 12:12pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
My brother untill we come to thi slight one has been tighted with families in Nigeria that you will find it difficult to brake up with, I swear if there is a way I will become a mexican not to talk of American I will be happy, the country is a mess, but wetin man go do? |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Kobojunkie: 1:47pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
I believe the man is right to have an opinion on the situation that continues to plague that country, and if he feels the situation is enough to pust him to renounce his citizenship, then it is his decision to make and ours to respect. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by BOSS7: 1:52pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
Wow, this is very very real. This guy is definitely bitter and of course he's justified with his powerful arguments as to why he feels that way. Though I feel his pain as this piece represents the feeling of "most Nigerians". I'm not even sure which way to sway. Support the country, the people (including me) or just sit on the fence. This is very hard hitting and from the comfort of my seat, I feel very powerless as a Nigerian. This is just too real to accept that a fellow citizen could feel this way. Oh God, I'm short of words, I've never been touched by a piece this powerful. [center]Also, this is journalism at its best.[/center] |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by JustGood(m): 1:57pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
I think you may find that the guy is trying to get a response from Nigerians. There are a lot of ills we need to address to realise the potentials that we have. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Muza(m): 2:19pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
Gaskiya,we need a revolution,the soon the better. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by BOSS7: 2:35pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
Before anyone bashes this guy who wrote the article, I researched the source of the article further and found it was originally posted at the Nigerian Village Square website (www.nigeriavillagesquare.com) and one of the comments made after the article was, as below: "Pray and work. Work and pray. Pray that our 'dealers' mind may soften just a little, work for their fall from grace. Pray for good leaders and every other things shall be added unto you. And just some few questions for you: did you vote in the last (s)election? Or contested even if you did not win? What did you do to assist A-list candidates like Utomi, Adams? At times one may feel discouraged but then we need to trudge on, You can only be a 2nd class citizen wherever you find yourself now. Pity. Your article is well garnished, sweet and tasty. More ink to your pen." and the response (also by the original writer of the article) is also as below: [b]"Sir, I have sojourned outside of Nigeria (against my will) for the last 18 years, but can galantly say I have given back to your country far more than I ever received from it since my parents paid for all aspects of my education until I had to pick the gauntlet myself. I have a whole communith in Agege who daily draws free water from a borehole (not kongá) I sank in 1999. When I went home to observe the (s)elections in 2007, not a single one of the beneficiaries had any idea whom I was. I also have 3 tenants also living rent free in the property. They have been there since 1989 and their teenage children have no clue who I am. I rarely speak to them even on phone as I do not wish to interfere with their lives nor make them feel that they owe me anything. It is for the glory of mankind. I am not registered to vote in Nigeria and never sought to influence the opinions of those people whom I know would gladly take such 'advice'. When I was approached to pledge my support for Pat Utomi (not by the man), I had only one question for the contact, "please tell me what the man had done as an individual to the commoners in Nigeria without the expectation of a payback?" Since there was no response from the contact one way or the other and I knew very little of him apart from his business credentials, I did not feel obliged to follow blindly. Dear Sir, I hope that answers your question. As to the other part of your question, what does it matter if I am a second-class citizen in the country of my birth and I employ 34 people whereas I remain a second-class citizen in the country of my parents and still have to stare abject poverty in the face daily?"[/b] |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Kobojunkie: 2:40pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
Thank you @B.O.S.S For adding that. That does change the direction this debate is most likely to go here on Nairaland. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by asha80(m): 2:43pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
I am sure many nigerians feel the way this guys feels and i know many in their bedrooms will be wishing they get citizenship of their hosts countries.The truth of the matter is if this story is true then this man is just frustrated like many of us to the happenings in the country and the news that emanate daily from the country can deflate whatever iota of patriotism that is left in one. From the letter it seems the man organized a rally in abuja hoping people to join him in demonstrating against the govt but nobody came.If it is true then it is the proverbial last straw that broke the carmels back. Personally i will not castigate the man for saying his mind.After all many nigerians are ever ready to throw away their naija citizenship for another countries own.The difference is that they will not announce it and give reasons for it like this man did.Are we going to deny thye fact that most middle class nigerians(if they still exists) and rich nigerians these days prefer to give birth to their kids outside the country just to give the kids foreign citizenship? |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by morpheus24: 3:46pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
