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Holy crap.
Heavily armed security 24/7 or fuck that job.
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Life is cheap in many parts of the world.
When my folks lives in Nigeria, people were regularly killed by the mob for stealing and other offenses. My dad's officer overlooked a big square in Lagos, and I remember one day when I was talking to him on the phone he mentioned that he saw someone get grabbed by the mob and beaten (presumably for stealing), and then "necklaced" - meaning an old tire was forced over his body (pinning his arms), gas was poured on him, and set alight. In cases like that, the police have zero interest in getting involved.
One of the reasons that the company REQUIRED him to have a chauffeur for all of his driving was that in case the car hit and killed a child or something, the hope was that it was only the chauffeur that would be dragged from the car and killed, and not my dad.
Holy crap.
Heavily armed security 24/7 or fuck that job.
Our compound did have guards, tall walls, barbed wire, and heavy steel doors and bars over the windows - and our own generator.
Still, if someone had wanted to kill my dad it would have been easy. One of the many servants, cooks, gardeners, chauffeurs and guards could probably have been bribed quite easily. When you live in a country where the average annual wage is something like $100, there'd be a long line of people prepared to kill someone for a couple of grand.
When my dad told the main office in London that he believed he could quite easily reduce (not eliminate) some of the worst and most obvious corruption and graft in the company, and probably generate an additional two or three million dollars in revenue per year easily, they very emphatically told him to NOT even try ... because he would simply have been killed.
Yeah, not a nice place.
And then was back in the days when Nigeria was actually much more stable and safe.