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Gerrard59:
The arrogance comes out again! Honestly, for a country so poor with security crises here and there, Nigerians are too arrogant! Damn! Americans and Chinese are loud and somewhat pompous, but they have money and functioning societies. But Nigeria?

South Africa is the only African country better than Nigeria, and Black South Africans (to be specific) can own their homes with piped water, not Geepee tanks, and access to basic amenities that are out of reach of most Nigerians. Also, Black South Africans are the second wealthiest group of black people globally after African Americans. More black dollar millionaires, and dollar millionaires in South Africa than in Nigeria.

this is a different topic entirely, I will choose Nigeria over any African country including South Africa. Immigrant who go there, indulge in drugs and fraud. A Nigerian going to America can become a millionaire, not in South Africa. A Nigerian can become a billionaire in Nigeria. We know say government don fail us, but imagine with all this, we still dey strive. We are proud people and I will say Nigeria is better than South Africa.

Besto:
Togo and Benin republic abi Burkina Faso is the world to you.

You just get luck say them no harvest your organ and empty skull.

SMH

travel make I see, hungry lizard 😆 na here I go still update you on my adventures on other countries. Try educate yourself leave masturbation and sporty bet.

Besto:
None of my lineage mumu like you to fall for such crap.

You are a big definition of MUMU

lol we know your type. You don travel pass your Papa house before? Go out see the world, even with my experience I still come back with my millions, still flex the two countries. It's more like an adventure. Two weeks adventure.

Besto:
He was prolly lured with knacks in view

you be Mumu. Pussy has never been my problem. Don't be an unfortunate person. Na comment like this no allow me complete this thread. One day when your cousins or siblings fall into this, you will come back for this stupid comment.

Asquare84:
You can report het to NAPTIP.

online or their office?

Asquare84:
She and the guy the runs things.

nah man, shey if person call you babe, you go reciprocate? If you smart, you go know say I no reply her with same energy.

nnamdiosu:
Wait but in the chat you shared, she was calling you babe? What's really going on ?

it's a format, I noticed she started using that but didn't pay attention. She calls me day and night for follow up and check up. Strategy to make me feel at ease and comfortable.

Factcheck0001:
many of those countries their capitals no even get better/tarred road

I once went to Mali n I can tell u that they plant maize along their road in d capital, aside government House n few rich settlements others na OYO

An average Nigerian will buy Land, mold blocks, dig bore hole, build his house complete without the help of a single drop of government funds. Countries like that, government allocate land to you, get a small loan from micro finance, they will build a low budget house for you, government provide water, electricity na minor thing.

DeeScan:
yes. alot of them ...


and they build from scratch..

This man is only a supervisor in a secondary school

don't argue with that fellow,we really don't know how sophisticated we Nigerians are. An average Nigerian house, Better pass a commissioner house in Burkina Faso, an Igbo business man house for village better pass a high profile Burkina Faso government official house. I'm not exaggerating. Traveling is education.

Continuation....

This girls heading across the border should be 16, 17 at most 18 I saw them wearing hijab. So I asked one of them, where are they heading to, she said with a thick Igbo accent, "Mali" I said okay, so I asked what are you going there for? She replied "supermarket job" I was perplexed at such offer to travel all the way from Nigeria, when there's so many good paying sales attendant jobs in pH or Abuja. And she followed up with an assurance to convince me she's on the right track, "the job, they will pay in dollars and my cousin already paid for my transportation, when I work, he will deduct from my salary" seems this one has been brainwashed. Make I face my own problem .


At this point, the red flags was all over, I said to myself, dude, we're being trafficked by different syndicates. I've made this journey so far, I have to finish and see what the end will be.

Exactly 4:45pm Usman our driver drove into the park, he has finished with the documentation and license plate issue.
He said with his broken English, "money finish, take bike and... Immediately I cut in, Usman I'm not taking any bike, enough of all this hide and seek, I have a passport, if you can not drive me along, give me my balance I will take a bus to my destination. I didn't care if he understood or not but he understands I was angry and wasn't taking any bike. So he replied " take bike you dodge police but if you say you enter, you keep money for bribe, 2,000 CFA. I said no problem I will pay just start moving, I was already exhausted, remember it's my 4th day on the road no good sleep.

The other guy also joined me, but the lady didn't have money to pay so she took bike that will cut across police check point.

I want to briefly say, Nigerian police is the best compare to this francophone countries police. From Benin to Togo to Burkina Faso, their police are 100x corrupt and fanstatical bribe takers. So shameless. How can you ask an ECOWAS passport holder to pay 1,000 CFA just like that. Every checkpoint the driver had to pay.

