₦airaland Forum

There is nothing new in Lagos that the Benin people haven't done before.

The People of Benin removed Ogiso Owodo the last of the Ogiso dynasty before the Oba dynasty was ushered in.

Oba Ohen was stoned to death by his own people for ordering the death of his iyase.

The people of Benin was said to have even abandoned their king and city for Oba Ewuakpe who had to sacrifice his wife to bring them back.

The people of Benin will always love and respect their king as long as the King treats them well. The kings of Benin understand that, they're nothing without the Edo people.

Nobody hypes our king than we do.
Trust me, if you dare invade the oba palace, there will be so many bodies on the floor. I mean it, so many dead bodies, so just forget the idea.

ahmedajadi:
Lol.. You think say everyone dey party like Nigerian people? Oyinbo no dey do giveaway the way we dey do ooo. Na just burial then go home. No party at all.

Dem suppose share Samsung phones na, or TV

Eyah
Wetin dem go share for the burial give guests.

slawormiir:
damnnn niggarrrr
The real niggarr is back

Oboy how far
I hear say u dy among boys when go carry bag of weed for NDLEA office for Upper

omenka:
Really funny.

Nigerians have blown an opportunity that might take over a decade to present itself again. We should have cashed out when the fruits were ripe, but we allowed them to rot away on the trees.

This whole thing should have been suspended when SagaLink and Aisha called for it's suspension, but people with ulterior motives rejected such, saying neither Aisha or Saga had the right to call off the protests. Calling it off and sitting on a round table with government representatives was meant to be the next reasonable step to take, but that was never to be.

Tell me now, is there any chance of the government inviting people to a round table for any discussion or negotiation? Make very strong demands with a threat to taking back to the streets if theyre not met. I know there's a cardinal rule in life that says "it is best to negotiate from a position of strength". Now, does the protest still have the strength and credibility it had a week ago? Would people still take to the streets if protests are called today?

Now, the goodwill the people had for the protest has been lost, so much so that SagaLink and Aisha Yosufu are throwing subtle shades at each other.

So saddening.

I beg to disagree with some thing said here.
The protest had its gains. First what it showed the Edo man was that he had so much power he never knew.

We tested that power in our election and confirmed it during the protest. We also made a point to the security operatives that things could always go sour for them. The aim of the protest was never regime change, people just wanted government to know that they weren't comfortable with the poverty the political class had put them in.

Government here has been talking to the youth since. Our speaker here is very young, below 40 or 45 I think. Obaseki has promised to put 60% of his government in the hands of youths.

For now the Edo youth would be going political. We are getting more engaged, we are bringing our heads out and we are making bold statements here.

Security operatives know fully well now that they have to talk or engage with the communities. I don't want to call these people hoodlums, they're the uneducated part of our society that are mostly jobless. That's why we in Benin are not blaming others for burning our police stations or the prison break.

We know our people, we will find way to address our people. They're part of society that we cannot just kill, we must engage them. They're not all hoodlums or hooligans

Same situation in Benin right now.

Police and soldiers begged and begged but Benin people say they must collet dia food oooo

Boys don burst enter warehouse
Soldiers are dumbfounded

The Itsekiri are somehow like the Ikas.
More Yoruba like people of Ilaje descent mixed with Urhobos and the Edos.

The Oba of Benin saw the Olu as a appendage of the Benin Monarchy. Although the former always felt like the big brother and father at the same time, the latter just wanted to carve a niche for itself.

The Oba was Lord of the Land
The Olu was Lord of the seas

Queseda:
Shut up. You don't know anything that's going on

Ogun wee keee you too

ahiboilandgas:
Aisha yusuf from Edo,davido osun ,P square Anambra,Dj switch from imo ,burna boy rivers , trigger indigenous Lagosian to burn their city which is the most prosperous in Nigeria and gave them the platform to excel .......citizens protested and refused to be triggered to burn down here state cos of the long term effect on jobs and lively hood ......why didn't divido lead protect to burn down osun ,aisha edo psquare Anambra....or is SASR only in Lagos ......use your brains Lagos got 80 percent of all foriegn investment coming to Nigeria that why bus will charge 300 naira and people will pay ......Protest peacefully.....

God will punish you
I for curse your papa join

Ndlistic:
Mob break into a warehouse in Monkey Village, Maza-Maza area of Lagos State.

Gunshots were also fired at warehouse in Monkey Village, Maza-Maza area of Lagos State where a mob broke into and carted away COVID-19 palliatives.

It is speculated that the foodstuff items which was donated by the private sector coalition against COVID-19 was diverted

Watch The Video Below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLds7rg3K1M



Interior of the warehouse in Monkey Village, Maza-Maza where the allegedly diverted COVID-19 palliatives was kept in.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gASsOqKTlfs

See our food God
Them won use hunger finish people for this country. They want to kill us with ulcer and starvation Our Government is wicked

Emekaonline:
And may you, your family and your generation yet unborn be wiped out of the universe forever

God will punish your family and generation. Bastard. You will die like a pig.

