Generations of Yorubas with British citizenship!! 2

"The bitter truth about the Igbo (3)" Punch newspaper, 8/14/13



Generations of Yorubas with British citizenship!! 2
 
The controversy over the internal deportation of Nigerians from Lagos State has change from the question of legality and constitutionality of such act to the indigene-ship and ownership of Lagos. Some paranoid schizophrenia, the likes of Fani Kayode failed in defending this despicable act but in his incoherent gibberish red-herring rumbling, he ranted his long head, deep seated anger, envy, jealous and hate against Igbo race.  
 
Kayode’s gibberish op-ed or whatever it may be called was childishly boastful that it reminded me of my elementary and junior high days when we boasted of the superiority and great accomplishment of our towns, people, and groups. Like students of junior highs, Kayode’s rant are but self serving comments that can only be made by a tribal xenophobic airhead that his is; and here is why. In a federating republic like Nigeria, sovereignty or power belongs to the people, the citizenry of which indigenous people are part of. In Nigeria constitution, indigenous people of which almost every Nigerian is one somewhere are neither superior nor entitled more rights than any other citizen because again sovereignty belongs to the citizenry. A citizen of a country or state is anyone who is either a free born, or a naturalized citizen who resides in the state, pays taxes and fulfills his or her civic duties. Yes, Yorubas may be the indigenous people in the Lagos State territory but their indigene-ship neither negates  the right of other citizenships nor the citizenship status of other Lagosians who are not of Yoruba descent or whose ancestry are not indigenous Lagosians. A city, state, nation without the poor is perverted and one that ill-treats its poor is cursed and only devising for its own demise.
 
There are so many generations of Yorubas who are British citizens and they will take offense if English people belittle, make mockery or denounce their citizenship just because they are not native or indigenous English. If a Yoruba would enjoy British citizenship, except for enviousness, jealousness, hatefulness and ignorance I do not see why an Igbo with business, real property, pays taxes, performs civic duty and lives in Lagos would be denied Lagos citizenship just because his is Igbo. It is a shame that any Yoruba in today Nigeria would on bases of ethnicity or indigene-ship challenges the right of an Igbo to Lagos citizenship.
The reason Igbos are fixated in real property acquisitions is because Igbo man think more for the economic wellbeing and welfare of his offspring more then he thinks of himself and his immediate need. This is why other Nigerians especially Yorubas poke fun on Igbo man going on rags and hungry why he has fortune lying somewhere. Different People, persons and cultures have different priorities; some live in the immediate and worry less about tomorrow, some live for others and while some don't even want to live at all. And the point being, we should not envy others for what they have or have not because we do not know the culture, the mind set or what scarifies or lack thereof that gives them happiness and sense of fulfillment.            
 
In Americas, in Australia, in South Africa the white Europeans who are none indigenes settlers enjoy full citizenship but an Igbo in Lagos is being treated like an alien from another planate. This is why progress has eluded Nigeria and black race as a whole. Because black people in their primitive mentality only occupy themselves with envy, hate,