ARRESTED IN LAGOS, DEPORTED TO ONITSHA
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ARRESTED IN LAGOS, DEPORTED TO ONITSHA

•The story of Nigerians made ‘illegal aliens’ in their country

During the General Ibrahim Babangida regime, the country was once agog, following the deportation of Professor Wilmot, a Jamaican, who taught at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The professor had lived in the country for years and married a Nigerian but following what the government perceived as his “satanic verse,” as it were, he was shipped out of the country. This is normal.

Indeed, it’s common for nations to deport citizens of other countries, if such people contravene the law but it’s seldom heard that a citizen of a country is forcefully taken from one state in the country to another, no matter the circumstance. Surprisingly, this is happening in Nigeria.

As it stands, it appears that non-indigene residents in Lagos State run the risk of being abducted by agents of the government, detained under dehumanising conditions for several months and finally deported in the wee hours to another city. It has happened before and may happen again. At two instances, Nigerians have been arrested in Lagos and ‘loaded’ in a trailer, escorted by armed policemen and taken across the Niger and dumped in Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra State. It did not matter whether they hail from Anambra State or not but that is the most likely place you may find yourself if you are unlucky to be grabbed in the streets of Lagos by agents of the state government, hunting non-indigenes.

Recently, the Lagos State Government deported about 67 persons from Lagos to Onitsha. It was the second time, in less than one year, that officials of the state government are sneaking into Onitsha, in the ungodly hours, to dump people picked from the streets of Lagos. Specifically, the state had, on September 18, 2012, dumped over 100 citizens, made up of children, women, senior citizens and physically challenged people at about 4am under the Upper Iweka Flyover in Onitsha.

Also, during the administration of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, there was a protest about citizens of the state being dropped in the middle of the night at Ibadan, the state capital. Ogun State indigenes had as well tasted the bitter pill.

Last week’s deportation was done under the cloak of darkness. While residents of the city were sleeping, a truck loaded with ‘human cargo’ arrived at about 2.30am, accompanied by a detachment of policemen. After offloading the consignment, as it were, the truck and its escort melted into the night.

What greeted the residents at dusk was a congregation of people in dire straits. Sources disclosed that prior to their deportation last week, they had been detained in unconventional centres for about seven months. And while in the dungeon, they were poorly fed and utterly dehumanised. In the process, it was gathered, 29 of them died in the camp. As at the time the surviving ones arrived Onitsha, they had become walking corpses. Looking frail and disheveled, they painted the ugly picture of death or people, who walked through the valley of the shadow of death but survived by the skin of their teeth.

Why would Lagos State “deport” Nigerians? Why would the state government dump the people so deported at Onitsha?

In 2012, when people were first dumped in Onitsha, Governor Peter Obi had stated: “Investigations have shown that most of them (those ‘deported’ from Lagos) are not from Anambra State but were dropped here. I am going to make a report to the Federal Government that Nigerians cannot be refugees in Nigeria. It is a dangerous trend.”

“We have seen a situation where Anambrarians, working in other parts of the country are sent packing, even when they have served faithfully where they were.

“We have not been doing the same thing. In schools, we have most of them from other states. Even teachers and students, most of them are in our school system where we offer free education benefit.”

But if Obi’s threat to make a representation to the Federal Government on the issue yielded any result, it is yet to be seen. Barely 10 months after, there was a repeat of this, as 67 people were dumped overnight at Onitsha.

Last year, the Lagos State Government denied involvement in the deportation saga. Last year, the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Lateef Aderemi Ibirogba, had said: “We don’t query where you come from or what has brought you from wherever you come from. We always tell the people that we have the responsibility to take care of whoever is here, provided you are ready to go along with us, in terms of following our laws and in terms of the legitimate things you do and by that I mean legitimate business, without having criminal intentions. It is whoever does not have the intention of living with our laws that will have problem with the government.

