While the social media fight, which
erupted between Nigerians and Kenyans last Thursday on Twitter, have
subsided, citizens of the East African nation have taken to Facebook to
continue to slam Nigerians.
An epic Twitter war broke out between
Nigerians and Kenyans on Thursday over the alleged mistreatment of the
Harambee Stars of Kenya in Lagos.
Soon after pictures of
Harambee Stars
and their officials, who were in the country for the 2014 World Cup
Qualifier, showed them training on a dusty pitch in Ajao Estate Primary
School, Oshodi, Lagos, circulated on social networks, there were
thousands of bitter and hot exchanges of words on Twitter.
The Kenyans seem not to be tired of the
brouhaha as the two major Facebook fan pages they created on Thursday
and Friday had churned out more abuses on Nigerians up till Sunday
evening.
The first fan page, Someone tell
Nigeria, created on February 22, has 31,685 fans; while the second
Someone Tell Nigeria (the only difference is in the capital ‘T’ in
‘Tell’), created on February 21, has 31,224 fans as at the time of
filing this report.
However, no such specific fan pages could be directly attributed to Nigerians on Facebook.
One of the post on the fan page read,
“It is only in Nigeria where females have more hair on their chest
than the males while another post stated, “Someone, tell Nigeria to
come with an extra cargo plane because after the return leg they will
carry back all their movies, songs.”
Kenyans started the social media ‘war’
on Twitter with a view to expressing their displeasure at the alleged
mistreatment and employed the use of the hashtag, #SomeoneTellNigeria
to criticise anything Nigerian. Concerned Nigerians, on noticing this,
reacted swiftly and started the hashtag, #SomeoneTellKenya.
It was the first recorded ‘war’ between
Nigeria and the East African nation, in which not even the United
Nations Security Council could mediate, as #SomeoneTellNigeria and
#SomeoneTellKenyan set worldwide trends on Thursday and Friday.
The tweet believed to have led to the
Twitter fight was from Madre, who uses the handle @kmaore, tweeting
from Nairobi, Kenya. He tweeted, “Kenyans should start #Someonetell
Nigeria due to the way they are treating our stars!”
An angry Kenyan, Sewe Matthew, on his
handle @Sewe450, tweeted, “#SomeoneTellNigeria we can throw stones from
Kenya and break the African Cup of Nations Trophy.
Kenyans on the social network threatened
that Nigerians should be prepared for the worst when they travel down
to Nairobi on June 7, for the second leg of the World Cup qualifier.
Mothamaki Wa Sparta, using the handle @Kisenyajesse, was one of the first Kenyans who vented his anger on the social network.
He tweeted, “#SomeoneTellNigeria we are
disappointed with the way they are treating Harambee Stars. Next time
they (Eagles) come here, they should come with their own airport to
land.”
@obkerry replied #SomeoneTellNigeria:
They (Super Eagles) will train in Mandera (1,100km away from Nairobi)
before taking a pick-up/truck to Nairobi.”
Responding to the tweets, A Nigerian,
Muffy, using the handle, @StarCashKiki, asked, “Who taught Kenyans
English? That person should be blamed for this misbehaviour.”
No sooner had Muffy asked the question
than the war of words soon became dirty as Kenyans attacked various
phenomena that are Nigerian.
In what seems like an attack on the
Nigerian movie industry, a Kenyan, Jim, with the handle, @JMOxQ,
tweeted, “Only in their movies (Nigerian) will a woman put poison in her
husband’s food and then tastes it to know if it’s enough – without
dying.”
Another Kenyan, @Tego_Wolasa, stated,
“#SomeoneTellNigeria that we export Presidents to America, they
(Nigeria) export thieves and con artistes.” Corroborating this,
@ricco_oki said, “While Nigeria has Usofia in London, we have Obama in
London.”
@carribeanq said “#SomeoneTellNigeria to name their artiste well – not mathematical squares and brackets.”
But Nigerians soon came out en masse on Twitter platform to fight the battle.
Leading the pack is Nigerian comedian,
Gordons, whose @GordonComedian, stated, “Ghanaians should rejoice,
Kenyans are now the SI unit of darkness! Darkness is now measured in
Kenyans!”
Another Nigerian, @ugwubiggz tweeted,
“#SomeoneTellKenya, the only reason they win all those races is because
they are promised food at the finish line” while @unstoppable55 stated,
“#SomeoneTellKenyans that tourists come to Nigeria and go to the zoo,
but they go to Kenya and stay on the streets and look at Kenyans.”
But while the Kenyans hurled abuses and
denigrated anything Nigerian, they took time to pay their last respect
to the widely-acclaimed “Father of African Literature”, Chinua Achebe,
when the news of his demise broke on Friday.
A kenyan, The Shinski, @hersimohammed,
tweeted, “#SomeoneTellNigeria We cry and mourn the legend with you. We,
too, loved Chinua Achebe.”
Another Kenyan, Nancy Kachin, with the
handle, @1africa1love, tweeted, “ Thank you #Nigeria for giving us
#ChinuaAchebe. He is resting in peace, we continue the struggle.
#someonetellnigeria.”
-Punch
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