doctokwus: Shamelessly arranged deception to disguise an inbred hatred for a particular tribe.Next,dey will hurriedly appoint an Igbo commissioner or special assistant 2 d governor or head of one moribound organisation to continue this charade.So much noise has been made by d Igbos about this& some other tribes are keeping quiet,wen he next deports their own in d wee hours of d nite,den some wud understand y d outcry must b unabated until d policy is stopped.What Fashola govt has done(whc am so disappointed in because I highly regarded d man) is to set a very dangerous and highly lethal precedent to d fragile unity of dis entity called nigeria

Look at this destitute !

Others are already getting processed for onward transportation to Onitsha...

u people ar tribal idiots if really they ar lunatics and destitute he did well to reunite dem but if dey ar nt and he just repartriated dem it is nt fair because dis country belongs to all of us

olaheavy: You Ibos are nothing but kafirs. You're hypocritical, delusional and self-centered. When the Hausa/Fulani were repatriated back to their lands you were all here rejoicing. I remember vividly. Also, when the Yoruba were sent back to their hometowns you Ibo rogues were here on nairaland mocking them. However, when it's now your turn to feel the heat, you started invoking tribal discrimination. As someone said, you're indeed a bunch cry babies. No be by force to live in Lagos and Ibadan. Leave. Just leave today! Nobody is fighting to keep you in Nigeria. Instead of you goats to hold your Non--performing misgovernors, you're fighting for you to be addressed "Lagosian Ibos". You all should be ashamed of yourselves! I have never seen anyone as shameless as you Ibos. Go back to your hellhole in Biafra. Enough is enough, go back home. Stop the Exodus to the Yorubaland. Your home is in the East!

God bless you my man I owe you 7 rounds of toto

Keep deceiving urselves. If u lyk re-unite abi repatriate all ur osun indegenes here in lagos,we knw its all arrangeee, it can neva justify ur callous detention of pple 4 six months den dump dem in d middle of no where by 3am even when they nt 4rm dat part of d country

IYA NGBALI: God bless you my man I owe you 7 rounds of toto

LOL! Thanks. When and how can I redeem them?

Essentially this finally confirms that the fuss created over the reunification of the 72 people back to their state of origin was misguided. The lessons learnt include:

1. This confirms the fact the Lagos state government is not intentionally targeting any particular tribe i.e. peoples of all tribes have been reunified with their families.

2. We can see a fundamental difference in approach by state governors- while the State Governor of Anambra State's handling of the matter can be at best described as incompetent, the Osun state's government has accepted responsibility and has demonstrated maturity.

3. Despite all the misinformation in the last few days concerning this issue, we are now aware that unlike what we have been made to believe by some people, reunification of destitutes is carried out by a lot of states in Nigeria and not just Lagos. This practice is routinely carried out by most states and it is even more severe in some states compared to Lagos- I will give examples if anyone demands it.

4. The Lagos state government in its effort to sanitise and achieve its ambition of attaining the status of a mega city is taking this issue quite seriously and they have made their intentions known, I think some people were just caught off-guard; the next reunification exercise to any part of Nigeria will not elicit such dramatic responses as the one that occurred in the last few weeks.

billante:

Once I saw that part it became as clear as the biblical MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN that it is an APC pre arranged drama!

Let them keep decieving themselves!

why are you crying?

Fashola shot himself in the foot and the scar is there, it can never heal.
His dream of national politics beyond National Assembly has been flushed down the drain.
No number of arrangee repatriation to SW states will remove the scars of arresting people, declaring them destitute, hold them hostage against their wiil and without any court order for months, and deporting them like criminals with armed guards, living them by 3am at another bridge in Onitsha.

What is the big deal in taking wanderers home?Igbos are too tribalistic.Now it is the turn of Osun,what have the Igbos to say?Osun state indigens hater?!
Igbos are always thinking backwardly.That is why they will never taste presidency again in this country.
To still compound your woes,Ladipo market would be redeveloped to meet international standard.Thousands of fake spare parts dealers there would also be taking home.Be expectant.

olaheavy: You Ibos are nothing but kafirs. You're hypocritical, delusional and self-centered. When the Hausa/Fulani were repatriated back to their lands you were all here rejoicing. I remember vividly. Also, when the Yoruba were sent back to their hometowns you Ibo rogues were here on nairaland mocking them. However, when it's now your turn to feel the heat, you started invoking tribal discrimination. As someone said, you're indeed a bunch of cry babies. No be by force to live in Lagos and Ibadan. Leave. Just leave today! Nobody is fighting to keep you in Nigeria. Instead of you goats to hold your Non--performing misgovernors responsible for your unfortunate and nomadic lifestyle, you're here fighting to be addressed "Lagosian Ibos". You all should be ashamed of yourselves! I have never seen anyone as shameless as you Ibos. Go back to your hellhole in Biafra. Enough is enough, go back home. Stop the Exodus to the Yorubaland. Your home is in the East!