“The only thing I want to emphasise is that you must subject yourself to law and order and you must do your legitimate business without being a problem to other people. You must be ready not to be selfish. We believe that where the right of one man ends is where the right of another man begins. If you do all that, we would have no reason to drive anybody anywhere.”

In the same vein, Ibirogba, last week, denied that the Lagos State Government deported 67 people from Lagos. He said: “We did not deport anybody. By the constitution of Nigeria, everybody has a right to live in any part of the country but we have been emphasising that people must live within the law. However, it is not true.”



If the Lagos State Government did not do it, who did? That is the question, agitating many minds across the country. While the Lagos State Government is denying deporting anybody from its shores, the deportees are singing a different song, a song of pains, agony and disillusionment. The deportees insist that they were bundled out of Lagos by officials of the state government.

One of them, who gave her name as Chima, stated that she was picked up on her way home. Her words: “I was on my way home to Okokomaiko in Lagos when a group of young men accosted me and took me to a place I do not know. When I got there, I met these people and over 29 some of whom died in detention.”

While Chima is Igbo and from South East, there are other deportees, who are from other states outside Igboland. Take this: Mr. John Irabor, who hails from Benin, in Edo State, among other ‘foreigners,’ was dumped in Onitsha last week, even when, according to him, he neither committed any crime nor charged to court for any crime.

“While we were in detention, they fed us only once a day and even when the food was brought, it usually tasted bad. If you look at us, you will see that we were treated badly,” Irabor lamented.

Putting the matter in perspective, the National Coordinator of Ebonyi Consultative Forum (ECF), Onowu Obini C. Obini, said Nigeria was on a dangerous bend, adding that the founding fathers of the country would be turning with anger in their graves.

“A few things could be deduced from the ugly development. One, it is a sign of failure on the part of government because they cannot provide for the citizenry in spite of the stupendous wealth of the country. The leadership is not creative but seems to be chuffed with the disheartening state of affairs. Two, it shows that human dignity has been eroded in the psyche of the people. The moral temperature of society is unhealthy, hence citizens are treated like such lowly animals as donkeys,” he stated.

Obini argued: “Population is an asset of inestimable value. Assuming that the ‘deportees’ were jobless, as alleged, it behoves the leadership to create the enabling environment so that they can achieve their full potentials, help themselves and the country at the end of the day. But by this deportation, the constitution is thoroughly breached, even as the nation’s fragile unity is further buffeted.

“Surely, Nigeria is making itself a laughing stock in the comity of nations. However, it provides Ndigbo an opportunity for introspection or self-searching. And as long as injustice is perpetrated in the land, we will continue to grope in the dark.”

But what is the position of the law on this matter? Does the Lagos State Government have the right to accost people on the streets, hold them in captivity for several months before dumping them in a place, which is not necessarily their place of origin?

Providing answers to these questions, Mr. Chukwuanugo Ejikeme averred that deportation from one part of the country to another was an aberration, stressing that Lagos erred in every material particular. He argued that such acts would make people lose faith in the polity.

Maintaining that the action of the Lagos government smacked of impunity, Ejikeme said: “Under our constitution, no state government has the right to deport. You cannot deport somebody from one part of the country to another; deportation is from one country to another. If any Nigerian resident in any part of the country commits a crime, he ought to be tried and if found guilty, punished within the state. The action of Lagos State Government is condemnable and a complete violation of our constitution. And it gives the impression that Easterners are criminals, who are merely being tolerated in Lagos. The government ought to know that the brothers and sisters of those deported are the ones developing Lagos. If you deport a fellow Nigerian because he or she has no home or mentally sick, have you not failed as a state in assisting the needy? Why engage in segregation? How are indigenes that are in the same situation treated? This is part of the bad treatment meted to the Igbo; they are being treated like second-class citizens, to say the least. Worse still, the Federal Government has remained mute, not doing or saying anything about the ugly development.”

