I'M SUING NIGERIA FOR KILLING HER

I know how much I’ve invested in you. Is it the all night wake or the time spent moving around just to get your food; is this how you bid me bye?

I had spent a whole lot on you; time, money and energy just to make sure you are fine. And indeed I can say you were doing just fine until recently. Your death brings back to memory how important you are to me and to all humanity.

You are just too unique; I remember how you turned a life that had been considered a waste into important and valuable products. How can I just forget how you turned a neglected land to fertile and productive land? You did not stop there; a land that’s scary to people you turned to a tourism that many now visit at will.

How can I forget your role in bringing back that dying soul to life? My thought is that you’d stay with me forever. Is this really good bye for real?

I’d been scolded, mocked on different occasions because of you. The world even painted me as an unserious dude because I take you serious. They said, how can I just be romancing with you when there are other better things I can do with my life? But I can understand, it’s just that they don’t know who you are and what you are capable of.

I bought you house, fridge, refrigerator and generator. I put your house inside fridge and refrigerator just to make sure you are comfortable. I know your worth and what you are capable of, even if the world doesn’t. Are you really waving bye?

I thought you would work for and walk with me to earn million dollars, I thought we ‘d both land a record breaking contracts. I fear the invisible more than some ladies fear cockroach but your love took me to the realm of the spirit and eventually love the invisible. Why did you leave so soon?

Though I picked you up from the mud like that of abattoir but in no distance time you proved to me that you never belonged there.

I remember when I first displayed your beauty on the surface of a circular but not too spherical world; it was appreciated by friends. You displayed your versatility, and this had earned you good reputation in medicine and industries.

It had also earned many scholars’ great awards. No wonder your name had been mentioned in nothing less than thousands published books and journals. I wonder what this world would be like, without you?
It’s saddening to know you didn’t die a natural death.

Nigeria government killed you. Power holding company (PHCN) truncated your life. PHCN is a murderer, Nigeria system is its ally. I’m suing Nigeria, I’m suing PHCN for killing my Bacterial isolate.

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