₦airaland Forum

phylshan:
Why Do Over 75% of Nigerians Arrested Abroad For Drug Trafficking Come From One Region?

Sadly, many men are driven to commit crimes by women who call them stingy because they are managing the small amounts of money they have. Take a country like Nigeria. If you look at the state breakdown of where Nigerian drug traffickers are imprisoned abroad, the states where parents demand the highest bride prices feature at the top, whereas those where families request no bride prices are found at the bottom. Is this a coincidence?

Let us invest in reforming our culture. Some need this more than others, because abroad they do not know Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba. They see you as a Nigerian. And in some places, that is a stigma. When you have a country like Seychelles, having more Nigerians in their prisons for drug offences than their own citizens, you must accept that there is a problem.

It is not racism that makes the queues for Nigerians long at foreign airports. For the most part, it is pragmatism.

And when something like 89% of Nigerians in prison for drug trafficking come from one region, and 68% of that 89% come from two states, one beginning with A and the other starting with I, you must consider addressing the cultural practices that make these men desperate to make money at all costs.

I deal with facts. There are data with names and places to back up my assertions. If the Federal Government wants them (that is, if they do not already have them), I am happy to provide these details to them.

That is why I have maintained that if these states refuse to pass laws restricting how much can be demanded as bride price or used to bury parents, then the Federal Government must step in and enact a federal law, the way the Supreme Court stopped the practice of preventing women from inheriting in one particular region, which may or may not be the same region where the bulk of Nigerians imprisoned for drugs come from.

People are not naturally greedy. There is no greed DNA, in the same way we have genes that cause obesity. Greed, just like hate, is learnt from the prevailing culture in an environment.

When you are young, and you see your community disrespect your aged father and respect a young man simply because he has money, your brain is being rewired. When your sister is being given away in marriage to a complete stranger, simply because he can afford the exorbitant bride price they demand, your brain is reengineered.

The traditions of a society subliminally drive the culture of that community. Unless you have an exceptionally strong and stubborn personality, your morals, values, beliefs, and even your most private thoughts will be dictated by the culture in your society, which has emotionally scripted you from the day you became self-aware.

If we do not address this scourge at the cultural level, we will continue to experience the devaluation of the Nigerian passport and our reputation.

If you frequently travel abroad, you know what I mean. The 'look' you get when they see your green passport. You are presumed guilty by association. Everywhere is not like Thailand, Kenya, and South Africa, where they have pinpointed the actual set of Nigerians who have a higher propensity for such crimes.

In most of the world, you are just viewed as a Nigerian, meaning that your perception is that of a person more given to crime than the average person. It is wrong. I know. But guess what? Perception is reality.

Things like location and nationality affect perceptions. For example, if you are seen with a cow at a church, it will be perceived as an offering. However, the perception is entirely different if you are seen with a cow at a shrine.

Nigerians are suffering from that perception. Many large firms with access to people's private data, such as ID and credit card details, are hesitant to hire Nigerians abroad, because of the perception challenge we have. You and I may not be drug pushers and romance scammers, but we pay the price for sharing the same passport with syndicates and cartels that engage in these practices.

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.


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LandMann:
Obi can never win presidential election on his own. He doesn't have the appeal to win northern votes and northern votes is key to winning the election.

It seems part of Tinubu strategy is to keep Obi dreaming of making it alone.

If Obi keeps being stubborn den Atiku should ask Ngozi Okonji Iweala to be his vice.

docdes:
Hmmm!

Can they really put personal interest aside in favor of the candidate most Nigerians actually want?

chrisxxx:
Abeg remove Obi the pretender. Tinubu sponsored Obi and Wike chose a viable southern candidate to win the president. Stop wailing.

success1smyn:
We have many Yoruba who has supported Obi, are still doing so and will support him in the future, it's not a problem for us Omoluabi, I am Yoruba and I support whoever i want not because of tribe or religion. My mum and my immediate younger sister are die hard Obi supporters but that is what you can't find on the other side. Imagine my Igbo friend that voted for Obi telling me I voted for Tinubu because he is Yoruba. Obi got more Yoruba vote than Tinubu got Igbo votes. It's actually Igbo especially obidients that are tribalists. The hated Ariwoola for being Yoruba and have continued their hatred for Kekere-Ekun.

