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Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by ogbuefi677(m): 1:18pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
Jeferious:Chaka kpum |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by pamijlove(f): 1:20pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
please don't be in a haste to tell them where you are going, just hold ur bag very well and keep straight face, be mean and never tell them where you are going to when they ask, until you reach ur destination park. As for me, I won't answer them until I reach GUO park. 8 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by LienwaltAbel(m): 1:22pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
I will keep on saying it, the only good places to live in in Nigeria are Abuja and manageably Akwa Ibom, if you have money you can stay in the safer parts of Lagos. The whole of SE is a shit nest, terrible roads, bigots, pokenosers, agberos, cultists etc. You can find em here, as for the SW and North, they are just as terrible. 11 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by phorget(m): 1:23pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
That is how they operate... I've experienced it ones and I swear I would have shot some people dead had it been I have a gun. Igbos are so heartless. 6 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by Nnedimoma: 1:26pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
My friend shared her terrible experience at Upper Iweka. It was an experience I don't wish anyone to go through. Fear that place. Merely walking across with a luggage, haaaaa, you're in for it. My friend even gave a testimony at the Church as regards this bad experience. 7 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by BKayy: 1:27pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
phorget:It is Nigerias fault not Ndigbo. The only people that fight them is Vigilante boys. Do you know how many times they call police on them? That is why they need police protection to do that nonsense. When they harassed you didn't you see police by the side or close to their stand? 5 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by Kccheechy(m): 1:27pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
I wonder what biafra will look like.. 6 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by pocohantas(f): 1:27pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
If you are a foreigner in the SE and you need directions, don’t ask any agbero, they are not nice and would only direct you to their colleagues. When they direct you to a colleague, they have a percentage in your transport fare, so it has to be inflated to accommodate that percentage. Look around you for a responsible youth of your kind! Approach them and ask them for directions. They will direct you to the kind of place they’ll also love to enter and it won’t be those scattered parks. Years back I was in the SE and I saw two corp members, na agaghari ka aturu n’enweghi onye nche. They asked one hoodlum and he was already taking them there before I cornered the girl, the guy had to stop too. The hoodlum got impatient and left. Sometimes if I see you looking lost, I don’t assume you know where you are going, I ask why you are there. If you tell me you know your way or you are waiting for someone, I proceed. 19 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by KosiGee(m): 1:29pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
pheelhip: You were there as a graduate but you couldn’t spell the word ‘passenger’ correctly and you don’t know the difference between rub and rob?? 7 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by ogbuefi677(m): 1:30pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
shosky1794:Onitsha used to be rough from day1 but Peter Obi reduced the menace to the barest minimum, Obiano maintained d tempo in his early days cos I heard Obiano said d first ever car he bought was snatched from him at Upper Iweka But I don't know what changed recently. Seems his major backers got the better of him. 3 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by phorget(m): 1:30pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
collagiatepaper: Do your research well then you'll realize how bad onitcha has become. This is not about tribe but it's about the rate of extortion and harassment. 11 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by collagiatepaper: 1:32pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
KosiGee: Those clowns are just making up stories just to feel good. Who doesn't know that Lagos has the worst form of motorpark park thuggery, tout, etc. That's why the yoruba nomenclature "agbero" is almost a universal word 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by umykal: 1:32pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
Alliteration: I had the same experience two months ago. The park is beside the pedestrian bridge, Lagos park, Upper Iweka, Onitsha. I was going to Aba that day from Asaba and my intention was to go to peace park and board a bus. Immediately I came down from the bridge, one man asked me where I was going and I said Aba. He said the there was a bus there going to Aba that was almost full. So I followed him, getting there, they said it's N2,500 to Aba. I was skeptical about buying the ticket. Two touts came to me and started pointing at my phone in my pocket that it's theirs. I was speechless and the guys loading the bus asked me to pay for the ticket and enter the bus immediately so that they will not collect my phone from me. I was restless at that moment because the guys were eager to attack me. So I paid N2,500 to Aba. Many people were also harassed until they boarded the bus. Later on, I discovered there were, Aba, Owerri, Portharcourt and Akwa Ibom passengers in the bus. When the bus was finally full after much delay, they told us that the bus was going to Owerri irrespective of where you are going. But I paid N2,500 to take me to Aba while some paid 3k and above depending on where they were going. So those that paid above N2,500 were given back some amount. They wanted to fight us( passengers) for protesting about their dubious act. But we just calmed down so that we could depart from their park. Once you enter that park, they will harass you until you enter the bus out of fear. My advice to anyone travelling through Onitsha is, never enter a bus/Sienna at that park beside Lagos park. Those men/guys there are not Human beings, they are heartless. 21 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by collagiatepaper: 1:33pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
phorget: I am right now in Onitsha and it is cool. I can confidently tell you that motorpark touting is the same everywhere in Nigeria. Lagos and Ibadan are even worse, particularly Lagos 1 Like |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by 8stargeneral: 1:33pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
That state is home of criminals..I HV encountered them some many times. 2 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by Nobody: 1:36pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
