0key: With this kind of inflammatory statements made, it's obvious that Nigeria can never b one. There will be endless hatred b/w d Igbo and Yoruba which will certainly lead to terrible crises in future. since water and oil cannot mix together, they are not meant to be in one country.

0key: With this kind of inflammatory statements made, it's obvious that Nigeria can never b one. There will be endless hatred b/w d Igbo and Yoruba which will certainly lead to terrible crises in future. since water and oil cannot mix together, they are not meant to be in one country.

Fashola is a tribalist and he will definitely reap his fruit of discord when the time comes. It will surely happen!

Eko Atlantic: I'm not against this because of hundreds of crimes ibos bring from their states to SW, hence increasing crime rate in southwest.

The briton that was kidnapped in Lagos on Monday was the handiwork of the ibos, same with the wife of one honorable like that in one of the SW states.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201307240347.html/

manny4life: I did not know that interstate deportation was legal, well let's see how Gov Obi will react to this. Gov Fashola is gradually setting the fire that will burn nonstop. Now is the time for the FG to use executive authority over this man because by the time other states follow, there will be serious anarchy in the country.

I just heard with one ear that the Government of Lagos State has dumped human cargo in Onitsha - after detaining some of them for almost six months.

In other words, one state just wakes up and decides that there are Nigerians within her borders who are undesirable elements and proceeds to deport those Nigerians within Nigeria.

First it was Abia state waking up and deporting non-indigenous workers to fellow eastern states. Now it's Lagos broadening the parametres to anybody deemed a destitute. Given that we have refused to restructure things and are keeping the asphyxiating Federal shape and form of Lord Lugard's zoo cage as is, should these deportations be possible?

I guess I must tender an unreserved apology to Julius Berger. After seeing the human cargo trailers with which they transport their Nigerian wage labourers to work in Abuja, I wrote a bitter article condemning that Western practice of doing things in Africa that they would not do at home. I had asked: would Julius Berger cargo her wage labourers in Germany the way they sardine their human cargo back and forth in broad daylight in Nigeria? Now, see what one state is doing to fellow Nigerians within Nigeria.

The action of Lagos state reminds me of the reflections of a French colonial police officer in Tropical Circle, a novel by prominent Guinean novelist, Alioum Fantoure. Taking one contemptuous look at a newly independent African country already in the throes of the sanguinary dictatorship of one of Francophone Africa’s famous Fathers of the Nation, the white police man declares that one thing that has baffled him to no end in all the decades he has spent serving in Africa is that Africans are capable of inflicting injuries on fellow Africans way beyond the imagination of even the most wicked white colonialist. You are capable of doing to yourselves things we would never think of doing. “You, Africans, brew your own poison from within”, the French policeman concludes.

The way I see it, Julius Berger's human cargo of Nigerian workers is benign poison while Raji Fashola's human cargo of fellow Nigerians is the real 'ota pia pia' poison.

Please let the lawyers enlighten us: does any part of our constitution allow a state to declare that some Nigerians are too poor to live within her borders? And when next we are talking about the treatment of Nigerians in South Africa, let me not hear 'pim' from Lagosians until they rein in their yeye state government. Their state government is working from the same playbook as the South Africans: demonizing the other and dumping every imaginable socio-economic problem on her back. Ah, those Nigerians are taking all our jobs, are all drug traffickers, are taking all our women, area strain on public resources, are the cause of every post-apartheid dysfunction in South Africa, etc.

Lagos State Government echoes this South African song and applies it to fellow Nigerians. Lagos may as well create Lagos state consulates in all state capitals in Nigeria so that Nigerians can apply for entry visa when going to Lagos. And while we are at it, the officials of Lagos must be told that there is something racist and leveling about dumping everybody in Onitsha. You don't just assume that every Igbo you round up because you say he is destitute or insane is from Anambra.

There is something called human dignity. You don't just dump people at the other end of a bridge and say: sort out yourselves. That's like the racist French deporting everybody to Bamako because one African in every African is Malian. If one state government feels that citizens of another state are putting enormous strain on her resources in a federating nation,there is such a thing as officials of both states sitting down to brainstorm and tackle the problem.

Deportation should never be in the picture. I wish those deportees had a good pro bono lawyer who could ask the Supreme Court to determine whether Lagos State has the right to deport Nigerians within Nigeria for possession of nothing (aka poverty).

Onlytruth: Anyway on a very serious note, Fashola is playing with fire.
My main concern is what Gov Obi would do in response to this idiotic act by a fake SAN.
He is not powerless at all. In fact because of presidential politics of 2015, and because Obi is leaving office next year, he can make all kinds of trouble for ANYbody who fails to address this issue.
He is only limited by his ability to make trouble. Even governor Orji of Abia would address this issue better than Obi.

dayokanu: Dem return you back to your fertile land, the Japan and Dubai of Africa and lamentation start.

Lagos does not want you wretched asss. Go back to your village. Simple

Some people are funny asking what Peter Obi would say? What does he want to say other than to mew like a woman who drank hot oil.

Anyone who doesnt like it should stay back in his village buncha leeches

birdman:

open your eyes. we are already in anarchy. Why hasn't Punch gotten LASG's side of the story. I call bs on this story - there is no way people are being randomly deported

NAIJA_SOM: Waste of time. They will simply take the next bus going back to Lagos. ONE NIGERIA !!!!!

ShyM-X:


Fam, don't waste my popcorn and deny the viewers the biggest tribal war ever on nairaland.

The link is still active: http://www.punchng.com/news/lagos-dumps-70-beggars-others-in-onitsha/

And it was posted today:

*Governor Fasola:
Let the igbos fix 'biafra'. We are tired of the igbos committing bad stuffs in the west. If we have any westerner destitute in Igbo land, please send them back asap. Be careful and honest when you do that because we have all your people building houses all over Lagos etc and westerners are not allowed to do same in Igbo land. No problem about that, we are good people here. but tired of the igbos atrocities.

Eko Atlantic: I'm not against this because of hundreds of crimes ibos bring from their states to SW, hence increasing crime rate in southwest.

The briton that was kidnapped in Lagos on Monday was the handiwork of the ibos, same with the wife of one honorable like that in one of the SW states.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201307240347.html/

Eko Atlantic: I'm not against this because of hundreds of crimes ibos bring from their states to SW, hence increasing crime rate in southwest.

The briton that was kidnapped in Lagos on Monday was the handiwork of the ibos, same with the wife of one honorable like that in one of the SW states.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201307240347.html/