Renouncing My Nigerian Citizenship     

Written by[b] Kay Soyemi (Esq.)    [/b]
Friday, 09 January 2009
It is with a certain amount of glee that I write this, even if my musings are tinged with a deep regret.

A deep regret in having to bear a name that clearly identifies me as a 419ner, a moniker that ensures that I cannot deny an ancestral lineage that is deeply rooted in cowardice, sheer malice, corruption and vindictiveness; a nationality that says I belong to the largest gathering of mediocres ruled by unintelligent reprobates; a genetic misfortune that ensures that I have an accent thicker than ogbóno soup; a conceptual mistake created in heaven and consolidated in the fraudulent 1914 act of amalgamation that labeled me at birth as Nigerian. Maybe it is time I start to curse the accident of birth that lumps me together with the likes of you called Okiro, Tunde, Tafa, Kike, Lucky, Chuckwu, Onanefe, Zanaib, Alao, Bunu, Ibrahim, Andy or Amadi, your so-called leaders and the thieving cohorts holding the country to ransom.

Perhaps, it is time I renounce the citizenship conferred upon me by parental birth and assume the right of inheritance conferred upon me by virtue of my place of birth; albeit in a land foreign to the birth of my parents. Perhaps, I would be justified in denying my association with you, by heritage and nationality as I have not seen any virtue worthy of emulation in you as a Nigerian.

Certainly, I have seen naught in you to accept that you are principled as a person. Surely, I have seen enough in you to know that you have no principles when the matters of money are discussed. Definitely, I know enough of you to know that all you want to do is accumulate money and wealth that you cannot spend in ten lifetimes to the detriment of your neighbors’ descendants. There is no doubting the gleam and lust in your eyes when matters of avarice are in the offing, just simply because you are a Nigerian.

Sadly, the only thing that matters to you is to moan about your pathetic lot in life; your miserable existence in life as a qualified Nigerian; and your weak leaders while you await the opportunity to demonstrate your own unprincipled and unbridled lust for the opportunity to lie, cheat and steal from your fellow Nigerians. Surely, your genetic penchant for mischief and no-good has already railroaded your for a life devoid of principles and explains why, in the face of all incontrovertible evidence to the contrary and all evidences pointing to you as ‘unintelligent mugús’, your leaders are not concerned about your ire. 

Definitely, you are a disgrace to the creed of joy tagged ‘black and proud’, and only take pride in masquerading as a misnomer called a Nigerian. That falsely glorified being who pompously looks down on his less affluent kindred simply because the other fellow does not wear suits or big agbadás and babánrigas whilst expediently and blissfully ignoring the fact that you are no better than your very own neighbor.

The caricature of a colonial slave master, the relic of the colonial rule that you represent and the buffoonish clown that you flawlessly bear a resemblance to is so apparent in you as a, yes, Nigerian, who disdainfully look down on his very own because the fellow cannot lisp through his nose and would rather open his mouth widely to chant the words, ‘shokolokbangóshe’; is so obvious in the way you deride your fellow ignorant Nigerians who do not possess a lot of alphabets after their names; unlike you, who knows very well that the size of your medulla oblongata bears no correlation the alphanumeric letterings that you purchased to augment your own unimportant existence in life and to justify your pomposity and miserable existence in life.

Yea, I say, shame on you, Nigerian!

I boldly say this because I have seen the best of you. I have seen and know the mettle of the clueless and visionless gathering of vultures and carrion-eating cabal who leads you. I understand your vainglorious mindset that casts you as livestock waiting to dip your snouts in the trough of corruption. Yes, farm animals, you all are for all you do is grunt and squeal about your pathetic lot in life whilst you are led knowingly and unerringly to the abattoir for your own slaughter!

If you like, you can moan and curse me for all the rightful nomenclature I have attached to your heritage. It will not bother me; the same way ALL your grunting and squealing has had no impact upon your leaders. The ruled and the rulers are no different in your country; thieves of the same inclinations – aves of the same plumage!

I am not asking you, ham-fisted Nigerians, for your encomiums or vilifications for that matter because I know all that you can do is rant like ants, make storms in your tea cups and don the toga of super-cyber warriors without the guts to back your actions to words. I know you ALL lack the temerity to match your words to action and this are proven by the failure of two events in Nigeria towards the end of 2008.

