"One Picture And One Story Week #13"| Masquerade

Introduction

Am @crysta247 by username, am from Akwa Ibom state in south Nigeria, under west Africa. Am gonna present to you our culture and how you can be careful in some areas of Nigeria if you're a visitor or foreigner. It's a create opportunity of expression creating by @suboohib the community administrator, that's why I really appreciate this contest giving participants opportunity for long discussion and illustration. I hope you guys are doing well, I mean my good people of #Pakistan community. You're all welcome to my story.

Akwa Ibom state traditional culture

_{picture taken from my phone}

I took the picture on last week friday during celebration of Christmas carol on a Christmas village in Akwa Ibom state uyo, since it was order from state government that each local government should bring their culture to Christmas village for Christmas entertainment the masquerade didn't harm anyone and didn't got hangry, the area was already surrounded by armies and navy including police. The masquerade in our locality sometimes didn't allow anyone to snap them pictures, and sometimes people don't use to near them. They're some areas in our state that you can only work base on rules and regulations during masquerades seasons, if you disobey the rules and claim to be wise and the masquerades definitely cought you, you will be harm and also pay fine which you would regrets at the end. They're different types of masquerade available in our state depending on the culture of each local government, but no matter the local government every unit has the kind of masquerade which is always dangerous and risky which you don't need to meet with him when it's a time for him to go round.

	masquerade on entertainment

The dangerous masquerade can never come to entertainment center anyhow. Instead they're some mainly for entertainment purpose and they can go round without harming anybody. Though even with that it's still good for visitors to be careful and try to avoid them. Because you may not know what they'll did to you. In my village governments restricted the use of masquerade for entertainment during the end of the year because we're living in airport road, all foreigners and visitors pass through this high way so it would not good to be scared by seeing masquerades. I remember they was a time problem arise due to this issue, and so much thank God it wasn't took the life of anyone because they was a gun shots all over. The government is the power that's why I always says that there's no group of people that can fight government and succeed because they are the power and authority. There's a village in our state that has the most risks masquerades which I think such ares visitors need to be very careful and active, because if they cought you, you would pay and settled them if you didn't got harm. In the past, during masquerades seasons no one was always allow to go outside especially when the masquerade is going round, you have to stay at home and then you don't need to make noise on your environment till the masquerade returned, but it's not so presently now because government has reviewed it and make some changes which is actually in favor of foreigner and visitors.

Conclusion

This is the end of my story for now, I believe it would help some people to stay safe and avoid temptation especially people living in Nigeria.

Thank you 💕 for taking time to read this story.

I'll like to invite @bossj23 @mesola @kidi40 @alliso001 to read and also participate on this.

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