I feel for the frustrations of the guy. He has lost hope and given up which is a human attribute. Rome was not built in a day. The birth of every nation concievable on this planet has not been without bloodshed, struggles and despair. Nigeria is not exempt. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Kobojunkie: 4:02pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
asha 80: I can definitely relate. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by chidichris(m): 5:22pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
Before anyone bashes this guy who wrote the article, I researched the source of the article further and found it was originally posted at the Nigerian Village Square website (www.nigeriavillagesquare.com) and one of the comments made after the article was, as below: Poster, what do u have to say about the above on quote? did u or did u not copy this from the above mentioned forum? be informed that we will not encourage copyright here. people are always talking about revolution, how do we do this? we talk about corruption while we seat on corruption every minute. if the poster of this thread actually copied this work from the forum mentioned, i wonder what nigerians are planing for themselves. someone posted here sometime ago a thread which said that Oprah had a show in which she said that every nigerian is a lier and nigerians wanted oprah's head. if this guy who is always contributing on how we can fight corruption actually did this criminal act of copyright, OH! how criminal minded can nigerians be? how can we always make efforts to steal other people's glory? All the same, nigeria was born prematurely. we need to be recolonised. if we can not be colonised again, then slave trade will be ideal for all of us. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by JJYOU: 5:33pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
good for you |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Nobody: 5:45pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
A lot of Nigerians have renounced their citizenship without knowing it. Nigerians keep saying 9ja4eva, i'm patriotic, i love 9ja and so on when they really don't mean it. Most people would deny 9ja within a second if the opportunity arises. A good test to find out if you are truly patriotic is : If there is a draft in naija today and you're asked to join the Nigerian Army in order to fight a war in Cameroun/Ghana for Nigerias democracy, would you go? If your answer is NO, u are not a patriotic Nigerian. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by asha80(m): 6:03pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
@A-town Right on the mark! |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by jamace(m): 6:17pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
Wao, hell has no fury like a man frustrated in his own land of birth. The situation in the country is really pathetic. Don't worry brother, we are all feeling the pains like you. Keep on straightening things from your own little angle and I believe, one day we shall overwhelm the troublers of Nigeria. Cheer up brother. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by tpia: 6:45pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
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Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by BOSS7: 7:15pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
@ Tpia I think you're being too harsh on this guy and at the same time taking his point out of context. He has even done poured out his sweat in forms of charities (see my second post on this thread) and he said he does not expect any reward nor did he even make what he did public. He said, I have a whole communith in Agege who daily draws free water from a borehole (not kongá) I sank in 1999. When I went home to observe the (s)elections in 2007, not a single one of the beneficiaries had any idea whom I was. I also have 3 tenants also living rent free in the property. They have been there since 1989 and their teenage children have no clue who I am. I rarely speak to them even on phone as I do not wish to interfere with their lives nor make them feel that they owe me anything. It is for the glory of mankind. I'll give you a case-point, my flat mate while I was in the university works as a night security guard though he holds a degree from a polytechnic in Nigeria. We normally discuss politics and times wthout number, he's been very frustrated that he mentioned joining the British armed force if they were meant to fight Nigeria and even kill his fellow Nigerians because he feels that country has sold out and he feels like someone in the UK (even though he's an illegal immigrant). I don't think it's fair if what you could point out is the line where he poked fun at his own accent beause my guess is probably as good as yours - and that is, the article is probably written out of frustration and annoyance. It takes more than balls for any sane person to just wake up one day and say it's over for the country I so much cherish (though I don't know if he ever cherished the Nigeria as a nation) but I could tell this guy loves Nigeria but he's human and feels he cannot keep talking to stones in the bid to make a change (as in the case of the failed rally he organised), even he says my musings are tinged with a deep regret. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by tpia: 7:46pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