As a stranger going to a new place you should shine your eye, upper iweka is a notorious place well known even beyond anambra....if you no shine your eye dey go chop you. I once used a wooden plank to cross the road and some boys accosted me asking why I didn't use the pedestrian bridge omo I changed it for them though I was a bit scared but it I didn't show it so they had to let me go. Don't enter any vehicle in upper iweka if you're not conversant with the place, there are other parks that can take you to anywhere in Nigeria. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by phorget(m): 1:36pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
collagiatepaper: Then you are not been sincere. Lagos will never get money from you as soon as you enter their vehicle. They will wait till the vehicle is 95percent full before collecting fares and should there be any reason for you not to travel again your money will be refunded without any stress. Can you say the same thing about your Onitcha? 18 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by saladinnoir: 1:37pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
pocohantas: God bless you for this. Our culture of always minding our business needs limits. They're situations where you can and should intervene 3 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by phorget(m): 1:39pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
BKayy: If police is needed to correct every abnormalities then we are all sunk. 2 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by collagiatepaper: 1:40pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
Shut up liar. I have entered bus at Ojota(Lagos) to Onitsha and they collected my money, and after spending hours, they refused to leave the park. It was after past 12noon we realised they were touts because all of them disappeared leaving the bus. We were confused as to whether to sit in the bus till night or board another bus to Onitsha. The issue of motorpark touting is more in Lagos. I haven't even mentioned oshodi, Maza maza, etc phorget: 2 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by Denko2721987(m): 1:41pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
Alliteration: Onitsha has one if not the worst criminal syndicates operating around motor parks and its cities in the world.. I got attacked by a group of boys at around 7pm last year December on transit to delta issues with the car that was to take me straight to delta to the glaring eyes of everyone in their vehicles and passersby on the road and they beat me up and succeeded in taking my phone from my pocket while i was struggling with them from taking my bag containing my laptop and hard drive harbouring all my life's work. I thank God they couldnt snatch the bag from me becos it would have been so devastating to me. If u are new to Onitsha, be very very careful. I also suspect that they target non-indigenes the most and there is a strong conspiracy of silence going on in that place to maintain the huge criminal enterprise over there. And the strangest thing in all this is that there are military and police manned check points everywhere yet this criminality continues unabated so definitely, the security system is also involved to make it a frightening systematic criminal enterprise. 12 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by ogbuefi677(m): 1:42pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
shosky1794:What about Lagos where they stab ppl to death every blessed day in traffic robberies? 2 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by BKayy: 1:43pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
phorget:Had it been that Police stays neutral and allows Vigilante handle them, it would have been a history but they protect them from the Vigilantes. Nigeria is the problem. This is one of the main reason why I support Biafra |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by KosiGee(m): 1:43pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
collagiatepaper: This is not a tribal war or banter bro. Lagos and south west have their issues. Let’s leave that for now and focus on the thread title and the op’s experience. I visit Onitsha as I have relatives there but if I have my way, I will evacuate everyone there....then come back with a thousand bulldozers, reduce the city to debris, sweep it clean then restart again to build with plans and new laws. It’s insane in Onitsha. I’m speaking as nwafor and nwa Onye Igbo. Onitsha is the gateway of south east. Major reconstructions and orientation need to be forced into the city. 7 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by pheelhip(m): 1:46pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
KosiGee: That's your problem All i wanted was to share my experience, your dickhead should have known that was a typo errors. Have a good life. 6 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by Jeferious: 1:47pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
BKayy:This is true |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by ignis: 1:52pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
AgamaProf: Don't blame me. What if one of them snatch my phone? |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by Jeferious: 1:52pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
ogbuefi677:Egbe ntu |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by collagiatepaper: 1:52pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
It is not a tribal war, but truth be told issue of touting is more in Lagos. Onitsha is a great city and well planned. The city hosts some of the best planned parks, markets, industrial complexes, etc. Though some isolated cases of extortion happens, though it is not peculiar to Onitsha as it happens all over the major cities in Nigeria, particularly Lagos where it is worse. Onitsha is the greener pasture to many states in igbo land like Imo, Enugu, ebonyi, etc. Onitsha is truly an elegant city east of the Niger KosiGee: 3 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by KosiGee(m): 1:52pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
Denko2721987: I don’t believe or think that non indigenes are their targets. That’s not true. A police man friend of my cousin who work at the brick house (CID) Enugu was robbed and had his phone taken from him at Upper Iweka. He lamented not having a pistol with him. It was embarrassing. A cousin was accosted by two boys at Onitsha. One slapped her very hard while the other took her handbag, the two ran off but guess what, some police men were few metres away from where this incident happened. It’s sad. I had issues with these people at Ekwulobia sometime ago but the people I had problem with became my very good friends today. 4 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by ultimateprof: 1:54pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
Lagos is purely a heavenly place when compared to onitsha. Onitsha people are heartless when it comes to the issues of money. I prefer Lagos � times than onitsha. To live in onitsha, God forbid! 8 Likes |
Re: My Terrible Experience At Onitsha Motor Park by Nobody: 1:54pm On Jul 10, 2021 |
U wont experience this kind of rubish in the north.. core northerners as wel as southerners in the north have similar mindset of being kind, helpful to wayfarers, strangers . talking from first hand experience. 6 Likes |
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