Deep Sight:

You are right! Sunday morning, and it was a close!

claremont: Let's not blame the Nigerian police for anything, they are a part of a system that is broken. Tell me, what incentive is there for a Nigerian policeman to risk his life for anyone?!

info@lpf:
@ OP -
Quite an experience, glad you are alive to tell the tale.
I am curious, what happened to your friend, the lady you dropped off at the estate? Was her house also attacked? Did they take you along with them to her house also?

coogar:
where are the jobs? there are petty businesses everywhere - it's just that our people are lazy or they want the least of minimum effort to make megabucks! it's quite insensitive of you to support armed robbers - if your sister was räped in this kinda incident, you would be more sympathetic with the victims - lets apply common sense in whatever we say....

nigeria is not the only country having to cope with poverty - in the other countries i know, the anger is towards their government, in nigeria - the anger is towards the neighbour! what kind of idiotic mentality is that? robbers should go to abuja and attack senators and ministers - not the struggling populace!

i think fashola should be doing much more about the security of lagos state! how can an incident last 4 hours with no armed policemen in sight? even after the incident, there's no forensic science to pull the crime scene apart and find clues........in 2012? in few days time, a silly nigerian would go to the travel section and say nigerians in diaspora are envious of the home-based nigerians! wowzer!!!!

Area_boy:

what amazes me is not even one of the robbers got killed WTF!!! do robbers have fire fight training?

i tot they just point and shoot

montelik:

I understand your point, but it is not a valid reason. I don't blame any police man who is reluctant to put his life on the line. even the most well trained and equiped officers (bullet proof vest, tactical rifles e.t.c) would sweat blood dealing with 10+ plus armed assailants. but the problem, particularly for a state like Lagos, is the fact robbers can move in massive numbers and operate for long stretches at a time. yet once they are finished, it ends there. the police have zero interest in even doing the most basic of investigations. we live in a society where robbers operate without masks openly, and often leaving mountain of evidence behind, but the police won't even do just basic follow up investigations. it is not until police have huge pensions, bullet-proof cars & vests, apcs, tactical weaponry that they can do their job. just by ensuring that they can pursue and bring perpertrators to book will reduce crime significantly. the threat of being caught even after get away is a powerful deterent.

Area_boy:

lol.. you just shot yourself in the foot!!

cos you created a new account "sept12" just to reply to this thread!! guess u need a new one "Aug12"

pappilo: This story is false. A major operation like this would have made the tabloids at least and savvy lekki dwellers would have reported it on social media. I hope dDeep sight and Sept12 are the same people otherwise I am cancelling my trip to Naija this December!

Sept12:


....that is the same way i fear the robbers may read the story.

pappilo: This story is false. A major operation like this would have made the tabloids at least and savvy lekki dwellers would have reported it on social media. I hope dDeep sight and Sept12 are the same people otherwise I am cancelling my trip to Naija this December!

shymexx:

But where are the jobs? There are millions of graduates in that country that can't even get a decent job - how do expect unskilled people to get jobs? The unemployment rate in Nigeria is about 50%(officially), the country is abyss!

Poverty breeds evil and anger - that's the truth... And Nigeria is a country where people worship money and so people would do anything for it, it's just sad..



I don't know, but it's going to be difficult to conquer it in a country like Nigeria, where there's no central database, ill-equipped and ill-trained police force, no CCTV cameras, and with poverty everywhere...

Deep Sight:

Do you know oh! I actually mentioned the exact name of the police station and DPO on the mainland that were involved in the car vandalization and asking for a bribe afterwards, when I first wrote the story, but then fear catch me, say,what if they read the story and come after me? So I removed those details.

Deep Sight:

I really dont know what to say to the bold. I posted this story simply to makemy country men aware of our security issues. If you are interested, you can visit or send to the Maroko Police Station to confirm the incident.

The Maroko Police Station is close to the Oniru Market, in Oniru, V.I. extension.

plaetton:
How can there be jobs when the federal government allows oil comapnies to import Philipino workers to do jobs that many Nigerians are well qualified and eager to do?

pappilo:

Boss, please no vex. I am just hoping you will say something like April fool. I actually left Nigeria because of insecurity. Got robbed 3 times in 6 months in the same damn house. I always dread when I have a trip planned and this your story is just making me reconsider my December trip.

pappilo: This story is false. A major operation like this would have made the tabloids at least and savvy lekki dwellers would have reported it on social media. I hope dDeep sight and Sept12 are the same people otherwise I am cancelling my trip to Naija this December!

pappilo:

Boss, please no vex. I am just hoping you will say something like April fool. I actually left Nigeria because of insecurity. Got robbed 3 times in 6 months in the same damn house. I always dread when I have a trip planned and this your story is just making me reconsider my December trip.

Sept12:


Bros. Try to fear O. I am sure you left contact addresses at the police station too....? I am naturally ultra paranoid. I knew the Noble close story...and heard how you narrated to the victims how your car had been snatched and that you had never been to 'that part of Lagos before'....but hearing your part of the story brings the events to an even starker reality. I am guessing the estate you dropped off your friend is Goshen estate.....if they robbed and killed someone in that estate almost 2 hours before the Noble close incident that means the police had absolutely nothing on them for about 4 hours!

I tire.