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If a Nigerian desires jollof rice for breakfast, rice and fish stew for lunch, ofada rice for dinner, we must insist that he is not in the province of "peperipe peperipepe, no go dey do pass yosef." Trouble is not with this level of desire in the 21st century. Short thread.
We must insist: live within ur means is not the issue. A no-brainer. We must however not allow the mischievous owners of this message in the leadership and their social media army to get away with daylight conceptual armed robbery.
Conceptual armed robbery: lower national benchmarks so abysmally that all Buhari has to do to be declared d best thing since Oxygen is to literally just wake up & drink tea. They're trying to colonize ur mind with subliminal codes they are hiding behind live within ur means.
Once they stabilize that in ur psyche, u start being grateful to them for the blessing of rice on ur table once a week. You won't notice as they cleverly extend the lowering of benchmarks to every sphere of the social contract, eroding ur dignity one lowering at a time.
They have successfully inscribed it in your mind that your irregular salary is a privilege; World War II trains are a privilege; rice is a privilege. With every conceptual concession u make, they ask for more, slyly normalizing poverty.
Save this last tweet for future reference: before the end of his second term, Buhari and his social media army would have stylishly declared even your poverty a privilege. Conceptual armed robbers, invaders of meaning are usually very brilliant social engineers.
