ahika: o! Okay. #casedismissed then.

That's true. After going through other people's post I discovered that it had once been on Nl Front Page

Femosticap: Ignorant comments like this are so annoying...I just wanna ....*aaaaarrrrggggghhhhh*!!! Firstly I fnk u must be Ibo...a guy had an experience dis teRrible and spent useful time sharing for all to learn and the only thing that caught ur attention is the PRICE?! Gosh!!! Secondly, u are quite inconsiderate to his plight at the time! Try travelling inter-state via a road network like the one described and the car develops a fault with ur kids at the back! You will pay ur last penny to get out of that situation! If however, 'bargaining' becomes ur priority at that time, then u gatto understand ma'am....u don't deserve those children! Well...like they say...''Pesin wey no go, no know"!

Zehner: Sure.

EddyNumerouno: ok, your story has too many holes
1.oil splashed on a hot rim will produce smoke, making you to be alarmed.
2. what were you doing when you had two tires and hubs loosened? (and i'll also assume the tires were smoking due to the oil, so you had smoking tires and didnt bother to check what was they were doing )
3.thank God for atms, how many people travel with 113,000 naira lying around the car? (plausible, so i'll let this one slide)
4. i'll assume your car transformed into a 2014 model car in the workshop (the only way to explain the astrometrical rise in price of spare parts (the point of this scam is to make you pay for parts gotten from another poor chap and yours will be sold likewise...so i'll assume the parts werent brand new)

this your story get as e be, therefore; story for the Gods Q.E.D

sweettease:
Oga, calm down and stop being a tribalist cos I'm not even Igbo, it was obvious he will spend money but 113k for what wasn't faulty? Those guys are usually cheap criminals that would have done it for less than half of what he paid if he had gone about it the right way especially since he realised what they were doing, do you even know the situation I've gone through? No one is saying he should make money his priority when his kids are there but if you don't know how to be street wise in Nigeria, you will end up a mugu one too many times.

36STATES: They tried this on me in 2004, but I was just too smart for those motherfookers. I arrived Nigeria and was driving east in my compressor mercedes with my girl friend when I noticed some people pointing at my wheel along those god foresaking villages along Benin Ore rd . What raised my suspicion was that everybody or should I say the whole community was pointing at different tyres. After passing about ten of those hamlets, I decided to park to see what was amiss. The speed the whole village swamped on me to offer "help" convinced me beyound doubt that those people are up to something evil. I was lucky to notice when one of the kids of about 8 or 9 yrs old spilled some kind of oil on the right front wheel because I had already alighted from my car before they could reach us and I was very vigilant. While some were pointing at the tyres some where already trying to lift the bonnet up. It was just unbelievable. As soon I as I caught their joke, I drove off in anger brushing two of them. I was lost for words and couldn't find good semantcs to explain the whole thing to my girl friend who was watching the whole drama from her seat and not used to the criminal mindset of avarage Nigeria not to talk of a whole community as she's foreigner. How could a whole community as unit decide to be that evil? Nigeria is indeed a land of evil.

Dexema: Nigerians! And we go dy shout say na govt finish dis country whereas the populace get decayed mentality and lacks integrity.

Zehner: Eya sorry about your experience Op but this is actually a well known trick along that axis and it's been going on for years now.

kingDRIS: hey
hey Miss

MissBritney: That's so sad.

donem: very funny story, besides the money u spent with additional 20k would hav been enough 4 u peeps to travel by Air.

EddyNumerouno: ok, your story has too many holes
1.oil splashed on a hot rim will produce smoke, making you to be alarmed.
2. what were you doing when you had two tires and hubs loosened? (and i'll also assume the tires were smoking due to the oil, so you had smoking tires and didnt bother to check what was they were doing )
3.thank God for atms, how many people travel with 113,000 naira lying around the car? (plausible, so i'll let this one slide)
4. i'll assume your car transformed into a 2014 model car in the workshop (the only way to explain the astrometrical rise in price of spare parts (the point of this scam is to make you pay for parts gotten from another poor chap and yours will be sold likewise...so i'll assume the parts werent brand new)

this your story get as e be, therefore; story for the Gods Q.E.D

sweettease:
Oga, calm down and stop being a tribalist cos I'm not even Igbo, it was obvious he will spend money but 113k for what wasn't faulty? Those guys are usually cheap criminals that would have done it for less than half of what he paid if he had gone about it the right way especially since he realised what they were doing, do you even know the situation I've gone through? No one is saying he should make money his priority when his kids are there but if you don't know how to be street wise in Nigeria, you will end up a mugu one too many times.

Dexema: Nigerians! And we go dy shout say na govt finish dis country whereas the populace get decayed mentality and lacks integrity.

cyril10: I was on leave in mid August 2014 when I decided to travel to Lagos with my family. Before the leave started, I gave my car to my mechanic to service and to make sure everything is in order before we embark on the journey since I wouldn't want to put my little kids in jeopardy .

On the D-day, we left home early to atleast get to Lagos by 4-5 pm but it was not to be as I eventually fell into the hands of scamming mechanics along Benin-ore road which I later regretted for some time. The journey was very smooth from P/H to the point between Benin and Ore when I unluckily met with evil mechanics and their accomplices, as I was driving, a man on okada (bike) started pointing on my tyre that it is wobbling, I had to quickly stop did I quick turn around to a waiting mechanic that directed me to his shop, when I stopped, I discovered that oil was dripping from my tyre rim, it was later I discovered that they actually splashed oil on the rim but was too late, they have removed my 2 front tyres, removed my hubs to show that they were broken, they called motor parts seller one of the accomplice. The hub that should ordinarily cost 8-10 thousand cost me 40,000 naira each, at the end of it all I ended up wasting 113,000 naira. I have to share my experience here so as to warn people that travel on that route that they should ignore people like that mostly along Agbor- benin and Benin- ore roads.

tellwisdom: You paid 113,000?? ....How much come be your car??

cyril10: I was on leave in mid August 2014 when I decided to travel to Lagos with my family. Before the leave started, I gave my car to my mechanic to service and to make sure everything is in order before we embark on the journey since I wouldn't want to put my little kids in jeopardy .

On the D-day, we left home early to atleast get to Lagos by 4-5 pm but it was not to be as I eventually fell into the hands of scamming mechanics along Benin-ore road which I later regretted for some time. The journey was very smooth from P/H to the point between Benin and Ore when I unluckily met with evil mechanics and their accomplices, as I was driving, a man on okada (bike) started pointing on my tyre that it is wobbling, I had to quickly stop did I quick turn around to a waiting mechanic that directed me to his shop, when I stopped, I discovered that oil was dripping from my tyre rim, it was later I discovered that they actually splashed oil on the rim but was too late, they have removed my 2 front tyres, removed my hubs to show that they were broken, they called motor parts seller one of the accomplice. The hub that should ordinarily cost 8-10 thousand cost me 40,000 naira each, at the end of it all I ended up wasting 113,000 naira. I have to share my experience here so as to warn people that travel on that route that they should ignore people like that mostly along Agbor- benin and Benin- ore roads.