What do you think of security in Lagos recently?.

Almost everybody around me has witness one form of robbery or the other and i begin to wonder if the Government is aware and what they are doing about it.

1) My car was stolen around 9pm at gun-point in front of the house.
2) A member was recently robbed at gun-point infront of Shoprite at ikeja while in traffic
3) My brother's friends were robbed in front of their house @ gun-point too.
4) Two Family friends that just arrived from overseas last discovered that their bags had been torn and some items were missing at the airport.
5)A friend's husband was rough-handled on his street by two guys that wanted to snatch is wrist-watch.

I think most of this crimes are committed by the jobless youths that roam the streets as a result of the ban of okada, traffic hawkers etc in lagos now.

Government needs to create something for this guys to fall back on else the masses will continue to pay dearly for it.

Lets hear your experiences and what can be done to curtail this.

Banning of okadas and trying to formalize the economy is one of the key sources of the troubles with crime in the east. Lagos has never been a place one can rate as safe, but expect a spike in crime because it will start with jobless youths and move on to anyone that wants to be en vogue.

ifeteminikan:
What do you think of security in Lagos recently?.

Almost everybody around me has witness one form of robbery or the other and i begin to wonder if the Government is aware and what they are doing about it.

1) My car was stolen around 9pm at gun-point in front of the house.
2) A member was recently robbed at gun-point infront of Shoprite at ikeja while in traffic
3) My brother's friends were robbed in front of their house @ gun-point too.
4) Two Family friends that just arrived from overseas last discovered that their bags had been torn and some items were missing at the airport.
5)A friend's husband was rough-handled on his street by two guys that wanted to snatch is wrist-watch.

I think most of this crimes are committed by the jobless youths that roam the streets as a result of the ban of okada, traffic hawkers etc in lagos now.

Government needs to create something for this guys to fall back on else the masses will continue to pay dearly for it.

Lets hear your experiences and what can be done to curtail this.

Who be this sef, make we hear word.
All these issues only you? You need to visit a church,they need to baff u for river with candles.

Gooogle:

Who be this sef, make we hear word.
All these issues only you? You need to visit a church,they need to baff u for river with candles.

Truth they say is bitter.

Held today at gunpoint by 2 guys on okada. Bad experience brothers.

Armed robbers like businessmen are just trying to make a living,am an armed robber in stay in ajegunle im the one that snatched that your car am about to sell it to one alhaji here in surulere,dont bother looking for me or the car u hear,
Thanks for your cooperation in advance

ifeteminikan:
What do you think of security in Lagos recently?.

Almost everybody around me has witness one form of robbery or the other and i begin to wonder if the Government is aware and what they are doing about it.

1) My car was stolen around 9pm at gun-point in front of the house.
2) A member was recently robbed at gun-point infront of Shoprite at ikeja while in traffic
3) My brother's friends were robbed in front of their house @ gun-point too.
4) Two Family friends that just arrived from overseas last discovered that their bags had been torn and some items were missing at the airport.
5)A friend's husband was rough-handled on his street by two guys that wanted to snatch is wrist-watch.

I think most of this crimes are committed by the jobless youths that roam the streets as a result of the ban of okada, traffic hawkers etc in lagos now.

Government needs to create something for this guys to fall back on else the masses will continue to pay dearly for it.

Lets hear your experiences and what can be done to curtail this.

With anarchy in the north and kidnappers on the prowl in the east and south-south, many of these lunatic fringe will also move into Lagos where they are sure of bigger targets.

ifeteminikan:
What do you think of security in Lagos recently?.

Almost everybody around me has witness one form of robbery or the other and i begin to wonder if the Government is aware and what they are doing about it.

1) My car was stolen around 9pm at gun-point in front of the house.
2) A member was recently robbed at gun-point infront of Shoprite at ikeja while in traffic
3) My brother's friends were robbed in front of their house @ gun-point too.
4) Two Family friends that just arrived from overseas last discovered that their bags had been torn and some items were missing at the airport.
5)A friend's husband was rough-handled on his street by two guys that wanted to snatch is wrist-watch.

I think most of this crimes are committed by the jobless youths that roam the streets as a result of the ban of okada, traffic hawkers etc in lagos now.

Government needs to create something for this guys to fall back on else the masses will continue to pay dearly for it.

Lets hear your experiences and what can be done to curtail this.

Hope you don't mind if I ask.....Are you guys the only one in Lagos? Did you all went to hometown during December festive period to flaunt wealth? Abeeeg, this is doesn't concern government but good pastor(s) for serious deliverance for all of you.

ifeteminikan:
What do you think of security in Lagos recently?.

Almost everybody around me has witness one form of robbery or the other and i begin to wonder if the Government is aware and what they are doing about it.

