New Year Blues

Happy new Year, darlings!! We have been absolutely blessed to be able to cross-over into 2012. All na God, and on behalf of all of us, I thank Him.

This year started with a bang for me and that's no lie. My family home was visited by armed robbers on the 1st at 2:30am. That was some scary shit, I swear! We had all just gone to bed after spending time with the fireworks and calling friends and loved ones to wish them a happy new year. Safe in my blissful state of excitement in seeing 2012, I felt so jarred when my mom rushed into my bedroom to alert me to the gunshots that seemed like they were coming from right outside my window!

"Wait! Those are gunshots?!" I jumped up so fast, my head spun

"Hush baby, you are screaming, they will hear. Get on the floor, lie down flat" My mom whispered


"I thought our neighbours were still busy with their own fireworks oh. Are they in the house beside us?" My eyes were as wide as saucers and I was shaking like a leaf.

"No baby. They are in our compound and your dad is holding down the forte. He's shooting as well to scare them away. Let's hope the Police arrive fast, your brothers already called them. Let us pray, baby. God will get us out of this. Your brothers and the others are standing guard at all the entrances so that they don't come into the house." 

Sharp sharp I started to kabash better than any MFM member could ever hope to do. Ehn... see me skiboboing and quoting Bible verses I thought I had forgotten. God must have known I was about to burst into truly hysterical tears because 20minutes later, my brothers came in to ask us to relax because the hooligans had gone and the Police had not even smelt the entrance of the estate. Na wa oh!!

My darlings, my life is filled with drama so much that I fear even my funeral when I am in my hundreds would smack of drama as well. Wish there was a way I could update y'all on that too. Who knows? There just might be. I should ask God when I get up there and yes, I will make heaven because I'm too scared of hell not to and I respect my God too well.

As if sey that one no do, our oga Jona had to finally spring this fuel subsidy removal rubbish on us! On the 1st day of the first month of a new year. Who does that????!!!! How can we suddenly start buying petrol for N143.00 from N65.00 per litre??? WTH??? So our able President cannot continue providing us with the fuel subsidy because he wants to pay off our national debt but he can allocate billions to the aso rock for feeding and living expenses? Oshi!!!

This is absolute crap!! The most annoying thing is the fact that millions of Nigerians sit in their homes constructing funny broadcasts about the issue, then send it out to get everyone laughing over an issue guaranteed to cripple a lot of homes. Electricity is zero to none! Most people power their generators with this petrol, how do they cope? Minimum wage is a pathetic sum which I happily dash to my cleaning lady at the office. We practically have no basic amenities... Light we no get, water we no get, good road na Nollywood movie! Citizens be sending out stupid broadcasts cracking jokes about serious issues, so by the time people get laughing about this, they forget how serious it is and simply accept it. Balderdash!!!

I seriously applaud those in Abuja that trooped into Eagle Square in their hundreds to sign the protest register. I wish I could have been in Abuja to join in despite the arrests of citizens calmly exercising their rights. Where do these people get off arresting innocent citizens exactly? I don't get it!!
I am ready to join in any protests being held here in Lagos. Note that!! We all have fundamental human rights as citizens of this country! If they think they are frustrating me, they have another think coming!!! Nobody, absolutely nobody has the right to intimidate me in my motherland nor anywhere else for that matter. As long as I am within my rights! To think that they also seized the register the people were signing. Just what are these people smoking?

I am Miz, I am Ibo, I am Nigerian and I join my voice to say "ENOUGH!!"  Nonsense and ingredients!!!

I am so sorry that I have been so serious today but I am truly pissed off at the state of affairs of my beloved Naija. Lots of rubbish that we are having to stomach from our rulers and it makes me wonder what we would stomach if this were still a military regime. This is a pseudo-democracy!

I need to go calm down so I can sleep. Work resumes tomorrow, and it will not be pretty seeing people hustling even harder than usual just to eke a living out of the crappy situation. I am going to have to give a lot of people rides tomorrow to help in the little way that I can. One hundred and sixty-five naira (N165.00)... tahhhh!!!!!!

Happy new year again, my Loves. May this year bring better tidings for us, IJN.

Love and Hershey Kisses,

MIZ