Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Engineer Joe Igbokwe, Special Adviser on Drainage and Water Resources to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said he enjoys his job and doesn’t find his role as condescending as some people are insinuating.

Speaking in an interview with INDEPENDENT, Igbokwe described those mocking him as wailers who want to get rich without working hard for it.


“I don’t find my position as Special Adviser on Drainages demeaning. It is not a demeaning role. In fact, I’m enjoying it. It is nothing new to me because there is no menial job I did not do as a young person from when I was in primary, secondary school and the university".

"I have been an entrepreneur. I believe if you don’t work, you won’t eat. These are the kinds of things we did to get to where we are today, so, it’s not new to me".

"Some kind of lazy youths that we have today will not understand these things. They want to be rich but they don’t want to work. They keep doing 419, Yahoo-Yahoo, forging letters and scamming people about. That’s not the way we were brought up".

“All the books I have read all pointed to the fact that wealth is under the engines where hands are made dirty. What should I be ashamed of in clearing drainages? Don’t I pack the ones in my house? But look at me here in my office.

“Those complaining that the job is demeaning for me are mockers, who we call wailers. I hear them saying things like ‘SA on gutter’ ‘Gutter supervisor’ and so on. They don’t know anything. They are trying to belittle the huge work we are doing. They will say it in the morning but in the evening they come begging for money.

“What they don’t know is that there is wealth in waste. You can even generate gas from there. Let them keep talking while we do the work. In the evening after work, we’ll meet".

“When we are drinking and you say ‘Please, buy me one drink, I won’t give you’ because while we were working and sweating to make Lagos clean, you were busy mocking us.”
https://www.independent.ng/those-mocking-me-as-special-adviser-on-drainages-are-wailers-igbokwe/

after how vocal u were for apc ..not even the least commissioner post ...chai bro them no rate u

Joe Igbokwe, the Leader of Igbo Apc members in Lagos.

sageb:
Joe Igbokwe, the Leader of Igbo Apc members in Lagos.

yarubakwe instead !

Some of these useless positions have good money

You insulted your own tribe just to become SA Gutter ..you thought the yourubas will respect you for insulting your tribe? They showed you that you actually belong in a gutter but it's sad that you can't see that till now .

This thread go hot o.

Remember his lies about Madam Kemi Adeosun NYSC certificate forgery? This man is a lost black sheep that have no bearing but just a peddler of falsehood.Joe Igbokwe should visit Nwichi his home town in Anambra if he is confident of bearing his father's name.

I thought IPOB banned him from entering South East

Racoon:
Remember his lies about Madam Kemi Adeosun NYSC certificate forgery? This man is a lost black sheep that have no bearing but just a peddler of falsehood.Joe Igbokwe should visit Nwichi his home town in Anambra if he is confident of bearing his father's name.

He should be the next governor of Lagos State for his great contributions in APC and Lagos development.

One thing I can say for sure is that in this country we all know ourselves...


Inside our mind we know people that came to rule and those that came to loot

nairavsdollars:
Some of these useless positions have good money

you are 100% right

GamalNasser:
You insulted your own tribe just to become SA Gutter ..you thought the yourubas will respect you for insulting your tribe? They showed you that you actually belong in a gutter but it's sad that you can't see that till now .

I heard that he is a good man. He wiill become the next lagos governor after the current governor. Lagos people love Joe

No. Tinubu will export him to his state like Falake

Firespitter:


I heard that he is a good man. He wiill become the next lagos governor after the current governor. Lagos people love Joe

sageb:
Joe Igbokwe, the Leader of Igbo Apc members in Lagos.

Is a gutter manager!!!! Yari.ba peeps know how to deal with dumbass such as Igbokwe. This fool could have been more gainfully employed in my compound without publicly denigrating his Igbo people than being a gutter boy.

Igbokwe no mind them, some of them,their father no get SA for local government talk more of councillor or chairman

Joe Gutterkwe of Lagos state.

When was the last time this fool visited Nnewi?

He has no allocation, no office, no official car, but at least he has rakes and head pan which are the most important tools for his office

Joke yorubakwe

Gautter and potopoto advisor

ekesol:
Gautter and potopoto advisor

When redroofers want to mock Igbos, they refer to our towns as potopoto regions, I think that's why they made Bro Joe yorubakwe the SA potor .

nedu666:
He has no allocation, no office, no official car, but at least he has rakes and head pan which are the most important tools for his office

If you read between the lines, you will notice Joe is not very proud about the role he is given. But in the nature of Tinubu boys, he can't complain or reject it because that would spell doom for him, moreso when he's not an indigene.

His is role is a duplication of the role played by commissioner of works.

frankyychiji:
If you read between the lines, you will notice Joe is not very proud about the role he is given.

Two bottles of Heineken for you!! The above words summarizes the whole gibberish he vomited.,
This is the yoruba man's wish for igbos but the reverse is the case in reality, the igbos run Lagos and collect rental from the former ... reason why yorubas keep attacking Ndigbo is because 99.999% of igbos can't be subjected to ridicule like they have done to igbokwe

What's your position again sir?

Special adviser on Drainage Gutter Affairs

Apex leader of Ndigbo in Lagos

helinues:
What's your position again sir?

Special adviser on Drainage Gutter Affairs

The thing pain this fool

frankyychiji:
If you read between the lines, you will notice Joe is not very proud about the role he is given. But in the nature of Tinubu boys, he can't complain or reject it because that would spell doom for him, moreso when he's not an indigene.

His is role is a duplication of the role played by commissioner of works.

Apt.

Commonsense99:



Two bottles of Heineken for you!! The above words summarizes the whole gibberish he vomited.,
This is the yoruba man's wish for igbos but the reverse is the case in reality, the igbos run Lagos and collect rental from the former ... reason why yorubas keep attacking Ndigbo is because 99.999% of igbos can't be subjected to ridicule like they have done to igbokwe

Thanks for the beer mahn!

Joe yorubakwe can keep his gutter money since he refused to buy the beer

Igbochief001:
after how vocal u were for apc ..not even the least commissioner post ...chai bro them no rate u

If they give the post of commissioner your father will start claiming you own Lagos as dem give am dirt gutter to de clean you n your father know exactly you belong in the gutters in Lagos.