Max24:
Daily Trust should be ashamed of themselves. A whole Nigeria bought a Tokunbo aircraft and they are wailing all over the internet. On top of that Obi and Atiku too are busy masturbating on a $100m aircraft while the US just bought a $3.3B brand new aircraft just to score cheap political point when Tinubu should be commended for not going for a brand new aircraft. Can Obi and Atiku buy or ride in a Tokunbo fairly used cars? Hypocrites, recommending what they don't practice.

franchasofficia:
Obi do condemn these killings, maybe you only show interest in certain issues he comments on.


Oby Ezekwesili used to be you guys darling until she started criticizing Buhari government some years back. For me, I don't take Oby Ezekwesili serious, but you see Peter Obi? Na correct man with good intentions for Nigeria even though I don't expect you to agree as a typical Yoruba Ronu champion

coputa:
The east is no longer safe to live and work

Mosba:
Because they were disrespectful so you decided to treat them like primary school children?

sms4sure:
I don't like Reno but Arise is becoming truly propaganda TV. Rufai think he's smart but he's smartness will destroy the wonderful News station if caution is not taken.

Bigkoko:
Since I left the shores of Nigeria, one of my saving Grace was I destroyed my Nigerian foisted religious sentiments. I see things the way it should, and this has helped me build a a gigantic homegrown Super Company that stretches from Africa to Europe. A lot of whites are surprised because they thought the business is owned by a white, alas, it's owned part & parcel by a black.

Why this digression?
Religion and tribalism is destroying Nigeria. That is the honest truth. And I find it really disgusting that these tribal and religious bigots can not all unite and have a country of their own!

Farooq Kperogi as a US based Prof is a disgrace! The US he claims to be a citizen is currently searching for clues to indict their president, who obviously has no drug past, no criminal past nor something worthy of an indictment. Why? Because State institutions work! Every leader or person in position of authority is held to the highest quality, and stuffs done years ago is deemed reason enough to send the person packing. Here, this Prof Farooq Kperogi down plays the drug criminal records of Asiwaju! Tufiakwaaaa this kind of people! Instead my religion would make me choose a deadbeat, old grandpa who at best should be at the homes for the elderly who sadly had a drug past, I would rather toss that religion away!

Trump, he mentioned. Wonders shall never end! Same Farooq Kperogi was all over with his stupid write up of all Trump should turn over all his tax records both those mandatory and those voluntary. But it got to that of his Fellow Muslim; Tinubu, he has gone mute. If hypocrisy is a person, from a country, I tell you it's gonna be a Nigerian with a religious and tribal mindset like Farooq Kperogi!


Is Farooq Kperogi aware that CSU has alerted honorable judge Gilbert that they can not authentic the certificate paraded by Asiwaju? Who goes a school, paid his fees, pass the courses and graduate, yet the school refused officially to authenticate the result purportedly issued by same school!

To be a supporter of Asiwaju, you be high of tribalism, religious patronage, Agberoism and perhaps something more bodily dangerous; drugs!

Never underestimate the threat pose by religious and tribal bigots, and possibly substance abusers. It's worse than economic recession. I prefer an economic social recession than a country peopled by crooks high of religious and tribal affiliations! It become More dangerous when these agents of disunity are frustrated, Western based religious and tribal bigots who can not practice their religious and tribal mindset without going foul of the laws in the West. This is why people like Farooq Kperogi would support a broad daylight election heist done by a few privileged crooks!

Fear who comes in the name of religion & tribalism! Una good evening!