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ItsModella: Exactly. He's screams a lot in his songs. While Dagrin was razz, he still maintained this coolness but Olamide sometimes sounds like he needs a tranquilizer to calm him down.

Dagrin jare. Olamide doesn't even come close.

Princeojua: envy is no good ok? Learn to appreciation anything you come across.

Trigger Happy: Nigerians and their lack of thinking, anytime u hear da word GHANA most of u comes from ur caves like headless chickens. Ghanaians don't give a phuck about AZONTO u can take it. Ur country Nigeria is turning into a grave yard and instead of using Nairaland to benefit ur pit latrine country u instead create a thread to instigate hatred. Dumb people wit primitive thinking. IF CLAIMING AZONTO AS A NIGERIAN DANCE WILL MAKE BOKO HARAM LAY THEIR ARMS AND WILL STOP YOUR POLITICIANS TO STOP LOOTING, THEN WE GHANAIANS WILL HAPPILY GIVE IT TO U CUZ WE PEACE LOVING PEOPLE.

toba: smh. 2face, dbanj, JJ okocha and co would one day regret not going for tertiary education

obi123: the mind boggles really,these men are bastards and should be punished but I think that when we can , our personal safety lies in our hands , i just don't understand how a total stranger can give you something and you consume it , if I understand correctly the victims are given this pure water by someone in the bus, apparently someone who is in on it , A TOTAL STRANGER , someone who supposedly doesn't want to forfeit his balance(now i don't know if the victims are charmed into accepting and drinking ) in any case ,one way or the other they drink it and blank out .
one of the first lessons every parent teaches their children is do not talk or accept anything from strangers and even in the case of people that you know , you are warned to always say no thank you , I just cant understand how an adult who should know better can fall for this.

even on a normal day without it being a scam , i wont even collect jack talk less of something edible from someone i don't know, even if I'm offered out of courtesy no matter how you insist, i might collect it out of courtesy but there is no way on earth I will eat or drink it.

c'mon people , we have become too careless, these are desperate times, let us try to be aware of our surroundings and take extra care of ourselves, the Govt. really cant do everything

manibuds: if i own an okada and working with it,this ban will definitely get me aggravated but i dont so my comments may not be coated with enough sympathy.
when BRF banned taxi licences for tokunbo,taxi owners and prospective taxi owners didnt like it but lagosians loved the new sharp cabs.
when the complaints and campaign against okada was brewing what steps the bajaj and jincheng take?did they consult with LASG?maybe suggest dedicated colors for okada(florescent green or orange),create training facility for new motocycle riders and retrain those ones that actually need it?
what effort has okada riders association made to sanitise their operations
what are the chances that an okada man is a foreigner?is it the work that our poor transport system created for malians,chadian,nigeriens that is being threatened or the unhealthy multiplication of okada levy collectors?
okada has proven to be very useful when there is a crucial deadline(e.g business meeting,airport etc)but do we need +100,000 of them?
general sanity and swag is enough reason ban okada,lagos is the only big city black africans can call their city,people who have never travelled outside this country to any of the 'swag cities' of this world will always shout when chicken and ram sellers are cleared from under the bridges.
people crying like babies because they stood in bus-stop for 1 hour,no wonder govt officials steal with impunity,how can people who cry because of no okada cause a change for the better?

skelemba: After going thru this I laff at what I read. I cnt believe nigerians r actually dis backward. N d truth still remains dat d citizens r 80percent of d problem not d govt. What is okada? U all shud b ashamed of urselves dat u r getting all worked up over okada been ban. So wot move on life continues. N if I were fashola, after dey r totally eradicated frm d state, let dem get rid of does danfo guys too and sanitize d transportation system. Cmon. We need to step up our game. Itsnt gona b easy nothing gud comes easy but if its d sacrifise we ve to make to get our beloved country to where it is. Why not.I ve lived in wales n obviously okada isn't an option. So many pple dnt ve cars n even those dat do dnt drive it. Do u knw dat there r places dat buses only come thru ur street every 30-45mins and d walk to d trains station or bus station is bout 20mins. Wot do dey do? Dey walk. Ask anybody u walk in d uk. Where to change either ur bus or train is 10mins away dey walk. In d freezin cold u walk. My hood was hilly. I wud walk n rest n walk. Did I blame d uk govt dat in nig we ve okada?. U even c old pple wit their walking stick walking. N here we r crying okada okada. For d xcuse of no alternative plsvent u seen movies. Ve u seen rush hour in train/bus station where u wait wit crowd n d train comes n u ve no more space sef. So wots d fuse its everywhere. N dey is no okada. So nigerians stop being spoilt brats. N d truth is if we lagosians jst set a standard for ourselves n dnt patronise dem dey wud look for something else to do. D truth is dey shudnt b doin dat cuz its no job atall.life isn't easy, but okada isn't d only pple dat r affaected, hw about pple who lost their jobs in banking, telecoms, did dey resort to stealing. So get over dey wud b robbers if dey wud let dem b n let God judge dem. D govt is trying. Its a step at a time but some things shudnt b permited and one of it is okada is not a means of transportation. Thank u