....Guy you must be very s.tupid to utter this rubbish...where was the war fought??..when nigeria en allied forces were busy destroying en ravaging igboland what did your father say then??..our collective wealth was used to develop lagos en you have no bloody right to tell us to leave now after destroying our homeland during the war...ya'all are just a bunch of noisy jokers!

Recently,
the Lagos state government deported kwara indigenes and nothing happened.They were dropped at a place called Eyenkorin.The kwara state govt, had to reunit them.

Lagos state govt has never gotten it so wrong until now for the following reasons: 1) publicity. What warrants it? 2) It's not done at night (3.00am). 3) they were not dropped by the road side. 4) they were handed over to Osun state govt officials. Exact opposite of all the above was done to Igbos. I personally feel this is a subtle secession because if all state govts should follow suit, then we'll require visa to go to any state (country) in NIGERIA..

See all the APC/Fashola folks commenting, they can't even reason anymore.
So much tribal hatred and bitterness for EVERYBODY; SOUTH EAST, NORTH, SOUTH SOUTH AND EVEN SOUTH WEST, as long as you don't agree with them, you are an enemy. It's really not an Igbo thing, it's against anybody that does not share their BITTER, DISGRUNTLED, DECEPTIVE nature.
That's why they will insult all PDP leaders and look for some like Amaechi and support. Insult Igbos and look for the Rochas, insult even a Yoruba man that does not agree with their hypocrisy and desperation.

Let me sit and watch where it will get APC. I pray they survive though so PDP will always have run for their money and deliver dividends of democracy.

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THROWBACK: Anambra Govt arrests, repatriates beggars to Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi
Sani Tukur
Published:August 4,2013

Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi

The Anambra State government is currently battling its Lagos state counterpart for repatriating destitute people arrested on the streets of Lagos to their home state of Anambra.

Anambra state Governor, Peter Obi, has indeed fired a strongly worded letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, describing the relocation of destitute people from his state as “illegal, unconstitutional, and a blatant violation of the human rights” of the “deportees”.

But checks by PREMIUM TIMES indicate that the Anambra state government had in the past arrested beggars on the streets of Awka and swiftly repatriated them to their home states of Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom.

Below are two reports of the arrests and “deportation” as captured by two Nigerian newspapers at the time.

Anambra Orders Arrest Of Child Beggars

Leadership, December 4, 2011

DAVID-CHYDDY ELEKE

The Anambra state government has issued a warning to all street beggars, especially children used by their parents to beg for alms, to vacate the streets or be arrested.

29 of such women who displayed their children as strategy for getting alms have already been arrested in Awka and Onitsha, and repatriated to their home states; Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom states.

The state commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr. Ego Cordelia Uzoezie, disclosed Friday in Awka when a middle-aged woman was arrested for begging with nine children at various points in Awka.

Uzoezie said her attention was drawn to the spectacle when one of the children who begged at the Unizik junction, Awka, six-year-old Goodnews Sunday, was hit in the jaw by an Okada rider, while he begged.

Uzoezie decried the attitude of some parents who used their children to beg for alms, and warned that after 72 hours any beggar seen in the state would be arrested by the law enforcement agents and the special task force of the ministry of women affairs and social development.

Anambra Govt Orders The Arrest Of Beggars With Children, 29 Arrested So Far

CHAMPION, DEC 4, 2011

By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, Awka

In its determined efforts to rid the state environment of beggars daily increasing in their numbers, the Anambra state government has issued an ultimatum to all the street beggars especially those using children to beg in Anambra state to vacate the streets or face arrest within 72 hours.

Meanwhile over 29 beggars with children have been arrested in Awka and Onitsha , warned and repatriated back to their various states of origin mostly Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom states to mention but a few.

Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development , Dr Ego Cordelia Uzoezie disclosed Friday in Awka when a middle aged woman was arrested begging with 9 children at various points in Awka.

The attention of Dr Uzoezie was drawn to the beggar with children when one of the kids begging at Unizik junction Awka , 6 years old Goodnews Sunday was hit while begging by an Okada operator injuring her jaw.

She was later taken to Beacon Hospital Awka after two hospitals turned her down when good Samaritans rushed her to hospital for first aid. Reasons for her rejection are yet to be ascertained as at press time.

