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To: macavity who wrote (54398)	10/18/2004 1:28:40 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Why I stopped worrying and started enjoying Nigeria Illustrative case. I drive back to Kaduna south. Traffic is more chaotic than normal. I asked the driver a Muslim Hausa. "Oga dis traffic don heavy oh!" He says: "Na today Ramadan all office close by 2:30 afternoon." A few minutes later someone calls in the car two-way radio. "Kaduna office please come in over" "With you over" Kaduna office replies. A message in Igbo language mixed with English words. 'trouble' and 'this part of the town' comes in the two-way radio "Nawal o! replies Kaduna office. Which is loosely translated as: WOW! Driver tells me. "Dis people say there's trouble in some part of the town." I say. "You no hear Igbo, why you know?" "I pick small. They say there's trouble in some part of the town." He picks the mike and say: "Kaduna office. Which part of town trouble ide?" Kaduna office, asks: "Who be dat?" He says "Nasiru Muhammed." Kaduna office says: "Stand by" and go silent. One guy comes in the two way radio saying: "I'm near the bridge, there's no way I go pass. I return back." Kaduna office asks: "You no go come to office?" "I no go sleep for office o!" The guy coming from the south found an excuse to go home with the car and went back. My driver says: "We go get trouble o!" I appraise the situation. I'm in Constitution Rd. 1Km from the next roundabout going south. All traffic (due to office closing at 2:30 is going south is clogging the roundabout. We have passed 4 'Tokumbos' that overheated in the slow traffic. Tokumbo are second hand cars imported into Nigeria with European cooling systems. The D of Germany, the NL of Holland or the CH of Switzerland still in the back of the cars. They can't stand the heat of a slow traffic and die like flies. Which in its turn slows the traffic even more. People knowing there won't be enough public mini-buses start walking and you see a crowd walking by the side of the road. They can move faster than the slow traffic. That causes even more alarm since they appear to be converging to somewhere. Just because a couple of guys were using the slow traffic to go home, using some fake alarming situation, it could have started a situation of a herd disbanding. Inside the car I started putting that situation I was in into a worldwide perspective: Add together, those travelling advices posted by embassies, media believing word of the mouth and Live Breaking news of CNN. AND MOST IMPORTANT people using a situation as an excuse that fit their own agenda and you have the "trouble" that you see everyday.

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