I remember how they blamed me when I was duped alongside over 33,000 innocent people across Africa in Burkina Faso. We were told to use "strategies" to save everyone we knew from poverty. We believed we were lifting others, instead, we were led to the slaughter.
But when the CBEX saga hit, it didn’t spare anyone, professors, high-ranking officials, educated professionals all fell victim. Some people said, "With your level of education, how could you be scammed?" But I ask: are those who lost trillion to scams in Nigeria uneducated?
My greatest concern is that these companies often belong to powerful people. And these same people allow them to keep operating, destroying lives silently.
Today, countless innocent souls are depressed and stranded, because the hope they were sold has perished. Africa is failing its people. We are using the poor as sacrificial lambs for the greed and schemes of the powerful.
One day, the truth about those who milk the vulnerable dry will surface. And to those who think they are too smart to fall,
consider yourself merely lucky. When your turn comes, you’ll be as helpless as a newborn child.
consider yourself merely lucky. When your turn comes, you’ll be as helpless as a newborn child.
#SafeAfrica
Abioye Tosin Lawrence
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