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Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by morpheus24: 9:29pm On Jan 12, 2009 |
A-town: Don't worry they have enough people to fight a war with cameroon. Naija population is 3 times that of Cameroon and Ghana thats counting only the people residing within the country so forget that draft rubbish. arguement. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Nobody: 2:41am On Jan 13, 2009 |
Abeg, How much for borehole? I want to put one in Mushin. People are inspiring me. I'm serious. I'm going back to Nigeria in December again and I really want to put a borehole in Mushin, Lagos(My home town ) and Woji, Port Harcourt(My favourite hood ) and one in Okesha, Ado Ekiti (I got cured of a sickness here while I was a baby). I'll save $8000 for it through this year before December. Will it be enough for all the three or at least for Lagos and PH? At the idiot bashing Nigerians, please be positive for a while. Ashamed of his accent. That just shows how much of a wannabe he is. Shame on him. I'm Nigerian and I'll always be until I kpai! Promote your accent and the world will love it. So you now judge people by what they sound like? Sound, sound!! not how they look any more? How they sound? Chineke!!! |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by kosovo(m): 3:27am On Jan 13, 2009 |
well done! |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Busybody2(f): 5:35am On Jan 13, 2009 |
chidichris: Can you please go and sit down and quite yarning dust and come down your high horse and quit your haughty braggadocio[i]us[/i] disposition, mofo oshi, over-sabi, I too know Do you even know the meaning of the word copyright that you are blabbing about, anu ofia Did the OP say he wrote the piece Even if he copied it from a book, did he lay claim to be the author Was the writer's name not referenced at the start of the post and in the OP's contribution, arrant nonsense from a condescending arrogant numpty |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Busybody2(f): 5:49am On Jan 13, 2009 |
B.O.S.S.: Tpia, methinks you were not harsh enough on the guy, your job is not done yet Okay so if he has not made public his charity case, what was the information doing on the internet, couldn't he have used his sense of decorum to miss out this issue that he did not want to make public Classic case of a child throwing out its toy out of the pram, if you ask me And what's with him cursing the Country's future generation As a matter of fact, I look forward to hearing more of the woes that will surely betide you as Nigerians in the year 2009 and forever more. Indeed, I pray to see more of your tears as Nigerians in the coming years. Back to sender, by force by fire |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Nobody: 5:57am On Jan 13, 2009 |
chidichris: This lunatic, lazy yahooboy still dey follow me around for nairaland cos i put Ribadu picture for my profile. I bet, that picture scares the hell out of your soul and your likes. Why not piracy instead of copyright. . . . lol? I can see how frustrated you are cos of my existence. People ask question on what they dont understand, but you would rather try to kill my personality at any opportunity you have since i dont share the same opinion with you in most cases here. You are a big time waste for being on this forum for too long and still do not know how things work. The article i posted had the name of the author and i posted it in quote meaning that it was'nt my work. As regards to where i copied it from; the guy could have sent a copy to me and im ready to provide evidence if need be. With these facts, i wonder how my post violated the copyright law? Bottom line is that you better suck up the fact that everybody must not see things your own way and no matter how much you try to discrdit Ribadu; some people like me will always appreciate him. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Sapphic: 6:18am On Jan 13, 2009 |
Me, I don't blame the Soyemi guy for his apathy towards Nigeria. Feelings of shame, disgust, embarrassment and anger are not new to me in relation to the country of my birth Nigeria. Nigeria is a bleeping disgrace. However, we have to draw a line somewhere and I feel he went too far as there was no need for all those horrendous curses (and so as for those curses, I say back to sender ). Unwittingly, he has cursed himself, his offspring and all his future generations too. All I can say is if he wants to remove final traces of his Nigerian heritage, he should change his name by deed poll to a name native to his adopted country (this includes his wife and children too) and all of them should take elocution lessons to get rid of the thick "Ogbono" accent. He need not return to Nigeria ever again. Let's hope he does not commit a serious offence in his adopted country as come countries (like the UK) have taken to deport convicted naturalised citizens who commit certain offences. Na that time him go hia ween. |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by Nobody: 6:26am On Jan 13, 2009 |
Sapphic: For the fact that he's no more nigerian doesnt mean that he cant visit any where he wishes to visit so far he's in line with the country's immigration laws. Abi no be so? |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by BOSS7: 9:45am On Jan 13, 2009 |
Sapphic: He was actually born in the US so he cannot be deported, or can he? |
Re: I Hereby Renounce My Nigerian Citizenship by BOSS7: 9:51am On Jan 13, 2009 |
Busy_body: Chei, I swear never to cross your path, lai lai |
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