Horayce: I'm not your fellow man!
You must be an Ewu-Nnama not to know that no man falls into any of your idiotic categories absolutely!

naturalwaves: It is so funny to see how a lot of people debate with sentiments. The fact is that, an average Nigerian that's always on the move particularly Lagosians do not have time for fanciful APPs and HD games. It is so childish to say one will purchase a phone because it has HD and TECH games like soccer etc even at an advanced age. It is games like RIVER TEST, CHESS etc that looks cool when being played on a mobile device. I mean, if you need to play games, go get a proper game console.

#THE TYPE OF PHONE ONE USES SHOULD NEVER BE A DEFINITION OF ONE'S SOCIAL STATUES#.

Osheshe: Your Lordship, everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion, plus your civic rights stop at the point where another individual's rights begin.

You absolutely CANNOT shove your views down another man's throat. You will not be bashed or 'persecuted' for stating a view which is contrary to public opinion.

You will be bashed and 'persecuted' for LORDING it over others. Making use of derogratory terms such as 'tyrannical' (a part of me wonders if you truly understands what this means), 'blindly' and 'stubbornly' is probably why you got banned in the first instance.

Will it be too much of an effort for you to refrain from being condescending and demeaning when making your remarks? And with the least confrontational attitude possible?

It ticks me off when some peeps think they got the final say on a thread. If you feel the majority of those who dropped a comment here are 'biased' and blind, then kindly take yourself and your 'superior' opinion elsewhere, any place/thread where you can find 'like' minds.

Something caught my attention in your post though...where you referred to the vigilante group as the 'local mob'. Unwittingly, you dropped this, which tells me that some part of your sub-conscious mind recognizes the fact that their actions were irrational.

As for Coxson Lerebori...he is indeed culpable. If he raised the alarm because he felt threatened, why didn't he clear the 'air' after he was 'rescued'? If his hands were so 'clean', why did he have to go into hiding? Does an innocent man run? My curiousity has been piqued by this unfolding saga...

The public outcry is not based on sentiments...just because 'fine' boys were murdered. The outcry is based on gut-wrenching sorrow, caused by the manner in which they died! Whatever their sins or atrocities, those vigilante killers had no right whatsoever to take the law into their own hands.

Even in a court of law, the guilty get to have lawyers, and present their cases before a sane and rational jury...they are not condemned hastily or in a horrific manner as witnessed in the video clip.

mba emeka: First they were robbers and cultists that stole laptops and phones and raped women. Later they were just robbers. After a while they became cultists smoking weed in an uncompleted building who decided to decap their capone. Somebody on nairaland even swore that he was a member of the confratenity and that he recognised them. I kept saying not true, not true, not true.

Firstly, the whole 12AM, 3AM, 5AM talk was not true. They didnt go there at any such ungodly hour. Ugonna spoke to a girl (a family friend) around 6ish this had to be before the whole incident started. I have said it here repeatedly. also does it make sense that they were apprehended say 3am and kept till 10, 11am before they were killed? The whole thing transpired in the morning (I'm talking 7-11am)

secondly, ALUU is not a "dangerous" community as some of you are trying to make it seem. I lived there while I was in that school. Alot of students live there too, that's why you could see some students recording the dastardly act. Even Tekana's sister said she lived in that vicinity too. So its not like they visited a "dangerous place" at an "ungodly hour".

Thirdly, from what i gather from my family friend (the girl that spoke to him that morning), alot of people owed Ugonna money. It wasnt just the Pastor "Bright" Lelebori. I know of another girl that misplaced a laptop and he gave her 50K on the spot so that she could stop crying. That was how kind he was. You can carry out your investigations and you'd see what would turn up.


