Sentiments aside, we all must begin to take responsibility. Stop offering yourself as a chattel to people seeking whom to sell. The grass is not greener anywhere. Even during the slave trade days we forget it was a transaction & our fathers got something back in exchange.
At Law this is called Consideration which must be adequate but not necessarily sufficient. By adequacy of consideration it means that for a lawful agreement to be made between two parties, the offeree, also known as the beneficiary, must give in return, a fair price,...
... that is either in equal measure or reasonably proportional to the value given by the offeror, also known as the benefactor. Our forefathers sold their sons for chocolates and mirrors. It was considered adequate for the trade despite the unethical premise.
The twin concept in every contract remains buyers and sellers. If we stop longing to run away to other countries seeking apparent eldorados no one will have anyone to sell to foreigners as slaves. Slave trade is still in operation under some nicer guises.
I feel for the young lady and we all must learn from this. No Lizard in Nigeria becomes an Alligator on foreign soil by escaping NIGERIA. Nothing justify leaving your dependent kids to run abroad for anything. Your life purpose is not about making money. There’s a greater calling
Those arrested for tricking this young lady must be brought to book and made examples of. God didn’t make any mistake by sending you to this part of the world. Find purpose and if this purpose takes you abroad, you will surely prosper without any sorrow added to it.
Stop brainwashing impressionable youth about success being a foreigner. The land upon which we stand is blessed and we are potentially gifted. If we find the key to unlocking our potentials we will flourish like never before. There is a reason Apple trees don’t grow in Lagos.
Imagine if Apple seeds decides to listen to the murmurs in the forest and decide to come to Lagos, what kind of fate that awaits it? Don’t be like Elimelech (the man to whom God is King) who left Bethlehem Judah (the land of bread & praise) to an accursed land in the book of Ruth
He perished with all his sons until his sons’ wives admonished Ruth for them to return to base. This is that voice now telling you to recalculate your coordinates and find purpose. Don’t let the present situation confuse you into thinking you can’t succeed. You will and can.
The countries calling themselves first world and developed don’t have a quarter of our natural resources. Their lands are barren & they can’t survive sustainably without stealing from Africa or forcing loans we can not repay in us & ensuring our rulers are brain dead to do right
But we are learning fast. Not just by accumulating knowledge for bragging rights but by getting wisdom and understanding enough to know people built those countries we long to run to. Who will build ours if we all choose to own a Canadian Paasport?
People who loves to trade their freedom for safety will neither have freedom nor safety. They know we will do anything to escape the proverbial Hell Hole because of our corrupt nature to want to reap from where we’ve not sown. Our doctors are comfortable being cab drivers abroad.
Do we even love ourselves? Do you see how people treat their drivers and maids even in Nigeria and you expect a foreigner to treat you better knowing you got shipped into their country in pursuit of greener pastures? When will they not ask your children to go home? #Xenophobia
But before you say “SEGA no wan make we go Yankey, Canada or Jand.” By all means explore but find purpose first. Know who you are and why you are. You are not created to make money. Money is man made and a mere means of exchange. Do something that money will attract.
Hateful people can’t sustainably attract money without being enslaved. Why? To sustainably attract money you most do something passionately like no one else that benefits humanity. Something people will even borrow money to experience. This works globally.
It even work if you are not charging for your work on humanities. The world will come to your aid to ensure your work spreads. So you see it begins with knowing yourself & the problem you desire to address passionately. Get an education to reinforce your resolve & better society.
