₦airaland Forum

Commentor:
They should help themselves first.

Isn't that what y'all have been echoing?

anonimi:
The migrant crisis in Libya and the Nigeria experience

The drive for survival and for greener pastures has continued to force millions of West African young men and women to gamble with death in attempts to cross over to Europe and other parts of the world. This quest to escape poverty, hunger, unemployment and insecurity, among other reasons, caused a major segment of Nigeria’s population to seek alternatives for better livelihood prospects for themselves and their families.

Those seeking economic survival see irregular migration as the best alternative, given the difficulty and resources involved in migrating through regular and legitimate routes. In many instances, very few of the original number who set out on these dangerous journeys live to tell their stories. While many regularly drown in the Mediterranean Sea, many also die in the deserts, and others are sold as slaves in a modern slave market.

Most of the victims of this trade are from West Africa. Many of them leave home with expectations of getting to Europe and other destinations perceived to have better economic prospects for them, but they end up in the slave merchant nets in North Africa. The victims are put in camps and sold in open markets in Libya, while the international community watches in silence. The geographical location of Libya renders it a transit route for migrants journeying to Italy and many other parts of Europe.

https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/the-migrant-crisis-in-libya-and-the-nigeria-experience/

anonimi:
If Americans are not helping themselves, more than we are helping ourselves, then why are we blacks running there and other oyinbo places?

I hope you have a smart answer to that.

Commentor:
What is this one saying?

anonimi:
Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?

In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;

or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority?
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The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.

Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/10/12/neo-black-problem-must-blacks-be-ruled-by-whites-in-order-to-prosper/

ednut1:
U guys say you dislike neo colonialism and the west should not interfere in our business. But at every given moment you go cry out to them like slave 😂🤣

ElSudani:
What a load of nonsense. An issue between a bank and its customer is why you are calling on the US?
You are probably jobless as someone insinuated.

malali:

Neo-colonialism is different. Abuse of power id Abuse of power. If we tell the world whats going on doesnt mean we are inviting colonization.They will go to UN meetings, they will borrow loans Some regimes dont deal with abusers of human rights, out of principle.

If we call Tinubu's administration out.....He will also face roadblocks. We wont sit back and be manhandled by his Gestapo Police. Call it Neo-colonialism. Till someone dies in illegal custody.

malali:
To the Honorable Ambassador of the United States in Nigeria,
Richard M. Mills, Jr.
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria
U.S. Embassy And Consulate.


This letter is a passionate call from a concerned citizen and global observer, urgently requesting your intervention in what is rapidly descending into a dangerous pattern of repression, intimidation, and the systematic erosion of civil liberties in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Over the past months, there has been a disturbing escalation in the abuse of state power, most recently exemplified by the arrest and unlawful detention of the Nigerian social commentator known popularly as “Very Dark Man.” His only “crime” is holding the government accountable through civic engagement—a right enshrined in any functioning democracy and one that the Nigerian Constitution itself guarantees.

It is with deep concern that I bring to your attention the alleged collusion between Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank)—a private sector institution, elements of the Nigerian Police Force and EFCC acting under what can only be described as a gestapo-like culture of political intimidation. Such weaponization of financial institutions and state security agencies to silence critics of government policy should raise alarms within every embassy and rights-centered organization operating in this region.

Further compounding this abuse is the growing number of reports implicating the President’s son in the hiring of thugs to attack citizens who publicly criticize the administration. These events have been largely dismissed by state-sponsored media mouthpieces and government apologists as fabrications. However, the volume and consistency of these accounts are too grave and too numerous to ignore—especially for an administration only two years into its tenure.

We Nigerians are no strangers to tyranny. We’ve bled for our freedoms. We’ve faced live rounds to protest corruption and maladministration, and we will do it again if it comes to that. But it should not come to that.

Our request is simple, but urgent:
• Immediate release of all political prisoners and unlawfully detained activists;
• Termination of EFCC Chairman Ola Olukoyede, who has turned the commission into a political hit squad for the presidency;
• An international human rights observatory team should be mobilized to independently investigate these growing abuses;
• A formal warning or sanctions framework should be issued to the Nigerian government if these human rights violations continue unchecked.

The Nigerian government must be reminded that dissent is not treason. A true democracy not only tolerates criticism—it thrives on it.

The United States has long championed global human rights. If ever there was a time to demonstrate that commitment, it is now.


Yours sincerely,

Malali
A Concerned Citizen of the Global Democratic Order



Cc:
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• United Nations Human Rights Council
• International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
• The Carter Center
• African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• European Union External Action Human Rights Office
• International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague
• U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
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ednut1:
trump is abusing power. Deporting people without due process, us and uk went to iraq without UN approval . Who will u report them to? U no smart

ednut1:
any you paid transfer charges. Na u be mugu lol