December 29 passed in Nigeria without anyone joining me outside of Aso Rock to demand for the liberation of your failed country from the shackles of a thieving brigandage and cabal called “government” in your country. Similarly, none of you made any fuss about the muzzling of the Nigeria Rally in Benue State organized by L. Shilgba. None of you ever raised an eyebrow when your best are hounded into jail or killed outright by your thieving elites. How could you, in any case, for you are all genetically malformed and deformed for the single purpose of being corrupt and awaiting the chance for perfidy.

I gleefully abandon you to your filth. I happily renounce anything that suggests that I could have any kinship with you. I gladly reject the moniker of 419 with which you are irreparably tarnished. I joyfully decry everything that shouts Nigerian about you.

I look forward to reading more about your persecution and disinheritance by your rulers and leaders. As a matter of fact, I look forward to hearing more of the woes that will surely betide you as Nigerians in the year 2009 and forever more. Indeed, I pray to see more of your tears as Nigerians in the coming years.

I fervently pray that you will not wake up from your collective slumber until the future of your unborn generations are fully mortgaged for the lifetime of penury they richly deserve because of your lethargy today.

Please do not wish me well or a Happy New Year as I do not wish you as Nigerians any good. Indeed, I curse everything about you for as long as your best are the worst of humanity. Lastly, I beseech you not to offer your filthy and stupid prayers to God for succor because he is tired of the impotent creature you represent, the whining, whingeing, crawling, syncopathic, cretinous, cowardly naives aka Nigerians.

God, please damn the Nigerian in my blood.


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What is its name? The name of the Nigerian citizenship renouncee?

a nationality that says I belong to the largest gathering of mediocres ruled by unintelligent reprobates; a genetic misfortune that ensures that I have an accent thicker than ogbóno soup; a conceptual mistake created in heaven and consolidated in the fraudulent 1914 act of amalgamation that labeled me at birth as Nigerian

Nna men,the man sabi yabbis no be small.

Seun:

What is its name? The name of the Nigerian citizenship renouncee?

His name is Kay Soyemi Esq let me get the link
I feel sorry for the guy
all this self hatred
was he even breastfed?

Let him be, he's just another attention LovePeddler. Nigeria has 150 million people and that's more than we need. My message all non-patriotic Nigerians: Please renounce your citizenship.

we thank God, someone pitied him and finally granted him residency so he doesnt know how to announce it.

Ras Pwn:

Let him be, he's just another attention LovePeddler. Nigeria has 150 million people and that's more than we need. My message all non-patriotic Nigerians: Please renounce your citizenship.

Exactly!
who misses him?
If it were Wole Soyinka or some other Noble Nigerian some of us may be saddened but not that no name Soyemi of a person
rubbish

davidylan:

we thank God, someone pitied him and finally granted him residency so he doesnt know how to announce it.

maybe na the thick ogbono soup accent cause am.
I don laugh taya for that expression

i'm really

Exactly!
who misses him?
If it were Wole Soyinka or some other Noble Nigerian some of us may be saddened but not that no name Soyemi of a person
rubbish

I'll miss him. How can you say that about a brother?. Others like Nuzo and Kobojunkie may soon follow suit.

Sir,

I have sojourned outside of Nigeria (against my will) for the last 18 years, but can galantly say I have given back to your country far more than I ever received from it since my parents paid for all aspects of my education until I had to pick the gauntlet myself.

I have a whole communith in Agege who daily draws free water from a borehole (not kongá) I sank in 1999. When I went home to observe the (s)elections in 2007, not a single one of the beneficiaries had any idea whom I was.

I also have 3 tenants also living rent free in the property. They have been there since 1989 and their teenage children have no clue who I am. I rarely speak to them even on phone as I do not wish to interfere with their lives nor make them feel that they owe me anything. It is for the glory of mankind.

I am not registered to vote in Nigeria and never sought to influence the opinions of those people whom I know would gladly take such 'advice'.

