echobee:
everyday for d thief,one day for the owner

wheredemdey:


Shut that cesspit you call a mouth....bad citizens abound in all tribes and climes...its not peculiar to the gallant hardworking igbos..i can dig out threads where the yoruba man has committed worse crimes....condemn the crime and the person that committed it..

once again shut up that pit you erroneously call a mouth

Keegan:


The problem is still the government and the learned among us. Look at what is happening in the political circle. How did we arrive in all these mess? Jumbo salaries and other mouth watering allowances that amount to more than a quarter of our annual budget, how did we get there? I think we citizens suppose to come together and equip ourselves with knowledge of governance. We need the learned and sincere among us to take the lead.

Richhommie:
Do people still carry large amounts like #100 million about?

zimoni:


I'm aware a lot of them are into armed robbery, but I don't think they are up to that 98% you bandied. Don't forget we also have Yorubas, Fulanis and other ethnic group members who are into armed robbery.

Anyway, armed robbery isn't a business. If I were a President, I would give order that armed robbers should be killed. Same with drug peddlers, oil thieves and saboteurs of government infrastructures.

People lack discipline in this nation. It's all about money. The poverty and hardship has changed our orientation to Money Must Be Made At All Cost. People don't ask questions in the society anymore(what is your business, how come you've become a millionaire all of a sudden?), people now worship wealth.Too bad.

onatisi:
I beg to disagree with you. Democracy is government for the people,by the people and of the people. The kind of government we have in nigeria is a direct expression of the kind of people nigerians are. You asked a very sensible question which is “how did we get into the mess nigeria is now?” And I will tell you blame the people. It is the same people complaining about bad leaders now that collected 1kong or measure of rice plus 1000 naira to vote for these bad leaders. It is the people in nigeria that are indifferent to whosoever rules them that complains about bad rulers,it is the people who have refused to collect voters cards and feels voting isn't their business that complains,it is the people that fold their arms and do nothing when things are going wrong that complains,etc. I keep telling people that gani fawehinmi is a man like u and I ,he didn't have 2 heads or 5 legs , but he took it upon himself to fight government injustice and corruption. Today in nigeria ,if someone starts campaigning against the ills of government or society ,he will be looked upon as been jobless. Until the nigerian masses realize that their destiny is in their own hands ,things will never change. I don't believe any of the politicians or political parties we have now have anything positive to contribute ,but we have no choice but to choose among them,because good people of high integrity have refused to join politics .

Keegan:


I agree with you but not in totality. The surest way of getting things done is the way you suggested IF ONLY WE RESPECT ONE ANOTHER AND UNITED REGARDLESS OF HOW HIGH OR LOW OUR FELLOWS ARE and I can tell you it seems almost impossible to achieve anything with this kind of approach in Nigeria of today. Things that separated us apart are too enormous, if it is not religion, it will be ethnic or others like education, social status, upbringing and the likes. We are a very proud people and each of us like to take advantage of others, so with all these within us there will never be genuine unity and thus nothing worthwhile can be achieved. Now if the government ensure that the rule of law shall be abide with regardless of our differences, development will surely follow and we will find solutions to many other problems facing us. As it is, we are creating more and more problems and if care is not taken it might consume us. We need our learned compatriots especially those specialist in law to come to our rescue. Gani of blessed memory was not ordinary, he was highly learned and versed in act of governance, not any Nigerian can do as he did but others of his calibre that feel unconcerned are who I can appeal to, to rescue us from total collapse of the country. We are ready to work with them.

FriedPlantain:
Hell Yeah

onatisi:
we agree to disagree and we disagree to agree.it is so good to see that we are both finding a common ground in our discussion.but I will still disagree with u on 2 points which you have raised. The first is that if government makes the right laws and legislations. Ok,my question is ,how can a set of wrong people make the right decisions?we have a system in nigeria where it is the wrong set of people that votes,these wrong set of people vote in the wrong set of people and how will these wrong set of people make the right decisions? I can authoritatively tell u that over 80% of nigerian voters that vote in elections are bought and induced one way or the other,and there is no way I will spend 4billion naira on an election and if I win I won't want to make 8billion.that is the kind of system in nigeria politics .secondly u raised the issue of unity,believe me bro,nigerians will support anyone they see to be true regardless of religion or tribe. The third point is gani,this is a big issue but yes and yet I will say gani was ordinary,believe me we don't have to be educated to gani level of education before knowing what is good or bad. The issue is people just don't want to do it,people believe it is a waste of time fighting bad vices in our society. Nigerians keep hoping that one day somebody will come and do it right but my question to people have always been why can't you be the person people are waiting for?why can't I be the change people want?why can't I lead and champion the cause of justice?why do I have to rely on someone else to do it when I am still alive? Those that did it then are men like u and I but took it upon them selves to lead the cause of justice. It doesn't have to be big or nationwide like gani own,it maybe in a small community or local government. Nigerians need to know that their own help is in their hands and themselves.

