WHAT'S UP WITH THIS GROWING TEMPORARY INSANITY THING?

Don't know if anyone has seen or come across what might soon become a trend or is already the latest happenstance in Lagos of late. Young, fine boys going starkers and having temporary madness?

The way it goes is that these young kids do this madness thing on major roads where many eyes would see and stare at them incredulously! Not too long ago it occurred in broad daylight on Admiralty in Lekki Phase 1 when a guy just suddenly got out of his car and went bunkers stripping himself and going about starkers! Another again occurred not long afterwards at about the 2nd or 3rd roundabout on the Lekki-Ajah expressway, where during the very early morning traffic a young dude right in the middle of the road all starkers was bathing and not caring who was looking and then the most recent of it all, was near the newly launched Deeper Life Bible Church HQ in Gbagada, Lagos just 2 days ago, a young guy suddenly removed his clothes, bent down shat in his own hand and then decided to rub same on himself, while people looked on in shock. When he saw that he had gotten a little attention he repeated the same scenario again and then went further to bath himself inside a stagnant water not too far from the spot. All of these terrible scenarios all sound so unbelievable, but they are all true even there are some worst ones just too crazy to relate.

There have also been instances where young, supposedly normal guys would be barking like a dog at particular times of the day too. All in the desperate quest to make money! So these things have all raised our curiosity and we have thought to find out/investigate if possible what's going on?

Remember very well that several months ago, we had written and posted on this platform about a trend then, where guys in desperation to be the new hits in town, driving the latest cars, wearing the newest trends all in the quest to join the Gucci gangs etc, flashing and flaunting at the bars, joints and night clubs and other social places of gathering where many people ply or gather, drinking up a storm so that the bills would rise like its a loaf of bread, where many could see them flaunt their newly acquired wealth. These set were willing and ready to do the basest of things for that temporary fame, which was to eat "shit" that is fresh excreta! What!!!! Yes shit as in shit!

As the story goes, the voodoo done for these boys demands that they look for fresh excreta, which they must eat with relish with fresh bread and thereafter their money would begin to flow in and in torrents after other things must have been done too. The connection between excrete (shit) and money we cannot just understand. It's something that's totally mad and unbelievable, totally true too. While the terrible and unbelievable bullshit is yet still on as speak. We hear there are new trends also now.

There is the madness thing where the dude would go bonkers and tear of his own clothes and go raving mad about town, it's like the more the people that view his madness and embarrassment, the better and the more the money would flow in. How true this is, we do not know, but that's what we have found out is actually going on. And the more desperate the guys are, the more they are not too afraid to go through with it too. According to what someone said, these new methods are the alternatives to blood rituals which was the in thing at one point too. So instead of killing other people and using their blood, those using this new method believes they are at least not putting another person's life in limbo, just theirs. Wonders they say, would never end. 

WE (NIGERIANS) ARE LIVING IN FOOL'S PARADISE. FORMER GOVERNOR DONALD DUKE

Donald Duke

'...And there is no master-plan to make each one of the states an economic entity,” Duke said. “So, we have a country, where a blessing (exponential population growth) is turning into a curse, because in the next three years, our population will be 200 million, yet all the productive indices are going down. Lagos may be crowded out; every year, 750,000 new people come to Lagos to reside; the economy cannot support that. So if you don’t get the rest of the country working, Lagos itself will collapse.

“I had a meeting once with U.S. State Department, and they said to me, we have no conversion interest in Nigeria any longer; yes we have a few companies – ExxonMobil, Chevron – working here, but we don’t buy oil from Nigeria, and the export-import bill is not significant. But we have a lot of interest in Nigeria, and that is security. Nigeria, to them, is like a dam, and if it should burst, it would flood all of West and Central Africa. So their only interest in Nigeria is insecurity because the country can also be a base for terrorism – terrorists thrive in poor environments. They are not dealing with us on the basis of commerce, they are dealing with us on the threat that we pose to them.”

Duke also believes the Buhari government has no business patting itself on the back on the basis of improving the economy.

“Just because it is easier for goods to pass through the port – that’s no big deal,” he said. “The point is what does each one of us add to the general well- being of the country. Most folks in Nigeria are parasitic. You walk on the streets and people in the prime of their lives are hawking plantain chips if they are lucky to find something to hawk. We, the few privileged, sit in our cars, our windows wound up, and pretend to look at our phones because we don’t want to see the reality out there.

“This country, for instance, has to grow at about 15 per cent annually, not in Lagos, but nationally, for the next ten years, to absorb the numbers that are out of the economy. We are self-deceptive. We say that unemployment is 15 per cent.

In other words, out of every 100 only 15 have no jobs. I think it is the other way round; only 15 have jobs and the rest 85 are living off the 15; the question is how long can that go on?

“Then we sit down and say that inflation is 16 per cent. How do you arrive at that? I know I’m broke. So if inflation is too much money in circulation, where is this money? The truth is too few people have too much money. If you re-circulate resources properly, and I am not being socialist here (all you need to do is to create jobs for people), then you’ll find that it will reflect on the economy.

“So what we are doing is to run a goodwill economy; 85 percent of the economy is depending on the goodwill of the 15 percent.”

To move the country forward, Mr. Duke advocated for a policy he described as SHIT (Skills, Health, Infrastructure and Technology).

“I don’t use education any longer because education is beyond reading and writing. Education without the set skills that make you productive is hollow,” he said. “We are ridiculously spiritual because we live purely by the grace of God. Yes, we all do, but heaven helps those who help themselves. If you are afflicted here by a disease today, your chances of survival are 50:50. The drugs for common diseases are not even manufactured here. So we have a loss of productivity that we have not addressed at all.”

Culled from Thisday Newspaper