When I was approached to pledge my support for Pat Utomi (not by the man), I had only one question for the contact, "please tell me what the man had done as an individual to the commoners in Nigeria without the expectation of a payback?" Since there was no response from the contact one way or the other and I knew very little of him apart from his business credentials, I did not feel obliged to follow blindly.

Dear Sir,

I hope that answers your question.

As to the other part of your question, what does it matter if I am a second-class citizen in the country of my birth and I employ 34 people whereas I remain a second-class citizen in the country of my parents and still have to stare abject poverty in the face daily?

Kay Soyemi

His response to naysayers.

the guy could be said to have certain points

he just over stretched its relevance

my policy

if he felt he was helping effect a positive change in certain lives in naija

shut up and keep the good work

the almighty would repay him

since he wants to bounce

adios amigo

I am sure many nigerians feel the way this guys feels and i know many in their bedrooms will be wishing they get citizenship of their hosts countries.The truth of the matter is if this story is true then this man is just frustrated like many of us to the happenings in the country and the news that emanate daily from the country can deflate whatever iota of patriotism that is left in one.

From the letter it seems the man organized a rally in abuja hoping people to join him in demonstrating against the govt but nobody came.If it is true then it is the proverbial last straw that broke the carmels back.

Personally i will not castigate the man for saying his mind.After all many nigerians are ever ready to throw away their naija citizenship for another countries own.The difference is that they will not announce it and give reasons for it like this man did.Are we going to deny thye fact that most middle class nigerians(if they still exists) and rich nigerians these days prefer to give birth to their kids outside the country just to give the kids foreign citizenship?

it is only when you know how to thief that nigerians remember you. our attitude to pple who give to the community is bad. it is not that we should praise them but to give honor to whom it is due. wow!!! he sank a borehole and much more. . . i commend him for that. the govt can't even give us a konga. the water is always yellow 'sigh'

anyway he made very good points. at some point some of us would love to do something for the community. . . we will know then what his feeling were like.

nigerians should teach their children how to say 'thank you'. charity begins at home. our atttitude to pple who are doing things for us should change. nobody seems to appreciate what other pple are doing. that's one reason we don't get much in nig.

Good for him that he finally pitched his tent where his heart is.

Osisi the guy sabi yab true true
there is something thicker than ogbono. maybe accent as thick as okooh soup.

@ topic

So? He is free to decide where he belongs!

Bye Bye to the person that renounces his Nigerian citienship.
Abeg oga wetin he do 4 naija?

If the man was someone important like Wole Soyinka, Phillip Eweawgali or Chinua Achebe then that would have meant something.
I doubt any of us would even remember him by next month, talkless next year.

Anyway Bye Bye. Hope he have a wonderful life in whatever country he resides in.

Why are the men the ones embarrassing themselves abroad?

who is he?
so u employ 34 people and their children dont know u?
pls when he gets his head out of his ass notify me
*rolls eyes*

***************hisss****************
at least our population has reduced by one. please, whos renouncing again
next person please

rubbish

Hey, i dont think the guy is really renouncing his citizenship. He is only thrilling us with his literary prowess. It is the same way too, there is another guy on this thread that is asking whether NIGERIA IS THE CAPITAL OF HELL.
What these guys are trying to do is to get us to think think think of the situation we find ourselves in and do something about it. they are writing allegories or parables about our beloved country.
But on a more serious note, will many of us not renounce our Nigerian citizenship if offered a foreign one. Lets be very honest here. Okay let me put it another way, if we do not have to renounce it and are allowed dual citizenship, will we not accept it. I WILL ACCEPT DUAL CITIZENSHIP O, I AM BEING TRUTHFUL.

hillarious, good luck to him

Please do not wish me well or a Happy New Year as I do not wish you as Nigerians any good. Indeed, I curse everything about you for as long as your best are the worst of humanity. Lastly, I beseech you not to offer your filthy and stupid prayers to God for succor because he is tired of the impotent creature you represent, the whining, whingeing, crawling, syncopathic, cretinous, cowardly naives aka Nigerians.

I wish him well and happy new year.

Is that whai iz shouting all about?

tkb417:

***************hisss****************
at least our population has reduced by one. please, whos renouncing again
next person please

rubbish

lol