In a scathing tweet, Nigerian journalist and author David Hundeyin criticized the Nigerian ruling class for exploiting and oppressing the masses for centuries, and the Nigerian people for failing to resist and demand their rights.
Hundeyin, who is known for his investigative reporting on corruption, human rights, and social issues, said that the West African ruling class has had the same “business model” of living parasitically off the ordinary people and selling them and their futures for “mirrors and trinkets” since the era of the slave trade.
Reacting to another tweet that questioned the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) for increasing the verification fee for nurses from N50,000 to N300,000 when they have not negotiated better pay for them.
Hundeyin wrote, “It will get worse and worse. The noose will continue to tighten and choke everyone until Nigerians finally grasp that their only reward for always ‘adjusting,’ never pushing back and constantly shying away from the most important confrontations, is that they embolden those whose business model is to sell or eat them.
“For about 400 years, the West African ruling class has had the exact same M.O. and business model – live parasitically off the ordinary people and/or sell them and their futures for mirrors and trinkets.
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“The only thing that has changed is the commodity. They used to sell the people directly, now they sell the minerals and oil under the people’s feet and treat the people as an irritating organic inconvenience between the resources and the buyers.
“Throughout the entire 400 years of being treated as farm commodities and organic inconveniences, the West African commoner for some reason, has stubbornly REFUSED to fight back.
“If I were the ruling class, there is no reason on this planet why I would stop eating people who can’t stop submitting to me even after I have made it abundantly clear how much I detest them.
“If there are 210 million of them and fewer than 6,000 of me, but the 210,000,000 do nothing but constantly cower and whimper in front of me, finding every excuse under the sun to avoid standing up for themselves, then they pretty much deserve whatever it is that I do to them.
“If they haven’t decided that their lives have the same human value that mine has, then maybe that’s just how God intended it.
“Nigerians should continue to cower very well!”