Spoken Word Art — Independent but Still Slaves Because of the Crude Mistake

Nigerians are we here? We celebrated our independence right? On the 1st of October this year, we took Nigeria's flag up high because of what she passed through before she became a free country in 1960. But the big question is, are we really free?. Are we really independent today? We aren't 100% independent even though we're no longer slaves to our colonial masters.

80% of Nigerians are dependent on government and physical establishments to survive which makes us slaves to these ones. Let's talk about ASUU as a whole. The greed, wickedness and corruption of the federal government has frustrated most lecturers teaching in the universities as the federal government has refused to settle them for years now. They keep giving promised but since these federal universities are working under the government, they have no say. Why? Because their salaries are dependent on these ones.

So even if they go on Strike, I affects no other person than ASUU, not the government. How did this start? It all started when we didn't value what we have until we lost it to the hands of foreigners and that ignorance and greed that made our leaders take rash decisions when it came to slave trade, allowing foreigners to dig out oil wells and create refineries from themselves. They channel these oils underground to their country and place forces to prevent vandalization.

We are the ones buying from them, what we have. Just imagine. Could it be that we saw it as crude oil and since it was black with lots of impurities, we didn't know it would turn to the petrol, kerosene, diesel and fuel oil used today which has greatly shaped our economy today, making the cost of living dependent on it.

During the era of our colonial masters, we were involved in slave trades, leaders selling our citizens for material gains to foreigners who would carry these ones and use them as gems in their country. We sold our Petroleum, agricultural resources and products and became slaves to what we own. How? We are buying from them, buying what we have.

Our leaders failed us greatly. Their greed and ignorance made us where we are today. And instead of shaping and correcting our mistakes, we keep making prominent mistakes that worsens the whole situation. They are the reason why Nigeria isn't a developed country but is called the Giant of Africa. How has this one mistake affected us?

Most parents send their children out for housekeeping to another person or engage them in forced labour and hawking. Why did you even give birth to them when you know you won't be able to take care of them. **Now imagine a situation where they eventually have a child, but due to money problems, they give off that child for housekeeping with the excuse that they don't want the child to suffer.

Now take for instance another situation where this child does housekeeping for someone who cares about him, sponsors his education, treats him as his son and shower love to him more than his original parent would. One day, this child becomes a renowned medical doctor.

You don't expect that child in this generation to accept you 100% back as their parent. Why? Because you weren't there when he needed you the most. You didn't train them or contributed 10% to his success. It's not as if he would forget that you're his parents, but that love and care won't be there. He won't treat you more than the person who took him to the level he is.

Dear Nigerians, we were undervalued before. Let's not be undervalued again. Because you work under someone doesn't mean that person should treat you as if you're a slave. We are intelligent, we're smart, we're powerful, we're technical and creative, we're hardworking and prudent. Let them know we have these qualities and should be treated as assets, not as liabilities. My spoken word art explains everything.

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