Perry Brimah: #WorldCup2014 – Nigeria simply deserved to lose

by Perry Brimah

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I rejoiced in our loss. We deserved it for more reasons than one. We are a nation at loss. We are a lost nation.

Why did I tell my friends that I hoped and prayed Nigeria soon got knocked out of the World cup? Why did I jump when France scored its first goal against Nigeria, and dance when they scored the second? The answer is not that I am not patriotic; on the contrary, I love Nigerian life as much or more than any. It’s simple – Nigeria did not and does not deserve to be at the World cup and does not deserve any sort of ‘victory’ from it.

Where are our girls? Our daughters have been in the jungle, raped and killed by ‘Shekau’ for three long months and our adults are running around a pitch, tapping a leather ball and hoping to dance victory dances? Do we think of all the girls with ‘Shekau’ who are fans of the national team and would have loved to be watching the matches at home as we are? Do we imagine how life is for them… now they have practically acclimatized and accepted their destiny as the ‘prostitutes’ of randy terrorists? Do we imagine what their families – also soccer fans – are going through as we relax and enjoy the world cup games? If we did, where is the evidence?

If it was any other nation, our players would have requested a minute extra for prayers for all the victims of Boko Haram – the Nigerian terrorist group that operates with arms and ammunition from the nations armory and abducted our girls and has continued to kill and bomb freely for four years with under the full impunity of our state security services. But no, our players simply went to play without any respect or compassion publicly showed for the victims of state tolerated and sponsored terror. No, our players did not wear perhaps, red-colored wrist bands in solidarity with the victims of Boko Haram. No, our players did not carry #BringBackOurGirls placards in Brazil, and of course, no, they did not do the ultimate – refuse to play, damning and staking all to stand for justice.

 What use would a victory have been for us? Who is ‘us?’ What nation do we have that deserves a victory? Are we a people? What global opportunities do we expect to gain from a football victory? What globe? Is it the same global players who came to Nigeria to allegedly help us rescue our girls, but rather switched to installing their agenda in Nigeria immediately they arrived, forgetting the mission for which they were given a limited invitation? Is it for accolades and credits from the same world that has sponsored the destruction of Libya, Syria, Iraq, Bosnia and what have you… that we want to please by proving we can play football?

If these innocent girls were kidnapped in any other nation on earth, an armed search party of thousands of civilian volunteers would have set out three months ago to comb the jungles of and around Sambisa for these girls and the hundreds of other girls and boys abducted before and after April 14, 2014; but not Nigeria: we all sat down, at best, carried placards or sent out tweets with a certain hashtag, and then we bought popcorn and coca cola and sat back to watch Nigeria ‘win.’

I rejoiced in our loss. We deserved it for more reasons than one. We are a nation at loss. We are a lost nation.

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One comment

  1. Anybody linking the World Cup exit of the Super Eagles to the “# Bring Back Your Girls” needs psychiatric evaluation. The writer suggestion is that our lives should come to a halt. everything must come to a standstill, and we should hold our breaths and quit breathing in honor and celebration of the barbaric conduct of islamic awusa people. I other words, we should accept capitulation to pressure of awusa/fulani islamic terror.
    It is difficult to figure out reasons why Nigerians rationalize events with their hearts rather than with their heads. Investigations are still in progress to determine the circumstances of the so-called “abduction” of children in a Chibok school. Until the reports are published, we cannot dismiss as mere speculations claims that the girls’ disappearance was stage-managed by awusa people to squelch the military campaign. How evil these awusas are to use poor innocent children as human shield for criminals and murderers under siege.
    The tone of this articles is in line with the insane clamor by Northerners for the rest of society to submit to the will and wishes of greedy, senseless awusa/fulani: We must “adjust” to a different lifestyle, compromise their security, and give up their farmlands to accommodate the stone-age cattle-herding culture of barbaric fulanis and appease them. Only an idiot will make a submission that we change our way of life,dance to the whims and caprices of a cursed barbaric clan who refuse to be saved from themselves. Perry Brimah needs to be more serious.

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