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The lesson for me is for us as a country to always vote right and don't promote people beyond their pay grades with luck or sentiments! Even George Bush was not this *******.

They talk about executive profligacy and my presidents says he eats twice a day!!!

What a pity for a nation full of intellectuals and doing wonders abroad.

NLC and TUC........shut up your shameless and traitorish mouth, you unions are thieves, your members have killed PHCN and all the government organs that are meant to give us a better life. Do you think we have forgotten your backstabbing in January of this year?

Try am, I will mobilise to stone you if u come out. I will only support an independent protest.

Again, the talk about subsidy should not have dropped out of jona's mouth at this sensitive time of the year. He will only invite the marketers to hoard the products in anticipation of a hike in January.. Nigerians should get ready for a period of scarcity. Retardocracy!

Desola and Sucess001, we beg naaa. e don do.... abi una two know outside Nairaland?

Please ceasefire! Biko.


Poster Garri (x7) you don cause wahala here o!

So be it, he has his reasons to continue with Okada's as the legacy for his people and his children........Thank God i don't live in that state

People with their mindset and posting tribalistic rubbish should carry their wahala go another section. The traffic law has nothing to do with Tribes.

While Fashola is working PDP is demolishing houses all over the country.

Since Fashola is alleged to be elitist, let the PDP be populist by reducing the pump price of fuel to 65 naira!I prefer Tinubu to Bode George. Tinubu's businesses in Lagos are keeping people employed but Bode George is chopping alone.

On the tax matter, I think the bank lawyer is looking at the issue out of context though right in a way. When they say people do not pay tax , it is quite different from not buying things. The tax in context is your PAYE or Companies income tax.

PDP ndo, when you write exams in school and you keep failing while another keeps passing there is a tendency to abuse the other. PDP has misruled this country for 13 years with little to show. Fashola and Tinubu on the othr hand have trasformed Lagos in infrastructure and in psyche.

PDP blamed Lagos Government when they started BRT, when they were beautifying the environment, when they started the rail project, when they banned molue but all these are better for us who live and dwell in Lagos.

I love Lagos...land of opportunity. we ban all spirits of retardation , stagnation and backwardnesss in lagos...amin

taharqa: Can smone plz tell d eediot who wrote this thrash to undastad that Communication is a 2-way treat. I know there is a severe need for sm persons to engage in PROPAGANDA these days but for God's sake at least let ppl undastad what d hell you are trying to say. Big grammar and sweetening words wud not do

No vex bro, ....try the jokes or entertainment section ..... no be everybody fit understand even simple thing. Wado wado

People like Okupe are the real reasons behind the Retardocracy characterizing the current presidency.

The guy is just a hussler and has no principles. He has not been able to manage his own personal issues not to talk of managing an incoherent and slow thinking presido. I sat beside him at a function recently and damn , that guy stinks like a skunk, i guess on account of his massive size, he was breathing like a pig. Unfortunately his intelligence and coherence is a big waste to this nation cos he lives for his big belle.

SwineOkupe is a waste of space literarily after all....why would CPC bother about such a pig

Fashola said anyone who is NOT ready to obey the traffic law should leave the state!....This is not rude in anyway especially as it came as a direct answer to a question and remark put before him, Most firm and good leaders are seen to be arrogant but I don't care about all that but most importantly for the governor to do his work well.

NAIJA! If President sleeps in ASO rock and cannot take any serious decisions without back and forth , we say he is weak , call him Ritadeeen, if Governor refuses to allow Okada's take over his state they call him rude and arrogant. I only blame Fashola's government for not completing the alternatives like rail and water transport systems before enforcing the ban on Okadas on major routes.

ACN is not a party of saints but one thing is certain , PDP cannot move Lagos forward. Unfortunately the ethnic card PDP is playing is only for states with dumb people. Lagos is a state of opinionated and discerning people. HATE ACN all you can but they are still better than a PDP.

