Shitty City

*My stay in Lagos has taught me that Nigerians love disorder.Nigerians thrive in disorder.In the brief periods when things work orderly, some people get so irritated.What irritates them? They do their best to initiate cycles of disorder. No wonder any more: that Nigeria is a nation that progresses backwardly. Her governments and people, largely, haven't begun appreciating civilised order.

Thanks to the sentiment that prevented me from coming to Lagos with some pals from BurkinaFaso,Togo and Senegal.Used to rarity of violent crimes or criminal violence, they would have been overshocked at the "greatness" of Lagos, Nigeria. Here would be a place of unspeakable tribulations unheard-of in their serene native homes.

And nigerian Nigerians are 'fighting' corruptedness. Nicht wahr?! So it is. MMh-huhuu...If I were a bona fide Nigerian, I would be anxious. Not that the anticorruptionists may fail; but that they may succed. Because whenever they decorrupt this society, there'd be no more Nigeria! The nigerian-system is corruption itself. Corruption incorporated. The more one observes the Nigerian's ways and actions, the less one perceives of anything else than dishonesty, deception and arrogance. This society is probably incorrigible. Corruption is here not on visit but on denizenship.

Since I was disaccommodated (disemployed) in 2006, I've been surviving by scrounging (Recycling Business). It has not been scrounging in freedom. Lagos is a "criminopolis". Of course where there is "criminocracy", there must be criminopolis too. In fact, it would be fairly accurate to say that many Lagosians (especially young men + some young women) are criminals, employed or not. Some of'em simply delight in criminal activities, even when those activities would yield no fortune. Gardens of flower nurseries, roadside grass patches (early morn' raids) underpasses, refuse dumps et cetera are their harbours and ports. Even roadside (mechanic) workshops are rendezvous of local ruffians. It is difficult to exaggerate the criminal and corrupt tendencies of typical Nigerians here. Every type of evil in the world can be found here...in large measures.

You may think of police. You need to know how intimately interknitted the Nigerian police and crime are, for you to understand. You'll even pity honest people in the nigerian police force. Moreover, the "lords" of "our cities" especially Lagos, Onischa, Port'arcourt, Kano: are retired or retiring hoodlums. A creature that live(d) by biting never fails to bare its teeth even in death. These defece-liners groom, equip and defend the (younger) attckers in the crime business. They even emloy professionals (like lawyers) in safeguarding themselves from the veneer of law-and-order there is. Most law enforcement agents are under their dominion, not above...And some securitymen do exactly the opposite of that title; they are insecuritymen...That's one reason you, a common soul, dare not report criminals though they are everywhere; unless you're politically or financially"connected"; or above average. Otherwise you may be inadvertently advertising yourself to the daredevils..