KÓRÓPE; LIVING IN NIGERIA

 Kórópe. The Nigerian way of calling a small bus capable enough to contain at least seven people if sitter comfortably.

But comfortable isn't a thing in Nigeria. Even living in Nigeria herself is not anything close to comfortable, everyday we struggle for daily manners and almost half of the people who go out everyday come back with nothing when they return back to their dwelling places. That is, if they have a dwelling place.

Comfortable can be placed to mean being physically at ease. But there's a misunderstanding if I may say. Everyone you see everyday is 'Physically at ease' . Everyone smiles when there's a joke, everyone go about their daily works with a smile on their faces just so the world won't see how much of a sad soul and spirit they have. People are in pain, lot and lot of souls are weak and still getting weaker every blessed

they but they always try to put a smile on their faces, maybe because of their loved ones, or maybe a father who hardly gets back home with a little amount of money to feed the family but STILL, he tries to put a smile on his face just so his children won't be bothered about the situation.

A country that was suppose to feed and protect it's people is the one eating then and throwing them to the Lions to be fed on. It is suppose to be 'OUR FATHER LAND' but looks like our fathers have worked in vain because what they planned for us is no longer available, the dreams they had for us has been stolen by the grim reapers.

When we gained independence,we thought it was out freedom,we thought all our sufferings would end and we'll be able to change our own country for the better. But it really was true that we were free. We were free from the ones who didn't understand our dreams from the very start and then we placed our dreams in the hands of people WE THOUGHT we understand us because they're part of us, but what did we get in return? BETRAYAL.we were betrayed by our own very kind.  I thought they said a lion can't feed on its own kind. I guess there were really disguising wolves among this  flock of sheeps.

Kórópe, can simply be used as an example to describe Nigeria as a whole.

 The president as the driver who decides how many people he wants in his kórópe and how he wants his kórópe to be.

The politicians as the conductors, an that special from seat which always and is the most comfortable place to be seated in a kórópe belongs to the rich and popular individuals in the nation.

And the back seat, the place where we all struggle to get the most comfortable seats.

Trying one way or another to make sure we get in.

I can keep going about this all long but I'm very sure I'm not the first person writing about this.

This backstabbing behavior of our so called leaders who promise heaven and Earth to get on the political positions and then turn out to do little to nothing of all they've promised.

This unlawful attitude of the rich which they use in slapping the poor on the face all because they know that nothing can't be done with money in a country where corruption has become the resting pillow for our beloved nation.

This country where freedom of rights are no longer practiced and some individuals have actually become more supreme than the law,

Supremacy of the law is dead....

And I'm sure I won't be there last.

But then.

I rest my pen...