They are listening to NNAMDI Kanu, the first to say the same

bigstan11787:


Will you do okada work?

Graduates are doing it... OPAY, GOKADA
it's CAPITAL YES

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
It is now obvious with the border closure Nigerians are the ones suffering nobody else . Inflation is rising in the country unemployment is also Rising. Nigeria is now right number 97 country out of 115 countries in the world in Hunger. What this means is Nigeria is ranked 18th in the world in Hunger. It looks like the president wants to bring poverty from his village in Darra to the whole of Nigeria

Our farmers aren't complaining to you so why crying more than the bereaved, the farmers are even begging the president not to bow to pressure. You think we don't know your motive here?
Since your ex and present presidents including your ministers couldn't convince Buhari to reopen the borders, you've decided to fight it psychologically by telling us how Nigerians are suffering and Ghanaians are getting better and richer so that Nigerians would start pressurising Buhari to reopen the borders, it won't happen.

Just days back we were told you are releasing a 100 and 200 cedis banknotes because your cedis has so depreciated from 0.92 cedis to about 5.6 to the $, depreciated this year alone by 10.4%.

Companies in Ghana are complaining and crying day and night for their loss of millions of dollars because of the border closure but our goods still come into Ghana.

When Nigeria says Ghana or ECOWAS to shut up next time, you don't argue

Patrioticman007:
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Are you aware that crime rates has dropped due to border closure ?.

Where are the statistics?
Where is the data?

Or is it the parotted propaganda from the regime that you want to use as a defence to the many more thrown into poverty?

Do you guys have a conscience at all? Just any? Your hate for Nigerians needs to be understood.
This is evil.

Make this man go sit down we Don hear nah and sowore sabi how to run government pass

Talk less than necessary. When you talk often you are likely to make mistakes

mr man doesn't realize that many products being smuggled into Naija are subsidized by foreign countries with the help of their governments? some foreign companies have been in business for centuries. they are very skilled in the manipulation and controlling of developing economies.

the hate speech would be difficult to enforce and capital punishment may be too strict.

Racoon:
This man has waited for too long to regain his senses.This is now the Femi Falana of the days of IBB and Abacha.

Is it an abomination for you to speak against ills of the society or you too are yet to regain your senses? Scallywag.

lastmessenger:
Some Nigerian businesses are badly affected by the border closure but zombies think they are doing Ghana. Open the border and let the custom do their job.

Since you and your family ate smugglers, you will continue to suffer. Border Closure is indefinite.

NtoAkwaIbom:
While the hate speech bill can fill the illegal section, the border closure bill will be hard to prove as illegal

He said the border closure is immoral. You cannot punish innocent citizens and destroy their means of livelihood just because of a criminal few, moreso when you have an agency tasked with curbing the illegal entry and importation. Closing the border suddenly and indefinitely is high-handed and immoral

its cool but ion whats good about nigeria and our lawyers www.simplybestrend.com.ng

uzohrome:
I have always condemned the border closure, it's causing serious pains to Nigeria and even expatriates that came here to invest. Right now at Agbara many companies are folding up because they can not ship goods out to our neighboring countries, everything is standstill. The government has to be a meaningful specifics and not a wandering generality in their proactive decisions .

Those companies are owned by smugglers-Zombies

Border closure is already falling apart on its own because goods are coming in now. The policy would soon become self defeating.

Abacha closed the border........nothing was achieved.

OBJ closed the border........nothing was achieved.

Whenever the border opened business will return as usual because closing the border is a waste of time.

musicwriter:
Border closure is already falling apart on its own because goods are coming in now. The policy would soon become self defeating.

Abacha closed the border........nothing was achieved.

OBJ closed the border........nothing was achieved.

Whenever the border opened business will return as usual because closing the border is a waste of time.

Another Ghanaian, Abacha, General Buhari as military head of state and OBJ closed the borders but for a short period of time because they bowed to pressure from those beggarly neighbours unlike Buhari who had even told you that this time, no time limits. We must achieve our aim before we can think of reopening.
When General Buhari shut it, he refused to open it till IBB toppled him and reopened the borders.
You all think Buhari is joking, you guys better go bring late Kwame Nkrumah to come and beg, I think that's the only Ghanaian Buhari may listen to.

