PhysicsQED:

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I'm not getting this. How did you deduce that he was in the army reserve?

He does seem to be a career army officer unless I'm missing something. Anyway, like you said, I hope he gets a good lawyer that can get this 10 years nonsense overturned quickly.

D1KeleVra:

Like I said we are still learning, it's not very long ago that Nigerians started wearing their seat belts willingly, without thinking of LASTMA.

violent:

That's just bollocks! Members of the United states do not have diplomatic immunity from arrest and prosecution from a foreign country, especially when they are not on assignment or serving the US interest or being held for political reasons!!! If the dude is breaking Nigerian law, United states cannot claim jurisdiction for his arrest or prosecution.



There's actually a way for an ordinary citizen to obtain license for guns. In the snipped attachment below, the 1990 constitution states that individuals can own fire arms if granted a license by the President or the Inspector General of Police.

D1KeleVra:

I really don't think it sucks that it's not legal to own a firearm. I think Nigeria and Nigerians are still growing and learning. As you can see from the daily hustle and bustle attitude our people, coupled with impatience and the "do-you-know-who-I-am" syndrome, people would be shooting each other like it was legal to do so. Someone has a very bad day at work + probably trying to deal with the frustration of impotence uhm. . . gets his car scratched by a danfo, he might get all trigger-happy.

Like I said we are still learning, it's not very long ago that Nigerians started wearing their seat belts willingly, without thinking of LASTMA. A few years ago this wasn't the case. Also the same with littering (throwing trash out your car windows) . Not to say people are still not doing these, but we are still learning not only what is right, but what is reasonable.

Legalising firearms at this level of our development, to me, is not advisable. I might not be right but that's my view, maybe not the intention of the Law Makers. Altho there's the need for solutions to self protection. I have been thinking of how to legally get a hold tasers for this purpose.

PhysicsQED:

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I'm not getting this. How did you deduce that he was in the army reserve?

He does seem to be a career army officer unless I'm missing something. Anyway, like you said, I hope he gets a good lawyer that can get this 10 years nonsense overturned quickly.

Dede1:


Before Nigeria/Biafra civil war, law-abiding Nigerians were allowed to own gun and freely go to hunt. But since after the civil war, the cabals due to the fear of being ignominiously booted out of office by the angry crowd slammed gun ban on the society and gave petty thieves the leeway to be real bad.

Okay, yea. But Nigerians then ARE different from Nigerians now. If just anyone in our times is granted a licence, there'd be lawlessness. People are on the edge. . . _{I might even shoot a couple of okada riders. . . i hate the fuqqas}

violent:

That's just bollocks! Members of the United states do not have diplomatic immunity from arrest and prosecution from a foreign country, especially when they are not on assignment or serving the US interest or being held for political reasons!!! If the dude is breaking Nigerian law, United states cannot claim jurisdiction for his arrest or prosecution.



There's actually a way for an ordinary citizen to obtain license for guns. In the snipped attachment below, the 1990 constitution states that individuals can own fire arms if granted a license by the President or the Inspector General of Police.

Wallie:

Paragraph 7 of the linked article you posted - "member of the active Guard and reserve."

BlackPikiN:
If you read your link, you would see where it clearly stated He's in the reserve or you got something to show?

Ileke-IdI:
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When does it stop?

omar22: Last June at Muritala Muhammad Int. Airport. My friend, his brother and me. My friend’s brother was heading to America but we were returning back to the UK. When they were checking our suit cases, my friends brother was ahead of us in the queue and this guy haven’t been to Nigeria since 1994, he only came home for his mother’s birthday, because he has been deployed to various places all over the world because he is a service officer of the US Army.
On the line at the airport, they looked at his suit case, and then they dropped the ultimate question on him!

Immigration - “Entertain us” (meaning they want egunje)
US Army (typical akata boy) - he said no point blank!
Immigration - They said he is not allowed to carry this this this and that to the US.
US Army – Said they should show a list of what he can’t take to the US
Immigration (Lady) – We can make you miss your flight
US Army – You wouldn’t dare do that.
Immigration – Closed his suitcase and demanded to see his passport
US Army – The immigration officer over there has already seen my passport
Immigration – started shouting saying they would jail him, do you know who I am
US Army – I don’t care who you are, you don’t know who you were dealing with.
Immigration – You are not going to travel today
US Army – why
My friend and I looked with amazement, I was about to tell the guy to settle them and let peace be but he said no (out loud)
A top immigration officer showed up and the idiot said – you are not allowed to carry this into the US, the US army said he wanted to see the list of things he cannot carry? Then he said theirs a US army base in East Africa, they would send officials to come pick him up and he showed them his ID card. Their behaviour changed completely they started respecting the guy, it was so embarrassing my friend and I who were travelling an hour later, got no grieve from the immigration officers they only said to us that we should enjoy our flight.

PhysicsQED:

I read my link. Did you miss the part where I said "unless I'm missing something" or did you not understand that? Turns out I missed something! It happens.

I asked him (Wallie) for an explanation which he gave. As far I could tell he was an army officer, and the army was his career, but Wallie clarified.

joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps. In 1991, Osagiede-Ogbewekon, by then a naturalized citizen, became a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army.

Originally a chemical weapons officer, he shifted to civil affairs in 1998.

rocka: Honestly, this post doesn't make sense. Just like someone said earlier, a serving member of the US army will not be allowed to do jail time in a foreign ally country. He will be extradited to the States to face the music.
He signed a contract with the US army and legally speaking that contract has to be kept (JAG is aware of that).
Someone mentioned that he is a Bini man, as such, the embassy wouldn't care what happens to him. I must say this is a very naive statement. You cannot be a commissioned officer in the US military without being a US citizen. And i bet we are all aware of America's policy on her citizens doing time in foreign lands.
I guess whoever concocted this post is totally unaware of the value America places on her soldiers (even if you are a fuzzy) not to talk of a Major.

D1KeleVra:

Okay, yea. But Nigerians then ARE different from Nigerians now. If just anyone in our times is granted a licence, there'd be lawlessness. People are on the edge. . . _{I might even shoot a couple of okada riders. . . i hate the fuqqas}

nakedall: The guy na born in Naija and he never officially drop Naija citizenship - that's another case!

Dede1:


I guess you forgot Okada riders might have guns too. Now, it becomes a matter of who is the best shot. When everybody is perceived to be packing a gun, it creates an unseen equilibrium. In USA, a policeman will always approach suspected law breaker with caution even if it is a minor traffic incident.

If Nigerians really want to engage in democracy, they must observe every bit of democratic nuances.