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Citizen is a column that explains how the government’s policies fucks citizens and how we can unfuck ourselves.
It was October 2020 and 35-year-old Murtala was ready to receive the gains from an investment he made earlier that year. He had invested in the company in March, but when it was time to cash out, the company seemed unwilling to come through on their end of the deal.
“Instead of being honest, the company was trying to be cunning. When it became obvious that small talk wasn’t going to do it, I had to bring a legal practitioner in.” Murtala says. While it was his first time trying to sue someone, Murtala studied Law in university and already had a sense of the relative difficulty involved in taking legal steps in Nigeria.