₦airaland Forum

All these calls to the U.S. President makes you wonder if Nigeria is a subdivision of the U.S. It is rather silly. Turaki and his clowns wanted this chaos. A drowning man will do anything. They had sufficient notice of the FCT Minister's meeting. Only gullible people will fall for this nonsense.

Hold Makinde and his goons responsible for this mayhem. Desperados who are drowning. Instead of seeking for peace and reconciliation at this critical time, they are busy trying to outsmart their shadows. Clueless elements.

These elements just want trouble. The faction led by Wike had already given notice of their meeting. The police should bar them (Makinde's agents) from the venue.

Makinde, Bode George and co know what they did won't withstand the slightest scrutiny of our lordships. Desperados who refuse to embrace peace and reconciliation. They will finally bury the party for good.

Meddlesome interlopers, leave Fubara alone and put your house in order. You guys have started pushing him again, but when the trouble comes, you will be nowhere to be found.

Jorussia:
I think it's best for us as a nation to stop serving military personnel from protecting senior officers after retirement.This practice doesn't happen in the United States and so many countries even in Africa.If u retire as a senior military officer,go hire private bodyguards.

Only in Nigeria you see these absurdities.

malali:

He was given an order. Land title is a civil case. You take it to court and a court order is given to stop anything going on. A retired officer is allowed to use his security detail to secure his life and property. The FCT Minister was power drunk calling him a fool in full military gear. Wike should be sacked or made to apologize. He is just the FCT Minister, he is not the judiciary, he is not the juror ,nor is he the executioner.
If Obasanjo tell his security detail to shoot anyone that comes to a land he owns on sight. Trust me they will do it. Military is different from civilian.

With this your disposition, I don't know what you are criticising in this current topic involving VDM. You clearly support illegality and impunity.

malali:
Yerima is the Chief security officer to his boss, The boss said secure the land. And he did just that. Every living rear admiral 3 star general in Nigeria has a security officer.
Even Obasanjo has a security military attache, that will carry out orders. If told to do so.

The order was illegal ab initio. He cannot guard a land without valid title, while illegal construction continues and public officers of the FCT are barred from accessing it. That is not the job of a navy officer. Yerima on that fateful day was perpetrating illegality with impunity. This only underscores a need for reform in the military. No retired officer, no matter how highly placed should be able to deploy a military officer still in service. When the military dabbles into civil issues, they become answerable to civil authorities. The FCT Minister can rightfully order him as it is within his jurisdiction. We don't just practice democracy here. Our constitution is clear.

A joke taken too far, if true. Beam your searchlight on that notorious agency in Langley, if you want to know the sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria.

malali:
What happened with KWAM 1 was the turning point. I said clearly that the President, Keyamo, and FAAN should take a firm stance, but the response was, “It’s KWAM 1,” and the matter was brushed aside.


[color=#990000]Then came the incident with the girl who was stripped naked. Again, nothing happened. No consequences. No message that airport rules apply to everyone.

Now we’re seeing jobless internet personalities like VDM and Jollof behaving recklessly in spaces that should command order. These are people with no personal discipline bringing chaos into an aircraft, one of the worst places for any kind of altercation.

I’ve been to every continent and more than 35 countries, and I have never witnessed a fight inside a plane. This breakdown of discipline is happening because the government under Bola Tinubu keeps letting infractions slide. If KWAM 1 had been given a 12-month flight ban, nobody today would dare cause trouble onboard an aircraft. Consequences deter chaos.

Nigeria is about to host thousands of foreign visitors for Detty December. Is this really the image we want them to take home? An airport is federal territory, treat it as such. Fighting inside a public aircraft is not only disgraceful but a serious safety threat to every other passenger.

Keyamo should be sacked, because this is the 3rd time in less than 6 months.He is not capable of maintaining airport security. There has to be consequences.

No accountability in this country. I also called for his punishment. Same thing now with this Yerima fellow, nothing has been done. Even the person who gave the illegal order is still relaxing somewhere. What that means is that we should expect similar incidents in the future. That is impunity for you. That is why no serious country operates this way.

chachanga:
If the Military High Command really wants to help that guy or if he too knows what's best for him, they should move him to some neutral ground on some Naval, Air Force Base or Army Cantonment somewhere far from Abuja.
He has stirred the hornets' nest and reactions must be expected that corruption will push back. Even though he was right, Wike and his ilk should not be expected to lie low. The entire Nigerian Police Force rank and file offers must privately be getting -erect!ons when they're imagining themselves catching and embarrassing him.
Let him take a step back from view for now for personal safety; he is no VDM!