Uzoezie decried the attitude of some parents who indulge in using children to beg, warning that after 72 hours any beggar seen in the state would be arrested by the law enforcement agents and the special task force of the ministry of women affairs and social development.

The accident victim Goodnews said she came from Akwa-Ibom Oron in Akwa-Ibom state and is staying with her mother at Isu-Aniocha but her twelve years old Sister , Blessing Sunday not only concurred the story of her sister but admitted that her mother actually sent them to go for the begging and that they used to be students of Anointed Nursery/Primary school Awada Obosi until they were pushed into begging following taunts on their mother who use to hawk curry and garri at Onitsha by one Happiness from Calabar.

Blessing further informed that the accident victim is a twin and that their parents now do nothing but to depend on what they were able to get from the begging. She said they would use it to pay for their school fees and house rent and equally build a house. She however contradicted herself when she later said she and her sister were being enslaved by one, Happiness who was already repatriated but came back to Anambra.

The other woman with 5 children, Mrs Nwakaego Eze from Amafor Uli, in Ihiala local government of Anambra state married to Arochukwu in Abia state blamed her begging now on week days to the dislocation of her husband and others from the Army barracks Onitsha as their begging before now was only on weekends.

She said although they have a house at No 2 Igbamaeze Street Awada Obosi , she equally rented a house at Isu-Aniocha to enable them sleep after begging in Awka. She said her children were not begging with her before as they were students of Basic Foundation but since after the Army Barracks dislocation they have joined her in begging, She further said they are now going to Anointed Nursery/Primary School Awada Obosi. She promised not to use the children for begging again, if allowed to walk home free.

But the Director Child Development , Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development , Mr Emeka Ejide warned the beggars to leave their children alone and can beg if they choose to as the interest of the ministry and Anambra state government are on the children. He said the Ministry has repatriated more than 29 women begging with children to their various states and would not hesitate to deal with parents who still engage in such acts describing them as products of Mammy market Onitsha where anything goes before its closure.

One of the good Samaritans who rushed the victim to hospital Mrs Stella Samuel incidentally an indigene of Akawa Ibom wondered why people from Akwa Ibom state must still be begging in Anambra state when the Governor of Akwa Ibom, Governor Godswill Akpabio had declared free education for children of the state. She said the accident happened in front of her shop and she had to run around to save the life of the girl but was shocked that no hospital wanted to accept her until later when the Ministry took custody of her and others.

But the President General of Akwa-Ibom Central Union, Anambra state , Sir Chris Ekanem who not only admitted that the victim and some of the beggars came from Akwa-Ibom but requested for authority for them to repatriate them home since their Governor Akpabio has given free education to people like them.

He appealed that those who brought them to Anambra only to subject them to begging should be punished adding that they had reported to the police the incident. He revealed that the children told him in their dialect that they were many in the state from the same Akwa Ibom doing the same business of begging in Anambra state.

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TechyGuy: .
That's why they will insult all PDP leaders and look for some like Amaechi and support. Insult Igbos and look for the Rochas, insult even a Yoruba man that does not agree with their hypocrisy and desperation.

spot on! I used to join them in criticising GEJ until I discovered they were doing it only because he was from a particular part of the country. They won't mind having a president worse than him as long as he's from their tribe. SMH

Easyfren: Lagos state govt has never gotten it so wrong until now for the following reasons: 1) publicity. What warrants it? 2) It's not done at night (3.00am). 3) they were not dropped by the road side. 4) they were handed over to Osun state govt officials. Exact opposite of all the above was done to Igbos. I personally feel this is a subtle secession because if all state govts should follow suit, then we'll require visa to go to any state (country) in NIGERIA..

What are the Igbos going to do about it

plz I need explanation here.were these "destitutes " missing? or did they go out for greener pastures? if they were nt missing then there is no need for reunion with their families. wait for them in the coming weeks in lagos may be a different location outside where they were picked up.fashola forgets that this life is like wind, it blows people to where it feels convenient.those destitutes knew their villages and how to get there.lagos shud be ready for more deportation cos millions are here and a double of that are on their way coming. lagos population is its strength therefore beggars and destitute know this perfectly. so it should be an unending excercise until the government including lagos creates an enabling environment for businesses to thrive in order to absorb its teeming jobless population.

Dreal1247: .
Who ran to Aso Rock like a crying baby? Were the Osun indigens dumped at 3.00 am? Moreover, they want to use this to cover up the ill treatment given to Igbos.

