omenka:
What sort of warped thought process is this?? How does patronage justify the propriety of their actions??

Why do you always fiercely defend illegality

omenka:
Baba no be laughing mata be this oo. The tin pain me die. If we channel the mental energy we spend in devising means to break the law and get away with it into some other productive venture, perhaps we'd be rubbing shoulders with South Korea right now.

This is just saddening.

Lordave:
Maybe he wan use the fuel burn Buhari house in Daura.

Dottore:
To me this is ingenuos. I don't see anything wrong with anybody modifying his property to suit his needs. When oyibos modify their bikes and vehicles we acclaim them but when a Nigerian does it becomes disdainful.

Lordave:


Thirdly,[b]it's not a crime devising a means to adapt to bans/life, stop deriding Nigerians unnecessarily. Would it have been better if those three guys resorted to crime as a means of survival after the ban on black markets? If you haven't seen the usefulness of black market during scarcity, I have and that is why I don't see anything wrong with black market, they don't force you to buy their fuel.
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Bollinger:


I agree with everything but the above. Your argument could as well be used by an armed robber. There is nowhere in the world where black market is a good thing. It exists, yes. But that does not make it a good thing. The ends does not justify the means.

omenka:
Drove into an NNPC mega station to refill my tank only to see this guy beside me. He had a bike who's fuel tank has been reconstructed to accommodate nothing less than 30litres of petrol.

As a matter of fact, there were three of them, but I was able to capture just this beside me.

It is such a shame Nigerians have become so crooked in nature- when you make laws/rules by which all must abide, they device ingenious means to break those rules. This trick of modifying fuel tanks has become a lot more bigger than how they were originally produced has become the most preferred trick adopted by black-marketers to beat officials and dispensers to their game.

Now I understand what they meant when they said "be the change you want to see around you".


Cc: Lalasticlala. Mynd44.

Lordave:
Black market might not be a good thing in America, Saudi Arabia or in Europe because those countries readily have petrol for both industrial and home consumption of their citizens. That's not the case in Nigeria where a poor man cannot buy petrol with gallon just for home use while he is suffering lack of electricity.

[b]In Nigeria, black market is a good thing, the advantages out weighs the disadvantages.
I'm not saying if the man resorted to crime he is justified, no. I just acknowledge his sense of adaptation to law/life rather than lazying about. [/b]

VickyRotex:
Orishi rishi
Ki la fe pe eleyi bayi

Bollinger:


I don't think you really understand what black market is. Don't let emotion take over reason. It is never a good thing. Imagine that i am the owner of a filling station in a remote town in Nigeria. I am the only station for miles. You have no choice but to buy from me. I could easily create a black market situation by not selling fuel and creating scarcity. instead of buying from the pumps you would be buying at four hundred percent the price from my agents scattered all over the place. Now, would you still say that is a good thing?

Lordave:
Yes marketers hoard petrol to sell at a higher price in black markets which is very bad and should be tackled by every legal means.

I get what you mean and that's why I used the poor man and gallon example. I'm only making a case for the masses who the government has refused to provide with alternative means of readily getting petroleum products at service stations without a Jerrycan.

Functionoftime:

Kintus

Lordave:
Yes marketers hoard petrol to sell at a higher price in black markets which is very bad and should be tackled by every legal means.

I get what you mean and that's why I used the poor man and gallon example. I'm only making a case for the masses who the government has refused to provide with alternative means of readily getting petroleum products at service stations without a Jerrycan.

Bollinger:


But that's my point. When you patronize black marketers you are perpetuating illegal supply. I know sometimes it is unavoidable but i am under no illusion that it is a good thing.

streetzdreamz:
no matter how hard you try,some people wouldn't still get the picture,in my school the accommodation is solely private owned,and since the beginning of 2015 there has been no electricity in the entire school/environment,the s.u.g did nothing, the school did nothing, the government equally did nothing!we students had to rely on generators all through the year,when the fuel scarcity was at its peak,the gas stations were all locked up,it was only the nnpc mega station that was functional, with a mammoth crowd on daily basis,no student has the time to go line up for hours,more so jerry cans were not sold,so how do we survive if not for black market sellers?the price was high but we were grateful we at least still got the product,I don't see y the op is mad at some guy who decided to adjust his tank capacity to suit the stations policy,rather than direct his anger to the appropriate authorities,he is here screaming bloody murder!!!!!!!!his kind burns petty thieves at the stake,and justifies the real treasury looters,confused beings..

Lordave:
Some black marketers buy from the service stations and sell to villages where a service station is not situated. Some of the villages even about a 30 mins drive to the service stations.

Some people live behind service stations but they can't buy fuel because they don't own a car or a motorcycle.
In the situations above, is it illegal or legal? In normal circumstances, where everything is in place, it would be illegal regarding the laws against it, but since the government have refused to address some issues that encourage black market, what do you have to say?

NB I'm talking about those that buy from service stations and resale to petty consumers.