Beaf:

Really? How long do you think a car that carries the weight of a lorry in armour would last?
The Presidential limo can NEVER be allowed to break down or even look remotely like it, that is one area nobody can toy with.

There are many on here (including the OP) who think it is ok for Fashola to zoom around in a newly acquired armoured car, because they are ethnic bigots or something else is wrong; whereas, he is a mere governor, but to the same people, there is something wrong when the country renews the Presidential fleet. Its a grave irony.

and we wonder why 'the economy will soon crash'

do gej and his army of clowns have any idea of the meaning of austerity masures

small wonder the aussies saw gej as a happy go lucky blinged out homeboy

while leaders the world over are walking the talk, gej is telling us to suck our bellies in while he lets his out

What they need now are Bomb-Proof cars.

YES

As a nation were security is the top of the list on budget YET in reality, it's the least priority, the president NEEDS more than bullet proof cars. These cars don't come cheap. I'm surprised they are spending about $1.8million on their cars.

They need to fix the problem instead of hiding away from it in bullet-proof cars, unless they plan to buy such cars for its citizens.

No rest for the wicked. Keep hiding in your bullet-proof car. Sebi the car will not drive you into your office.

Let him continue, before we know it, 4yrs will be over

One thing is sure:
Posterity

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-309607.0.html



whatever happened to gej's hypocritical bleating about buying nigerian?

I agree with Beaf ooooh, The president needs to be protected.  

The reason why GEJ needs more bulletproof Mercedes Benz S-class vehicles is because he doesn't have enough in his convoy as of present.

This is evident in the Independence 2010 video shown below.

Count how many you see. They are simple not enough. The number is unacceptable.


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FRESH AIR INDEED.

Coming from the fool who said Nigerian parastatals should buy Made-in-Nigeria cars.

Looking at the video, you would think Mercedes was a product of Nigeria.

Mr. Fresh Air has more S-classes in his convoy than German Chancellor, Angela Merkel

this administration is single handedly holding up the western luxury industry as consumers become more nd more tightfisted

The defenders of these corrupt and insensitive politicians are simply pathetic! Whether feds or state.

Uk prime minister dnt even change cars the way our people do,cos they know the value of money and how best it can be spent,they use their cars as long as it last,but not my people,every year is to change to a new one,may God punish them.

oyb:

Lmao. . .will jonathan ever ride in this ?

whatever

Would that save him from the bullet coming from the mouth of Mrs retardeen?

Beaf:

You always talk very stup!dly. First of all, the President has every right to a high security vehicle, no matter what it phucking costs. Secondly, WTF does the cost of the car have to do with fuel subsidy? What we are witnessing from you is another cataclysm of unbridled idiocy.

Thirdly, by your retort above, you have shown that your worldview is prejudiced or bigotted to the extent that you are willing to lie (as usual). This is pictorial proof that Fashola hangs out in a bullet proof jeep for his protection (and by the way, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that). Those who ain't cretins would make out the thickness of the door and the fact that the window cannot be lowered (hence he had to open the door). For your info, Fashola's jeep cost more than the Presidential ride.

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What pains me, is why any numskull can pop out of his ogogoro joint to proclaim to civilised people that it is ok for a governor to ride around in a bullet proof vehicle, while the President hails taxi's or treks around Oshodi with a bag of state secrets on his shoulder. You are one "clever" chap indeed.

oga beaf, u no go kill me with laughter 4 here.

A quick Google search shows bulletproof vehicles range between $90k-$350k depending on the customization. Even CNN who sends correspondents to war zones came in cheapest at $90k.
How come GEJ's ride comes in at nearly $1 million?
Somebody wake me,I'm dreaming.

shebi if that money went into betta ting in the society, they wouldn't have to go and give it to a white man to make bullet proof car for them.

If you wan thief, at least thief to invest IN YOUR COUNTRY,

meh just kidding. Bros needs to protect himself. Naija na warzone now afterall.