In the same vein, Aka Ikenga, an Igbo group, frowns at the development. In a statement issued by the president of the organisation, Chief Goddy Uwazurike, he stated: “We question the pedestal on which they were deported. Was the deportation by a court order? Was it at the whims and caprices of anybody in authority in Lagos? Some of those deported claimed they were abducted on the roads, detained in a camp and then dumped in Onitsha, Anambra State, by trailers and trucks.

“This is horrible and an aberration for a citizen to be deported from one part of the country to another. This is a democratic era and it is difficult to believe that the highly respected government of Lagos State will be suspected of involvement herein. Whatever be the case, this travesty must stop forthwith before it degenerates.”



Looking at it from the political point of view, Chief Onwudiwe of the South East, South South Professionals stated: “If it is the Lagos Sate Government is doing this, it is trying to kill ACN. About 43 per cent of ACN votes came from the Igbo and whose stake in the development and investment in the state are huge. The first time deportation happened, I was in Anambra State; I went straight to the Government House and saw the Secretary to the State Government (SSG). He told me that they got the information at about 2am that a bus came and dropped more than 100 of them at the bus stop and drove off. The SSG said the government immediately moved them to camp and first of all brought in a medical group to test them and be sure that they were okay and not a case of some people, who wanted to come and infect Anambra with diseases.

“They interviewed them and found out that about 90 per cent of them were not from Anambra. Some were Igbo-speaking and some were not. Some were from Akwa Ibom and Kogi, among other states but they dumped them there because once you are not speaking Yoruba, you are Igbo. They just crossed the Niger River and dumped them, as they perceived it’s the boundary of the Igbo nation. Is it a message that the Lagos State Government is clearing Lagos of destitute? You didn’t drive them to the borders of Lagos; you passed through Ogun, Ondo, Edo and Delta States and eventually landed in Anambra, where destitutes belong.

“I know that Governor Obi then took it up with President Goodluck Jonathan. I know that Fashola was called and he denied knowledge of it. He said he was not aware that such a thing happened. And it has happened this time again. Luckily now, the media was alert enough to have photographs, evidence that these are the people. The first time it happened, Obi tried to play politics of accommodation. He didn’t allow the media access to them but this time around, the media were on ground.

“I was listening to radio talk on the issue. It is nice that the governor of Lagos is ACN but being a lawyer, he should say what part of the constitution allows him to do this.

“I have received a lot of calls on this matter and their reactions have been that maybe, the support we have been giving to ACN is being taken for granted. Maybe we should support another political party, which will, at least, respect the constitution in that regard. Most of us are registered here and we use the people’s power to stop that rubbish.

“I know the governor of Anambra will allow it to be settled politically and as along as that happens, for the media, the governor of Lagos would continue to deny or they will say, ‘we are investigating the matter to find out who is causing it’ and for eternity we will not get to know the result. However, 2015 is coming and part of our jobs is to remind everybody that the constitution told one little truth: ‘We the people.’

“These beggars that you see on the streets of Ebute Metta and other places, who have been there for long, are not the destitute and nobody bothered to tell them to go anywhere or deport them. The destitutes are these street hawkers; these people who decided not to be robbers, who decided not to steal but carrying goods to sale. I personally saw it happen around Tejuosho area when one of the task forces in the state was pursuing the hawkers. I asked one of the boys what was happening, he said he was running because he couldn’t speak Yoruba and if they caught you, they would throw you into the van and confiscate your goods.

“This is a kind of subtle discrimination. I don’t want to believe that Fashola could have given instruction for that kind of thing. I don’t believe that he would ever do it. But let me use this opportunity to thank the Lagos State Government that what they have done was to deport because our brothers in the North might not have deported.”

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I asked one of the boys what was happening, he said he was running because he couldn’t speak Yoruba and if they caught you, they would throw you into the van and confiscate your goods.

So ''destitutes'' who spoke Yoruba (aka Yourba indigenous hawkers) were let go and those who could not were arrested. To begin with, when did a street hawker become a destitute?
Fasola is a dumb lawyer. If he was smart, he could have controlled the hawkers by making hawking illegal in Lagos? How do you arrest a hawker when he has not flouted any hawking prohibitions?

