Giving birth or dying abroad used to be the vogue in those days.
Really? Why? What for?
For social and/or religious reasons. Simple! Simplicita!!
Explain yourself, Baba Simple.
You can call me any name. Who cares? No hassle. Some people want to acquire citizenship of other countries to be entitled to certain rights and privileges, in a nutshell social welfare as provided by the country of particular interest like the US, UK, France or even Germany, of all countries!
Why of all countries!? Your emphasis, not mine. Why?
Because that’s where “babanla awon to fe drive wa comot” from original Noman’s Land , came from. Just imagine!
Can you rephrase that for clarity sake?
Why not? Simply means kettle calling pot black.
Still off trajectory. Can you still come closer to my level? Or as they say it in local parlance, can you reduce the height of “akuko Mecca”?
Lobatan! Akuko Mecca! Well I don’t want to prolong the matter, but let the city mouse tell the bush rat that one aparo bird is not taller than the other except the one that wants to claim advantage by perching on earthen stool at the weigh-in formalities.
Itumo?
Meaning immigrant na immigrant. Everyone in “obodo dike” is immigrant and no one is more immigrant than the other. So there is no crime in aspiring to make a better living abroad where their forefathers had handed them a legacy of hospitality for people from other parts of the world who also have a Dream like Rev Martin Luther King Jnr to live in a country that places premium on the sanctity and dignity of man, a land of freedom and liberty to pursue, grab and salivate happiness like Pavlov’s dog.
Thank you so much. If this or these countries of your dream can allow what I see as birth tourism, does it also allow people who want to die to come and die here?
O ti o! Mba mba mba, eewo. Kinla?
Come and die ke?! Where in the world do they do that?
I learn France is one country that advertises for people to come and die in their country.
Ah! Come and KU ke? Impossican’t!
Tanda there like Soja Idumota and be shouting “pussycat”. Na you sabi that. Even sef you fit talk of Tiger or Samanja whiskers. You mean say you never heard of SEE PARIS AND DIE before?
How can anybody want to go to Paris to die when Mecca and Medina dey there? I even suspect some people , if they have the money would want to go and die in Jerusalem.
You mean some people “fit jakpa” to a foreign land to die?!
It’s not that simple. But if truth must be told there are some fanatical, extreme religious adherents who will be happy to die in the Holy land wherever it is located and be buried there. Muslims, in particular, who believe the shortest route to aljanah is the one from Mecca. Few had been lucky in this regard though, who, by happenstance gave up the ghost while on pilgrimage and were buried there. There was, however, one instance of somebody who wished to be buried in Mecca if and when he died. As Fate would have it he eventually died while on a lesser hajj one pilgrimage season and was buried there according to his dream wish. Allahu Akbar!
Any idea who that was?
Do we need to interrogate the dead? Rather let’s pray that Allah grant him “Aljanah Fridaus”. Just as we pray for the recently deceased former chief Justice of Nigeria who reportedly died in the holy land. Other notable Nigerians who died in Mecca include Tawakaltu Busare Alako , a pilgrim from Kebbi State who passed away and was buried there, Sheikh Abdulrahman Maigoro from Gombe who died after completing the Hajj rites, Hajiya Bilikisu Yusuf, a notable journalist who reportedly met her death in a stampede while performing the year’s Hajj, along with one Prof Tijani El-Miskin and some others like the six who died in a crane mishap along with other pilgrims from other parts of the world.
How about Christian pilgrims wanting to die in Jerusalem also in order to go to heaven?
Not much is heard of overzealous Christians who weep more than the bereaved women of Jericho, who harbor the idea of going to Jerusalem to die, probably because they too believe heaven is a stone throw from the Holy Land.
Most likely one holy land is holier than the other and that may account for the lack of enthusiasm to pay attention (homage?) to Death tourism to the Christian Holy Land.
To me I think it is much ado about aljanah. The pilgrim who drops dead on the legendary clean Mecca Streets, and the wannabe pilgrim of Obun Eko (heart of dirt?) in Lagos Island who dies in his dump site of a home, will all end up in the same Aljanah. Yaashin!
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