I happen to be one of the strong supporters of Fashola and unapologetic about it cos the guy has a focus. Yes we might feel the pain today but I know and indeed convinced that it is for a better tomorrow. PDP should talk to their governors to do half of what Lagos is doing (Though not anywhere near perfect). ...or their don't give a damn president. Leave us with our FAshola who gives a damn. The 2015 elections in Lagos will test ACN's popularity again provided they provide a good product. I would rather mobilise for another GEJ (clueless) in Lagos than ANY PDP candidate....let's go there.

You should not be bothered about Fashola's statement except you are not willing to obey the traffic law. I prefer an eloquent, arrogant , self confident and determined leader than a stubborn thief with low self esteem without plans or vision or sense of responsibility.

This is not a political matter but it is about the well being of Lagosians. Okada's are gone for good on our major roads.....thank God

I suspect the influx of visitors and participants in the ongoing international trade fair added to the fuel queues....the traffic wear trouser

Freedom fighters / Militants carry weapons , they compensated them with contracts and amnesty
Boko haram carry bomb, they compensate them with money and may be contracts
Oya Southwest , middle belt and south east start polishing your weapons , it is your time to shine!


.......we deserve what we get when we elect people with Low mental capacity to direct the affairs of this nation. I call this Imbecilocracy, i.e rule by the few High grade saliva drippingimbeciles over the docile masses.

beespak7: The situation will soon fizzle out --- Gej

....The president is deeply disturbed with this bombing , he has condemned the bombing in its strongest terms, he has reiterated the determination and commitment of his government to eradicate boko haram before christmas........and gone back to his deep sleep and will wake up to continue with his transformation from shoeless to shoed at midnight.....Big Dr D Okupepe

Wadeoye: We are in trouble in this country... Even hear president's response - did he make any sense?

We told Ribadu, you can't work with bad leaders to make them good - the right thing to do is join hands to chase bad leaders far away from power. Working with them is not an option.

Thanks you for reminding me jare, I remember when Ribadu was appointed to head the committee, his party and all people who knew the monumental fraud GEJ's government is known for condemned Ribadu's move to accept the appointment. I don't blame him becos he was broke and had financial issues after his party let him down during and after the failed presidential bid.

The committee was set up to report to the Minister of petroleum who needs to be probed, financially, administratively and morally! How can a thief organise vigilante? The probe was bound to go nowhere from the start.

Ribadu has gone to dine with the devil and indeed that is what you get for rolling in the hay with thieves and corruption in human form. However I praise him for quickly releasing the report to the press (wise man and wise move) so that the counter forces will not discredit him. He won this round with corruption with that fast move and his witty and factual response to Oransole!

I believe strongly that all the parties found culpable in the report should have been given a fair hearing no matter what. It's an ignorant assertion and just a fallacy that Nigeria does not know it's crude oil output. This is one of the statements put in the lips of Nigerians by one of the lazy probes conducted earlier. This is why they need the people responsible to give their own side. I saw one of the lazy probes that mentioned Money was missing because it was paid into a different account. But you never get sensational headlines when purportedly lost monies are found.

I know the SSS guys are already on Nairaland....please tell Presideen a peaceful revolution is right at his door steps.

With all the massive irregularities in the Ministry of Petroleum, e never reach to fire DieZ but Barth Nnaji was fired cos he was only PERCEIVED to have gained from the process. God punish anybody wey no wan beta for this country.

Orasanyi and Oti are just a few of the teeming multitudes of useless Federal officials that have nothing to offer this country other than to steal and display their incompetence like their shoeless father.

Orasanye however made some sense by asking for the agencies DPR and NNPC to reconcile the figures being peddled by the committee. Ribadu has a penchant for running to the press and jumping to conclusions without scientific investigations. He might have been raising issues where they did not exist! However NO ONE can rubbish his report at the end of the day. Ribadu is a very brilliant guy and I wish he would swap places with that dull guy

As to Presideen!, they have reported that Orasanye did not attend meetings and that their organizations were indicted. Of course our dear Clueless avoided the issue and went on giving general talk about our place in the African continent. The matter deserved a strong response. Another report says he asked Orasanye and Oti to produce their own reports. If this is true, Surely NOTHING will come out of this probe! Just like all the committees in the past.

