Anambra Election Boycott Showdown: Realife replay of Aminata Sow Fall's classic "The Beggar's Strike" as the war between CROOKED politicians and the masses ensues

Anambra Election Boycott Showdown: Realife replay of Aminata Sow Fall's classic "Beggar's Strike"

Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw sheriff John Brown
Aiming to shoot me down,
So I shot - I shot - I shot him down and I say:
If I am guilty I will pay.

Reflexes had got the better of me
And what is to be must be:
Every day the bucket a-go a well,
One day the bottom a-go drop out,
One day the bottom a-go drop out.  -(Bob Marley's I shot the Sheriff)

The Beggar's Strike Brief

The beggars are becoming a problem in the capital; their physical deformities and constant presence are scaring away the tourists. It is up to Mour Diyae, Director of Public Health and Hygiene, to clear the streets, a job he quickly passes on to his competent assistant Keba Dabo. While Mour sees the problem as a way to self-promotion, Keba approaches the task with a zeal born out of his own childhood of poverty and pride. Soon, after beatings and repeated imprisonment, the beggars leave the streets, but a new problem arises. People must give alms to the poor to insure spiritual favor and earthly rewards. A marabout, or holy man, tells Mour Diyae that he will become Vice-President if he gives certain gifts to real beggars on the streets. But the beggars now congregate and receive alms at a house far out of town and they see no need to return to the streets to help the man that persecuted them. Mour Diyae is in a dilemma, made all the worse by the frustrations of his young, new, second wife. 

Aminata Sow Fall's classic novel, The Beggars' Strike is an account of a fictional strike in a West African society. In this story state bureaucrats, who think beggars discourage tourism from the West, decide to rid the city of begging. The policy is implemented through police tactics of harassment, physical abuse, and imprisonment of beggars. 

This unbearable situation prompts the beggars to organize a strike in which they refuse to return to the city streets to receive donations (Beeman, Mark, 1992). 

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Mour Diyae, the arrowhead of the maltreatment of the beggar's was in a dilemma as he realised he needed the beggar's to become the vice president of the country. 

Similarly the downtrodden in Biafra have been taken for a ride by the ruling class and few elites, who have been benefiting from the dysfunctional Nigerian arrangement.

Just like the beggar's in Fall's novel, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have said they have had enough of the charade in Nigeria called election/democracy - which is a mere enthronement of Hausa-Fulani political stooges and the continued enslavement of Biafrans. They have taken the bull by the horn by calling for a total boycott of the election. 

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Like in the Beggar's Strike, the politicians who for years have treated the poor masses as fools, miscreants, jobless and never do wells are all in panic mode. They are now begging the masses to come out and vote for them so they will continued to reap from their blood. 

However, the beggar's in Biafra, under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu are resulte and have rejected every entreaties from the CROOKED politicians.

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Beeman, Mark (1992) "A Sociological Interpretation of Aminata Sow Fall's The Beggars Strike,"Contributions in Black Studies: Vol. 9 , Article 12.