Wait first, why do so many people seem to be making excuses for yahoo boys with some creating unnecessary diversion all in a bid to shield Yahoo criminals from their criminality?
I mean, other times (more times than I can remember, actually) that I call out politicians here on this wall, how come no one comes out to remind me that the politicians are from amongst us, that I should equally call out the fraudulent petrol pump attendant, the corrupt civil servants who ask for bribe before moving your file etc but only yesterday that I called out those despicable criminals (murderers, actually, seeing as they have now added ritual killing to it), a whole lot of people jumped out and insisted I use that one post dedicated to yahoo boys to start calling out the same politicians I call out almost everyday ?
Some say I should blame bad government instead of blaming yahoo boys and I ask;
You that is asking me to blame bad govt and leave yahoo boys alone, are you not affected by bad govt too? Why have you not taken to yahoo too?
Should we equally start making excuses for Boko haram, bandits and the marauding herdsmen who people like Sheik Gumi has repeatedly argued are victims of bad govt too?
Should we stop frowning at every crime and criminals simply because we are experiencing bad govt???
Yahoo boys hardly steal from our corrupt politicians but go about stealing all the savings from our old pensioner parents, people’s hard earned money and even committing gruesome murder in the name of ritual killing, yet, the people who make excuses for them hardly offer the same excuses for other criminals and murderers like Boko Haram, the bandits, rapists, armed robbers, terrorists etc who are all victims of the same failed system.
Why is this so? Why do we defend and make excuses for only yahoo boys and not every other criminals even when everyone living in Nigeria including Charles Ogbu, are all victims of the Nigerian failed system?
Am I missing something here?
Charles Ogbu