Muhammad2468:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2019/12/04/border-closure-hate-speech-bill-illegal-falana-insists/amp/

The menace of shiites and boko haram has drastically dropped beyond believable levels as a result of the border closure

Americanboy35:
When una dey clamor for the so called change, nevt level rubbish, una no know that time abi, make una enjoy una enjoy una well oo

One by one they will get redemption when they join Sowore for a full taste of the change they packaged for us.


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Area4Area:
Another Ghanaian, Abacha, General Buhari as military head of state and OBJ closed the borders but for a short period of time because they bowed to pressure from those beggarly neighbours unlike Buhari who had even told you that this time, no time limits. We must achieve our aim before we can think of reopening.
When General Buhari shut it, he refused to open it till IBB toppled him and reopened the borders.
You all think Buhari is joking, you guys better go bring late Kwame Nkrumah to come and beg, I think that's the only Ghanaian Buhari may listen to.

Incomplete story

naptu2:
This was a major reason why Obasanjo closed the border. This guy hired lots of criminal gangs to launch armed robbery raids into Lagos and steal cars which they brought back to Benin. The cars were then stripped, repainted, etc. and then resold to Nigerians.

There was a notorious part of Lagos that witnessed violent armed robberies at the end of every year. That place was quiet during Christmas/New Year 2003 and it was because of that border closure.

Nigerian crime kingpin held

2003-10-19 12:08

Lagos - A suspected head of a cross-border criminal empire detained in Nigeria has been making some startling revelations that could help tackle crimes along Nigeria-Benin border, President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Saturday.

Amani Tidjani, a national of Niger, the alleged mastermind of a smuggling and robbery ring that operates between the two neighbouring countries has been making some "fantastic and unbelievable revelations" about cross-border crimes, Obasanjo said during a live interview on Radio Nigeria in Abuja.

Since the arrest, detention and interrogation of Tidjani, "cases of car-snatching and border crimes have drastically reduced" in Nigeria and along its border with Benin, he said in the interview.

Obasanjo did not give details of Tidjani's "revelations".

But Nigeria's oldest private newspaper, The Nigerian Tribune, reported on its front page on Saturday that the suspected robbery kingpin has implicated a lot of Nigerians and Beninese in his "revelations" during police interrogations.

"Tidjani is making very useful statements. Many people in this country and Benin have been implicated," inspector general of police, Tafa Balogun, told the newspaper.

The interview did not reveal the identities of those implicated by Tidjani.

Benin has returned 100 stolen "exotic" cars stolen from Nigeria, the Nigerian police said Friday in an official statement.

The return of these cars was part of an agreement on cross-border crimes reached at talks last August between Presidents Obasanjo and Mathieu Kerekou.

Tidjani has been at the centre of a recent diplomatic spat between Nigeria and Benin.

He was arrested on September 11 by police in Mali and extradited to Benin from where he was handed over to Nigeria last September 25.

He was arrested in Benin in July but was later released. Infuriated, Nigeria closed the two countries' common border on August 9.

The border was reopened a week later following the meeting between Kerekou and Obasanjo during which the two countries pledged greater co-operation in fighting bandits and smugglers who roam the border area.

https://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Nigerian-crime-kingpin-held-20031018

If we can not bring corrupt people to justice, we will take justice to them. Falana should calm down please, some lawyers always look forward to legally acquire money that is illegally acquired.

lastmessenger:
Some Nigerian businesses are badly affected by the border closure but zombies think they are doing Ghana. Open the border and let the custom do their job.

My point exactly. They barely even talk about it if at all in Ghana

laugh want to kill me when I see"FIERY"

Falana is on point. I maintain my view that the border closure was never done in the interest of Nigerians. It was done just to favour the rice farmers most of which are from the North. The agenda is empower the northerners to bridge the gap between it and the South in wealth creation.

If they truly have our interest at heart, they should extend it to other areas like

1. Ban on importation of refined petroleum products which is taking the bulk of our foreign exchange.
2. Ban on foreign tourism which the President himself is the number one patronage.
3. Ban on importation of shoes but the president wears foreign shoes.
4. Ban on study abroad but his daughter just graduated from a university abroad.
5. Ban on importation of cars as recent proofs reveals that we can produce our own cars. Let us start with keke na pep which is gulping billions of dollars to import from India.

