Former US President Franklin Roosevelt once said from the White House “If you treat people right they will treat you right…ninety percent of the time.” 

Getting some situations in Nigeria to generate the same feeling, I completely agree with it.

Hitting my pedals hard, I passed a old factory site. On the lonely road I encountered with some guys on the bikes. They were very firm and pretty interested in my pedaling endeavors. It was fascinating to get some company to share some ideas- my ideas to maintain peace and protect the environment. We were moving on while having the talk and it was about 15 minutes, I enjoyed the company which went a little irritating for me later on. It seemed they were just flattering me so with the aim of getting rid I stopped pedaling. But they had yet to have more friendship. They too stopped me and after some moment, they gave me something to eat which they were eating too. With no doubt, I was hungry and I ate it.

After a minute I realized that their aim of being that much firm; my surrounding started to get blur and I passed out. When I woke up I was bizarrely lying alone on the road, my documents and stuff were scattered all around, and tires were deflated.
After making myself mentally prepared after an instance of trauma I recollect all my scattered things, the only thing I did not recollect was my money they took all of my money without leaving a single paper. It was the fifth day after I entered Nigeria on 29th of June.

I had entered Nigeria crossing 300m long bridge at Cameroon side as my 95th country of tour. After crossing couple of check posts with easy access I was encountered with an officer who was not so happy about my washing powder that I was carrying for cleaning my cycle and stuff after some casual explanations he was cleared that I am a simple guy from Nepal Pedaling around the world for the Peace and Environment. Then after pedaling 7km I reached Ikom a Local Government Area of Cross River State. It was already 12 at noon and I haven’t had lunch, so money became my first priority I went to a normal hotel; parked my cycle and went to exchange my currency with Nigerian naira for my living.

After crossing Ogoja the next day, I reached Ihugh which lies in Benue State on 1st of July; naturally speaking I was very much content travelling inside Africa from the very first day almost 2 years ago because of gift of greenery given by nature and maintained my Africans. It was 2nd of July pedaling towards Gboko as soon as I entered Benue State I felt some kind of negative vibration I was feeling those vibes so intensely that I was almost sure that something bad is going to happened. 

It all started when I stopped for breakfast served and cooked on leaf of a banana tree near Gboko, it was 9 in the morning some 20, 22 middle aged drunkard came and started to bug me, they were bugging about Boko Haram. At first I was ignoring my inconvenience but later it got too much and I handed them to police. Then I left towards Gboko because of those drunkards I was little bit stressed out and decided to stay at Gboko that day.

It didn’t stop there and then next day I left for Makurdi, where I had to face the loot by the people in the bike as I previously explained. Back there for the time being I couldn’t understand what to do? Whom to call? Even thought about screaming but then I realized what the use is? So I did nothing. But I learnt one thing that day As Franklin D.Roosevelt once said from the White House “If you treat people right they will treat you right…ninety percent of the time.” My bad luck, back there I was on the 10 percent of my time.

After the incident for the time being I couldn’t make myself that much social with people, Many thanks to Chhiring Dai for sending the money which I was able to receive after reaching Makurdi at 5 in the evening with the help of which I could actually be to Abuja.

I was suffered by some of past acnes, but while keeping pain and gain that I accomplished in either side of beam balance “gain” side is growing heavy. Being most populated country in Africa and least developed country by its nature it has some drawbacks but emerging scenario is the drops of hope growing as in droplets day by day.
With still very best in mind thinking as always thought “Gotta Do More, Gotta be more” I reached Lafia on the 5th of July.
“Gotta Do More, Gotta be more” –
Peace and Harmony
Furtemba Sherpa