Tomorrow Clueless will set up a committee to look into the activities of all committees and provide a way forward to efficiently apply recommendations of previous Committees !!! Kpakam

........You be thief ano de steal , you be rogue, I no be rogue, you be robber , I no be armed robber........argument......in the words of the wise one.

....second base jare

KDULAR: Truly a lot of people are literate but do not understand somethings. A Governor cannot mobilise a private soldier ( give an order). The use of the word connivance with the military DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY OF WHAT THAT statement means. If you have a face, do you know that can send you to JAIL. Inwhat way can that be sustantiated ?. No military commander will even have that crossing his mind not to talk of .... People say what they don't just know and the say it damn carelessly

Indeed you are right bro, before you can use a Police escort, you require the approval of the Police commissioner or IG across states. Before one soldier is deployed the chain of command to the GOC must know. The GOC reports to his bosses all the way to Abuja. They only talk to the state governor by way of Political courtesy.

If people are insisting that Fashola gave the final word to the soldiers, it means a coup has taken place and the soldiers have followed the one with plan or some clue. Fashola can only seek the approval of the commander in chief to instruct the troops to move. The C in C can either direct or not direct ......dats all

Mr Akele of NCP , you are entitled to your opinions but if we could carry out a popularity vote , our dear Governor Fashola SAN will win with a wide margin. So no thanks Eko baje ti!.....Leave our thinking and working Governor for us and let him move this state forward . NCP should please try and organise itself and win elections in one local government before they start giving us advice on how to manage Lagos.

On the soldier matter, again it is one of the cheap lies coming from the extremely dull sycophants Mr President has surrounded himself with.

I know the Armed forces (Combination of Army , air force, police and SSS) had been patrolling the streets of Lagos before the January protest because the POLICE (FGN UNIT) was being overwhelmed by the sophistication of Armed robberies. The Fashola government (rather than the FGN clueless approach) took it upon itself to help organise the various FGN organs and funded it under the name op MESA. They still have that arrangement till today and it has reduced the frequency of those mass robberies where a whole street or locality may be raided in one night.

In January the FGN deployed the ARMY to the freedom square and lied that they were men of OP MESA to put Fashola in bad light when our dear governor condemned the move. The Defence Minister and the Lagos army authbority contradicted themselves showing their clumsy lies. I know the senior officer that led the team, he was a former classmate. Again the FGN officials did not think before they lied and they thought Lagosians had the same low level of IQ they parade.

See below the statement from the LASG back then and the source

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/3526-lagos-federal-government-on-collision-course-over-military-deplo.html?wpmp_switcher=mobile

The Lagos State government has accused the federal government of lying about the request for military deployment in Lagos state.


The Military authorities had yesterday said that, contrary to popular opinion, the order to deploy troops in Lagos had come from the state government.


However, Premium Times has obtained an exclusive copy of a letter written by the state governor, Babatunde Fashola, which strongly compels president JOnatgan to rescind his order to deploy trrops to Lagos. The Lagos state government further issued a statement today which accused the military authorities of spreading “false” and “misleading” information concerning military deployment.


The emergence of both the letter and statement contradict claims by the Defence Headquarters that it was Governor Fashola who requested and funded the deployment of the soldiers.


A strongly worded statement, signed by the state commissioner of information, Abdul-Lateef Ibirogba, further accuses the military of resorting to “spurious and bogus claims aimed at deceiving the people.”


The statement was released as a direct response to comments made on Thursday by Mohammed Yerima, a Defence Headquarters spokesperson, who said the “soldiers seen on the streets of Lagos are still the same men of the special task force code named Operation MESA set up and sponsored by the Lagos State government.”


Mr. Ibirogba said Operation MESA has been a “long standing arrangement since the days of President Olusegun Obasanjo.” He further added that the primary brief of MESA soldiers was to aid Police work and not to occupy the streets.


In a further twist, the Defence Minister, Bello Mohammed, had on Thursday claimed that it was indeed the Federal Government who had made the order. Mr. Mohammed said that the order was in response to security reports detailing plans by some unnamed persons and groups to hide under the protests “to cause anarchy and security breach.



