Picking one word to describe this experience has been almost
as difficult as the experience itself, because the whole experience has taught
and shown me things I knew and didn’t know in completely different ways, I
think the perfect word for this experience is that it was an ‘Edifying’ one.
This experience has
challenged me in so many ways especially physically and emotionally, it has
been extremely difficult and I will try to explain how.
Most times getting up as early as the time I usually have
to, to go to court is to do something pleasurable for myself, however since the
beginning of this project I have had to wake up really early and go through a
lot of stressful procedures (the typical Nigerian way) that sometimes yield
zero positive results. I have had to go to places I never thought of going to,
speak to the most unpleasant people and still at the end of the day get nothing
done because of how slow and uncooperative the Nigerian system is. This has
taken a toll on me physically, but it still has not discouraged me.
Personally, I feel like even if this experience does not
challenge anyone physically, it will emotionally, because of the situation the
inmates are in and how the Nigerian system does not seem to care, in turn
making it seem like the inmates will be in there for a long time. The stories
that have gotten people in there, the lack of hope, a lot of things just
challenge you emotionally and makes you ask yourself a bunch of questions
without expecting any answers.
As much as I have learnt a lot of things participating in
this project, I am unsatisfied and unhappy. I usually hear a lot of people
lament about the Nigerian government and sometimes, I have a thing or two to
chip in, but that is usually just me speaking vaguely, or speaking based on something
I heard or saw off the internet, however this project has given me a firsthand
experience of how much of a mess our government is and it is very pitiful.
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