LoJ:

I too don't know much English, but where in the world did I compare yahoo boys to slave traders?

Did you read well what I wrote?

Yea, that's true! I thought I saw slave somewhere. Sorry about that though.

macaranta:
In similar logic... If normal people too make money and spend on white men stuff, are they still mugus?

This is the comment I was just scrolling to see. Na the normal people be the big mugus sef... Going by his logic.

LoJ:

And you obviously can't think out of the box!

The issue here at stake is not a micro level problem but a macro(-economic) one. Let me explain it once more and see if you can be diligent enough to comprehend:

- does the Nigerian economy as a whole benefits from the activities of internet fraudsters? -

Seun Kuti says no and one of the reasons (among others) is that the money they fraudulently get is quickly evaporated into the buying of foreign goods. Not only that, they add to the image of the luxuries, and other non fraudsters will quickly want to imitate them adding huge pressure on the local currency.

This has been the topic for a few days and my friend this Kuti of a guy has a very valid point here.

You are still fundamentally wrong!

Thinking out of the box doesn't mean being fundamentally wrong!

I entered your home and robbed you $400,000. The next day, I came to your shop to buy off four 2018 Benz C300, three 2018 Ford Mustang, and three 2018 Benz E500. At the end of the day, I PAID you for the cars FROM YOUR OWN POCKET! I took the cars home as mine!

The caplocked words are your fundamental errors! The fraudsters have nothing to lose, but everything to gain!

LoJ:

And you obviously can't think out of the box!

The issue here at stake is not a micro level problem but a macro(-economic) one. Let me explain it once more and see if you can be diligent enough to comprehend:

- does the Nigerian economy as a whole benefits from the activities of internet fraudsters? -

Seun Kuti says no and one of the reasons (among others) is that the money they fraudulently get is quickly evaporated into the buying of foreign goods. Not only that, they add to the image of the luxuries, and other non fraudsters will quickly want to imitate them adding huge pressure on the local currency.

This has been the topic for a few days and my friend this Kuti of a guy has a very valid point here.

Reading through the comments until I came unto yours and a few others I now agree that not a few of our youths are intellectually lazy!

Seun only broadened the discussion to make us see beyond the banal narrative Yahoo boys throw up that they are taking back what the whites took from us to make them understand that they are still leashed to the system "they think they are stealing from"

He said "maybe if they were giving back to their community" just maybe, they would have had some credibility in his and our eyes but they still end up ploughing their dirty money back to enrich a system they stole from....and our brothers in here have turned the narrative to mean if you buy from the whites you are a mugu or we should buy made in Nigeria....where they got that from I can't still decipher! I see one quoting you up and down!

Nigerians dey fall hand seriously!!!

What Seun Kuti said is the truth.

Unlike say the Russians who have used illicit funds to create wealth that helps their communities, in form of businesses and factories, black man in his foolishness is squandering the money on foreign made goods, because of his low self esteem.


That is why this Yahoo thing is foolish

All Fela pikin are dullard.The sax is blowing is made in Shrine,lagos Nigeria.

LoJ:
He definitely makes a very valid point. "Yahoo boys" are like those villagers back in time who taught they had outsmarted the white men, by selling them our local masks for some little money.

Little did they know that the white men would take the mask keep it somewhere, display it and earn millions from it.

The only way to outsmart the white civilization, is to create/restore ours, with our own codes and values, independent from the white man paradigm.

Those masks were stolen, they weren't sold. If they were sold no one would clamour for their return.

globemoney:
Nigeria lazy youths always keep themselves busy with unproductive gossips apart from holding their own government responsible. today it's yahoo boys, tomorrow, BBAfrica or BBNaija, Next tomorrow it's ENDSARS. Maybe when the youths hold their government accountable, they will bring out policies that will check the yahoo instead of these gossips that will end in few days. What a useless population.

Well said.

The government keeps the masses busy with such senselessness.

globemoney:
Nigeria lazy youths always keep themselves busy with unproductive gossips apart from holding their own government responsible. today it's yahoo boys, tomorrow, BBAfrica or BBNaija, Next tomorrow it's ENDSARS. Maybe when the youths hold their government accountable, they will bring out policies that will check the yahoo instead of these gossips that will end in few days. What a useless population.

Talking about issues is the easier option. It is not easy to put words into action.
It annoys me too but I understand, we come from a country where only a few are ready to die for their beliefs.

Diickrider:
May God punish all Yahoo boys and their families for giving innocent Nigerians a bad name

Ode! Na gmail Boys and hot mail boys dey now.

OMO ASE.

I started respect Seun Kuti for exclamatory message, thanks Brother.

Newboss:
You are still fundamentally wrong!

Wetin I no go read for nairaland

Lovely day.

okwabayi:

Those masks were stolen, they weren't sold. If they were sold no one would clamour for their return.

There were instances of the masks and other arts objects being sold in various countries like my home country. These things happen to this very day. And even if that were the case, the example I gave was an analogy, a metaphor to make a point and illustrate.

Do yo know what a metaphor is?

kullozone:



Yea, that's true! I thought I saw slave somewhere. Sorry about that though.

Thanks I love your spirit.