The Army too has equally used him to prove a powerful point as per rule of law, politicians' need for following due process rather than taking laws into their own hands, acting stupidly and then reinterpreting laws to suit whatever idiotic narrative they want to sell to Gullible Voting Majority.
Yerima has been useful in that regard. Let them shield him a bit before Police will go and waste him and frame up false evidences to prove guilt that he doesn't have.

"The Army too has equally used him to prove a powerful point as per rule of law."

Do you know what the rule of law means? What is the constitutional role of the officer? Does he have the power to obstruct the FCT Minister from performing his functions? The rule of law was violated on that day by Yerima, who was acting on illegal orders of a retired fellow without title to land. Some of you just post things you don't understand. Even if the retired fellow who gave him that illegal order had title, what about building permit? He wouldn't have been permitted to put up that structure in contravention of the master plan of Abuja. You don't just erect structures anyhow in Abuja, there are green areas. This love you guys have for impunity is why the country is upside down. I don't know what they teach in school these days. You learnt these basic things in secondary school. The ignorance out there is alarming.

FarahAideed:
Well protection should be increased around the boy ...if anyone wants Wike or Tinubu out of office all they have to do is to kill the boy and that will be the end of Wike politically and even the end of Tinubu govt .... Mischievous politicians can take advantage of this so I advise Tinubu to send the boy on immediate Course at some Naval school in Turkey or Russia , let him cool off there till 2027

Protection should be increased for what? Why do we reward illegality in Nigeria? Same way some of you pamper bandits. No one is asking for anyone to be killed, but people die. His death cannot take Tinubu out of office, even though I am not praying for such. The tribal element in this is crystal clear. You people feel you are above the law. Misplaced priority, while terrorists keep raiding your areas.

Since you guys will not do your job, allow others to do theirs, including the Minister of Defence supporting impunity. Go and fight terrorism.

A person who does not respect constituted authority. Is anyone surprised? I don't care who you are, if your plate number is covered and the police asks you to identify yourself, you must do so. This nonsense cannot happen in the U.S. He has been emboldened. Just like the Kwam1 incident, if this Yerima is not disciplined, this nonsense will continue. Even that retired Gambo has to be punished. Enough of this impunity from the military. Respect civil authorities.

A decision made solely on impulse. No strategy behind it. It will surely cost the party defeats. At the end of the day, one of the goals of a political party is to win elections. Bode George with his ego has driven the party into extinction.

I doubt if our courts will uphold this joke of a convention. PDP is always in a hurry to self-destruct. They had no need to do this, but rather reconcile the party. Someone like Bode George who is feeding fat from the party, but has no electoral value is always the empty drum that makes the loudest noise. We shall see their performance in the election.

So this was the priority for the contemptuous so-called convention they were running all over the place to conduct? Bode George that has no electoral value doing too much. PDP is going nowhere in the next election. They have collapsed the party.

Focus on your primary assignment and don't meddle in civil issues. Patriotic Nigerians will always support the military in their performance of legitimate assignments.

The insult was the illegal deployment of the officer to guard a land without valid title in defiance of civil authorities. I looked at your name, but let me not stereotype you. However, there seems to be a pattern with your people applauding and inviting anarchy, whether foreign or local. The desire for chaos in Nigeria because of feelings of marginalisation. That if they can't have what they crave, Nigeria should not exist. It is a pity. Like King Solomon and the two women in the bible.

Unfortunately, if the Yerima case has shown anything, it is that all those people you are calling for help won't do anything. A very broken system. The impunity continues.

SisterAnn:
It would seem that Wike has the tacit approval of Tinubu to grab people's land in Abuja. There's no way all the lands grabbed, that some won't be for Tinubu and his own cronies, his wife and her own cronies, the rest Wike would then keep for himself and his own cronies.

That's how the national cake is shared, while the masses continue to lament the hardship bitting harder.

Otherwise, What's the reason why the president has not as little as suspended or reprimanded Wike for the show of shame we all watched on video few days ago.

Till now, no word of reprimand from tinubu to his reckless appointee. They are birds of same feathers. You cannot shame the shameless.

Tinubu is notorious for cornering the juicest part of Lagos for himself and cronies, that's why he lacks even the smallest modicum of morals to chastise Wike.

An outright sack would have been more appropriate, but for the sake of saving face, a public reprimand or suspension from office would assuage the anger of Nigerians whose sensitivities were assaulted along with that of officer Yerima. That's if Tinubu is there for the masses.

