Femi LazarusCEO at Femi Lazarus Consulting

Poverty makes manipulators proud. #AFL #reels

28 Oct 2025 · 2 min

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In a casual, first‑person monologue, the speaker recounts a moment on a university campus when extreme hunger forced them to eat onions—something they normally avoid—by joining a roommate who was preparing garri with sliced onions, pepper, and salt to mimic suya. The speaker uses this personal anecdote to illustrate how poverty strips individuals of genuine choice, making them vulnerable to manipulation. They argue that poverty is dangerous because it empowers manipulators who can exploit the lack of options faced by those who are starving, framing hunger as a tool for control.

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I don't eat onions by nature. No matter if you like cook the food with rice from heaven, once there's onions, I would never near it. But there was a time on campus, I was so broke Somebody the other room, beside my room, was taking garri, then he sliced onions, and then he put pepper and salt on the onions. It's just a way to simulate suya. But yeah, so pepper and salt on the onions. So he said, I would have called you to join me now, but 'But you don't take on us.' I say, 'Bro, I go chop.' I say, 'Bro, I don't chop.' Hunger. The devil wants to control you. And there are many ways, many things that makes that possible. One of the things that makes it so possible is poverty. Poverty is dangerous. Somebody who has not eaten doesn't really have a choice. Poverty makes manipulators powerful. Yes, sir.