Long before the xenophobic hounds currently crucifying Chidimma Adetshina, the Miss Universe Nigeria winner, began their luciferic game, a gang of wicked British sailors had showed the world the worst form of treachery. In 1812, the British ship Isabella, captained by the clown George Higton, was shipwrecked off Eagle Island, a part of the Falkland Islands. All the 54 souls on board, including the Scottish Lieutenant Richard Lundin, stood in peril of isolation from the rest of the world, if not starvation and death. In desperation, they sent a few men to sea in hopes of reaching Rio de Janeiro, but it proved to be a futile dream. But help came eight weeks later when an American ship hunting seals was drawn to the sight of the sailors’ signal fires. But there was a snag: America was officially at war with Britain.
Still, Charles Barnard, captain of the US ship Nanina, placed humanity over nationalism. He took the distraught Britons on board, then launched a hunting expedition with certain of his men on the nearby New Island in order to guarantee adequate feeding for the now expanded number of passengers. However, when Barnard and his men returned to Eagle Island, the Nanina and the rescued Britons were nowhere in sight.
During the apartheid years when Black South Africans were treated worse than animals on their own land, Nigeria mobilized the world in active resistance to the colonial despoilers. Among other acts of unprecedented support for the oppressed people, Nigeria set up the National Committee Against Apartheid (NACAP) in 1960, provided $5 million to the ANC and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) annually, set up the Southern Africa Relief Fund (SAFR), the “Mandela tax” to which Nigerian students skipping lunch and the Nigerian government contributed $10.5 million, with General Obasanjo personally contributing $3,000, while civil servants and public officers gave 2% from their monthly pay. Between 1973 and 1978, Nigeria reportedly contributed $39,040 to the UN Educational and Training Programme for South Africa. It boycotted the 1976 Olympics and the 1979 Commonwealth games, nationalized Barclays Bank, and refused to sell oil to the apartheid regime, losing some $41 billion in the process. From 1960 to 1995, Nigeria spent over $61 billion to liberate the same people whose children are now killing, incinerating, robbing and raping Nigerians with demonic relish. Today, because of the alleged drug dealing by a few Nigerians, South Africans take extreme delight in murdering Nigerians and looting their shops.
To hear the low-IQ hounds calling themselves Progressive Forces of South Africa speak, you can be forgiven for thinking that South Africa is peopled exclusively by lunatics, but that isn’t the case. These hounds wrote a petition to the organizers of the Miss Universe pageant, seeking the disqualification of Adetshina, the same woman they and their compatriots had hounded out of South Africa due to their raw hatred for Nigerians, from the competition taking place in Mexico this year. This reminds me of the ruffians in the Yoruba proverb who rejected a piece of meat for being too bony, yet would not cast it away because of the meat nestled within the bones. Hear the mob: “We are writing this letter on behalf of everyone who stands for justice to plead with you, Miss Universe, as an organisation, to reconsider the contestant, Miss Nigeria Universe, and if possible, to cancel her entry..The Nigerian Embassy granted the mentioned contestant a diplomatic passport, which ensured a swift escape for herself and her mother, granting her the opportunity to be a contestant in Miss Universe Nigeria.”
When, with the active connivance of their government, these hounds persecuted Adetshina, a lady born in their country and therefore a citizen by law, the lady took the honourable path of returning to her country of origin, where she subsequently won the Miss Universe Nigeria pageant. You would think that the lady having vanished from their sight, these xenophobic murderers would then rest. But no: the hatred in their souls is Lucifer-operated. First, like perpetual crybabies, they started grumbling that Adetshina had won the Miss Universe Nigeria pageant unjustly, as if that was any of their business. They also launched a taxi-hailing war, trying to wreck Nigerian businesses, apart from daily denouncing Ms. Adetshina, her mother and other Nigerians, as if they are responsible for South Africa being the HIV headquarters of the world and the rape capital of Africa where pregnancy by even ten-year-olds is routine.
This week, the Department of Home Affairs announced that Ms. Adetshina and her mother’s South African identity and travel documents would be revoked after they failed to prove the validity of those documents. But one thing struck me. In all the months of hate campaign launched against Adetshina and her mother, the South African government has been consistent in its use of the modality of doubt. It has consistently used the phrase, “may have committed identity fraud,” indicating that it has no definitive evidence of fraud but is only fishing for evidence in order to demonise the accused and provide yet another justification for the brutal murder of Nigerians and other foreign nationals. By consistently demonizing Adetshina under the guise of “enforcing the law,” like a certain murderous Mzansi proclaims with demonic fervor on the social media platform Nairaland, talking like a lunatic let loose on a bustling market by sleepy guards, South Africa is setting the stage for the murder of Adetshina. The killers of Lucky Dube thought he was Nigerian. It is time the Nigerian government fought for Adetshina!
On October 27, Adenike Fapohunda, a Nigerian-born South African citizen, wrote of her nasty encounter with South African Immigration officials. Hear her: “In August 2024, due to online bullying and heckling that resulted in an investigation into the validity of her citizenship, Chidinma Adetshina dropped out of the Miss South Africa pageant. Two weeks after the incident, I stood at the immigration desk at O. R. Tambo international airport about to leave South Africa. After inspecting my passport, the home affairs official asked me if my name was Nigerian and then enquired as to how I got my citizenship. ‘Not even one South African name,’ she said with a look of disgust.”
Imagine South Africans, of all people, treating Nigerians with such scorn. As my people say, “we need a sculptor, then the woodpecker shows up.” What effrontery. In all the days the crab has been making oil, it has never filled a pot. The crab makes its oil only in stagnant water; it will be quickly washed away in a stream. South Africa will be Nigeria’s junior for as long as this world subsists. How sad that poor leadership has given South African criminals the opportunity to pursue their insane obsession with Nigerians! These self-haters who hounded a Black girl from a pageant, then awarded their beauty crown to a Caucasian, accuse Israel of genocide while actively seeking to murder an innocent citizen simply on account of her Nigerian roots! They are beyond redemption.
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