WILL SOME NIGERIANS RETURN ALIVE? WE PRAY FOR THEM.

I know a lot of Nigerians that traveled abroad for greener pastures a long time ago and have still not returned home after a ten or fifteen year sojourn. This is highly abnormal as the friends and family awaiting their return has either given up hope or resigned their fate to God. Year after year go by and these men and women still haven’t come back home.

The reason is not far fetched, greener pastures as they used to think before they left home has become…not so green after all. But why don’t they come back and resume their roles here in Nigeria? Let me give you some reasons.

Some of our men made so much mouth that they will come back with millions of dollars as if it was a case of packing dollars from the streets. These men may be hanging on, preferring to exist in a foreign land than come back here for friends to laugh at them, “he came back empty handed hahahah”

Some, lets face it stole money from friends and family to run away to foreign lands. This group of people find it difficult to come and face the people they deceived and ran away with their money, maybe they are waiting for years to heal the hurt and embarrassment they caused everyone. There was one guy who emptied the cash in his master’s shop; another sold all the drinks in the truck he was driving as a company salesman, sold the drink cases and escaped with the whole money to Spain, needless to say the police are still waiting for him in Nigeria.

Some are in foreign jails for one reason or the other, drug trafficking, 419, armed robbery etc. Some are serving lengthy terms. They will be back as soon as they are done.

Finally and sadly too, some are dead. Some died trying to cross into Spain through Morocco. Some died in the heat and thirst of the North African desert, some shot by the janjaweed, and some shot by security agents or armed robbers. As their remains were never found, their people will still be awaiting their return. Stories abound of many dried up corpses bearing Nigerian passports in the deserts.

Sad, very sad for the giants of Africa.