Putting strong wooden planks across the manhole is not sustainable, and will only encourage the authorities to do nothing.

Instead of encouraging the people to protest to their Local or State Government, you're asking for DIY projects that may not be successful?

Fine, let them put the DIY covers there, as long as they are committed to voting out those scoundrels.

^^^,
how many accident victims are rescued daily on Lagos - Ibadan xpress way by passers by and well wishers.
do they need to wait for fed . govt. non existing rescue teams. ?
the mind boggles at times.

jeez, wetin be this

texazzpete:

Putting strong wooden planks across the manhole is not sustainable, and will only encourage the authorities to do nothing.

Instead of encouraging the people to protest to their Local or State Government, you're asking for DIY projects that may not be successful?

Fine, let them put the DIY covers there, as long as they are committed to voting out those scoundrels.

oh yeah lets let a bunch of people die because we do not want to encourage the authorities to do nothing

There are at least 8 of such open manholes on Ikorodu road between Idiroko bus stop and Fadeyi bus stop.

This is definitely unacceptable. Pray me, what are the authorities doing?

Solution: Pray to God to inspire federal government to cover manhole.

^^^^ What sort of silly solution is that? ROFLMAO!

Kobojunkie:

^^^^ What sort of silly solution is that? ROFLMAO!

The usual mindless Nigerian response. Sometimes I think they are brainwashed.

I see I have to tone down my sarcasm for you to understand, brainiac.

Nigerians are beyond redemption. Imagine people asking residents to put planks on top of the gaping holes! A DIY project in futility. What is the use of having local governments, fire service, police e.t.c? They should be the first point of call for situations like this and their response should be immediate!

Sharon_f:

I see I have to tone down my sarcasm for you to understand, brainiac.

That is sarcasm? You will be surprised how many times people propose that as solution to most of Nigerias problems and you become enemy of progress if you do not buy into that ridiculousness.

Even though covering the man-hole with planks might not be an effective way of solving the problem, the person who said that, is the only one who seems to be concerned about the possible danger that could be caused by the man-hole. And he was concerned enough to think of a way to try and prevent it.

Most of the other posts are only stating the obvious. . . there is a man-hole in the road, and somebody is not doing his job. That is also important, but in the meantime, to prevent loss of lives, something needs to be done about it.

And that is the problem with Nigeria. Everybody is too busy pointing fingers and not taking action, as long as they are not they are not directly affected by the problem.

Societies only advance when we are our own brother's keeper and we make ourselves partly responsible for anything that goes wrong in the society. . . these are the motives of many well respected, voluntary organizations all over the world.

And we are now Operating under the assumption that NO ONE has, in the past actually covered the man whole EVER BEFORE . . . BRILLIANT!

It is not an assumption. . . I read what a lot of people thought about his idea. Most people suggest waiting for the person who is supposed to do it. And some people commented about our bad leaders. And some made sarcastic remarks. And some used the opportunity to prove to us for the 100th time that our leaders are not doing what they should.

But what happened to the concept of picking up a banana peel from the floor so that people don't fall and break something. Despite the fact that you are not the floor cleaner.

Where do you draw the line for this your social responsibility experiment? Do you ask people to push that broken down 18 wheeler truck loaded with 33,000 litres of petrol 10 miles down the motorway to a safe location to prevent an accident happening later on at night? How anyone can compare helping accidents victims to covering an exposed manhole on a road is beyond me,

norrisman:

Where do you draw the line for this your social responsibility experiment? Do you ask people to push that broken down 18 wheeler truck loaded with 33,000 litres of petrol 10 miles down the motorway to a safe location to prevent an accident happening later on at night? How anyone can compare helping accidents victims to covering an exposed manhole on a road is beyond me, 

you misunderstand my point.

Whenever anything happens in Naija, people are so quick to blame the government. Even though the government fails us, even we fail in our responsibilities.

Lets take the broken down truck for instance. the truck driver has a responsibility to make sure other motorists are safe. . . by putting up appropriate warning signs. i don't need to go into the details of that.
His employers also have a responsibility to make sure that their truck is road worthy or even if it breaks down they move it out of the way.
Other road users have their own responsibilities, the police etc.

These are all human beings/Nigerians. And if they paid attention to their responsibilities, disasters will be avoided. But unfortunately, everybody fails in his responsibility, and we all know what crime we are guilty of.
But whenever disaster strikes, the only failure we see is the government.