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Nigerian Writer, Tobe Osigwe Shares The Discussion He Had With A Senior Colleague Who Is Now Regretting Sending His Children Abroad To Get The Best Education | You Can Join The Discussion

Nigerian Writer, Tobe Osigwe Shares The Discussion He Had With A Senior Colleague Who Is Now Regretting Sending His Children Abroad To Get The Best Education | You Can Join The Discussion

Nigerian writer, Tobe Osigwe has narrated how a confidant of a senior colleague of his who went through pain to afford higher education for his children by sending them to Canada was humiliated during his visit.

Osigwe made the claim in a Facebook post he shared which captured the discussion he had with the senior colleague who travelled to Canada to see his two children.

According to the writer, the kids were rude to their father as they treated him like a nobody and he felt like he had lost the two of them.

The father who planned spending a month with his children ended up spending a week with so much regrets.

Osigwe added that while Nigeria is suffering massive infrastructural degradation and institutional decay, others are also suffering from some kind of socio-cultural indoctrination which he described as “Misidentity Crisis” abroad.

Read the full post below…

“A senior colleague told me recently how a good confidant of his travelled out to visit two of his children that are schooling in Canada. Upon arrival, her daughter just said ‘welcome’ and went out. The man was left inside with the other one, his son.

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He was trying to chat him up but the boy was more preoccupied with his gadget. After a long forlorn moment, the man asked where the daughter went to? He was told that she was outside with her male friend. The man asked how can? “How can he come all the way from Nigeria to come and visit them and the daughter will be out discussing with a visitor.”

The daughter was summoned. The teenager came inside and gave the father the chiding of his life. She warned him not to interrupt her. In her words, “did I not tell you welcome when you came in?”. The man was shocked to his teeth.

The man was supposed to stay for a month. But he quickly cut the visit short. He left Canada in a week. He came back quickly to stop his first child who just graduated from a Nigerian University from traveling out to further his studies.

In the man’s words, “he has lost those two in Canada, therefore he has to do all he can to hold on to the remaining one in Nigeria”.

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I see many people laughing at some of us in Nigeria. Yes, we may be suffering massive infrastructural degradation and institutional decay out here but some of our people out there are also suffering from some kind of socio-cultural indoctrination. A kind of Misidentity Crisis. The grass is not always greener on the other side you know.

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It is important we note that some of the fancy pictures those abroad intimidate us with maybe coming at a great price. While we pity for those of us in Nigeria, we should also pity for our brothers and sisters abroad who have forgotten their culture and the importance of holding on to it in a strange land.

May parents who suffer to provide their children the best of education overseas but have now come to regret such gesture find the fortitude to bear their loss. The breakfast dey reach everybody. Enye ndi ebe a, enye ndi ebe a.”

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