Why would local rice be sold above 10k?

Now Nigerians resident in most of these West Africa countries are under attack because of the border closure. The one living within the country are not coping with the high cost of the rice. It is not helping anyone except the farmers which represents less than 5% of the population.

APC policies always makes life bitter and not better for the majority of Nigerians. Those in government don't feel it as they have access to funds in millions and billions which they misappropriate and mismanage.

How is he shutting down FOI bull?

ijewejones:
Seems Nigerians are not getting things right..

Under GEJ Nigerians clamoured for FOI..Now PMB is shutting down FOI..why

Why are Nigerians being tossed around by the elites,government or are Nigerians confused

jahsharon:


Since you and your family ate smugglers, you will continue to suffer. Border Closure is indefinite.

you don't know jack cone head. So many companies in Nigeria export good to Ghana and other African countries through the land borders. These companies are already suffering and loosing millions daily. The effect will be mass sack of their employees and even the closure of some of these companies.
If you close borders and our companies collapse, tell me what you have achieved?

As for hate speech Lemme say this while I still have the platform..
Both the proponents and opponents of the so-called Hate Speech Bill
in Nigeria don’t seem to realize that the bill itself is
fundamentally rooted in, and nurtured by, crass and deep-seated
ignorance of the very meaning of “hate speech.”
Hate speech doesn’t mean speech that hurts the sensibilities of
government officials. Nor does it mean any speech that incites and
insults individuals. It simply means speech that besmirches—and
incites violence against— a community of vulnerable and marginalized
people who are easy targets because of their invariable group
attributes such as their ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation,
racial identity, national origin, gender, age, physical and mental
disability, etc.
That is why Encyclopedia Britannica, in common with most recognized
authorities, defines hate speech as “speech or expression that
denigrates a person or persons on the basis of (alleged) membership
in a social group identified by attributes such as race, ethnicity, gender,
sexual orientation, religion, age, physical or mental disability, and
others.”
Since government officials aren’t vulnerable and marginalized people
(they’re actually the very opposite of marginalized people) and don’t
constitute a primordial community, they can’t be the victims of hate
speech. If this bill makes it into law, the world would
laugh at us wen the discover that a part of our law was set on a
grossly misinterpreted concept...
That being said, it is obvious that Brain dead Buhari and his pack of uneducated legislative thugs are a set of dangerously stupid all thieving no brains, who would do well to go back to school for their own good. oops my bad bubu never sat in a four walls of a classroom.

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MoIbrahim:
How is he shutting down FOI bull?

When one says actually what is & its being tagged hate speech.

Example: herdsmen in kaduna state kills & the governor comes out to say its hate speech calling out herdsmen..isn't FOI not shut down

I like INTELLIGENT men like this Falana....the ONLY border that ahouks be closed are the Northern ones to curb bandits and boko haram issues. But, this one that PMB is saying that Niger's President is complying with what was discussed in the meeting with them and Benin's government has not started complying, I wonder if they will not open that of the Northern one first....if there is any border to be shut INDEFINITELY, it is the ones in the North only.

Nigerians are to emotional that is why the elite keep toiling with us hence we are not moving forward.

How can a learned silk like Falana be saying boarder closure and hate speech are illegal yet no legal provisions to back his claim.

Legally the action and timing may be wrong but that does not make it illegal provided it follows the legal process. If a bill passes through the legal stages required by law to become law it is immaterial that it create in hardship.

He should analyze the legality or otherwise of the action with constitutional legal backing.

Muhammad2468:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2019/12/04/border-closure-hate-speech-bill-illegal-falana-insists/amp/

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Good.

On closure of border issue:
Mr Falana, you maybe right legally...

But, in Africa, things are done irrationally...and all Nigerians like d way Buhari govt closed d border..everything cannot be done legally or morally in Africa.
because u cannot mention a place that's moral in Africa..

Abeg, Falana, keep kwaet on dis border closure matter, abeg..

Ghana, Togo, Benin rep dey misyearn to naija..which kind insult be that..

Let d border be close till 2030 self...

Mtchewww...Falana be careful o