Are we sure this man is truly a lawyer? Me thinks his law certificate should be checked. It is quite possible it is forged, like that of this man:


I got my fake Ife, UI, NYSC certificates for N350,000
By AKIN OYEDELE
Published: Sunday, 22 Feb 2009

NOTHING in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Ingenuity will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press on‘ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
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Ogunshola

Had Olusola Ogunshola come across this wise saying of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States of America, in his quest to earn a living through honest means, maybe he would have been singing a song different from the one he now sings at the headquarters of the Oyo State Police Command, where he is now cooling off.

Born 51 years ago in Sagamu, Ogun State, Ogunshola said he had tried his hands on many things since he finished from Oke Ibadan Boys High School, Ibadan, in 1974. He was a petty trader, clergy, and fish farmer at different times in order to secure honest livelihood. He didn‘t have a major breakthrough, he said.

In 1987, he said he struck an idea to travel abroad to seek the proverbial greener pasture, which landed him in trouble 21 years after.

Legitimately, Ogunshola did not possess more than a school certificate, but he goes about parading himself as a lawyer and pastor to swindle unsuspecting members of the public. It will be difficult for anybody to believe that the Bachelor‘s of Law certificate of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University); Master‘s of Law degree certificate of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan (which he ‘bagged‘ even before the university began postgraduate degree in law); the National Youth Service Corps certificate; call to Bar certificate and the identity card of the Nigeria Bar Association, found in his possession, were forged.

Not only that, the suspect confessed in an interview with our correspondent that he ”stole” the stamp and letterhead of a law firm, S. O. Alli and Co. And to complete his bogus identity, he said he purchased a lawyer‘s wig and gown, with a shirt to match in Lagos, when he finally decided to pass for a lawyer. Before he was excommunicated when his deals became known to the church authority, Ogunshola was also a ‘pastor‘ with the Global Harvest Church, where he ‘cast and bound‘ the devil and its agents for several years. The official stamp of the church, a disused locally-made gun, two international passports and some fake certificates of occupancy were also among his haul.

The Commissioner of Police at the state command, Mr. Bashiru Azeez, said that the suspect was nabbed over a N362,000 shady deal that went awry.

Azeez said, ”His cup became full when one of his victims reported that the transaction between them began on February 15, 2006 when the victim met the suspect at their church.

”The victim had told him that he needed the services of a lawyer to verify the genuineness of a property in Lagos State, which was introduced to him for purchase and to process the certificate of occupancy in respect of the property.

”To his enquiry, the suspect responded that he was a barrister and could render him the legal services. The victim was pleased at this development; that he had found a lawyer pastor in whom he could repose absolute trust.”

Pronto, the victim was said to have made available the sum charged by the ‘lawyer‘ in order not to lose the property to other interested buyers. That became his undoing. Ogunshola went to work and before you could say Babatunde Fashola, he had produced a purported C of O and other legal documents on the property, which the CP said were later discovered to be forged. Had the suspect refunded the money, probably the victim would have kept this secret, but he began to dilly-dally, as months of unfulfilled promises turned to years.

But on Thursday, Ogunshola cut the image of a pensive rogue, who having realised the gravity of his offence, would pose as a fowl beaten by the rain in his wig and robe.

Asked how he came about the certificates found in his possession, he said that it was in 1987 when he was desperate to travel out of the country that he encountered one late Ishiaku, who procured the documents for him at a fee of N350,000. Before his accomplice died in an auto accident (if he was not being economical with the truth), he said he was in the process of securing a Canadian visa with his fake certificates. Asked why he needed to go to that extent to secure a visa, he claimed that the idea was that of his late accomplice to smoothen the process. His dream however vanished with the death of Ishiaku.

His good command of English language notwithstanding, he said he could not further his education beyond secondary school due to lack of financial support from his struggling parents. His memory failed him when asked how he met the late accomplice and where.

