NewDea4:


Igbo men got heart, that's an unquestionable fact

Yarúba go pretend say dem no see as police-thief dey rob you, everybody mind there jagamu

We have to reason that maybe that 'coward' allegation is true to an extent

Nwaezeudo:
The ewedu guzzlers will avoid this thread with their lives... Ndi ara!

Igbo Amaka umunnem

EmperorCaesar:
Humanity first before anything

Even those ethnic fighters on nairaland would do anything in their powers to save their oppositions from death

Nothing special about this

EmperorCaesar:
Humanity first before anything

Even those ethnic fighters on nairaland would do anything in their powers to save their oppositions from death

Nothing special about this

XAUBulls:

This is very strange. As an elderly man visiting Nigeria, Professor Moyo Okediji shouldn't have been harassed by the immigration and then the police. The Dutch lady named "Itchy Boots" experienced this attempted extortions too from two policemen. Obviously, low salaries and greed have always led to the emergence of rogue policemen over the decades.

It's obvious the rogue policemen attached to the Festac Mile 2 police station as reported have been doing this for long and this is why they got a heavy resistance. It's time for police intelligence units to step in to sanitize their men along that axis right towards the Badagry border with Benin Republic. The new police IG has to step in immediately to bring these creeps to justice and fire them from the police.

The police have major complaints phone lines at the police Head Quarters in Abuja and in the various state capitals, so folks in the Diaspora and Nigeria MUST get familiar with the phone lines of the guys in the top echelons of the Nigerian police.

Zico5:

See where u are digressing to. Your so called people voted enmasse for Peter Obi here in Lagos whereas reverse is the case in Anambra and other south east states. We saw online how an igbo man that voted Tinubu was beaten and disgraced openly. Google is ur friend if u want to find out. Then who is more tribal bigot here. Did they write that those police in uniform are Yoruba. Lagos police is from different ethnic groups and there is no way that u can differentiate who is who. You guys are just pathetic

Okiton:


Go away Prof. this country is not meant for sane academia and intellectuals like you. It's only criminals like Bola Ahmed Tunibu who went to the university of Chicago to forge an ordinary B. Sc that they the idiots preferred to rule among them. Like they say 'when the righteous rule people rejoice' but, unfortunately here it's a criminal and a drug Baron that rule, therefore all his government entrenched are all criminals, that includes the immigration officers, the police as you have witnessed so. Other few criminals ruling with him are the likes of Nyesom Wike who demanded for 20% of a state allocations in several billions of naira, other ministers, members of the house of Reps and Senates. Infact, Prof. you mad understand that Nigeria is not a country for thieves.

May God save us all

DesChyko:


You aren't one of them? Or you didn't know the account you're posting with?

Anyways, it's a great thing Moyo had the Igbo boys around in Lagos where this happened.

Humanity over elections.

Lovelyn451:
Abeg abeg abeg...make we hear word

DamnnNiggarr:


reading this writeup reminded me of a certain video of group of some young Igbo men daring one Asian country police like that, I've forgotten the name of the country.

It is not chest-beating, I've encountered many daredevil Igbos, who would stand their ground against their oppressors, without minding what it might result in. That's one thing I respect about the Igbo man.

You don't have anything to worry about, if you're fighting side-by-side with an Igbo man in the face of terror.

Antivirus92:
so u have forged another story immediately. E no dey hard una Yoruba people.

EmperorCaesar:
Humanity first before anything

Even those ethnic fighters on nairaland would do anything in their powers to save their oppositions from death

Nothing special about this

Zico5:

Go and ask the Notherners why they did not vote for ur fraudster Peter Obi.

One of immigration officers took a look at me, and said, “Come down, oga.”

I apologized. But they wanted none of that.

So I eagerly gave them the forty dollars.

They gave me back my things.

They wanted to see the content of my bags.

They took them from me.

EmperorCaesar:
Humanity first before anything

Even those ethnic fighters on nairaland would do anything in their powers to save their oppositions from death

Nothing special about this

kingsways:
Because Igbos hate injustice

PDPdestroyer:
All these gaslighting from Igbos just because you want us to see you as allies, loose guard, and hand over Lagos to you, or to vote your pandorã Obi. Una go explain tire

kcowen:
Outside nairaland Nigeria's can support each other but you see the ones on nairaland that fight each other i swear they cant do that in real life instead hide under their keyboard to instigate others..honestly i haven't seen any hatred for ethnicity unlike what i have noticed in nairaland

DesChyko:
US-based don recounts ordeal at hands of Nigerian immigration, police officers on Facebook, which made him cut short his visit and went back to Ghana



Moyo Okediji is an art historian, painter and artist whose works contains a number of icons and signifiers of the deep aspects of Yoruba culture. He is currently an academic staff of the University of Texas, Austin.

https://web.facebook.com/moyo.okediji/posts/pfbid0eGS1UUHbZbbFCeJHrBfzPrMBBH1X4mZu6HqscA7C9VeR4SWNX4SmBSE88H4p2Ujbl?_rdc=1&_rdr

Zico5:

See where u are digressing to. Your so called people voted enmasse for Peter Obi here in Lagos whereas reverse is the case in Anambra and other south east states. We saw online how an igbo man that voted Tinubu was beaten and disgraced openly. Google is ur friend if u want to find out. Then who is more tribal bigot here. Did they write that those police in uniform are Yoruba. Lagos police is from different ethnic groups and there is no way that u can differentiate who is who. You guys are just pathetic

NovusHomo:


Absolutely nothing.

EmperorCaesar:
Humanity first before anything

Even those ethnic fighters on nairaland would do anything in their powers to save their oppositions from death

Nothing special about this

Omodua:
Useful lessons should be learnt from this incident.

That despite our differences, we are still our brothers keeper. Not minding political rigmarole and subterfuge inherent in the dirty game of winning elections.

The last elections gives the impression that Igbo and Yoruba are sworn eternal enemies. But it's not so based on this narrative and Moyo,the Yoruba Odyssey to Nigeria and his eventual rescue from imminent death at the hands security agencies by Igbo youths.

Those shouting Igbo is-this and-that will learn useful lessons from this incident that the so-called Igbo wicked agenda is the orchestration of politcians and ethnic bigots. Not the real common on the street behind this negative contraption and usage.

Let's embrace peace and love one another as exemplified by Moyo's assault and rescue by Igbo youths.

Henceforth, let's carpet promoters of hate on Nairaland who thinks Igbo and Yoruba are sworn enemies.

My salute to those brave young men who risked their lives to save a person in dire straits. From police brutality and extortion.