Like the Draconian measures that were
doled out on the Israelites by Pharaoh’s stooges, having them make bricks from
nothingness, MTN has done no other than ferociously rape the proverbial goose
that lays the golden egg-Nigeria. Sans a scintilla of sympathy, in over a
decade of carrying out its telecommunications business in Nigeria, MTN garnered
over 35 million subscribers in oil rich Africa’s pride but what percentage
of these devotees are genuinely happy?
They endure the eccentrics of this service
provider like a wife whose love for her husband has run dry but remains in a
sour marriage out of obligation, societal values and the future of her seeds.
Like several other Nigerians, I was also stuck in
that catastrophic and dysfunctional marriage to a Machiavellian who rapes me of
air time as he pleases, never gives me bonuses even in festive periods, avariciously
yanks away my subscription fee but never gives me internet till my blood
pressure almost reaches 250 from nagging and works an irksome voodoo on my
data, making it disappear magically.
But I stay married to this piece of garbage, why?
I tell myself these hideous lies, like several other wives of the beast- ‘he is
my first love (my first phone line), we have many children (all my contacts
know this line), and we have been married for so long (I have used this line
for over a decade).
