peckers: i think omojua doesn't know what it takes to call a man imagine him with all his mouth making

PrettyRita: This crook needed a newer and the latest iPad. Elrufai couldn't get one for him, he saw an opening, exploited it and today he celebrates ipad3. The Arik he wanted dead yesterday is the same Arik he is advertising today. For those supporting this yahoo boy(don't forget he hacked Arik website), remember that his actions are criminal. He was told that his iPad was in his bag, he didn't check to confirm, but queried the manner in which the iPad was dropped in his bag. when Arik couldn't bear his "agboro" character, they blacklisted him, and what did they get in return? A hacker, cracking down their website and paralysing their activities. What do you expect, especially when Elrufai &co went pleading, they waved it and today we have people here supporting rubbish. Mtscheeeeeeeeewwwww

Sisi_Kill: Someone took a stance against something wrong and got it righted. . .and he is being insulted??!!

I give up, I'll never understand y'all.

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hmmm... Ok, i see u point more clearly now & i've been able to deduce the following (correct me if i'm wrong):

i) if Omojuwa had been more diplomatic in his approach, i.e. making his voice heard but refraining from insults & threats, then he wouldnt have lost ur respect. After all the noise he made & 'death threats' to the airline, it seems odd that it took a replacement of the iPad to shut him up.


ii) He comes across as using this issueto increase his popularity. & nothin destroys activism more than getting derailed along the line, deviating from the original & sole motive, which should be justice & justice only.

iii) You dislike proud people (that much i've observed as ur NL follower.lol), & JJ has shown some serious signs of having that trait.

iv) He's someone you once respected, as an upcoming voice of the people perhaps & that makes the f-ups above more annoying. A more mature management of the whole issue was expected from him. He made too much unpleasant noise & that's y it appears that it took only a new ipad - which is actually only what he's due for(lets 4get abt compensation & those fancy thns lawyers get rich on.lol) - to shut him up.


Oya madam, just cut him some slack.lol. I don't hold brief for him, and can't make excuses for him but i still think his action will inspire lots of Nigerians to stand up to the big organisations, airlines inclusive, (who would now be more careful) when cheated .

Indeed, activists need to exercise a good deal of caution & maturity without compromising persistence, in pressing for their demands, so that the other party & indeed the spectators will not really have anything to hang them with. Even insults, when necessary, can be delivered in subtle & mature ways.

ogugua88:

Well done, especially at the bolded lol.

I'm not too familiar with that airline or that airline's policies regarding luggage and personal items, but if there's any gray area, that should have been tackled to prevent any more confusion. Arik did themselves no favor when whomever said that the iPad was returned to him sha lol.

ogugua88: It isn't about him standing up to Arik. It's about the manner in which he chose to do so. There's a big difference.

If he had conducted himself properly, then eyes wouldn't have turned to him when Arik's site was hacked. Also, people wouldn't be suspicious of him if he wasn't tweeting from an(another) iPad.

He could use a lesson or two on how to conduct yourself when all eyes are on you. Nobody needs a grown man throwing tantrums as a leader of tomorrow. He won't be the first to be cheated (if he was at all), and he won't be the last.

Nurry:
all in a bid to speak against OMOJUWA
Biko, re-phrase your statement

kokoye:

Thank you ojare.

If the poeple on this thread are the future of Nigeria, there is a greater problem ahead.

lastpage: Ogugua,
you need to calm down a bit!
You need to also see things from the "other side" of the coin.

Let me summarize the issues a bit:

*The guy's I-Pad was stolen on Arik flight


*He made a lot of noises, through "Tweeter".....and a lot of people agreed with him and "followed" him (did you?)

*As usual of Nigerian entities, Arik strutted and postured while averring that it will not own up to its responsibility for the "Safety of passenger articles" on its flight.


*He threatened a law suit of 50Million Naira if Arik does not give him his I-Pad back

*At last, Arik buckled and offered to give him a new I-Pad as replacement, not withstanding that it was better than the stolen one.[/color]

NOW:
You and other "followers" complained that:
*He should have gone on with the suit
*He was responsible for Arik website being hacked

*He should have informed his "Tweeter followers" about the deal h is cutting with Arik
*He was throwing tantrums, as an adult. You also alleged that he was selfish[/color]!

Now, lets look at issues OBJECTIVELY:
They say "the "end" justifies the "means".

1.) I guess if his "objective" was to get his I-Pad back, he has achieved his objective.

2.) Law suits are very expensive (legal fees et al), takes considerable time and there is no guarantee that you will win or the judge would not only award a "nominal 50,000 Naira compensation" in your favor, which may not even cover "transport", talk-less of legal fees. Its a last option which should be avoided unless everything else fails. Everything else has not failed in this case.

3.) There is nothing, no shred of evidence that you have provided to show that he was responsible for the hacking of Arik's website. Anyone with a small knowledge of Hackers will know that they dont need an "invitation" to do their job but see it as a "Moral Crusade" to use their knowledge to punish those who oppress the members of the public. CIA, FBI, VISA, MasterCard, MI5 and some other high profile website has been hacked, in protest against the hounding of Wikkileaks Julian Assange.
Assange did not ask them to do it, they just did it to show their own displeasure. This guys case is no different.

4.)That you guys "followed" him on Tweeter does not mean he owes you any (luckily, he did inform you guys through the same "Tweeter medium", that issue is now resolved!). It was your own personal choice and that of many others, to believe in what he was doing and to "follow" him. You did not contribute money to him, to take a legal challenge nor did he 'advertise" that you should follow him! It was your choice to do so.

5.) Since his loss was a "personal loss", any decision to mitigate his loss still remains his own personal decision, he does not need to "call a Town hall meeting of Followers" like you, to make that decision. .

He does not need to consult any "wider public"..... (To do that would mean he is actually "grandstanding" and taking the issue beyond a "personal loss" of a personal item). It is you the gullible faithful followers that either wanted to turn this issue into something significant (a storm in a tea-cup!) OR maybe you guys have an "ulterior motive" apart from the guy recovering his stolen I-Pad or it being replaced? Very ridiculous!!

6.) You claimed he was tweeting from an I-Pad all along. Now, this is a very silly statement, coming from an adult. That one I-Pad was stolen does not mean he should have no access to "another i-Pad"? He could use a friends own, a family-member's own, a place of work-issued one and many other avenues to use one!
That does not distract from the fact that his I-Pad was stolen on an Arik flight.
Why you chose to make an issue of such simplistic thing is surprising!

6.) Finally, this is one person, irrespective of his political leanings, who stood-up for his right. Yes, he got his I-Pad back.
if all Nigerians, rise-up, use tweeter to "make a lot of noise" and get their wrongs, righted, then we are on our way to glory-land! Nothing else matters.[/color]

I am still at a loss at all the gripe being thrown at the guy like "you'all agreed that he would win 50Million Naira and he would share it out amongst all his "tweeter followers"? Did he let you guys down on that account by settling "out of court"?

I say like this guy, let us all learn to stand-up for our right, make noise and give them bad publicity, if that is the language they understand and that is what they dont want!

The guy whose I-Pad was stolen has been reimbursed, let all "followers" find something more worthwhile to do instead of beefing the guy or did he take anything else from you, that you need to collect back?



It is you "followers" that need to stop throwing tantrums on an issue that is already resolved!Activism is not about engaging in a mindless and senseless court process when the "objective" could be achieved in a less costly manner! [b]
It is the 'achievement of the objective' that matters, not the process used (which is more abouit "grandstanding", anyway!) [/b]

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