DapoBear:

Pretty sad  

No reason for an able-bodied person to be begging, even in Nigeria.

I don't understand why Yoruba people would be doing this

we shouldn't be copying backward Northern ways.

DapoBear:

Pretty sad

. . .we shouldn't be copying backward Northern ways.

ndu_chucks:

This is a very daft, senseless, and racist statement coming from you, of all people. Which way is the Western way, or Eastern way, if I might ask? Rakimin Dajij

Gbawe:

Indeed. Who will not beg , wherever they are from, if dehumanised ?

Gbawe:

Indeed. Who will not beg , wherever they are from, if dehumanised ?

Onlytruth:


He means, folks can decide not to work and depend on Allah for food, cloth and shelter. Since Allah has not come yet ('cos he knows he gave them hands and feet to work with but they refuse to use them), they hit the read and beg. Totally unjustifiable, and almost parasitic.

Totally different things.

One is progressive, the other is retrogressive.

Onlytruth:

Gbawe, I don't think you and ndu_chucks mean the same thing. Let me explain.

You mean, there is a need for government to aid those who fell through the cracks- those who struggled to find a job but failed. Since the government won't do that, they beg. Sometimes justifiable.

[b]He means, folks can decide not to work and depend on Allah for food, cloth and shelter. Since Allah has not come yet ('cos he knows he gave them hands and feet to work with but they refuse to use them), they hit the read and beg. Totally unjustifiable, and almost parasitic.

Totally different things.[/b]

One is progressive, the other is retrogressive.

Akin-Egba:

Now this is a compete disgrace to us. How do our Yoruba supremacists here on NL react? I was at Ibadan recently and you will not believe the number of beggars in the motor parks and streets whom I noticed clearly as Yoruba. Where is Babapupa, stranger, Sefago, Ileke-Idi and the rest of them?

Akin-Egba:

Now this is a compete disgrace to us. How do our Yoruba supremacists here on NL react? I was at Ibadan recently and you will not believe the number of beggars in the motor parks and streets whom I noticed clearly as Yoruba. Where is Babapupa, stranger, Sefago, Ileke-Idi and the rest of them?

eku_bear:

Spambot swallowed my previous post, as well as the one I made under an account made by my buddy.

Long story short:
a) no whole and hearty man should be begging.
b) Social security is for the old or sick, not for the whole and hearty.
c) I'm not an ethnic supremacist, only very critical and concerned by bad behavior by my people.
d) Blaming corruption and misrule for bad behavior makes no sense; Nigeria is not the only poorly run country on earth.

eku_bear:

How much money do you need to start selling pure water? Or to cook and prepare food on the roadside? Or to move to a village and work as a farmer? Or to work as a security man? Or cook? Or houseboy?

I remember when I went to the market in Abuja (Otako market, iirc?), there would be little kids with wheelbarrows who helped people move the goods they bought from the market to the car.

There is nothing wrong in my opinion with doing hard jobs that others find undesirable. You can start from the bottom, work hard and rise. It might not even be in your own generation there is breakthrough, it might be only your grandchildren who are able to break through. But you have to start from somewhere.

Beggars contribute nothing to society, and we cannot encourage healthy and hearty people to be begging. It is madness and only leads to ruin.

alj harem:

ok we know yorubas are sometime lazy people who would perfer to be a tout or beg if the job given to them is not good enough

alj harem:



unlike the igbos that would do anything for money

how do tend to tackle that

DapoBear:

Pretty sad 

No reason for an able-bodied person to be begging, even in Nigeria. I don't understand why Yoruba people would be doing this. . .we shouldn't be copying backward Northern ways.

igbobuigbo:

Don't know what you mean, but is begging for money not doing anything for money? Do you know the loss of self respect and self pride involved in begging, especially if you are not physically/mentally handicaped?

alj harem:

mumu did anyone say igbos beg for money

why do like twisting words

gbam who will not beg if they have no food to eat who will not beg if there is no shelter who will not beg  their children are hungry  and begging their parents for food i ask who  unless they want to start stealing

Onlytruth:

In the pictures I posted, I don't see any beggar in site, yet these are ordinary folks hustling to survive.
That is why my God will always fight their battles for them.
You do your part, God happily does the rest.

ndu_chucks:

Onlytruth, you should be honest with yourself for once. Some might just wonder whether there is a preference for armed robbery and kidnapping among the down trodden in your neck of the woods, as opposed to begging. Either way, thank your stars that you were born into your family by the accident of birth and nothing else. You are no better than the almajiris who you are poking fun of.

Onlytruth:

Never happening. Polygamous Igbo men are very rich (Ekene dili chukwu class) and don't have more than three wives. 98% of Igbos are monogamous.

alj harem:



i thought it was only northerners that were almajiris

now yorubas [/b]are now what they call [b]us

i wan die

kobojunkii:

Most of the Almanjiris is Yorubaland are Igbos!

I am not making this up. It is welll documented.

Yorubas do not beg, they are upstanding members of the society.