After driving for almost 2hrs, it was getting dark, we had to stop and get something to eat, I bought yam and bottle water to keep me hydrated and energetic. We continued our journey until we arrived at the capital of Burkina Faso, ougadogu.

I have never been more disappointed than I was when I reached the capital, I was confused. The capital is nothing to write home about. Even the worst state in North, Beat a whole country capital 10x.

Now this is the interesting part, the driver was supposed to deliver me, yes I used the word delivery because, I was a package to be delivered. So I was supposed to be delivered to my benefactor at Bobo doulasou not ougadogu but Usman said, he's not going to Bobo doulasou because he needs to deliver the car to the owner.

He said he will book a bus to take us to Bobo doulasou but not that night because it was late. that we should sleep at the park. I was not sure if what I just heard. I burst again, sleep where, oya give me the money, so I can book and get to my destination, because I was already tired. He said, "bus don't move at that time because Boko haram disturb there and if I don't relax, I will risk my life. Immediately I heard that, I just humble.

Now Usman is having a little stand off with the girl (onome) he said thee person that said he should carry her from Cotonou is owing 12,000 CFA and should balance up or he will seize her bags. I watched them exchange words back and forth. All I wanted was to sleep. I enquired about an hotel around, a taxi driver was called to take I and the other guy to any hotel to sleep for the night. The driver took us to a brothel, we were angry, the language barrier didn't allow us to express more, we said no olosho, just hotel to sleep. He nodded like he understood, the werey carry us turn the whole ougadogu until it clocked 1am we told him to take us to the park.

While we're looking for hotel to sleep,my benefactor was already buzzing my phone, trying to know where I was and was angry at Usman for not delivering me on time. I bet she couldn't wait to get hold of my money.

Super33999:
Striving to make ones life better is not greed.
Its intelligence..

I don't understand why some Nigerians feel inferior if someone try to seek better life elsewhere, they call it greed. People go to the same paradise countries like USA and UK stay 50 yrs and come back with only accent. I'm sharing this story to warn others, I wish Naira land is as active as 7 yrs ago, probably it would spread more. The little who can get this information should also spread it.

Beyond the border of Nigeria, there's no greener pasture

Baronthecelebri:
See where greed land you.

lol you call exploring other places greed? You must be dumb. Try travel. If I was greedy, I for allow them collect my money.

Suicideboy:
Because black men are illiterates



Why do you think Nigerian men go to asian countries to carry drugs and do fraud??


Will you say Nigeria is better than Asian countries?? Even India is better than Nigeria



Turkey is in Europe and is worse than Senegal

fact Nigeria is better than India. Nothing dey those countries. Indians sef yakpa for Nigeria. I get friends for India, after school dem come back because dem no fit do fraud. Who go give you job when dem get high rate of unemployment population. Even the Indians dey do fraud too.

Suicideboy:
The only best country in Africa is South Africa


The country where white men japa to live in



Second best African country is
Botswana



Anything else na wahala, big one


Egypt na scam


Morocco bloody scamu

believe me Nigeria is the best country in Africa, you can make it in Nigeria with the little you have. If South Africa is that good, why do Nigerians and some other African countrymen go there for fraud and drugs peddling?


I had a close friend, whose husband went there for 13 yrs, came back with nothing, even with the drugs he pushed. He later died of stroke 7yrs ago.


If you want Japa, relax enter Europe or USA

Carazon:
The op has gone and see and turned to emergency Special Adviser

seems you are stranded there or trying to console yourself. Anyone can fall victim to what they're obsessed with. No fit say you smart or you better pass people wey fall victim to this scam.

emmaodet:
Why pass Togo? That is a long distance.
2 shorter options - young shall grow at Ibadan to pass through saki axis
Or
Benin rep. But the go north and enter through the Benin rep. North border with Burkina instead of Togo

it was intentional and moreover it was an unregistered car.

csamii:
Burkina Faso get steady light?

very steady

Continuation..

We woke up with a loud voice from the mosque across the border, at 4am people are already awake infact 24hrs people don't sleep over there, you still going to see people walking, sellers selling and buyers buying. The driver told us to bring our bag down, we are going to use bike to cross the border to avoid police. I told the driver, I'm not a fugitive, I have passport and I would love my passport to be stamped, that's the essence of embarking on this journey, so my passport will have travel history.

