Thread by @Chxta

One of my best friends offline is @ose_anenih, and for quite a few years he kept warning me about the error of my ways in my rather (at the time) stubborn stance in refusing to use my block button.

Thanks to Buhari's #TwitterBan, I saw how criminally naive I was in that stance.

Some people who come to one's mentions to chat shit do so with no measure of good faith. They aren't here to learn, they are here to worship their god, and derail your thoughts.

Flee from such demons of the twitterverse as they make your experience ugly.

I just blocked a few.

Considering the fact that I complained about our lack of tourism on this twitter before 2015 (the app has a search function), and complained about same theme back when I was active on @nairaland (pre 2010, again you can search), how the fuck was yesterday's thread about Buhari?

I'll tell you how it was.

Guilty conscience.

Deep down, these guys know that their god has presided over the worst government in our country's history bar none. It's why they no longer argue on indices, but on feelings.

It's what it is...

Having said this, let me, for the sake of posterity, talk, very briefly, about my Nigerian tourism sojourn.

I've been to all the states in #Nigeria bar Taraba. I increasingly despair that I'll ever get to visit Taraba, an opportunity came some years back and Madam overruled.

That's the thing about this marriage gig. Back in the day, any chance, I go wear slippers, "Oya make we dey go."

Not anymore.

Last year there was waka to Bauchi & Gombe. It was a big fight before oga allowed me to proceed, which brings us to security, one of the big issues.

I have been to Kajuru Castle. I used to recommend it to anyone back in the day. I can no longer do that with a straight face.

Same applies to Gurara and the scenic journey from Sokoto to Kano which passes through the wonderful artifical lakes of Gwarzo.

Security is not the only issue. Let's go to even the places, run by the Nigerian government, that attempt to do the tourist thing and let's honestly ask, "how are the run?"

I can give some examples...

The War Museum in Umuahia, I have personally taken people to visit at least six times. Each time I've taken people there, na me give the attendants money make dem go buy fuel make dem fit on gen.

The Walls of Kano are being vandalised in various parts...

The Great Bini Moat is in so many portions, a rubbish dump, and heck, the last time I took some friends to the Benin Museum at Ring Road, the place was locked up because the staff walked out as a result of unpaid wages.

National Museum in Lagos is a write off...

Badagry Slave Museum is almost inaccessible, some good guys are trying to rehabilitate Whispering Pines, which will solve the issue of accommodation after you've spent five hours on the Lagos-Badagry pothole...

I could go on and on, but I guess my point has been made. W

We can politicise it all we want, but that doesn't change the fact. #Nigeria is an organisational, security and logistical nightmare, and that is just a part of why we haven't gotten the tourism thing right.

Another problem is that of lack of citizenship, but that one na thesis.