She wakes up and realizes that there is no food in the house. She is ready to do anything to provide food for the family, but there is no job in sight. She then goes at the back of her house, and plucks some oranges which she carries to the market for a sale. She returns home without any sale because the tax force came and she could not pay her tax.
He is a Laborer. He works on people's farm for money. He is given a large expanse of land to till. The first dig, he discovers the land is so hard, but he needs the money and there is no better option for him. He only hopes on the wage at the end of the day, that it will only have to worth the work. He begins tilling, the sun is very scourging, because it's ripping his back as he tills and makes mounds. At the end of the day, he was disappointed. He goes home unhappy. He was under paid for the job he did.
The woman could not make a sale because there was a group of selfish people called tax force, who don't know how it feels to have a family and have no means to fend for them. The Laborer went home disgruntled because the person that hired him knew that he had no better option but to accept the meager wage, even when he could still give out more money to brighten the labourer's day with a smile.
I just read that the Canadian doctors are protesting against a raise of their salaries. They complained that they were being paid more than enough already and they suggested that the surplus on their salaries be distributed evenly across the other health practitioners who surely needed a raise in their salaries. This amazed me. This is what it means to be humanitarian. Can you imagine this kind of thing happening in Nigeria? I doubt it. Nigeria has thought her citizens how to be wicked to themselves. Her citizens are not at all humanitarian.
I still remember vividly how the team of medical doctors in Nigeria reacted when the government struck a healthy agreement with JOHESU (Joint Health Sector Union). The doctors in Nigeria would be happier if they are paid one million Naira per month while other medical practitioners would be earning 20 thousand Naira per month.
Sadly, Nigeria is where women are discouraged from making a sale of their farm produce because they didn’t pay their taxes. Nigeria is where the rich would feel good to pay their laborers mere bagatelle of wage after a heinous task because there was no better options left for them. Nigeria is where doctors want to be one million Naira richer than the other medical practitioners.
Nigerians, Let's love one another and try as much as we can to be charitable.