He said the death of his partner dealt him a devastating blow that he did not know how to pick up the pieces of his life, having lost his life savings from his petty trading to the ambition.

Ogunshola insisted that he never defrauded his victim, who he identified as one Kayode Oresanya. Rather, he said that a link person that he contracted to secure the C of O from the Office of Surveyor General in Lagos ”collected the money and ran away.”

He said, ”I was no longer making use of the certificates. The police found them in my store. I never went to court or took a brief from anybody. I acquired those things when I wanted to travel abroad. When the Canada thing failed, Ishiaku still promised to help me before he died in an accident. I inherited the old gun they found in my house from my father. Go and check it very well, it is an old useless gun.”

In a rare display of ‘honesty,‘ he said that he stole the S.O. Alli and Co. stamp and letterhead when he had an opportunity of being at the law firm when they were relocating to another office.

His countenance dropped and he almost ended the interview when asked whether he was still a pastor, to which he declared ”I will not answer that question.”

Asked why he could not venture into any neat business with N350,000 as far back as 1987, he said his ambition was to live big and do well with his family. Now he said he had put his wife and two kids in a quandary.

Querying the rationale behind his arrest for a deal that was about three-years-old, he said he had already promised to refund the money to Oresanya before he (Oresanya) decided to invite the police. The suspect said that his income from his fish farming business could barely sustain him now, which explains why he told his victim to tarry a while.

If given another opportunity, he said he would turn a new leaf now that he had realised the position of law on his activities.

Hear him, ”I feel frustrated with my life because of the serious setback I suffered when I could not travel abroad. I have repented. I regretted my action. I can‘t do it again. I was a petty trader at a point, but I thought my life will be better. Now, I know better.”


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if d man makes hawking illegal ibo we still complain.what do u really want him do.

hardniola: if d man makes hawking illegal ibo we still complain.what do u really want him do.

No. Igbos will not complain because most street hawkers are Yoruba. Most Igbo traders own shops, even if a small one. Street hawkers include Yoruba (50 %), Igbo (30%), Calabar, Delta, Hausa, Beninois and Togolese, ( all 20%)etc

omo-Yoruba:

So ''destitutes'' who spoke Yoruba were let go and those who could not were arrested. To begin with, when did a street hawker become a destitute?
Fasola is a dumb lawyer. If he was smart, he could have controlled the hawkers by making hawking illegal in Lagos? How do you arrest a hawker when he has not flouted any hawking prohibitions?

Are we sure this man is truly a lawyer? Me thinks his law certificate should be checked. It is quite possible it is forged, like that of this man:


I got my fake Ife, UI, NYSC certificates for N350,000
By AKIN OYEDELE
Published: Sunday, 22 Feb 2009

NOTHING in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Ingenuity will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press on‘ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
Skip to next paragraph
click to expand image
File

Ogunshola

Had Olusola Ogunshola come across this wise saying of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States of America, in his quest to earn a living through honest means, maybe he would have been singing a song different from the one he now sings at the headquarters of the Oyo State Police Command, where he is now cooling off.

Born 51 years ago in Sagamu, Ogun State, Ogunshola said he had tried his hands on many things since he finished from Oke Ibadan Boys High School, Ibadan, in 1974. He was a petty trader, clergy, and fish farmer at different times in order to secure honest livelihood. He didn‘t have a major breakthrough, he said.

In 1987, he said he struck an idea to travel abroad to seek the proverbial greener pasture, which landed him in trouble 21 years after.

Legitimately, Ogunshola did not possess more than a school certificate, but he goes about parading himself as a lawyer and pastor to swindle unsuspecting members of the public. It will be difficult for anybody to believe that the Bachelor‘s of Law certificate of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University); Master‘s of Law degree certificate of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan (which he ‘bagged‘ even before the university began postgraduate degree in law); the National Youth Service Corps certificate; call to Bar certificate and the identity card of the Nigeria Bar Association, found in his possession, were forged.