1) My car was stolen around 9pm at gun-point in front of the house.
2) A member was recently robbed at gun-point infront of Shoprite at ikeja while in traffic
3) My brother's friends were robbed in front of their house @ gun-point too.
4) Two Family friends that just arrived from overseas last discovered that their bags had been torn and some items were missing at the airport.
5)A friend's husband was rough-handled on his street by two guys that wanted to snatch is wrist-watch.

I think most of this crimes are committed by the jobless youths that roam the streets as a result of the ban of okada, traffic hawkers etc in lagos now.

Government needs to create something for this guys to fall back on else the masses will continue to pay dearly for it.

Lets hear your experiences and what can be done to curtail this.

That's the work of "port rats" I had same experience last year and didn't notice anything until the next day

I heard on sunday that a family friend of my sister was kidnapped.

ifeteminikan:
What do you think of security in Lagos recently?.

Almost everybody around me has witness one form of robbery or the other and i begin to wonder if the Government is aware and what they are doing about it.

1) My car was stolen around 9pm at gun-point in front of the house.
2) A member was recently robbed at gun-point infront of Shoprite at ikeja while in traffic
3) My brother's friends were robbed in front of their house @ gun-point too.
4) Two Family friends that just arrived from overseas last discovered that their bags had been torn and some items were missing at the airport.
5)A friend's husband was rough-handled on his street by two guys that wanted to snatch is wrist-watch.

I think most of this crimes are committed by the jobless youths that roam the streets as a result of the ban of okada, traffic hawkers etc in lagos now.

Government needs to create something for this guys to fall back on else the masses will continue to pay dearly for it.

Lets hear your experiences and what can be done to curtail this.

topic should have named "security situation in Nigeria as at date".................................

An hungry man is an angry man. The spate of robbery escalated with the banning of okada,and other policy of Lagos state.

ebamma: Armed robbers like businessmen are just trying to make a living,am an armed robber in stay in ajegunle im the one that snatched that your car am about to sell it to one alhaji here in surulere,dont bother looking for me or the car u hear,
Thanks for your cooperation in advance

Is this a joke or something? U hv to be very careful of wat u say online man!

ebamma: Armed robbers like businessmen are just trying to make a living,am an armed robber in stay in ajegunle im the one that snatched that your car am about to sell it to one alhaji here in surulere,dont bother looking for me or the car u hear,
Thanks for your cooperation in advance

Try this in the US and Homeland Security will be at your door in hours. Creep!

ifeteminikan:
What do you think of security in Lagos recently?.

Almost everybody around me has witness one form of robbery or the other and i begin to wonder if the Government is aware and what they are doing about it.

1) My car was stolen around 9pm at gun-point in front of the house.
2) A member was recently robbed at gun-point infront of Shoprite at ikeja while in traffic
3) My brother's friends were robbed in front of their house @ gun-point too.
4) Two Family friends that just arrived from overseas last discovered that their bags had been torn and some items were missing at the airport.
5)A friend's husband was rough-handled on his street by two guys that wanted to snatch is wrist-watch.

I think most of this crimes are committed by the jobless youths that roam the streets as a result of the ban of okada, traffic hawkers etc in lagos now.

Government needs to create something for this guys to fall back on else the masses will continue to pay dearly for it.

Lets hear your experiences and what can be done to curtail this.

na from village them follow una come, i for refer you and your family to one pastor, but this one don pass human power, just chill small Jesus Christ go soon come na only em fit handle this una family planning oh sorry problem

I still dey remember that sidebord wey say this is Lagos

that's the reward of not providing jobs instead clearing the road off graduates whose only source of livelihood is biking(Okada). That is not a justification for robbery though.

[img][/img]@Poster: U have made very valid statements. The security situation is indeed worsening daily. However, as you will no doubt observe from responses on this page, People here are suffering from myopia and respond better to posts with references to Nollywood Actresses and their infamous lifestyles.

[color=#990000][/color]I still dey remember that sidebord wey say this is Lagos

Sidebord ni, sidebord ko

This would have been an occasion where Lagosian can candidly appraise the security situation of the state except that - aside from the Topic the body of this thread is a sly attempt at ridicule. Having said that i will want to say this and people who live in Lagos before the present era of AD, ACN democracy should bear me witness - the security of Lagos has tremendously improved. There is certainly to crime free city, state or country in the world so one should not but expect unfortunate incidents like the one the op said befell him. But in all i think Lagos is safer than most states in Country.

ifeteminikan:
What do you think of security in Lagos recently?.

Almost everybody around me has witness one form of robbery or the other and i begin to wonder if the Government is aware and what they are doing about it.

