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“Who goes?” Kopa wee!!!
Na serve I come serve, I no kill person.
I am on a bus that is pushing another bus. No, they are not related by rope; it is just a bus, pushing bumper-to-bumper, another bus.
When the bus in front sees an opening to park properly, the driver steers it from the road, and my driver overtakes without acknowledging the driver of the broken down bus that he had just helped. We zoomed off to the other driver’s voice saying “we go dey see nau”. The driver had just said: “I am deeply grateful for your help; I will be happy to help you out in the future too”. Welcome to Port Harcourt. How did I get here?
A brief history on slaving for Nigeria
At the end of your tertiary education in Nigeria, you are mandated to participate in a 1-year national program called the NYSC. Let me explain how NYSC works.
NYSC is like being kidnapped against your will, given a uniform to share with other victims, forced to do hard labour while being given a pittance to substantiate the suffering. You don’t really enjoy it, but then there are about 30 million others who say your life is better, so you believe it too. In slavery equivalent…