Jonathan shld build his defense bt shld be careful n not play on 9ja's intellegence, else he runs out of office without shoes,

All these government officials expending the little we got  

The Ghanaian President's convoy consists of Ford cars and suvs.

Why should ours be any different especially at a time of austerity measures.  

ochukoccna:

A quick Google search shows bulletproof vehicles range between $90k-$350k depending on the customization. Even CNN who sends correspondents to war zones came in cheapest at $90k.
How come GEJ's ride comes in at nearly $1 million?
Somebody wake me,I'm dreaming.

Try a more detailed Google search.

The Mercedes Benz S600 Pullman Guard weighs 5300kg (11,685 lbs) with a top speed of 100 mph (160 km/h) and has a base price of $1.4 million. The car can withstand 5 grenade sandwich maneuver, 3 grenades under the car and 2 on the rooftop, with all 5 going off simultaneously!

That’s a hell of a car and they deserve every bit of it, if they do buy one! Do you know the instability that killing a president in a country like Nigeria can cause? Have we forgotten what happened after Yar'dua’s death?

WHERE DO YOU GET BEAF FROM?

THE ANSWER IS COW.

nairaland Beaf is from a mad COW.

What do you expect from such a cow? the beaf from such a cow is good for nothing.

and that is why I said our leaders will never die well, why can't world bank advise this man to easy the spending when over 70% of the population are living under $2/day and where is the world bank puppet?

This is totally hilarious. Why would he want to change the old one if it is a bullet proof vehicle. Is he not the one claiming he wants to reduce recurrent expenditures? The worst of it is that he is such a wicked fellow. He is thinking of his insecurity while the average Nigeria lives under the menace of the rigorous threats of insecurity from Boko Haram to Poverty to mention the least. If only he was concerned about the security of the nation just as he is concerned with his, we would have achieved a great deal security wise.

After driving in the car, he will still come down and enter his house. Imagine a local Ijaw man just over night transforming into a Colosus. An embodiment of corruption

Banks and corporations change their vehicles every 5 years, if the replacement cycle is due for a change of the president's car then so be it. So you people want the PRESIDENT of Nigeria to ride in a Peugeot 406 Bestline abi? The PRESIDENT? you guys must be insane! Its the OFFICE that deserves it not the individual, even if na secondary school boy dey there he should ride in the car. There's a difference between bullet resistant and bullet proof. The  man who googled a $98k vehicle should note that the benz is an AMOURED vehicle, BIG DIFFERENCE.

GEJ sneeze sef una go complain. Next we go begin complain about the kind of toilet roll used in Aso Villa, enough already.

That is another level of scam in Nigeria

To be fair there is nothing wrong with the president getting a bullet proof car what is breaking my heart and watching @jensinmi's youtube video of jonathans convoy. The amount of cars is sickening, disturbing and scary, scary because this is the norm in Nigeria, where govt officials spend recklessly to the detriment of those they serve. SAD.

@mr jingle
you see now the only thing you know how to do is jingle bell jingle all the way. To write about the impact of wasteful spending by our leaders you are bereft of ideas. A good leader does not need expensive bullet proof cars.

With all the security in Aso Rock What happened to ABACHA? when its God's time 1000 bullet proof cars will be a waste of time. remember Ghadafi and Mubarak.

all the cheap money some of you guys make from yahoo yahoo has turned your brains up side down and you just vomit garbage and don't care what the vast majority of Nigerians are going through.

What kind of bullet proof cars cost N280 million

The one that President Obama, the world's most powerful man, uses are around N30 Million each.
So why should Goodluck's be nearly ten times that price?

the president deserves it all

odumchi:

What kind of bullet proof cars cost N280 million

The one that President Obama, the world's most powerful man, uses are around N30 Million each.
So why should Goodluck's be nearly ten times that price?

Because he is the president of a country that is highly insecured and thinks selfishly that he alone needs be secured. As for the citizenry, he cares less. That is the state of our nation and some people support him saying because he is the president as though other countries do not have a president and the position of the president is for lavish spending.