Dudu_Negro: We have voters registration list and we have census list. If you are not a descent of Oduduwa,, then you must be a descent of Bayajidda and Fodio and El Kanemi......but if your ancestry is untraceable....then your classification in Lagos is that of a refugee. All refugees in Yorubaland will be properly identified and tagged in our records.

Kid, you need to grow up.

Ngodigha:
Kid, you need to grow up.

Pa, you need to open ya eyes!

Dudu_Negro: We have voters registration list and we have census list. If you are not a descent of Oduduwa,, then you must be a descent of Bayajidda and Fodio and El Kanemi......but if your ancestry is untraceable....then your classification in Lagos is that of a refugee. All refugees in Yorubaland will be properly identified and tagged in our records.

so why is he also deporting descendants of oduduwa back to their ogun and osun villages.

Gbawe:

To be honest, I usually avoid threads like this because it is the home of savages. Nonetheless, this deportation thing has brought out so much ugliness in folks that they themselves cannot see. I am particularly annoyed with the diasporans who are speaking here so intolerantly. Many are the first to take their bosses to Court for racial discrimination in their diasporan Nations. They are the first to complain that they and their children are treated as "second class" despite being law-abiding tax payers contributing "positively" to Society. Yet, here, they speak here as if some should automatically have more privileges than others.

We should all get it into our heads that issues, globally, are now about giving opportunities to the most hard-working and talented folks who utilise specific landmasses.

How is the Yoruba or Awori 'area boy', causing mayhem throughout the Metropolis, more "first class" than the Edo businessman, born and bred in Lagos, who has 5 businesses in the State that employs 200 Lagosians?

Thank you! God bless you jare

Area boys do not discriminate in their hostilities - everyone is equally impacted in their acts. But they also serve a social purpose and the benefit of which makes it imperative that their corps of hooliganism is monitored but not disbanded.

Edo is proto- Yoruba and are recognized as such under our customary laws. Ibo share no cultural alliance with Yoruba or Yorubaland or any proto-Yoruba culture......therefor we see your presence on our land and in our midst based on the statues of a constitution that is non-consenting. We do not accept you but are forced to do so by the law. We accept Edo, Bini and Itsekiri and us are one blood....we dont need a law or consttution to define our relationship with them. Our land is open to them, their land is open to us under customary laws. Under the constitution our states are different.....but the power of a consitution cannot unbind the knots and ties of blood and cultural kinship. Your use of Edo in your example is a cheap and flawed curveball.

I still don't get this within-country deportation process.

Doesn't that directly interfere with one of the Nigerian laws. . . .freedom to move around. Or sth like that.

I mean, how do you get deported in your own country? Still confused here

It is legal under customary laws to do so. It is illegal under the constitution. So we must ask why is the provision of the constitution not invoked.

The answer is it cannot because there are many provisions in the constitution that actually recognize the rights of customary laws as consistent and in harmony with the native cultures and rights of indigenity of the people. This recognition is a legacy which the colonialists also left intact and did not mess with. Through the various systems of governance - precolonial, colonial, democracy, military...and whatever else, this customary law is accepted as the way and value system of the people.

The constitution is generous in giving rights of movement anywhere and in spirit one would expect and support such an ideal as contributive to diversity and growth of the human population. However, in substance there is nothing in a customary law that is in violation of the constitution when it comes to protecting the customs and values of the people and their ways of
life.

Non-conformance with the law of a customary land carries consequences.....and deportation is one of the mild penalties.

hmmm I see. Thanks

dayokanu: I support Fashola to remove all miscreants back to their State of origin.

if you are not a citizen nor contributing anything meaning to lagos then you have to go

Exactly, i see no reason Why traffic hold up Gala sellers, Pirated CDs sellers, or residents who feel they can only rare goats in a city should be allowed to populate Lagos just because they pay tax. Bleep their tax, let them face their village and go embrace Fish-farming or go cultivate Yam and 'Cassava'.

sheyguy:
Exactly, i see no reason Why traffic hold up Gala sellers, Pirated CDs sellers, or residents who feel they can only rare goats in a city should be allowed to populate Lagos just because they pay tax. Bleep their tax, let them face their village and go embrace Fish-farming or go cultivate Yam and 'Cassava'.

It's insane.
Imagine how digusting it is seeing this village boy coming to lagos to display his village character, and they don't want deportation

Gbawe:

"Browbeat you like Beaf" Geezer, you more or less just confessed you only wish to 'square up' by mentioning Beaf. What has Beaf got to do with this? As far as I can discern, you are the only one taking Nairaland too seriously. You should Maintain your own identity and not mention others unnecessarily. Some of you need to chill.

Oh now I should chill. smh. back to topic....

Dudu_Negro: It is legal under customary laws to do so. It is illegal under the constitution. So we must ask why is the provision of the constitution not invoked.

The answer is it cannot because there are many provisions in the constitution that actually recognize the rights of customary laws as consistent and in harmony with the native cultures and rights of indigenity of the people. This recognition is a legacy which the colonialists also left intact and did not mess with. Through the various systems of governance - precolonial, colonial, democracy, military...and whatever else, this customary law is accepted as the way and value system of the people.

The constitution is generous in giving rights of movement anywhere and in spirit one would expect and support such an ideal as contributive to diversity and growth of the human population. However, in substance there is nothing in a customary law that is in violation of the constitution when it comes to protecting the customs and values of the people and their ways of
life.

Non-conformance with the law of a customary land carries consequences.....and deportation is one of the mild penalties.

I was just thinking about this. Cant the deportees just sue for redress? But then pretty much every govt. allocation a citizen gets is based on state of origin, even the mundane stuff like choosing govt. secondary school or university. Mere geographical expression indeed.