The letter

Mr. Mohammed’s statement corroborates Mr. Fashola’s stance which had led to the governor sending a letter directly to the President. In his letter, the governor makes it clear in no uncertain terms that he is unhappy with the military occupation in the state and asks the President, several times, to order their immediate withdrawal.


As the blame game continues between all parties, the activist group #Occupy Nigeria is planning a rally in Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota on Saturday. With military troops still positioned in various parts of Lagos, and no-one seemingly responsible for them, it is not yet clear if any protests will be allowed to hold.



Read Lagos press statement below



PRESS RELEASE

LASG DEBUNKS CLAIMS THAT IT REQUESTED DEPLOYMENT OF SOLDIERS IN LAGOS

The claim by the Military authorities that the deployment of soldiers on the streets of Lagos is at the request of the Lagos State Government is not only false but misleading.

The State Government challenges the Military authorities to show proof of the request of troop deployment to the streets of Lagos State.

Instead of simply taking the honourable path by apologizing to the people of Lagos for an unpopular act, they have resorted to offering spurious and bogus claims aimed at deceiving the people.

That this claim is coming four days after the Governor’s address, which he followed with a letter to the Presidency, is an obvious afterthought. It is also inconsistent with the explanation offered by the Minister of Defence who said that they deployed the soldiers in order to prevent a breakdown of law and order.

This attempt to cover up has left the public with much confusion, as the Minister of Defence offered one reason and the Military authority has offered another. They should just take the honourable path by apologizing to the people of Lagos State and withdraw the soldiers forthwith.

In the prevailing political dispensation, the administration of Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has always been in the vanguard of democratic principles as well as civility.

In the light of the view of the Governor, it will be totally irrational to expect that the Governor would call on the Military to occupy the streets of Lagos.

Also, it would be recalled that His Excellency went on air to denounce most vehemently the deployment of the soldiers in Lagos.

In His Excellency’s continuous statements and actions, he has demonstrated that democracy is still the best form of dispensation to make Lagos State remain a Centre of Excellence that it has been. It is therefore not right for anybody to try to use the Government of Lagos State to cover up their unpopular decision.

The presence of the Police, Army and other federally controlled security agencies in Lagos does not translate to their being under the control of the State and so the inclusion of soldiers in the joint Military patrol through OP-MESA should not be used to cover up this wrong act of drafting soldiers on the streets of Lagos to quell fuel subsidy protest which the Police has contained for five days.

OP-MESSA had been a long standing arrangement since the days of President Olusegun Obasanjo. lndeed, the military men involved in OP-MESSA were deployed purposely to join the Police in fighting crime and were never at any point in time drafted to occupy the streets.

For the avoidance of doubt, OP-MESSA men are still working with the Police in the fight against crime. The men of OP-MESSA should not be confused with the soldiers deployed in the last one week to suppress a civil protest in a democracy.



SIGNED

ABDUL LATEEF ADEREMI IBIROGBA

COMMISIONER FOR INFORMATION AND STRATEGY

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On the Okada Matter, I see them everyday and

1. They are unruly and believe ALWAYS in gang effect
2. They never obey traffic laws no matter how basic or simple
3. They have put many car owners in deep trouble with their carelessness. I know an FBN staff who knocked down an Okada man at Ozumba junction, he was on the bonny camp bound lane and the okada guy darted across but miscalculated and died. The FBN staff slept in detention and had to pay the idiot's family compensation. These stories abound everyday. I am sure even those popularity seeking lawyers fighting on behalf of the Okada men have their on tales to tell
4. They have made several people handicap for life. before you criticise the LASG decision on Okada, please go to general hospital ikeja or worse still Igbobi to check okada victims.
5. They believe they are always above all laws and pronouncements of government!



Our Government in Lagos made the law and they need to enforce it, you cannot talk to some of those Okada boys becos some barely can mutter good morning, those boys come to lagos and two three days after a crash course in riding start carrying innocent passengers. LASG govt cannot sit like the Clueless and shoeless FGN watching its people die and get maimed by some half wit okada men.This is good government in action and those of us who think tomorrow are few and indeed we support LASG. Truly even if Lagos will loose the election, its not to PDP, no way , God forbid, instead make independent candidate win.

