Is It Too Dangerous To Travel To The East?

@ Poster:

I stay in Anambra State and what I can say is that I will never advise anybody I know to come home for Christamas!!

Aside from the kidnappings, which is as real as you can ever imagine, the State is a dangerous place to be at this time. The bank robberies is getting outrageous and the number of casualties keep increasing everyday!!

The worst of it that that they operate at all hours, even in broad daylight! The weapons they have are very sophisticated and the Police cannot even hope to fight them! You need to see the way the MOPOL people take cover when the shootings start. There is no week that goes by without one attack or two. When they go for the Bank Robberies, they kill anybody not fast enough to fall to the ground!

As for the kdinappings, well, if you have anyting to offer, be sure they know about it. These guys work with bank account informations and even business transfers. They know when huge amount of money is deposited in you account and the next thing they do is to kindnap you, you wife, or your kids!!

The kind of insecurity here is outrageous and be sure it'll only get worse. With the guber elections coming up in February, 2010, the state is now a war zone!! Even if you are not a direct target, you could get in the way.

Personally, I dont go to the markets, banks or even to town. As soon as Xmas approaches, I'll just take a loooong leave from work and I wont come back till after the elections!! 

So my advise, dont come back!! At least wait till the elections are over because the crime here is indirectly tied to the upcoming elections!!

stop insulting each other, `what is that for.
I asked a simple question, hoping to recieve a simple answer, what you think of others is not really what i wanted to know.

anyhow, i think i will not be going to nija this xmas,  i have talked to my husband again and he reassured me that he does not want to take the risk. i can accept that, he must know better and from what i heard from some of you, his opinion is not just out of the blue,

i am just reallly reallly really hoping that things will get better very sooon, i wanted to bring my mother to nigeria so she can see the places and the family, but if the country is insecure like it is right now, i dont think i will feel good to bring her over, !!!!

believe me you husband is a loser,,       where is this husband from?  from ghana or cameroun, togo or benin.
no real  western will be afraid to travel to africa,

hey you lie on this, its a lie, i am from anambra state too, and i hear news all day from home,,, robbery is everywhere and kidnappers are everywhere,
well i know all are jelous of her coming back home with oyibo,,,,, all this ppl advising her not to visit east are the kidnappers,
some are now advising her to calabar, lagos, where the gang is, so they will kidnapper,
i am sorry for her and the husband,,,,,
no where is safe,,, period

i don't blame you koolchico,
 to my thinking you are from arewa, if you hate the igbos,, bad for you,, you are not welcome
koolchico let me ask you, in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, even America, Mexico is there no kidnap, bro plz make una respect igbos
in all part of 9ja kidnap is there,,,,

koolchico, this is what am expecting from you to say,,, not to attack me by words,
 igbo kwenu,

See how simple question don turn to tribalist match.

@Ovie, will you with immediate effect shut up that your mouth. Are you from the village or something? Your own don too much. This is the same thing they said about SA,  crime this crime that as if when you go there you will be shot on arrival, on my several visits low and behold nothing do me.

Putting fear in people body, i no go pass Woman talk.

Exactly when was the last time these fools went home? I am going back to the east very soon, a THIRD time in less than a year.
Stupid tribalists