Author: Gandalf GreyGandalf Grey Date: Aug 25, 2006 09:39
Jason Miller: 'Ruthless Exploiters, Inc.: A little poverty never hurt
anybody'
Jason Miller
"It is like paradise and hell. They throw our petitions in the dustbin. They
have everything. We have nothing... If we protest, they send soldiers. They
sign agreements with us and then ignore us. We have graduates going hungry,
without jobs. And they bring people from Lagos to work here."
Eghare W.O. Ojhogar, chief of the Ugborodo community in Delta State (of
Nigeria)
In describing the situation in Nigeria, Eghare presents us with a microcosm
of a modern Inferno, Purgatorio, e Paradiso (about which there is little
divine or comic). In the timeless struggle between the "haves and "have
nots", alarming numbers of "useless eaters" ("have nots") are sliding from
Purgatorio into the abyss of abject poverty's Inferno.
And what heinous transgression did they commit that necessitated their
banishment into the Inferno? They were born, of course. Most of those
experiencing the misery of indigence had the misfortune to enter this world
bearing a losing lottery ticket.
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