I also understand that he had tried to collect his money back from the Pastor severally but the "man of god" kept giving excuses and was constantly evading him. Everytime he would say I'm not in Ph, I am away on a conference, when I get back etc etc. The young man was frustrated. He didnt know what to do. Then he got a tip that the Bright was around in his apartment in Omoukhiri so he decided to pay him a visit early on when Mr man wouldnt be able to give an excuse. So he passed the night in a friends place that stayed close- One of the victims. (i know this much from the girl he spoke to because he was asking her to come and see him in school before she could resume hers (she attends a different school in niaja))

One of his friends that joined in even took a bike from infront of Abuja campus gate to go and catch up with his mates who were going to confront pastor bright. You can tell why he, Ugonna needed some back up against Lelebori-the pastor is atleast in his 30s and Ugo was/is 18 years old. The one that took a bike from the Abuja gate some people say he was just coming from a dance/Choir rehearsal that had taken place over night. (I am reporting this as I got the info)

Morerover if they were Armed you would want to believe they could have resisted being arrested by the vigilante (not Mob at this stage). Also their clothes, phones, wristwatches etc where stolen from them (Hypocritical) Why would they go on a mission to rob somebody and go with these things i mean, does it make sense?

Also they didnt even resist the arrest they tried to plead their case but it fell on deaf ears because like someone had earlier (and rightly said) the community had been housing some ill-will for the students of Uniport and really looking for an opportunity to pounce on them.

From my experience in Uniport I can also state authoritatively that if those boys where members of a cult group their group would have retaliated immediately. Afterall the whole act from parading them unclad to beating them etc took over a good 2hours. Their group would have gone there with guns probably to scare the mob and recover their members. i am also adamant that they would have killed the lynchers. I saw one Okadigbo killed in broad day light and as soon as he died his fellow "vicky" members came out in red and with guns trying to get back at the rival cult group.

In conclusion, I would never believe they were cultists, robbers, criminals etc. They didnt also go there at an ungodly hour, or for the wrong reasons. even in the video (according to Chidiakas mum) one could hear somebody yelling "beat them well well, shey dem wan collect your money? beat them well well". meaning that some folks got a wind of the reasons the boys were being beaten but egged the murderers on.

We have prayed, whether the police like it or not, whether the Vc likes it or not, Whether the governor likes it or not justice would be delivered. Mark my words!

Osheshe: Dude, for someone who 'claims' to be learned, you sure do have a funny way of portraying it.

I took my time to read through all the comments, and yours were definitely the most obnoxious and absurd.

For starters, your condescending words were totally uncalled for. If you found the statements of the other fellow offensive, all you had to do was look the other way, and not dish out veiled insults 'cloaked' in the form of advice.

Plus he didn't even use a foul word on you. Not even once! And you, the learned one, chose to fight gutter-style. Totally uncool.

Secondly, you are entitled to your opinion on what actually transpired in Aluu community. What you are not entitled to however, is the right to 'double-speak'. You sound like a hypocrite in your previous comments, saying one thing in one breath and then going on to contradict yourself in the next.

Abuse me all you like...I say it as I see it. The summary of your comments is 'those boys were up to some mischief'. Then the very same you says 'I want to hear from the horse's mouth'. Why? You've drawn your conclusions already...why wait for anything else?

The heart of this Aluu issue is not what those boys went there for. Its the inhumane way they were made to die. Haba! Those villagers played judge and jury all at once, came up with a premature verdict and summarily snuffed the life out of the four boys.

Who gave them the right to play God? There is an adage that says 'innocent until proven guilty'. They should have let the law take its course, and not what they did - have a makeshift trial.

If you say those boys were cultists, then the Mister Lucky himself had to be a cultist too. Oh yes! Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are, remember? He can be tried and convicted for cult-related activities. His life was threatened so he framed all four of 'em and set 'em up to die?

Whichever way we analyze this story, he (Mr Lucky) still comes up complicit. If he had nothing to hide, why go underground? Why go into hiding? And after he was 'rescued' by the vigilante group, why didn't he own up to the true story? At least he would have prevented the death of those four...

He was probably one of the on-lookers, egging on those with planks, concrete blocks, tyres, fuel and what not. Do you get my point? Mr Lucky has blood on his hands, he is as much of a culprit as those wielding the slabs of wood.

Those boys did not deserve to die that way. May their souls rest in perfect peace, Amen.

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