As regards the alternatives , I watched the Transport commissioner on TV say they asked the Okada men to either go into the LASG skill acquisition centres or engage them in commercial farming. The Okada men are not interested....what else do you weant LASG to do.. ~Let the okada people go to their states and where they have been banned totally already.

Haba!

Poster the darkness has taken over with speed. My country people, next time, we go vote for beta person. If person no get shoe, we go tell Inec to giam trailer load of shoes make e go back to him village, we set go rest.

Mr incompetent is quick to fire the head of appeal court and nnaji the great but cannot see the monumental fraud in the oil minitree, bosom no let am

Guys go make up with ur Gen and inverter suppliers and technicians

If this is true it is a big shame and disappointment to the ACN. May all the stealing politicians and their stealing families go down in jail or hospitals worldwide!

May the blood of those Nigerians who cannot afford such immediate Medicare and the spirit of the dead who passed on in the Dana crash due to lack of quick response continue to haunt our politicians, may they continue to go to Germany and India for treatment until they run out of stolen monies and they shall pay with their lives and the lives of their family for not making this country good.

All hail another dumb , senseless and visionless FEDERAL civil servant!

The Federal civil service is a waste of scarce resources

[quote author=u-best]idiotttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt in making[/quote]I disagree.. this Idiot is a ready made idiot!...kpakam

So terrible after the resignation of Barth, The only working Minister who has impacted my life has been released while the one who ran a ministry with Trillion naira fraud is being retained!

Sad tale of woes trailing the leadership of our country and even the ~PHCN workers,. The PHCN people are the primary cause of the problems. `lazy thieves. For killing this country not sure if they should even pay them a dime in addition to their corruption proceeds.

My heart has been weeping for this our dear country in the last couple of days and Indeed as a people we are unable to read and interpret intelligence and critical thought processes. Many have degrees and doctorates but are worse than my grandmother who is not schooled but has native intelligence.

Hunger, lack famine, poverty, frustration, hate and anger has eaten up so many people that they are unable to think straight. Indeed many of the posters who commented did not think or understand Desola's write up.

The lady had just drawn our attention to cause of the problem not the effect of the matter. People will result to self help when they have help from nowhere. Many of those who have violently condemned Desola are wishing for her and her siblings to suffer the same fate. (such people are the next to commit the heinous crimes against humanity.

If you care to read or investigate, clearly the boys were not INNOCENT but they suffered the condemnable judgement in the hands of Aluu villagers because of the failure of Police, government, parents and the entire system. What would you do if someone robs you of all you have worked for, beats you up and rapes your wife and daughter in your presence? As one reasonable poster asked, what happened to the five ABA University boys that raped a young girl last year. Police came out to deny it. If you were the father or brother or boyfriend of the victim, you will hold the ALUU 5 in place of the rapists. This is the larger picture that many myopic minds are unable to phantom.

Our aggression should be to the state , the system the leaders that have refused to make this country move forward to due to their greed and incompetence. Why did the police or JTF (who were around the area at the time) not respond and intervene during the killing and mobbing which could not have taken less than 30 minutes.

In a country where people have been ravaged by flood, you hear govt announce billions over the TV and you end up seeing them giving out rice and blankets to people. .....finally you hear that the monies have ended up in private purses, while the victims are still being robbed and raped by robbers. tell me why people will not resort to self help?

A message to parents, monitor your children and don't believe they are the innocent things you carried for 9 months. Counsel them , let them see the need to pursue good rather than evil, avoid bad company, avoid trouble and check their rooms, books, bags, phones to know what they are up to.

To those who wish Desola evil, watch you back, it may just catch up with you...Desola I pray the Lord will raise intelligent and great people like you in this failed society so that there will be change for the better.


God bless you all.

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I was so critical of this President until his comment on the Fuel subsidy removal protests. Clearly the guy has good intentions but he has surrounded himself with thieves, political jobbers, rogues, liars and human beings without principles or any form of values. People who can eat and steal from anybody and everybody.