Is Wike bigger than Tinubu?

A poster here wrote that Wike is untouchable because he holds tinubu by the blokos! And I was like hoooow nah.

Is it not election he rigged for him in River State? Did he kpai anyone for him? Is he the first person to rig elections for another?
This election favor has been paid in full! It's been two years of unbridled land grabbing and unprecedented corruption in the FCT ministry.
Enough already.

Tinubu should sack Wike now before Wike sacks him with his unbecoming irrational and crazed attitude.

No one appointee should be bigger than the president no matter the debt owed by the later.

It doesn't matter if Wike is Tinubu's long lost father from Iragbiji reincarnated!! Wike must be shown the way out before it's too late.

The APC guys don't even like him but barely tolerating him.
None of them has spoken in his defense since the show of shame with the young officer. Not even Fayose his ride or die stomach infrastructure chummy.

Not even Reno omokri the APC village town crier has found his voice in defense of his fellow.

Wike must go now!

He is not going anywhere. When people want to work for this country, some of you will do everything to frustrate them. Same thing is happening with terrorism. If someone like Wike was the President, perhaps we would have uncovered those preventing the fight against terrorism. It is the same playbook used in Yerima's case.

AMINDA:
Incase you forgot, Tinubu is the Commander-in-Chief!

Oh, you have remembered now. Was he the one that sent Yerima to obstruct Wike? Since there are so many chefs in the kitchen now. I blame him though for not ordering an investigation into the incident, which if done properly, should lead to the punishment of that former CNS. How do you win a fight against terrorism with that level of disorganization? People deploying officers from their bedroom to carry handbags and guard empty land. What a country.

Just as I thought, this article is a waste of time.

We are stuck in the past in this country.

ndudiogeleka:
Eli believe in ur entirely life u have not cross beyond ur state to have made such assertion .. ur google is there to search and compare Obi and tinubu achievements according to millennium development goals as a governor and in ur entire life u will remain shut about Obi except u choose to make fool of urself on public forum

Obi's performance in Anambra does not qualify him to lead this country. Nairaland alone is riddled with the frustrations, disappointments and failures of his government in Anambra. Just because you are desperate for an Igbo president, doesn't mean Obi's incompetence should be overlooked. He may be the messiah desired by sycophants like you , but he is definitely not what Nigeria needs. He doesn't have what it takes to lead this country. Obi cannot fix Nigeria. As simple as that.

They didn't fail him. The article contains examples which have nothing to do with the situation under examination.

The Minister received a distress call from his staff and arrived at the scene with heavy security. They knew what to expect. He didn't need shielding, he was there to confront illegality.

Those military officers couldn't have dared to do otherwise. There were guns everywhere. You guys act like soldiers are not flesh and blood. People don't understand leadership involves courage. Now this incident has sparked a reform in the senate.

Sometimes, a leader has to go the battlefront. It is unfortunate that the former CNS created that battle scene by deploying naval officers, while terrorists are vacationing in the same country.

You want to be the President of Nigeria, what was your performance in Anambra State? Charlatans everywhere. All the political parties you joined have been engulfed in crisis, not one did you solve. Fleeing from little problems in political parties, but you want to lead Nigeria? Are you kidding me? Obi is a joke. The records are there.

All these incompetent and biased journalists. I don't see any humiliation, rather the Minister stood up for the rule of law.

The leadership and courage showed by the Minister is already leading to reform in the military by the senate.

Wike was right to have gone to the scene and not sit in his office, while soldiers beat up his staff and directors. You keep hearing three star this or that in a civilian government.

Do you know what it takes to become a director in the civil service? This military people must also respect civil authorities.

Helinuse:
Why are these guys punishing our soldiers? What did our innocent soldiers do to them? One thing I guarantee you is that it is not the likes of the son of General “yerima” , that is Lt Yerima, who is a NAVAL officer guarding a parcel of land in ABUJA that was ambushed.

Trust me it is Lt Kunle and Lt Okeke.

But Kunle thinks his problem is Okeke.

That one has not seen combat.

That is the only thing your brain can fathom from that incident? Pity.

franvincoop:
You wey no go school dey tell me wey go NDA say I dey ignorant of the law.
Ok ooo, I agree I am ignorant.
Apologies.

So what, if you went to the NDA? are you a lawyer? My initial reaction to your comment was unambiguous and prompted by your crass ignorance of the law, particularly the constitution of Nigeria. The President of Nigeria as the Commander-in-Chief commands everyone in the military. Even a child in secondary school knows this.