Not only that, the suspect confessed in an interview with our correspondent that he ”stole” the stamp and letterhead of a law firm, S. O. Alli and Co. And to complete his bogus identity, he said he purchased a lawyer‘s wig and gown, with a shirt to match in Lagos, when he finally decided to pass for a lawyer. Before he was excommunicated when his deals became known to the church authority, Ogunshola was also a ‘pastor‘ with the Global Harvest Church, where he ‘cast and bound‘ the devil and its agents for several years. The official stamp of the church, a disused locally-made gun, two international passports and some fake certificates of occupancy were also among his haul.

The Commissioner of Police at the state command, Mr. Bashiru Azeez, said that the suspect was nabbed over a N362,000 shady deal that went awry.

Azeez said, ”His cup became full when one of his victims reported that the transaction between them began on February 15, 2006 when the victim met the suspect at their church.

”The victim had told him that he needed the services of a lawyer to verify the genuineness of a property in Lagos State, which was introduced to him for purchase and to process the certificate of occupancy in respect of the property.

”To his enquiry, the suspect responded that he was a barrister and could render him the legal services. The victim was pleased at this development; that he had found a lawyer pastor in whom he could repose absolute trust.”

Pronto, the victim was said to have made available the sum charged by the ‘lawyer‘ in order not to lose the property to other interested buyers. That became his undoing. Ogunshola went to work and before you could say Babatunde Fashola, he had produced a purported C of O and other legal documents on the property, which the CP said were later discovered to be forged. Had the suspect refunded the money, probably the victim would have kept this secret, but he began to dilly-dally, as months of unfulfilled promises turned to years.

But on Thursday, Ogunshola cut the image of a pensive rogue, who having realised the gravity of his offence, would pose as a fowl beaten by the rain in his wig and robe.

Asked how he came about the certificates found in his possession, he said that it was in 1987 when he was desperate to travel out of the country that he encountered one late Ishiaku, who procured the documents for him at a fee of N350,000. Before his accomplice died in an auto accident (if he was not being economical with the truth), he said he was in the process of securing a Canadian visa with his fake certificates. Asked why he needed to go to that extent to secure a visa, he claimed that the idea was that of his late accomplice to smoothen the process. His dream however vanished with the death of Ishiaku.

His good command of English language notwithstanding, he said he could not further his education beyond secondary school due to lack of financial support from his struggling parents. His memory failed him when asked how he met the late accomplice and where.

He said the death of his partner dealt him a devastating blow that he did not know how to pick up the pieces of his life, having lost his life savings from his petty trading to the ambition.

Ogunshola insisted that he never defrauded his victim, who he identified as one Kayode Oresanya. Rather, he said that a link person that he contracted to secure the C of O from the Office of Surveyor General in Lagos ”collected the money and ran away.”

He said, ”I was no longer making use of the certificates. The police found them in my store. I never went to court or took a brief from anybody. I acquired those things when I wanted to travel abroad. When the Canada thing failed, Ishiaku still promised to help me before he died in an accident. I inherited the old gun they found in my house from my father. Go and check it very well, it is an old useless gun.”

In a rare display of ‘honesty,‘ he said that he stole the S.O. Alli and Co. stamp and letterhead when he had an opportunity of being at the law firm when they were relocating to another office.

His countenance dropped and he almost ended the interview when asked whether he was still a pastor, to which he declared ”I will not answer that question.”

Asked why he could not venture into any neat business with N350,000 as far back as 1987, he said his ambition was to live big and do well with his family. Now he said he had put his wife and two kids in a quandary.

Querying the rationale behind his arrest for a deal that was about three-years-old, he said he had already promised to refund the money to Oresanya before he (Oresanya) decided to invite the police. The suspect said that his income from his fish farming business could barely sustain him now, which explains why he told his victim to tarry a while.

If given another opportunity, he said he would turn a new leaf now that he had realised the position of law on his activities.

