By Comrade Kunle Sodipo FICSSM, MNINM, ANIPR
kdrexafricanchild@gmail.com
_May 31, 2026_
Nigeria is not suffering from a curse. Nigeria is suffering from a mirror.
Every evil we blame on “the system,” “the oyibo,” or “spiritual forces” is just us, reflected back. We are the ones cutting our own body, poisoning our own spirit, and auctioning our own soul. And the worst part? We call it “just how things are.”
1. The Body: We Kill What We Should Feed
The body is the first casualty. Greed-inspired killings for land, ritual, politics, cult. A man dies because his farm is worth ₦500k. A student dies because she refused a “connection.” A child like Gospel Kinanee vanishes at 14 and spends 18 years in prison without trial, then we ask “why is the youth hopeless?”
We turned the body into collateral. Police bullets, kidnappers’ knives, herdsmen’s machetes, ritualists’ razors — all harvesting Nigerian blood while the state watches.
Then we add economic murder. ₦70,000 minimum wage in 2026 Nigeria is not a salary. It is a death sentence in installments. ₦100,000 proposed by governors won’t buy 2 bags of rice. So we starve workers slowly, then wonder why hospitals are full and churches are full of prayer for “miraculous provision.”
We are killing the body with bullets AND with budgets.
2. The Spirit: We Imprison What We Should Free
The spirit is where hope lives. But Nigeria specializes in detaining hope without charge.
Gospel Kinanee’s case is not an accident. Over 70% of inmates in Nigerian prisons are “awaiting trial.” Some for 10, 15, 20 years. No file. No lawyer. No judge. Just men and women whose spirit rotted while their case file gathered dust.
We arrest dreams. We jail ideas. We prosecute voices. Speak against government? EFCC shows up. Expose corruption? DSS invites you. Demand ₦500,000 living wage? You’re “unrealistic.”
We built prisons for bodies and added a second prison for spirits: fear. Fear to speak. Fear to protest. Fear to even dream big. A nation where citizens are more afraid of their government than criminals is a nation whose spirit is already in chains.
3. The Soul: We Sell What We Should Guard
The soul is the last part. It’s conscience, integrity, “the thing that says this is wrong.”
We sold it for contracts. Politicians loot billions, then fund churches and mosques with stolen money and we clap. “God has blessed him.” No. Greed blessed him. And we blessed the greed.
We sold it for tribalism. We excuse our “own thief” because he shares our surname, but crucify the other tribe’s saint. So corruption wears agbada on Monday and kente on Tuesday, and we cheer both.
We sold it for survival. A mother forges documents to get her child into school. A graduate pays ₦200k for a job that pays ₦50k. A judge “loses” a case file for a brown envelope. Each small sale looks like survival. But 200 million small sales = a dead national soul.
We didn’t lose our soul in one transaction. We sold it in pieces. At checkpoints. In hospitals. At INEC offices. In prison gates where Gospel was “dumped” with no record.
The Damning Truth
No foreign nation is doing this to us. No colonial master is inside the court registry “losing” Gospel’s file. No IMF official is holding the knife during ritual killings. No UN worker is approving ₦100k as “sustainable” while governors buy 100-car convoys.
The evil Nigerians do to Nigerians is intimate. It’s brother killing brother for land. It’s officer dumping boy in prison for “connection.” It’s citizen celebrating looter because “he’s our own.”
That is why the pain cuts deeper. Because betrayal from your own body, spirit, and soul is worse than attack from an enemy.
So What Now? The Explosive Question
If we are the ones cutting ourselves, then only we can stop bleeding.
1. For the Body: Every Nigerian must decide that blood has a price. No more “rest in peace” without “rest in justice.” No more minimum wage that cannot buy life.
2. For the Spirit: We must empty the prisons of hope. Every “awaiting trial” inmate without a case file in 30 days should be freed, and every officer who “dumped” them should be jailed. Fear must die before Nigeria can live.
3. For the Soul: We must reject stolen money in God’s name. We must reject tribal excuses for crime. We must return to “this is wrong” even when “our man” does it.
Until then, Nigeria will keep bleeding. Not because of witches in the village. But because of witches in the office, in uniform, in robes, and sometimes in our own hearts.
We are not cursed. We are complicit. And complicity is the only evil that can be forgiven the moment we choose to stop.
Gospel lost 18 years. How many more Gospels must we sacrifice before Nigeria looks in the mirror and repents? How many Michael Oyedokun must be beheaded? How many innocent citizen’s blood must be wasted nonstop in the Northern and Southern Nigeria?
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