This is Nigeria: We are armchair of legtable noisemakers - Pius Adesanmi

We are inconsequential. We are armchair of legtable noisemakers. What we do affects nothing. We are loafers wasting our time. Nobody pays us any heed. Yet, you go to extraordinary lengths to put us out of business, spending the money of the Nigerian people to harass and hound us, bringing back home from America a Nigerian ready to betray everything he learnt about democracy in America and hiring him for the singular purpose of recruiting social media almajiris to be trained upon us and all your imagined enemies. You harass and hound Okey Ndibe, Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, Dapo Rotifa. I pity Dapo. You even go as far as warning him not to come to Nigeria.

You call my mother to frighten an old woman. Somehow you get any number you want to get. You tell her lies and skew things beyond recognition. You tell her to warn me to leave government and politicians alone. This is Africa. This is Nigeria. We don't want it that way but we have male child privilege and the only son syndrome. I am an only son and you know how to press the button of an old woman with an only son. You know that the slightest hint of danger to that only son will get her begging the child saying - I beg you with these breasts that you sucked... Which African, no matter his level of education and exposure to our friends in the West, would joke with the symbolic power of a mother summoning the authority of the breast she or he sucked? But you will fail because I have turned those breasts that you are trying to manipulate to silence me into a curse against you and the establishment you represent and are defending. Unknown to you, every time she gets agitated and I patiently explain to her that I did not choose this path, this path chose me, she calms down, content that the path of my father's good name elected me and I answered yes.
I can't help it that you can call Carleton and ask for my extension and leave cowardly anonymous messages on my voicemail in the office. I have remotely retrieved four of your useless messages this morning. I guess you are the same people behind that fake Sahara Reporters page. The definition of insanity, they say, is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. You have been at these same strategies of blackmail and intimidation for so long now. It has never worked. We have never wavered. We are still all here. So, listen up: the time will never come when I will accept the version of Nigeria that you and your sick establishment are selling. The time will never come when I will accept the finality of your rationalizations and justifications of mediocrity for that country. The time will never come when I will accept that those who split hairs between stealing and corruption should be put forward to represent us to the rest of humanity. I will never agree that the corrupt shall have the final say in the Nigerian argument.

We are armchair noisemakers. Why does our armchair, inconsequential noisemaking bother you so much? How do you justify the effort you put in, the resources you deploy to intimidate and silence inconsequential noisemaking? A pox on you and everything you stand for in that country!