Hear him, ”I feel frustrated with my life because of the serious setback I suffered when I could not travel abroad. I have repented. I regretted my action. I can‘t do it again. I was a petty trader at a point, but I thought my life will be better. Now, I know better.”


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FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS FROM 2009

THEN AN IGBO IDIOT SAID THIS

omo-Yoruba:

No Igbos will not complain because most hawker are Yoruba. Most Igbo traders own shops, even if a small one. Hawkers include Yoruba, Igbo, Calabar, Delta, Hausa, Beninois and Togolese, etc

YES IN LAGOS, KEEP RUNNING BECAUSE YOU DON'T SPEAK YORUBA!! OLOSHI AFIBISUOLORE!!

0lumide:

FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS FROM 2009

Fasola's degree should be checked because his lawyer claims are suspect if he could be this dumb. I posted that to show you how successful one could be even with a fake law certificate.

omo-Yoruba:


Fasola's degree should be checked because his lawyer claims are suspect if he could be this dumb. I posted that to show you how successful one could be even with a fake law certificate.

Yes! his degree needs to be checked!!!!!!! He's too hot these days!

Oh you talking about academic degrees? oh! Yes it should be checked when Igbos are offended because seriously Igbos are about 60% of Lagos making them a majority. They can have their reps start the impeachment process because the majority Igbos in Lagos don't like him..

why didnt he learn yoruba,

tpia@:
why didnt he learn yoruba,

Why should he? IS THAT THE REQUIREMENT? DO THE YORUBAS LIVING IN ALAIGBO SPEAK IGBO?
If anything, Igbos in SW have tried to speak Yoruba, much more than Yorubas living in Igboland trying to speak Igbo.

DO THE YORUBAS LIVING IN ALAIGBO SPEAK IGBO?

yes they do!

omo-Yoruba:

Why should he?

that's a silly question.

how can you live somewhere and not speak the language?

even in places with more than one official language, you at least speak one of the two, not none of the two.

Most igbos in lagos can speak yoruba pretty fluently. Maybe he just arrived fresh from Onitsha and hasn't picked up language skills yet.

tpia@:


yes they do!





that's a silly question.

how can you live somewhere and not speak the language?

even in places with more than one official language, you at least speak one of the two, not none of the two.

Many Igbos in SW speak Yoruba unlike Yoruba who live in Igboland. This is a fact. In any case, are you justifying arresting Igbos in Lagos who could not speak Yoruba language?

tpia@:


yes they do!

This is a lie. I have not met any.

omo-Yoruba:


This is a lie. I have not met any.

I have never met any yoruba person living in SE either!

I'm sure there is more to the story than is being said. The guy didn't get deported for not speaking yoruba. that's just preposterous.

omo-Yoruba:


Many Igbos in SW speak Yoruba unlike Yoruba who live in Igboland. This is a fact. In any case, are you justifying arresting Igbos in Lagos who could not speak Yoruba language?

i only read the thread title, sorry.

however, you should learn the language of where you live, if its different from your own.


even in europe, china, etc, you have to learn the language in order to function.

omo-Yoruba:


This is a lie. I have not met any.

you have not met any doesnt make it a lie?

^
clearly u can't recognize sarcasm when u see it.
the whole point is that the population of SWners in east is miniscule compared to the other way round. duh

tpia@:


you have not met any doesnt make it a lie?

Given how far and well I have traversed SE and SS, I have met at least 1000000 Yorubas in my life. I have meet 1000s living in Igboland and non could speak Igbo. Can you say same for Igbos in SW?

99cent: ^
clearly u can't recognize sarcasm when u see it.
the whole point is that the population of SWners in east is miniscule compared to the other way round. duh

you call it sarcasm, i call it either ignorance or a boldfaced lie.

