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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