LoJ:

There were instances of the masks and other arts objects being sold in various countries like my home country. These things happen to this very day. And even if that were the case, the example I gave was an analogy, a metaphor to make a point and illustrate.

Do yo know what a metaphor is?

...sips origin..

A METAPHOR IS "a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable".

.and in what way does a metaphor fit in to the nonsensical expression which you tendered here?

Drwords:


...sips origin..

Buhari was not that wrong then, about Nigerian youths.

Lovely day.

akeentech:
Say no to Yahoo Yahoo

say no to yahoo and yes to what? 18k minimum wage?

shaqhead:

Reading through the comments until I came unto yours and a few others I now agree that not a few of our youths are intellectually lazy!

Seun only broadened the discussion to make us see beyond the banal narrative Yahoo boys throw up that they are taking back what the whites took from us to make them understand that they are still leashed to the system "they think they are stealing from"

He said "maybe if they were giving back to their community" just maybe, they would have had some credibility in his and our eyes but they still end up ploughing their dirty money back to enrich a system they stole from....and our brothers in here have turned the narrative to mean if you buy from the whites you are a mugu or we should buy made in Nigeria....where they got that from I can't still decipher! I see one quoting you up and down!

I tell you!

KingGBsky:


say no to yahoo and yes to what? 18k minimum wage?

Yes to innovation, problem solving, entrepreneurship, venture capital, out of the box thinking, technology, agriculture.

No to lazyness, misappropriation, ease and imitation, yes to smart work purpose and development.

LoJ:

Yes to innovation, problem solving, entrepreneurship, venture capital, out of the box thinking, technology, agriculture.

No to lazyness, misappropriation, ease and imitation, yes to smart work purpose and development.

send money give people for entrepreneurship oga abi madam...
a fuvcked up country like Nigeria.
Come here to Turkey and see how people wake up in the morning to drink tea and still get paid.
mtceew

KingGBsky:


send money give people for entrepreneurship oga abi madam...
a fuvcked up country like Nigeria.
Come here to Turkey and see how people wake up in the morning to drink tea and still get paid.
mtceew

Note to self: stop blaming Trump and Buhari for their crude words against us. There may be some truths therein.

praiseneofingz:
Ah so igbo have finally grew in this man brain after all our sacrifices day and night

He's the true son of his father. Curse them all you like about their igbo. Truth is they speak intelligently the cold bitter truth others are scared to say.

Pierohandsome:
Who do u this thing Mr Seun? So if i work and buy white man things, i be mugu abi?

If i collect ur money and stil use it to patronise u , who is losing

Ur head dey dia jare

If dem wire Kuti's account and use part sponsor hin music, who come b d real Mugu?

goodyvin02:
bet9ja sure pass

bros u dey drop bet9ja codes?

Very intelligent talk

queensera:
Seun kuti, The son of Afro beat pioneer "Fela kuti" took to his Facebook page to reacts to the yahoo boys brouhaha trending in Nigeria.

According to seun kuti, "Yahoo Boys Are Still Mugus (Fools) To The Whites"

Read What He Wrote Below:

Wetin yahoo boy dey take money do? No be to buy expensive white man things? Lol. If they weren’t busy buying White man drink but building their communities maybe just maybe, I will see dem but I don’t. Steal white mans money and the only way u can express that wealth is too seek validation by consuming the most expensive white man things and u say u are a Gee? All Yahoo boys are Mugus for whitey still, dem be learner. Wait that 100k u used 3 months to set the job how long did it take Gucci to collect it back? MUGU. Until we can express our success outside of white validation thru their brands and luxury items of status and class, U STILL BE MUGU.


Source:
http://www.nairaplus.com/2018/05/yahoo-boys-are-still-mugus-fools-to.html

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Segun has to understand that money is alien to black folks no matter where they reside. Give $100k to a black person anywhere today,
the first thing that comes to the mind is what the money will be spent on and not how to double the money. Like blind leading the blind,
fellow blacks will cheer on. They need white people's validation to boost their egos.

NB: I am not talking about blacks in Africa. I mean blacks all over the world. I always like to challenge any naysayer to name one wealthy/rich
black nation. Put gold or oil under them and they cannot fathom out what to do with them until white investors show up. Of course, they have
professors in many disciplines but regrettably with specialty only in handouts.

*/

InvertedHammer:

/*
Segun has to understand that money is alien to black folks no matter where they reside. Give $100k to a black person anywhere today,
the first thing that comes to the mind is what the money will be spent on and not how to double the money. Like blind leading the blind,
fellow blacks will cheer on. They need white people's validation to boost their egos.

NB: I am not talking about blacks in Africa. I mean blacks all over the world. I always like to challenge any naysayer to name one wealthy/rich
black nation. Put gold or oil under them and they cannot fathom out what to do with them until white investors show up. Of course, they have
professors in many disciplines but regrettably with specialty only in handouts.

*/

Speciality only in handouts

So you are justifying them, crimes and criminals.

African Shrine Bitter Truth from the source..,

Diickrider:
May God punish all Yahoo boys and their families for giving innocent Nigerians a bad name

bloody gay !! go ride some ass and get some senses.

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