When Chuks Amadi concluded his national youth service programme, he wanted to practise as a medical doctor in the “centre of excellence”, mainly because it is believed to be a home for all, where dreams are achieved faster and opportunities abound for the willing. He did not envisage that being an Igbo would make his chances of getting his desired apartment few and far between. He would eventually be forced to settle, but at the time, he was oblivious. No one told him that his quest for an apartment would be rife with blues.
“I experienced tribal discrimination [for the] first time in my life in Lagos when the landlady, a Yoruba woman, told me she can’t rent her house to me because I am Igbo,” said Amadi.
Amadi, who said the landlady was in her 60s, noted that “for some reason, he thought Lagos would have gone beyond the era of tribalism”.
“I was shocked to witness and experience it for himself that such a thing still happens in Lagos,” he added.