Jonathan has good intentions but ambitious... he has NO capacity to run a complex nation like Nigeria. He is without vision, intellectually lazy and does not have the experience to manage resources and people.
Based on his thirst for power, He is being used unwittingly by some cunning (not smart) people and he is not aware. He has been cut off from reality. A clear testimony was the new presidential security guards he commissioned on Monday. If you look at the history of leaders who are ambitious and surround themselves with sycophants - they beef up their own security and try to build an empire around themselves. See Abacha, Saddam, Hitler. They end up being chased by phantom enemies and they eventually go into self destruct mode.

Jona is unfortunately on the way to self destruction and I hope he comes to realisation early enough so that he can be saved.

His speech did not attack Nigerians as ALL his previous speeches to the nation. All the achievements he laid claims to are not measurable or quantifiable other than the improvement in power. (Which again may be argued to obe the effects of the investments by the Obj government). He took over from Yaraslow in FEB 2010 and struggles to showcase his achievements 2 years and 7 months after! what a shame on this nation.

The truth is either this guy changes his entire cabinet and special assistants or he will be impeached or plunge this country into anarchy. If anyone know him please tell him he has lost touch with reality and some of us feel sorry for him.

jp philips: what do you know about the power reforms?

What do you know about the NIPP project.


Do you think the reforms couldn't have been done better to carry affordability along?

Ignorance is deadlier than Aids

I tell you Ignorance or partial knowledge kills the mind and then body faster than Full blown HIV! or even hypertension or diabetes combined

Imagine the protest that I attended, where elites and masses agreed to fight injustice and looting of public funds. If not for the massive protests we would not have been able to push the government to prosecute the people now known as subsidy thieves.

People contributed drinks food and everything from their pockets. If not for the back stabbing union NLC and TUC, we would have returned the price of fuel to 65.

The day of reckoning is close by and we will still hit the street to fight the injustice in the land. When that happens we will catch all the people deceiving our president and making him a laughing stock and object of criticisms.

ojesymsym: Work with You? Why?

Can Oil and water mix? NO
Can someone who cares work with someone who does not give a damn? NO
Can the most praised governor work with the most critised president? No
Can an IQ of 130 work with an IQ of 70? NO
Can a high speed vehicle of 300Km/hr work with one of 60Km/hr? No

No Mr president, the best he can do with you is walk with you, but working with you? we non go even allow am. You will drag lagos back or at best slow it down.

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Ojesymsym I beg make una sorry for our presido naaaa....I nearly fell off my seat laughing

God I beg o.

For all the people deceiving our president,making him look and sound so silly , stupid , daft, senseless , clueless, blank, irresponsible and cut off from reality e no go beta for una and una children and una family o....iseee

I was so critical of the guy but with his current remarks clearly, I sympathise with him because he is too meek and unintelligent to cope with the sycophancy and deceipt being exposed to by virtue of his office. I think the man just has a plain mind that is being exploited by the greedy and cunning people around him.

The man has been cut off from Nigeria. Hope it will not be too late before he comes back to reality.

texazzpete: See this dolt! Were you under a rock when the LASTMA commander was desperately trying to pin the death of one of his employees on an innocent lady? The commander INSISTED several times that the lady (who was in a parked vehicle) ran down a LASTMA employee and killed him...and then escaped to a nearby estate.

if not for eyewitnesses, this woman would still be on trial for murder!

Tell us the educational criteria that one needs to get to be in LASTMA before you start opening your mouth to spew imbecilic nonsense. If Sanitizing Lagos was their objective, they would have been airing sensitizing information on the radio and TV stations to tell people not to cross those white lines. One-way streets would be marked boldly. LASTMA officials would not be lying in ambush to trick people into breaking the law. In more developed climes, agencies like LASTMA are designed to prevent road accidents and boost public safety. In Lagos state they are a cash generation outfit.