After I finished ranting he said "bike" I just weak. Usman our driver looks like a Fulani man, barely speak English but he struggles to communicate with us. The lady, one of my co travelers, remember I said I had other two travelers on the same mission but the lady, who I nicknamed onome, speaks French and English, so sometimes she helps us to pass the message.

The bike guy finally came, we were supposed to move in batches, rider carried I and the other guy and will later come back for onome. The strict security procedure in entering Burkina Faso, you will think you're Crossing into USA territory. After dodging some checkpoint, a flashed light stopped us to a halt, I frozed. A tall black muscular man approached us, with strong command from his voice, he commanded us to get down. We immediately did without asking "officer wetin I do?" just like a typical Nigerian will ask. He asked for our passports, I brought mine,the other guy brought out temporary nin slip constructed into a plastic card. The officer asked why my didn't they stamp me at the entry in french, I replied with a sign language pointing at the bike guy. He was saying something about Nigerians and scam. After everything, he asked to be bribed with 2,000 CFA each.

After parting ways with the border police man, we were dropped at a park. While waiting for Usman to get the necessary paperwork to cross over to Burkina Faso territory.

We spent the whole day waiting for Usman, while waiting I saw young teenage girls from Nigeria also heading towards our direction, one said mali the other said ivory coast, all going for prostitution.

tensazangetsu20:
So an average Nigerian owns a home

you must be a South African lol. You can't compare

Carazon:
I'm not going for sponsored masters degree programs and free meal plus accommodation. Who does that?

the experience and adventure I had is beyond masters degree, there must be reason I was there. I didn't spend 2 days there before I carry my load begin explore the capital, the girls are nice and sweet Sha. That's another interesting story but let's focus on this .

tensazangetsu20:
As bad as Nigeria is, the only African country better than Nigeria is South Africa. I always assumed Nigeria to be the worst country in Africa till I did some traveling years back. The black man has failed completely.

Nigeria Is the best in Africa, an average south African can't build his own decent home. Make government provide us with light and water, see wetin we go do.

Carazon:
Ok bros, bye. Me I still dey go Burkina Faso

don't try it, so many are stranded and can't return to Nigeria. Bobo doulasou is polluted with stranded Nigerians their escape is to bring other gullible Nigerians to replace them. It's like a Ponzi scheme. It's a den for Boko haram. Boko haram slaughter people there. so I heard.

ednut1:
How can someone who sounds educated like you fall for this kind of nonsense

seriously I fell for the master degree sponsorship and easy route to other countries, if na money, i dey comfortable but thank God they didn't take my money. Just relax I will drop more mind blowing details.

flokii:
You're going from frying pan to fire.. so despite all the warnings of how people get sold to slave masters and organ harvesters, some of you still take the risk to follow strangers to places you're not sure of.
smh.

seriously it's really From frying pan to fire. Beyond the border of Nigeria, there's no greener pasture. Our government deliberately keeps us this way so we can worship them. They know what to do. If Nigeria starts working, nobody will want to leave. Our government is very wicked. Even this poor country has basic amenities like water, light and quality food apart from that, their infrastructure is bad. Through out my travel across this countries, no light blinked. Government provide water and also good Telecommunication network even the most remote part, you will see network.

GeeConn:
@sonofanarchy ...This is good. I think I should also share my similar experiences too after yours. To enlighten and save people.

there's even an undercovered investigation concerning this: https://fij.ng/article/from-nigeria-to-burkina-faso-undercover-as-a-trafficked-person/

Continuation... Our journey continued as early as 5am in the morning so we could beat the traffic at the border. We finally arrived at Benin republic - Togo border, since I had a passport, I was asked to stay in the car, while the other two were asked by the driver to get down and wait for a bike smuggle then behind the border on a bush track.

Since the driver is using a unregistered car, he needs to get all the legal documents to transport the car across border, we waited for 8 hrs for everything to be ready. While waiting, I still got a follow up message from my Burkina Faso benefactor(Neche), asking me on updates and also reminding me not to talk to anybody and i should mind my business. After 8hrs we head towards the next border, which is the togolese - Burkina Faso border which took hours, if I'm not mistaken more than 8hrs. When we finally got to border, we slept at the border to resume the next morning.

Collins4u1:
Na this thing my friend go finish he no want talk wetin his eyes see there.

you no go fit talk because them dey use jazz and the induce your drink with substance. Calm down I go share una the main gist, wetin make some of them no gree come back because of shame.

Please tag moderators I want this awareness to spread, there's no dollar paying job in any francophone countries. This countries is very very poor.

Continue...

