In developing countries like Nigeria, oppression is increasingly becoming a systematic menace which is proving quite difficult to curb. Sadly, we are all proponents of this darkening cloud rising above us like a plague. If you are quick to deny this accusation, then think of the hideous treatments you often melt on the helpless environment around you; for example, the strewing of non-biodegradable polythene and plastic wastes on marketplaces, highways and public squares; the defacing of the surroundings with religious, business and political posters, as well as the rife torturing of rivers and oceans with deleterious substances which prove more than dangerous to aquatic lives.
Unfortunately, the list of heinous oppressive actions are not exhausted. However, it is important to note that oppression has become almost a national proclivity; or legalized, so to speak. Consequentially, the acerbic catastrophe of its aftermath has formed into a chain reaction, or rather a cycle of painful blows and enslavement, more or less.
Take for instance, a poor man, having no money to purchase a proper waste bin, wakes up in the morning to dump plastic wastes into the lagoon beside his ramshackle abode before going to work to meet an abusive boss who sees nothing in withholding his salary for months. Subsequently, because of the accumulation of wastes on the lagoon and by extension the surrounding sea, there is an upsurge of flood which destroys the boss' beach home. The boss repairs his home with the capital of the business where he employs the poor man; and then the cycle of oppression begins again.
In conclusion, it seems that oppression, as it rises across the chain, spews consequences which are deadlier. Importantly, to put an end to an oppressive system, we have to first define what oppression really means in the simplest term, and then make necessary steps to exterminate its sources completely.
Ohikhuare Isuku.
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