Your problem is that you are a bush man. I do not doubt that you have some money, but that apparently has not taken the bushness out of you. If not, you would not be defending an agency whose agents would forcefully enter your vehicle without a warrant, whose agents would illegally confiscate your car keys.

Texazzpete ( I remember the superTed of those days with Nostalgia)

I have struggled to make sense out of your post laden with frustration and hate...it is well God will help you over come your pain and frustration

Yes, the commander erred big time by making a false claim because he was briefed wrongly. Are you aware that his men have been fired and will be tried because they misled him and the governor of the state and indeed the various people that had made comments based on his report? again this goes back to my initial remark about people watching movies only and not getting interested in real matters of life. I know because I got interested in the case and sent mails for which I got responses. Please read educational materials that will boost your KNOWLEDGE not vocabulary of swearwords.

O my Gosh, see news item below, The government of Lagos has put up so many road signs and depending on your eyesight or state of Mind, you may see or not see them. Please read educational and enlightenment materials! OPEN your mind to good things stop staying by the side to abuse and criticize.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96970:lagos-installs-road-signs-cautions-cyclists&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Tex, in developed climes (SIC) people see the road markings and obey and they do not need a LASTMA to run after them. They have cameras to catch offenders and track them to their homes. Does your house in tabon tabon have a street no? ..... but in Nigeria we are not ready. Again, stop watching movies that are based on fiction. Are you saying when a danfo guy beats the red light the lastma official should go and get a warrant from the court and run back to chase the guy to an unknown address in an unknown street? Vehicles registered outside lagos do not have their information in the lagos vehicle database and even the ones registered in lagos are difficult to track because we are not yet there in getting a national database. You Tex have woken up to abuse and insult and you seem so violent and you expect LASTMA to be civil. of course your cousin, bro, friend , wife , mum are the people in LASTMA not Fashola or Commisioner's children!

Are you aware that Lagos state is massively training the LASTMA guys to ensure they become more civil? see news item below? This has been ongoing if you can only stop watching action movies and watch news or read educational materials.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98987:lagos-to-re-train-7-916-lastma-neighbourhood-watch-kai-officers-&catid=3:metro&Itemid=558

The road markings are in the highway code, have you seen one before? again for the past three months the commissioner for transport has been in the news and adverts have been in the media providing enlightenment, have you not seen or heard? of course you are permanently tuned to Africa magic and action on DSTV. Please read and know better! see news item below

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=96156:new-lagos-road-traffic-law-

Now, do you need LASTMA to teach you what the road markings and signs mean? did you do a driving test at all to get your DL , no! Blame LASTMA

Do we have bad eggs in LASTMA ...yes , is government trying to clean that up...yes, have they provided the public with means of seeking redress ....yes!! If they get violent with you , report and you have a right to complain if NOTHIng happens. You will help yourself a great deal if you read news, speak with positive people and drop poverty and victim mentality. if you have enough self confidence please call the commissioner and complain or demand to see the LASTMA commander and see if you will not get justice

This na early momo I no fit talk too much . I have a busy day ahead.


Half knowledge and a wrong orientation can ruin a nation which is what I see in your type.......are you in Nigeria at all? If you like call me prick , dolt, slowpoke , bush man or mad man or anything you like at all. I will not insult you cos if a man is having his bath and a mad man takes over his towel, you can risk chasing him and being called a second mad man or stay put and call for help. I choose to remain sane and civil.

Cheers

Na wah o, i am quite shocked that the level of enlightenment and exposure is quite low in Nigeria , people prefer to watch home videos and music videos rather than read and listen and write and be a meaningful contributor to the country. I say this because of the quality of posts and suggestions like LASTMA is a private Army, Scrap LASTMA etc. I am sure if you knew Lagos before LASTMA you would have held a different opinion. If LASTMA is scrapped will you replace them with police or the FRSC or those useless Fed min of works officials.? Let the educated and elite use their heads to think not whimper in our closets. One says he will kill LASTMA men , please do so and that will change your life forever. Do you think a human life is that worthless? Some few are just a wasted generation of people with the wrongest of all values!

