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“I value my life…” – Nigerian who doesn’t want to return from Ukraine explains why he’ll rather endure war overseas than come back to Nigeria
Okay, here’s a story I’d really love to hear your thoughts about.
If you follow the news, then you must have undoubtedly heard about what is going on between Russia and Ukraine. While our hearts were and are still breaking for Ukraine and the unimaginable things the citizens of that country are having to go through, another set of news reports started coming out. Apparently even in the face of war, racism still stands.
News reports started coming out of black people especially Africans not being allowed to leave Ukraine on buses and trains because those automobiles were deemed for “Ukrainian only”. In one harrowing tale, Alexander Somto Orah, 25, recounted how he and his friends weren’t allowed to get on a train because they weren’t black. “I was like, ‘You are picking only white people!’” Somto said he told the officials. He and his friends briefly made it onto a second train headed to Poland but they were quickly kicked off, with officials telling them it was “Ukrainians only.” Somto said to the official: “You say Ukrainians only, but I don’t see you checking passports. I see you picking white people only.” According to him, the train was not even filled before they left, and they still never took them. This is just one of a dozen tales we’ve heard of the harsh discrimination and racism Africans are experiencing while trying to flee Ukraine.
But will you believe me if I tell you that there are people who would rather put up with this discrimination and go through all of this mess, even a war, overseas than come back home? One such person is Lukman Ibrahim, a Nigerian student who was able to flee Ukraine into Poland. In a new interview with Channels Television, Lukman said some things that I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on. Without further ado, let’s get into it!
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Speaking on a Zoom conversation with Channels TV, Lukman Ibrahim said he would rather be caught in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine than come back home to Nigeria. When asked why, he said:
I will seek for student permit and continue my life from here because home is not safe, everybody knows this. It’s not. So I’d rather continue my life from here.
Do you know the current problem Nigeria is facing concerning fuel scarcity, everything that is going on in the country right now? So now you now expect me to come home and face the same thing when I just survived a war. I will never do that. Like, my mental health is more important than me saying ‘Oh yes, I know I have a home country’ but I will not do that to myself. It’s not safe. So I’ll rather pursue my career from here and take it higher than drag myself back. No, I will not do that.
I value my life more than every other thing, that’s it. And me like this as an artiste everyday, you can’t even – look at my hair! I can’t even dress like this in my home country. Everybody knows this. I make music for living and I train people on how to trade on a daily basis. That’s what I do. Now for me like this to walk around in my own country, it’s not even possible. Now like this the war broke out, we were supposed to run to our country for safety but majority of my guys, everybody (ran to) Germany, France,
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Belgium. I was like no, if I have to run, I’ll rather get my stay here rather than run back to my country. Or I’ll go to another country that I don’t know what’s going on over there. We’re all here risking our lives but going back to our country is more risky than staying here.
Wow! I know say Nigeria get e own wahala but e don bad reach like this?
I’d really love to know what you think. Do you agree with Lukman? If you were in his shoes, would you rather come back to Nigeria or remain displaced over there? Let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment on my Jide Okonjo Facebook post.