Manager and the presume custom guy (which I found out, he's just a human smuggler) where communicating in french all I do is look like a dummy, after the conversation, he said bring money, I gave him all the money I had, he took 37,000 CFA, handed it to manager, he took 20,000 CFA and gave me the rest, he said, manager will take me to the car waiting.

Manager took me a joint were they drink their hot tea, I saw 2 other Nigerians also on the same mission with me, I said to myself, wow this Burkina Faso must be really a hot cake. We stayed for additional 3hrs before manager called on me, to bring my luggages.

He asked me if I have a passport, I said yes, he replied gukd just as pronounce with his accent. He showed us the car we're to use for the journey, it's a 2021 RAV4 tokunbo on a mission to be delivered in ougadogu,Burkina Faso to a buyer. I realized they use this drivers to smuggle mostly Nigerians through the border.

My two other co travelers is a lady and a young man in a his late twenties, they had no passport unlike me. I called my benefactor in Burkina Faso the lady (Neche) about the new development, she said I shouldn't talk to anyone, I should mind my business. I nodded like a baby lizard being advice by the mother.

Our journey started, at 10:45 PM, the driver was skillful and fast, almost 2hrs during the journey my co travelers were already sleeping, I was awaked all through until we stopped at a toll gate in Benin republic to spend the night.

I will expose the syndicate and also the name and picture of the lady that invited me there. I was able get the coordinates of the exact location and vicinity.

I met a girl who served in my state, for quite a while we haven't been chatting, so 3 months ago, she dropped a message, exchanging pleasantries. Let me go straight to the point.

We started talking and she told me about a good opportunity in Burkina Faso which was convincing, the most enticing part was the company will support your masters and you can have access to different countries both in Africa and the rest.which was the reason I took the bite. For myself I'm doing quite well as a young man, I own a company, web3 content writer and a crypto trader. So I needed to experience new thing that's why I embarked on this dangerous journey.

She told me, her uncle has a slot and would keep one for me, I appreciated her and told her I will need sometime to think about it, I'd think about it but unlike me, I didn't do a deep research (that's was my first mistake) I got back to her, asking her series of questions, the name of the company and accomodation, she gave me a construction company, I will share a screenshot. I searched it, it was legit. She said the company, feed them twice a day and 24hrs light. "Wow" I said.

After much persuasion, I keyed into the idea. I told her, I will need time to arrange some funds because what I have was a million plus and more. She told me, I will have to pay 1,743,400 (One million seven hundred and fourty three thousand, four Hundred naira) I said no problem. She asked if I had a valid international passport, I said yes. She said I'm good to go.

Last two weeks Tuesday, I Landed Lagos from my state because I took flight and I also asked her if I can take flight rather than going through road,she said no it's too expensive, I guess the plan was for me to bring enough money they can reap from me.

My journey started from the local wing of the muritala Muhammad airport to badagry, I took an airport taxi to badagry 45,000 (fourty five thousand naira) and from badagry a bike guy was waiting for me to take me to seme border at Cotonou. While on the bike, the bike man was honest enough to ask me, what am I doing here, although it's none of his business, but a fresh guy like me shouldn't be on this road, he said one fascinating thing and I quote "anything beyond this border na scam" he said his job is to get paid and deliver whoever they sent for him. We had a lengthy conversation. (Red flags started showing but I always suppress it saying I should be positive) Sometimes one need to listen to their inner voice.

When we got to seme border, he delivered me to a Benin republic exchanger according to her, the guy is a custom man.(He doesn't look any close to even a gate man) a dark slim, long face guy walked up to me shaking my hands after waiting for an hour because according to my supposed friend, he went to arrange a car to take me to Burkina Faso. While I was sited waiting for him, she always instruct me not to talk to anyone, if anybody ask me questions I should ignore. ( Second red flag but I suppressed it)

After changing 210,000 (two hundred and then thousand naira) I was given 72,000 CFA, he will transport me to where I will buy bread, soft drink and water to take me through, I asked her, why am I buying this things, we could stop at any restaurant to take something, hope I'm not going through desert I jokingly said, she chuckled and said no. After the shopping, he took me to a Nigerian restaurant in Cotonou to eat, that was around 5:30 pm. after eating he rode me to the park where I can bored a car to Burkina Faso, all this activities looked like a pattern and transactional exchange from one person to another.

When I arrived at the park, I was expecting to see a luxurious bus but I saw a dread lock chubby dark young man, could be in his early 30s jamming 9ja songs. He approached us, he so called custom guy, introduce him as manager.