ItsReal:
Let me mess with you small. �

"Hoodlums have hijacked the protest from us."
You said protest is the right of every Nigerian.
Hoodlums are Nigerians too.
They are protesting the way they know how.
Who are "us" you're referring to?
Did you define yourselves or those eligible to join the protest?
Was it not you calling everybody to join the struggle?
Sowore even called the police to join them in the revolution.
Hoodlums, who are also Nigerians with grievances now joined, and you said they hijacked it. What is hijack?
Did they stop you from doing your own protest?
Did they redefine what you want or change the 5 abi 17 points agenda?
Part of your own agenda is to release your own fellow protesters arrested.
Part of their own agenda is to release their friends that were in prison since (they also thought they were wrongly imprisoned, or no be only them be thieves).
You had no leader, fixed group or coordination, and you called everybody to join you. Hoodlums now joined you, and you said they hijacked it from you.

Please stop the joke.

Let's even assume they've seized control of your own protest, you cannot take back control from ordinary hoodlums, and you want to take control of Nigeria from Buhari and the army? Are you dreaming?

Written by

Ogunsola Semiu

Ogun will kill the writer and the person who made this post and the father's of those who liked it

Confirmedzombie:
Im in support of the protest but I blame the protesters for remaining at the toll gate even when a curfew was declared.

I had expected they will retreat and regroup at the expiration of the curfew.

Whatever happens to anyone, I have no pity for them.

Nonsense

God punish you.

YoonSung40:
Come outside and chop beating

People have been out since yesterday in Benin till now....ask anybody around ugbowo to confirm

Tell Ekosodin Man say you be Upper boy

E go give you chance.

Those people no dy reason well. They think different from Us in Benin.

Them fit pack enter bus come give you trouble for where you dy for Benin and you no fit go give them trouble for upper ooo. Cultism is their culture.


Upper needs to be given attention. Serious education. Even their girls dy mend boys ehn....dem dy Bleep anyhow.

But trust me, if upper girl love you, she gat your back....Isoken no send anybody. She go fite her family for you.

Angelfrost:
Will become volatile??! When has Edo not been volatile??!

I'm not surprised one bit about the way things turned out in Benin... I'm actually surprised people are surprised... I'm even more surprised and disappointed that the state leaders and security didn't easily envisage this and adequately prepare for it... That's a shame!!! Poor leadership!!!

Absolutely
On Saturday Bus drivers were saying they were going to join the protest on Monday. I knew it was going to take a new twist. From on Saturday night onwards, roadblocks started appearing.

On Sunday it continued. Thugs took over everything and they were telling people not to move on Monday. Everybody who was outside on Saturday and Sunday would tell you that Monday was going to be an explosion

tot:
Lmao

Am serious
I know how I suffered just to leave Benin. I knew it was coming to this point. I have been in the city for two days and I know it was going to explode today. I had to leave

jericco1:
I'm still stuck in traffic at Benin. Only God knows when I'll reach lag

You better look for food to eat. You will be in Lag maybe in two days time

Ahmad62:
Declare state of emergency in Edo Now!!

Why?

G

engrchykae:
you were only important during the slave trade,your empire was built on blood,on slavery,since the abolition of slavery,where is your empire?
When the time comes,none of our people will be lost.

Yes we know Empires rise and fall. The time for imperial glory has passed but you see that igbanke, just forget it

engrchykae:
says who?
Remember the invasion of the Midwest

Happened within few days and you guys left. We had no business with the war and we didn't see it as a tribal conflict. But let me remind you and your kind that nurse that idea, one inch of what is in Edo state won't go to you guys that's if we even allow you people come close to Agbor.

engrchykae:
our brothers were separated from us and sold to benue,Edo.
We want our brothers back.
The igbanke in Edo and unuezeokoha in benue must be returned to us

Just forget igbanke.
You won't see one inch

End SARS Protest started in Benin on the 5th. Another one took place again on the 6th. I think Ughelli own was first before Edo. I don't know why people are making it look like a Lagos affair. Lagos started their protest late.

Delta/Edo started first
But the people in Ogbomosho won my heart also.

Nobody should mention Naira Marley abeg

daramsont:
Ajasin was the first governor to be reelected in ondo state.

OK. Thanks

Congratulations Aketi
You have made history as the second governor after Mimiko to be reelected for a second term.

Congratulations Ondo people.
May this victory be for the good of the sunshine state.


From your Edo Neighbour

S

Nothing really surprises me. I have had friends dissapoint me but do I care. This life I just believe that there are far greater opportunities out there. But one thing I don't know how to do is abandon people that I started life with. I always reach out to them no matter what.

TechyMm0:
Then your mother did an overall bad job, if your response on people's comments is this


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Then since you can't prove that Obaseki had no business with your father, stop calling him a betrayer.... Oya move