99cent: ^
clearly u can't recognize sarcasm when u see it.
the whole point is that the population of SWners in east is miniscule compared to the other way round. duh

While there are more Igbos in SW (mainly Lagos) than Yoruba in Igboland, the # of Yoruba in Igboland is stil significant. They are in all the states, even involving in local politics by supporting one Igbo politician against another.

omo-Yoruba:


Given how far and well I have traversed SE and SS, I have met at least 1000000 Yorubas in my life. I have meet 1000s living in Igboland and non could speak Igbo. Can you say same for Igbos in SW?

statistically speaking, your post shows a high level of illiteracy,

reread what you just typed, and see if it can make sense to anybody.

btw, are you igbo, indian, chinese,boko haram, etc, care to clarify?

omo-Yoruba:

I have meet 1000s living in Igboland and non could speak Igbo.

ok this one is clearly a big fat lie.
because I lived in lagos for many yrs and didn't meet thousands of igbos. Even on facebook I don't have that many friends. talkless of meeting thousands of yorubas in igboland to judge their igbo speaking skills.

I call u out as a liar on this one.

Yoruba community in Abia
https://www.nairaland.com/718689/breaking-news-yoruba-community-abia

99cent:

ok this one is clearly a big fat lie.
because I lived in lagos for many yrs and didn't meet thousands of igbos. Even on facebook I don't have that many friends. talkless of meeting thousands of yorubas in igboland to judge their igbo speaking skills.

I call u out as a liar on this one.

You can call me a liar but I stand by my statement. I have lived in Lagos, Oyo and Ogun, and in Abia, Imo and Enugu. I speak Yoruba like I speak Igbo. In the course of these times, I have come across millions of Yorubas in Yorubaland and 1000s of them In Igboland. I have not met any Yoruba in Igboland who speaks Igbo fluently. Of course people joke around with smattering of words such as ''nna'', ''kedu'', etc.

Yoruba community in Anambra
https://www.google.com/search?q=Yoruba+community+in+Anambra&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

omo-Yoruba:
Yoruba community in Abia
https://www.nairaland.com/718689/breaking-news-yoruba-community-abia

this still doesn't proove that you met thousands of yorubas in igboland.
if that's the entire yoruba community in Abia state and you met them all, that will be 90 people at most.

besides tpiah brought up a good point. the said yoruba community in igboland claims to be marginalized. so igbos marginalize their non-igbo populations as well... nothing new there.

99cent:

this still doesn't proove that you met thousands of yorubas in igboland.
if that's the entire yoruba community in Abia state and you met them all, that will be 90 people at most.

How can that be all Yoruba in Abia? That was a small group You need to go to the markets in Aba and the university an dresearch institute in Umuahia. They are there plentifully. MANY ARE ALSO TAXI DRIVERS and security officials (police custom, army etc)

99cent: besides tpiah brought up a good point. the said yoruba community in igboland claims to be marginalized. so igbos marginalize their non-igbo populations as well... nothing new there.

They were asking for free land in Enugu. Go and read the thread. The question was why must you ask for free land? They should buy land like Igbos buy in Lagos (no Igbo group is given free land anywhere in SW). They went to press crying marginalization. duh!!!

Yoruba community in Imo

http://www.imostateblog.com/2012/04/02/yoruba-community-in-imo-state-drum-support-for-governor-okorocha/

omo-Yoruba:


They were asking for free land in Enugu. Go and read the thread. The question was why must you ask for free land? They should buy land like Igbos buy in Lagos. They went to press crying marginalization.

I read the thread. they weren't asking for "free land" they were asking for a community space. It was promised but never fulfilled.
they were also asking for what happened to federal allocation for Hajj. We know that there aren't many igbo muslims so what did Chime do with the Hajj money if he didn't give it to the yoruba/hausa community in his state?
Also, the article was written by an igbo person and very visibly biased.

Too bad there aren't many yorubas living in the east for there to be publicity about the marginaization going on by the self-righteous igbo brethren.

Adeyelu recalled that since governor Chime came on board, he had written about five letters seeking for audience with him, to let his government know the problems of the Yoruba community but unfortunately none of the letters was replied.

He also expressed disappointment that Chime does not care and had not asked leaders of non-indigenes in his state the problems their various groups are facing in the state,