“I live in a country where I don’t have to worry about electricity and other basic necessities of life. My kids go to the best schools for free. I have a permanent, lifetime, tenured employment with no retirement age, and can choose to live here for the rest of my life because my children won’t even go back to Nigeria.” — Farooq Kperogi
But for the misfortune of knowing the existence of this oaf, courtesy of the social media, I will die believing it’s impossible for an idiot to be a professor. Beside believing life begins and ends with living in America, this fool is under a rather funny impression that Nigerians who are dignified to remain and toil to build Nigeria are less smart than ingrates like him who have no problem getting the best from Nigeria only to abandon it when it matters the most. Not even the fact that most freeborn citizens will never swap their citizenship with a privileged life of “electricity and best schools for the kids” as 2nd class citizens could make sense to him. Idiots like Kperogi could easily find very comfortable, the option of being neither fish nor fowl — just floating in-between. This fool will die trying not to be a Nigerian and doomed never to be the American he’s convinced is the greatest gift one could get from life.
So damn what if Kperogi’s life ambition is to be an American and as far away from Nigeria as a Jet could carry him! Good spirited Nigerians, those grateful for being schooled with proceeds from Nigeria’s resources and the hard labour of its founding fathers will gladly raise money to charter Spacecrafts to evacuate the likes of Kperogi to planets of their choices even if for the minimum consideration of allowing patriotic Nigerians committed to the idea of building a functional country a little room to be more practical rather than the theoretical hopefuls sophisticated idiots like Kperogi are insisting.
Having said that, what’s Kperogi’s obsession with Nigeria if he has made his choice and the choice is America? Are we asking for too much from this accidental marital discharge to allow those who are yet to see the heaven he’s seeing in America to remain in peace and concentrate on building a country they will be proud of — a country that will offer the next generation enough comfort to resist the unpalatable option of the allure of self-imposed slavery? And this fool is yet to even understand that USA is never a permanent home but a temporary abode to treacherous idiots like him who are subjected to periodic re-evaluation which terms are determined by exigencies of the moment. If Kperogi like, let him turn green to compliment his green card, he will forever remain a guest in the USA.
Now that Kperogi has made his status very clear, I think it’s time our security agencies begin to deal with him as they will a foreigner who has reasonably proven himself a clear danger to the peace of Nigeria. I’m sure there’s more to Kperogi’s Facebook post in which he claimed President Buhari has killed Col. Sambo Dasuki while under a lawful government custody. I don’t believe a “professor of journalism” — even a “SUEGBE” like Kperogi — could fail to assess the possible consequences of such unreasonable propagation of dangerous falsehood.
In the usual manner he feeds gullible Nigerians seditious lies, Kperogi claimed a “reliable source” informed him of the death of Col. Dasuki and that the “vindictive, bloodthirsty” President Buhari and his inner circle have decided to conceal the story until after the election. Kperogi concluded his inciting post with a call for civil disobedience. In his words: “Well, I’ve done my bit to call attention to the evil fraud this man (Buhari) represents. It’s up to Nigerians who live in Nigeria to either confront him or live with his evil.”
Considering it’s a highly charged and volatile period of election, it’s agreeable that after losing all hope of pulling President Buhari down using his skills and contacts as a journalist, Kperogi has resorted to use an easier option of manipulating the sentiments of gullible Nigerians to incite them and provoke deadly riots using the volatility of the election period as a convenient tool. The reality is, Kperogi’s“reliable source” which he relied on to write and publish the inciting post under review was nothing more than an undated and unverifiable audio clip that’s there in the phone of any average social media user.
It’s inconceivable that a journalist, a professor of journalism at that, could go this low to fabricate and publish for public consumption, stories that could easily stimulate public sentiments and possibly precipitate an orgy of violence which magnitude is unimaginable. It’s my candid opinion that Kperogi’s deliberate idiocy should be handled with the seriousness it deserve. The USA he proudly flashes at every given opportunity as his earthly heaven will sure disapprove of his constant display of rude and insensitive kind of journalism. I’m sure there are laws that could be exploited to improve if not to reinvent this boofoon.
Culled from Facebook wall.