Uncle Igbo, nobody dumped anybody at 3 a.m. Ok. Tell ur yeye govnor to take them in. Anyway, u igbos neva luv each other, everything is money and power which u will neva get until u start doing things in common.I pity u pple....idiots

Easyfren: Lagos state govt has never gotten it so wrong until now for the following reasons: 1) publicity. What warrants it? 2) It's not done at night (3.00am). 3) they were not dropped by the road side. 4) they were handed over to Osun state govt officials. Exact opposite of all the above was done to Igbos. I personally feel this is a subtle secession because if all state govts should follow suit, then we'll require visa to go to any state (country) in NIGERIA..

You forgot to mention that they were transported in trucks like malus.Just like the nazis transported the jews to the concentration camps on train goods carriages.

It is inhumane.

antartica:

You forgot to mention that they were transported in trucks like malus.Just like the nazis transported the jews to the concentration camps on train goods carriages.

It is inhumane.

Care to provide any proof of that or is it just another irrelevant hearsay?

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ALAKE_OF_EGBA:

If you think that taking back home 14 clearly known destitute is hurting Ibos good luck ....go to court!

You guys are threatening and when push come to shove...all you scums will carry your bags and run to the east. Wait till it dies down and you then start trooping back to the west like the stubborn goats you are. Just like Osuji rightly said.

U ar right....no cowards like the igbos....they started a war they could nt fight to finish. Their warlord ran away,,,,and its the same warlord that want to come and rule d country they wantd to divide...look how d igbos ran away frm Lagos wen they thot June 12 will end up in war....how many perished on d way to east,,,,some were robbed by fellow igbos while most of them holed up in primary schools as no family member welcomed them....u igbo pple should go and learn to luv urselves....ur yeye gov failed his pple. Fashola should nt be blamed....useless pple.

ALAKE_OF_EGBA:

If you think that taking back home 14 clearly known destitute is hurting Ibos good luck ....go to court!

You guys are threatening and when push come to shove...all you scums will carry your bags and run to the east. Wait till it dies down and you then start trooping back to the west like the stubborn goats you are. Just like Osuji rightly said.

dont mind them. Generation of wanderers.

Eko Atlantic: This is what a responsible state government who has the welfare and the well being of her people in mind. Not those who ran (as they always do) to Aso rock like cry babies and weep on Mr Jona.

Osun A Dara.

This is just a drama, cosmetically arranged to desuade people's opinion about the Anambra deportees. We are wiser than that bro, the Anambra deportees were drop at upper iweka at 3 am. How about that.

Dreal1247: .
Who ran to Aso Rock like a crying baby? Were the Osun indigens dumped at 3.00 am? Moreover, they want to use this to cover up the ill treatment given to Igbos.

Den fit dump them any time of the day, it makes no difference, Peter Obi didn't give a damn about his own people. Where was Peter Obi in April when Lagos state notified the lazy man about his people in Lagos? What was he doing for almost 4 months?

This is not about how other people treat ibo people, it's more about how ibo people treat themselves..


You people are just too tribalistic for your own good, no wonder progress and development is eluding you because you focus on trivial and tribal issues way too much..

Redstone:

This is just a drama, cosmetically arranged to desuade people's opinion about the Anambra deportees. We are wiser than that bro, the Anambra deportees were drop at upper iweka at 3 am. How about that.

if you are not satisfied go and hug transformer.
meanwhile where is your hero, orji uzor kalu who threatened to sue fashola? oh he has kept quite now. cant you see that you guys are a generation of cowards? shior.

specco: This is surely a mutually agreed damage control deal between lagos and osun states in other to douse tension that arose from the illegal deportation of Ndigbo lately. Such more deportations of some 'brotherly' indigenes of ogun, oyo, ekiti and even Edo states will soon be horridly put together to fool us the more.

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Fool? it just dat u failed to understand due to ur tribalistic mind .......

dat all

plaindealer:



Den fit dump them any time of the day, it makes no difference, Peter Obi didn't give a damn about his own people. Where was Peter Obi in April when Lagos state notified the lazy man about his people in Lagos? What was he doing for almost 4 months?

This is not about how other people treat ibo people, it's more about how ibo people treat themselves..


You people are just too tribalistic for your own good, no wonder progress and development is eluding you because you focus on trivial and tribal issues way too much..

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tru talk........

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collynzo2: I am sure these people were among those counted during the last census. You used them to inflate your population count, get the highest allocation, then dump them. What happens to the huge Federal allocation Lagos state is getting because of people like these? I think another population census should be done after all these people have been deported, then Federal allocation adjusted accordingly.