JOHN EMMANUEL REX :TOPREC MNITP MNES

What is happening now with the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, and the laudable Student Loan scheme, is precisely what happened last year when Mmesoma Ejikeme almost caused an ethnic conflict in Nigeria by lying that a Yoruba Muslim Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, was targeting her for victimisation because she is Igbo. She was supported by hundreds of thousands, who broke the Internet for her and made her the number one Google search item in Africa for a week. No word was spared in her supporters' demonisation of JAMB and the wicked, tribalistic Professor Oloyede. The opprobrium was spread to his ethnic group. Until the truth came out, and people like Oby Ezekwesili, who had made the issue a cause célèbre, were disgraced. It was after all like they say, no matter how fast and far falsehood has travelled, it must eventually be overtaken by truth. The same people who rooted for Mmesoma Ejikeme, the supposedly underrated girl (she lied about that, too. She was actually 19 at the time), are now playing the victim with NELFUND. First, they lied that it was Peter Obi's idea (it was not. Only the APC and, to an extent, the PDP had student loans in their manifesto in the way it has come out). Then they said it was propaganda and nobody was getting the Student Loan. Then, the NELFUND team released a list of beneficiaries and beneficiary institutions, with many universities writing in to say they had been paid, proving the scheme was genuine. In response, some people took refuge in victimhood. Until it was revealed that universities from ALL geopolitical zones were contacted, and not a single one from the Southeast responded. As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. That you are not thirsty for water, is not the same as saying you were not provided access to good, clean, potable drinking water. If victimhood has not worked for fifty eight years, why would anybody think otherwise will work now or in the future? As long as some of us have this defeatist mentality, they will never break the cycle of complaining and remaining! Reno Omokri Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.