Opinion: Nigeria: Where Cows Are More Important Than Human Beings, By Femi Aribisala
Our heroes are murderers and charlatans. We hail those who don’t care a hoot whether we live or die.
How did we get here? How did we come to this pass? How did we so lose our humanity in Nigeria that we elected a government that refuses to protect our lives and livelihood but would rather protect cows? Let us face it: there is no regard for human life in Nigeria. In Nigeria, we love life but promote and encourage death. We lavishly celebrate births, but disregard children after they are born.
You can even go to a hospital for vaccination against a disease and end up dead from that very disease because of an overdose of the vaccine. That is what killed my only sister, Yemisi, at the tender age of eighteen. It should be against the law in Nigeria for government officials to seek medical treatment abroad for any ailment whatsoever. Let them improve the medical facilities here at home or face the music with everyone else.
How many men have you ever heard of going to jail for raping women in Nigeria? It is not because Nigerians are not rapists like others, but because in Nigeria rape is no big a deal. Neither is marrying under-aged girls. That actually happens to be the preferred pastime of our distinguished politicians.
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