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Nigeria is our home, it goes beyond just a place or location on the map. Nigeria is us, and we can't keep looking at ourselves going down the drain, we can't keep keeping quiet saying our hand is experiencing pain and for that reason it's no concern of ours, the hand is still a part of us. Nigeria is experiencing what's beyond pain at the moment and our silence is just too loud.

I've not been around for so long, but with my little age, I think I have few things to say, have we forgotten what the nation used to be like, have we forgotten those good old day's, what's going on, why are we so silent, why act as if it's non of our concern. We claim to love our dear nation, but it's starting to feel like we are lying and it's just a word of the mouth.. that holds no weight.

We should be tired of all these happenings, and if we are indeed tired of it all, the we won't be keep mute nor sit down at a place. I get angry at times seeing how silent we are, it amazes me to see how even those with massive influence keep shut, is it out of fear or what, if you keep quiet now because you don't want th government to come for you, what of those bandits that goes for people unprovoked, do you know the next place to be attacked. We are all not safe, why not speak up then, why not try call out to these people that need to be held accountable, they either do better, find a solution or step down.

But what do we do, we hear of another happening, we shake our heads, sigh and just continue with whatever we are doing. It's like we don't know what else we can do, we are helpless and still e keep quiet. Most annoying part is that we've now normalized pain. We say we are Nigerians and can fit into anywhere and survive anything, are we really surviving now, those that d!Ed too, they are surviving... right?

I'm sure we saw the trending video of that woman in Jos the other day, we all see how she held in to her already de@d son as if 😩😭😩.. Can you just out yourself in her shoes for a minute. A child you carried in your wombs for months, the child you did your best to raise and then lose him to the cold hands of de@th just like that.. when we put ourselves in her situation, we will understand better. A lot of us was touched and was emotional then, but today we've moved in again, another person elsewhere will be the victim again and it may not get to the internet or go viral like this woman's own... Until when are we going to continue like this...

What I'm saying is, these things will continue until we allow it. People are dy!ng, real humans, human beings are getting slaugh+red like animals, people are getting displaced from their homes, a lot is happening and we keep mute. We are not even talking about the high cost of food, fuel and all now, we are not talking about the low minimum wage, we are not talking about the high cost of transportation and house rent, because all those only count when we are alive. A lot of people are out there laughing out loud and all, but when they get in or are alone, they cry silently. Enough of the silence.

A lot of people have the platform, they have the connections and all, yet we do not even see them talking. I'm not sorry for saying this, a lot of our religious leaders are keeping quiet as well, and it ought not to be so, I just hope all those big cathedrals and millions of capacities of whatever they are busy building now won't turn empty/desolate in the next few years, because those who are supposed to come worship there are being k!lled and k!dnapped on a daily basis.

I talked about this just recently, I'm doing so again now, and will still talk about it again if need be. And I'm doing that because I understand these things. Sometimes last year my own blood brother was k!dnapped, I know the prayers we pray, the sleepless night's and all that we experienced as a family then, well he was later able to escape after few day's with them. That experience makes me understand things more, yet we have those that are still locked up somewhere till now. Do we need to be affected directly before we see that things are going on....?

As Randy Peter Akah will say, "Yesterday's survivors are today's victims, and today's survivors may become tomorrow's victims." We shouldn't wait till it happens to us or to someone close to us. Today's survivors may become tomorrow's victim if we keep quiet, and you and I are today's survivors. I am not wishing you bad, neither am I wishing anyone bad, but the truth remains that...no one knows who is next.

Nigeria is crying, Nigeria is wailing, Nigeria is sick, and Nigerians are tired, we need help, we need voices to speak up, enough of ur silence, it won't do us any good, these people are only busy campaigning and sharing rice when families are getting displaced and k!lled on a daily... silence won't do us any good.

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