1. At a traffic light, there are white lines that should not be crossed while you wait for the light to turn green. Most likely the poster crossed the line and I see this happen so often when I stop before the line people just drive right to the space in front of the line with stares indicating "are you dumb or what?"

2. Lagos state LASTMA is being replicated by most other states in the country and whether you like LASTMA or not , we as Nigerians are stubborn and have bad habits. Just this morning I was about to overtake a vehicle on 3rd mainland bridge , he sped up and darted in front of me as if we were in a race! To prevent road rage, I ignored him. We usually get what we deserve in this life. Very early in the morning at 5 to 6am how many people obey traffic lights?

3 For the few who bother to read news "The general manager said that such complaints could be forwarded to the LASTMA Command Centre or any offended citizen could text or this GSM number, 08023386921 or mail the agency at info@lastmalagos.com." this is from a THISDAY newspaper article. Lagos state has the most responsive officials in the federation, how many public officers would respond to letters and calls? Lagos state officials will do and I can testify to that. Speak regularly with many commissioners in Lagos cos I commend and abuse them when they go right or wrong. What the poster should have done was to call the numbers and write then come to Nairaland to tell whether he got fair treatment or not, those of us who are strong minded can then take it from there and hold them to their words. see link to the newspaper article below

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/traffic-law-receive-bribe-face-sack-lagos-government-warns-lastma/121854/

4. LAstma officials will harass you when you do the wrong things knowingly or unknowingly and if you are to scared to pay for the crime or defend your unjust arrest. How many people know what is called the offsaide rule, understand the yellow lines at intersections or understand road markings at all. We must go away from disorder and if LASTMA boys need to harass us into compliance , so be it. However , i am aware they fire them on a daily basis based on people with big livers who can complain and follow through. I got one fired when I saw him harass a poor lady who he misled into making a wrong U turn. I took it up to the level of the Hon comrade commissioner for transport and he brought his folks to beg me!!!!! of course I had to beg his folks too but stuck to my guns.

5. If we keep seeking knowledge and education and ensure voluntary compliance, LASTMA guys will be forced to respond positively.

I will not comment on the ACN factor because it will derail the thread it is about LASTMA and their modus operandi this time and not politics, NAPTU2 your post makes do much sence God bless you. We will keep educating them and will not get tired. A few people can change this country. Multitudes will come with mix of bad , evil and good.

naptu2: When we make these sort of complaints we only succeed in tarnishing the name of the organisation, but we do not succeed in solving the problem.

The OP should have

1) Gotten the names of the particular LASTMA officials (from their name tags, etc).

2) Made a voice recording of his interactions with them (using his mobile phone).

3) Discreetly taken pictures of the LASTMA officials

Or gathered evidence in such a way that the officials involved can be identified and punished.

These organisations have good and bad officers. When you make such a general accusation, it changes nothing because the officials involved would not get punished. You only succeed in tarnishing the name of the organisation while the corrupt officials continue their nefarious activities.

According to her spokesman she is resting and hence we do not need to pray for her recovery but in their own words we pray she rests peacefully

NA lie I also just bought fuel at conoil alausa Lagos by driving in and buying no queues. This must be panic buying and not scarcity of the product. Some people enjoy queing as a hobby. They queue and buy fuel of 1k to satisfy their urge to queue for fuel.

airmark: The list is incomplete without Farouk Lawan.

Yes ooooooo, Farouk, Otedola and Tafa balogun, infact Mahmud Tukur should make that list. The way our leaders are going they will drive this country into a revolution with all this nonsense they drive hard into our faces.

Adenuga is alleged to be involved in the Subsidy scam and also has MAJOR tax issues with the FIRS.......next thing he bags National honours, GCON for that matter.........Bode George nko? add am

Penkele mess, na cancer, Fibroid , Ruptured appendix, high BD and Food poisoning go kill them all....second base jare.

Seriously, I think Nigerians should massively protest the on going madness called government at the national level.

All the governors busy buying taxis when their mates are building bridges and thinking of generating power should continue.......in the case of Dickson or prickson......pikin wey resemble papa don try we no fit vex for am.

Ride on prickson, NA ur papa u resemble.