The Nigerian Space: A center For Foreign & Local Exploitation
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In 2017, I decided to stop working because prior to that, I had worked about 7 years, 12-hours daily in an organization for seven years and was only able to save $225 after expensive on livelihood, especially food, clothing and shelter.
This was probably a wasted seven years of my life where I learned no skill, spent my time earning for people who underpaid me die my efforts, took advantage of the unemployment rate to get me to work 12-hours daily for five days in a week, during these period the increment was pathetic and health wise, the repercussion of the health related problems I got for the stress of that job still continues till today and I'm still spending my personal money to treat ill health from a job I stopped nearly 4 years now.
These are the condition of people who are working in a place that could cost them their lives. Chinese companies are probably the highest employer of human labor. This is because their operation in Nigeria is unchecked by the federal government, they hire and fire people and having them working in terrible conditions.
I know a lot of people who have lost a limb or lost a vital part of their bodies for operating lethal production machines without even the right safety gadgets and when they get hurt, they're dumped out without a health insurance simply because they're only seen as manual workers. They cover these heinous acts by saying thy are ridding the country of poverty meanwhile they're just taking advantage of the cheap labor to get richer at the expense of people's lives.
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10 years ago, going to college was proven to be the only way to succeed in life in Nigeria and a lot of people flipped, abandoned learning skills and being a business prospect. *People saw white collar jobs and sitting on revolving chairs as the holy grail, hence this created a vacuum, more graduates flooded the streets with no innovations of their own clueless and dependent on the government for jobs hence increasing unemployment rate over last 10 to 15 years.
Countries like Ghana and Benin Republic have benefit from Nigerians doggedness to go to College. A lot of people fail to meet up with the requirements for College in Nigeria and Countries like Benin took advantage and began taking in Nigerians into their half-baked tertiary institutions for expensive prices catering for the needs of the wealthy and desperate
So you see a huge example of other countries coming to take advantage of the lawlessness in Nigeria to create wealth for their own country, you could see the government itself taking advantage of the high unemployment rate caused by their ineffective rulership. Most private oil billion-naira companies like Chevron are so wealthy, having made a lot of money from the country's resources as a result of government policies rather favoring them.
These companies are wealthy enough to reduce the unemployment rate and fund entrepreneurship bills should the government decided to pass it, enforce it. The educational sector in Nigeria is raking in trillions of naira (₦) on a yearly basis, but then these monies are kept by the wealthy who are stakeholders, hence the cycle of exploitation continuous on the majority.
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Take for example, should all these multibillion naira institutions decides to donate the cause of entrepreneurship they will have been giving back to the people they're exploiting and even if this wouldn't be enough, it'll still be fair. Imagine if institutions like Dangote, Chevron, MTN, The Nigerian Private Tertiary institutions, external institution in liaison with Nigerian government and the Chinese companies are tasked with paying one billion naira each for operating and exploiting the country and these monies are diverted into creating jobs and funding entrepreneurial scheme.
The government themselves will have created enough wealth out of just passing the right bills here and there in other to give back to the people. Nigeria is the right space for foreign and local exploitation from these mega companies and this is why i'll talk about how the internet is reducing the susceptibility of exploitation of many Nigerian citizens in my next article.
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Are you saying that if you were in any of the aforementioned companies, you would gladly part with your hard earned money to a country who do not want to come out of their poverty-stricken mindset?
Think wisely
Money isn't the solution to these problems
Nigerian needs to be reprogrammed to understand how money works. If not, there will return to where they were no matter how much money is poured into the system
Are you forgetting when God'swil Akpabio was Governor, did he not spoil the Akwa Ibomites with money, funds, and resources, including Access to infrastructure and innovative projects?
Of course, he did. Once he left office... What happened?
Where is the money they collected?
First and foremost most of these companies are wealthy because of favourable government policies, if not we would see better competition from smaller companies, hence they deserve to give back to the people they're exploiting.
In reality, this post isn't politics based, its more economic based, the bad government is as a result of ineptitude and premeditated corruption.
So im not saying People needs to be dashed money, im saying entrepreneurship scheme should be developed where these funds will be diverted and people can get to have opportuinities to jobs and skills.
Money isn't the solution, thats not it, my point is, big companies are exploiting the country and this doesn't really make their money hard earned, they're wealthy by playing dirty and hence bills should be passed to have them contribute to build entrepreneural schemes
I get your point but I think if we really need to compete then we should not ask for favorable conditions
We should be able to play the economic game and come out as winners
Yes, those companies find ways to monopolize their activities, we should find ways to counterbalance them
we do most things better than them... Or like you said, we are the labors they are exploiting, but you shouldn't try to confront the fact that they have different ways of playing their economic games
They have learned early on to concentrate their forces, they have found rich mines, and they mine them intensively... That's why they tend to monopolize everything
Kicking out any form of competition
What we should do isn't to complain, and rant, but to study and observe their techniques and strategies, every move, should be watched carefully, then, checkmate them at the end.
It all boils down to, "are we willing to learn"? Or "our government just want to eat the proceeds and go"?
Some of these companies in Nigeria are actually doing what big techs like Facebook Google and amazon are doing. The difference is that this companies are actually changing the world while the company is based in Nigeria are actually milking the system and taking advantage of government policies to become richer.
While I wouldn't be so quick to blame the citizens is because the system isn't even good enough for them to think or act properly accordingly. This is the reason why you would see a student of third class graduates in the country going ahead to become the best probably when the pursue a postgraduate degree oversea.
My point is, if the system was totally good this exploitative tendencies wouldn't be there.
Some of the reasons why Nigerians act the way they do it's just because of the system the lawlessness, let's take a look at someone like You are you not learning? So many other people as well are learning but then it might not really be obvious.
At the end of the day it's all boils down to the system so many people are failing in this system and succeeding somewhere else this is a theoretical explanation to show that people are not really the issue but the system on ground. Although it is a two-way thing, and festival each and every person needs to be responsible for the actions and decisions especially when it comes to government
Ha..... A semi-post for me? 🙆
My answer.. a very short one
Mindset....
Perspective....
Nigerians needs to be reprogrammed from the root.
We've got abilities... Massive ones
We need to reprogram our thoughts, our feelings, and actions
Only then can we have positive results
Lol it was voice typed and corrected, no hassles at all
Holy shit!!
I have been looking for a way to up my engagement game in the community and you just gave me an exclusive answer
Wow..... Thank you 😊😊
It's one of the reasons why I am bullish about technology. As the cost of making the goods drop, I hope to see less exploitation of cheap labor. In fact automation will be the easiest way to remove these jobs but I hope the new system to support the people who lost their jobs will be great.
In that aspect, crypto is a great thing. If people can earn from doing what they tend to do during the daily life and it becomes sustainable for them.
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