1) My car was stolen around 9pm at gun-point in front of the house.
2) A member was recently robbed at gun-point infront of Shoprite at ikeja while in traffic
3) My brother's friends were robbed in front of their house @ gun-point too.
4) Two Family friends that just arrived from overseas last discovered that their bags had been torn and some items were missing at the airport.
5)A friend's husband was rough-handled on his street by two guys that wanted to snatch is wrist-watch.

I think most of this crimes are committed by the jobless youths that roam the streets as a result of the ban of okada, traffic hawkers etc in lagos now.

Government needs to create something for this guys to fall back on else the masses will continue to pay dearly for it.

Lets hear your experiences and what can be done to curtail this.

I think the poster has an ulterior motive in posting this seeing he/she has narrowed down the 'rise in crime' to the other ban as if only Lagos state banned okadas
Even before the okada ban,cars were robbed at gunpoint in traffic
Since as long as I can recall,luggage/their contents are stolen at the airport.Anyone who regularly reads Sam Omatseye's column in the Nation newspaper will recall him some weeks back saying his luggage was stolen when he got back to Nigeria
Was this luggage 'hit' organized by jobless former okada riders?
Her husband's friend was robbed on his street...where?
What is the crime history of the area?
Did she report her car theft to the police?
Any updates?
In case she knows not,LASG is not in charge of the armed forces (read police even though tge Army supports them) but the IG
All they do is support the under (make that poorly) funded,poorly trained&overwhelmed 9ja men in black
I agree there's so much more room for improvement both LASG& the police can do
Yet for now,Lagos is one of the 'safest' places in Nigeria
Stop taking pot shots at LASG

Move to Banana Island... They don't rob us there!

Orikinla:

With anarchy in the north and kidnappers on the prowl in the east and south-south, many of these lunatic fringe will also move into Lagos where they are sure of bigger targets.

So Mr Wiseguy how do you know these robbers are not Lagos State Indigenes born and bred? Or is every crime caused by people that came into Lagos?
Just a question!

I live in Lagos nd i haven't been a victim of crime in well over a decade. I don't carry cash conspicuously, I lock my car's door whenever I'm driving and avoid lookin at people trying to get my attention, I avoid walking around at night, I avoid talkin bout what i hav to strangers or in strange places and by God's grace, I'v been safe. @Op. Crime happens all over the world so stop making it seem like its an epidemic in Lagos.

ebamma: Armed robbers like businessmen are just trying to make a living,am an armed robber in stay in ajegunle im the one that snatched that your car am about to sell it to one alhaji here in surulere,dont bother looking for me or the car u hear,
Thanks for your cooperation in advance

Next time, think before you TYPE!!!

ba7man: I live in Lagos nd i haven't been a victim of crime in well over a decade. I don't carry cash conspicuously, I lock my car's door whenever I'm driving and avoid lookin at people trying to get my attention, I avoid walking around at night, I avoid talkin bout what i hav to strangers or in strange places and by God's grace, I'v been safe. @Op. Crime happens all over the world so stop making it seem like its an epidemic in Lagos.

God bless you bro

hayoakins: that's the reward of not providing jobs instead clearing the road off graduates whose only source of livelihood is biking(Okada). That is not a justification for robbery though.

truth is always bitter. But why is it tha t whenever such issue comes up peole will want to shot it down.

truth4meal: This would have been an occasion where Lagosian can candidly appraise the security situation of the state except that - aside from the Topic the body of this thread is a sly attempt at ridicule. Having said that i will want to say this and people who live in Lagos before the present era of AD, ACN democracy should bear me witness - the security of Lagos has tremendously improved. There is certainly to crime free city, state or country in the world so one should not but expect unfortunate incidents like the one the op said befell him. But in all i think Lagos is safer than most states in Country.

BIG FAT LIE FROM ACN MINIONS. The fact that you can provide security for ur self does not mean that every body can. Having said that, truth is always bitter. But why is it tha t whenever such issue comes up peole like you will want to shot it down.

9icest: Well, the SW is still one of the safest region in the country. No BK. The kidnappers are not having a field day over here...and it seem as if 50% of the Nigerian police are concentrated on the state alone. The other time I checked at the commissioner for police office, I learn they just included anti-terrorism, and anti-kidnapping units. These crimes you are talking about are been committed by non-Lagosians. Too many eyes watching you, little or no privacy, and too many haters who'd happily kill your hustle if its illegal. Eko Oni Baje!

BIG FAT LIE FROM ACN MINIONS. The fact that you can provide security for ur self does not mean that every body can. Having said that, truth is always bitter. But why is it tha t whenever such issue comes up peole like you will want to shot it down.

Omexonomy: So, it is the ACN that banned Okada in Delta, Abuja, And other Eastern States? Do you have a brain at all? Why this unbelievable level of hatred for anything positive happening in the SW?