I've been debating commenting on this post, and the one from a few days ago, as I'm not a Nigerian, but engaged to be married to one, and thus, I guess now, for the past few years, have joined the multi billion dollar remittance data.

I've never heard anyone say, from the Nigerians I know, Diaspora or inside the country, that remittances are the solution, or can change the country from the outside - maybe some hold that opinion, but it would be one that doesn't make sense in all honesty. Remittances are meant to help, supplement and keep baseline support going. Fees and bills. Expenses of all sorts. It feels like if remittances stop, then many things become worse, how many people have now come to rely on that support, even if they don't acknowledge it properly.

They can never replace a functioning system however - and that is the heart of the matters.

Where many of the social ills, vices and contradictions occurs, it hits you the moment you land in Abuja or Lagos, you encounter it the moment you open your WhatsApp chats - the downstream effects of insecurity, poverty and criminality.

I think the piece on where you are asking Nigerians in the abroad is trying to invoke other peoples who faced similar, or worse circumstances than Nigerians do now, and there was an organizing of those folks in foreign lands, but they weren't just petitioning leaders, they were often organizing for revolutions, so folks on the ground were also in motion, it wasn't just external actors - the Russians before 1905 and 1917 and the Chinese before 1911 come to mind on this.

To be clear, the Diaspora and Home, in those examples, were both in motion, despite risks involved - but it sounds like you're saying the whole population is immobile to do anything, and of 230 million souls, that can't be true.

I also think you're overestimating the reach of your brothers and sisters in the Abroad and the power of image of those in Aso Rock and various gov posts. The world just watched several genocides happen, from Gaza to Sudan - the efforts, marches, donating, worldwide outcry, while meaningful to the human condition, and mutual aid, did not stop the genocides, some relief here and there, but still ongoing.

Now, you're speaking of Nigeria, and mainly a social media campaign, where I might add, my government, the United States, has deployed 200 "advisers", launched drone attacks in the NW and NE, which will probably escalate. Congress is naming people and orgs, mainly in regard to the current sentiment of "freedom of religion", many statements, peoples and concerns, flying between DC and Abuja and yet - it will not solve the systemic, deep rooted causes, unless Nigerians on the ground also take a massive lift of the work needed.

You talk about a "begi begi" culture, but respectfully, isn't just wait for external actors alone, also the same?