Henry Ward Beecher, the renowned American clergyman was definitely not referring to some of these days Nigerian children and teenagers when he said during one of his powerful sermons that “Children are the hands with which we take over heaven”, because the proliferation of yahoo yahoo (cyber fraud) and ritual killings for quick money amongst children and teenagers in Nigeria recently, is disturbing. Kids that ought to be innocent are no longer innocent, they are mean and ruthless in their quest for urgent money so they flash on Instagram, drive cool benz and drop unsolicited motivational quotes with their bad spellings and badly constructed sentences.
Over the weekend, three kids who were barely over the age of nine were recorded and they were narrating how they traveled from Warri to Benin in search of greener pastures; which is joining the Benin based yahoo yahoo apprenticeship school and learning yahoo yahoo. After watching the video over and over again, at first I thought it was orchestrated and staged by the recorders because what the hell, those kids ought to be in nursery school, at most primary school reciting 2*1 is 2 or singing “we are the leaders of tomorrow” nursery rhyme songs but here they are talking about yahoo yahoo; talking about it as if defrauding people is taking golden morn in the morning.
What can a child of that age do with yahoo yahoo. They are even too young to be able to understand that there’s something called yahoo yahoo which you can make quick money from by stealing and defrauding unsuspecting foreigners. The parents, the guardians and elder siblings of those kids should bury their faces in shame; they have failed those kids.
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Some netizens were even “loling” to the video and some of us are wondering how that video of three kids who just stopped feeding from their mothers’ breast milk traveling from Warri to Benin to learn the trade of fraud is funny. Society should also be ashamed. The society that gives teenagers and youth high class treatment even when their source of income is questionable.
Over the weekend too, about four teenagers were also arrested for having killed a girl who was a girlfriend of one of them, chopped off her head and burnt it for money rituals. These are teenagers that should be in secondary school, learning pronunciations and spellings, learning that the earth is spherical in shape like an egg from their geography classes, but no, they have heard from the social media that school is scam and the quick way to money making is ritual killings.
Nobody is safe, both parents and children are not safe. The high and mighty in society are not also safe. The recent killings for rituals, the eating of human poops for quick money is so disturbing and getting out of hand.
How can you even believe that when you eat human poop or kill somebody you will have quick money. What is the metaphysics behind that, where has it been scientifically proven that poops and human blood brings quick money. What’s the link and nexus behind it?
Parents should do more at parenting. Parenting is an active and full time job. It doesn’t stop at depositing sperm in the ovaries of the woman for the men nor does it stop at pushing out the baby for the female. It’s a lifetime job for both the man and the woman. A parent whose kids ought to be in school is going about looking for who to teach them fraud has failed the kids and the society and should be ashamed.
Society should also start treating teenagers and youths whose sources of income are questionable as criminals, treat them like outcasts. so that the younger generation will know that fraud has no place in the society and it’s totally unacceptable. A youth of 20 years driving a car worth millions with no known source of income should be arrested and questioned instead of being celebrated.