Keegan:


Its a great pleasure interacting with you. So if we all have solutions to our problems on papers or in this case on the internet how exactly are we going to solve them? How are we going to let our people know that our destiny is in our own hand where there's division everywhere? I want to see a better Nigeria, but how can we get there?

Mogidi:
Armed robbers arrested.....good
How about pen robbers?

Tinubu has been robbing Lagosians blind for more than a decade, he still walks free.

lekkie073:
Its no wonder ibos buy big houses in lagos

Mogidi:
Armed robbers arrested.....good
How about pen robbers?

Tinubu has been robbing Lagosians blind for more than a decade, he still walks free.

oakson:
[/b]Well, most people in Alaba International Market, and other markets are into armed robbery or other illegal businesses.

It's a shame.
Ms. Setaje how you doing?
Thanks for the intelligence report

onatisi:
we agree to disagree and we disagree to agree.it is so good to see that we are both finding a common ground in our discussion.but I will still disagree with u on 2 points which you have raised. The first is that if government makes the right laws and legislations. Ok,my question is ,how can a set of wrong people make the right decisions?we have a system in nigeria where it is the wrong set of people that votes,these wrong set of people vote in the wrong set of people and how will these wrong set of people make the right decisions? I can authoritatively tell u that over 80% of nigerian voters that vote in elections are bought and induced one way or the other,and there is no way I will spend 4billion naira on an election and if I win I won't want to make 8billion.that is the kind of system in nigeria politics .secondly u raised the issue of unity,believe me bro,nigerians will support anyone they see to be true regardless of religion or tribe. The third point is gani,this is a big issue but yes and yet I will say gani was ordinary,believe me we don't have to be educated to gani level of education before knowing what is good or bad. The issue is people just don't want to do it,people believe it is a waste of time fighting bad vices in our society. Nigerians keep hoping that one day somebody will come and do it right but my question to people have always been why can't you be the person people are waiting for?why can't I be the change people want?why can't I lead and champion the cause of justice?why do I have to rely on someone else to do it when I am still alive? Those that did it then are men like u and I but took it upon them selves to lead the cause of justice. It doesn't have to be big or nationwide like gani own,it maybe in a small community or local government. Nigerians need to know that their own help is in their hands and themselves.

onatisi:
I have been telling people that the problem with nigeria isn't the politicians or the leaders alone but the society system that operates in nigeria. People become emergency billionaires overnight and nobody cares to know or ask how he or she got those millions within 24hrs as long as he shares it with them. Church members that came to church last week on foot and tattered shirts can come to church the following week with a toyota avalon 2014 model and the church won't question him. All he needs to say is the lord is good. This also happens in mosques . Until nigerians starts been wary of these set of emergency millionaires the spate of ritual killings,armed robberies and drug pushing will only continue and even escalate. The nigeria society must go back to the system of giving credit to hard work and honest living and stop hailing or praising boys,men or people whose source of affluence and wealth can't be determined or verified .

otiigba1:
GBAM! grown up talk! very nicely and robustly put! God will bless you and your family and the whole of your generation

onatisi:
amen oo,and you too bro.

otiigba1:
true talk, but nigerians are very dishonest cowards no one wants to die for change, and they are also easy to buy every body in nigeria believes that money is every thing, if you are rich, a criminal and stupid its ok, if you educated and honest but poor you are an idiot no one will take you seriuos i think nigerians enjoy the way they are been treated by their leaders,nigerians are not cabpable of living an honest decent lives, last time i was in nigeria every shop restaurant has a security man with a gun why? i saw more guns than people are we that a danger to ourselves?

onatisi:
it is sad but I just have to agree with u that nigerians like and enjoy the way they are. I have carefully studied the nigerian system and I have come to liken corruption to be the bloodstream that flows through the nigeria system. Nigeria is the body but corruption is the blood. I was shocked when I learnt after careful research and investigation how corruption even starts from the maternity wards ,nurses won't attend to pregnant women unless they are financially induced,during and after delivery u still need to be bribing them to get things done.for the child to attend govt schools and pass parents needs to bribe teachers. Parents and guardians bribe invigilators during waec exams and sometimes buy questions papers for the children so that they will pass, to enter uni or poly parents bribe again ,now the student or child has seen how his parents have been helping him and he has learned the system, so he takes it up from there and starts bribing lecturers to pass through . Once he graduates he bribes his way into employment, after sometime he enters politics and starts bribing voters in order to win elections . This is just a short relay of the vicious cycle of corruption in nigeria. That is why I said it is the system. Civic studies has been stopped ,churches preach prosperity more than salvation.if you are rich in the church that means God loves you and has answered your prayers . Really pathetic . Even mortuaries attendants collects bribe before taking care of peoples dead bodies .