OkayDaddy:


Agbero better pass your mama wey dey collect 500 Naira for childbirth.
Shebi your own pikin go be UGM. Soldier to kill am, you no go fit bury am.

Lmaaaaaooooooooo
This is the most stupid thing I would come across today, e sure me die! Stupidly funny
What’s this comment?
How old are you?
I asked a question, you no go like your pikin be agbero? Yes /no, na im you come they give senseless explanation.

You are funny. There is nothing wrong with making the best of a bad situation.

Most of the other regions have thugs who have become terrible and are showing their people pepper. Where are you from? Be honest.

The Agberos/thugs are people that have been mostly neglected by the society, government and policies that didn’t take care of the grassroots, hence a bad situation across the entire country. The area boys in Lagos and especially the southwest have in a way been engaged and integrated through their nurtw Union in a manner that ensures that they do not become criminals and a menace to the society. Hence the threat of breakdown of law and order has been significantly reduced. If not this then it would have been mostly other atrocities.

This is why the individuals, mostly girls who posted their experiences on social media can relate and tell useful stories about how they got help and felt secured even at odd hours because of Agberos presence at places that would have been described as very dangerous. Same thing happens when there is an accident or any other security issue in any locality.

The Agberos are known and engaged and therefore protect their territories. They do not need to be criminals- at least not in their numbers. THAT IS WHAT IT TAKES TO BE FIRST RESPONDERS. Free and volunteered help in these cases shared via the social media posts screenshots. Not the most ideal or desired but it works for the society helping to create a balance while the government works out other interventions like free education, drug raids, vocational trainings to help self sufficiency and take more thugs off the streets.

Contrast that with Agberos/thugs in Onitsha who have been reported to show people hell and restricting movement from certain hours of the day once it gets slightly dark, or other regions where you have all sorts of bandits, insurgents, attacks, kidnappings, molestations, sit at home orders (with violence) and demands for ransoms that has not abated.

I hope you get the gist now. Nobody is eulogizing agero or thugs, we are just saying it is better to manage and engage the thugs meaningfully to prevent them from becoming a menace to the society or else…

Gilgil:
And that's the megacity for you - Touts are first responders!

May all of you praising this terrible thing grow to be Agberos and let your children take upthe role as a generational business, can you say Amen?