You people are funny, you will be reporting cases of criminality here instead of going to the police station...if Nigerians report every crime, it will help in reducing crimes.
CreativeOrbit: Your argument collapses under the weight of its own ignorance.
First, stop throwing words like “bulldoze,” “thugs,” and “violence” around like confetti when what actually happened was a sitting senator peacefully attempting to access the chamber she was elected by the people of Kogi Central to represent. If there was any “bulldozing,” it was done by Senate leadership hiding behind police barricades like criminals, locking gates to suppress a female lawmaker they couldn’t intimidate politically.
Second, stop pretending to care about “law and order” when the real violation was committed by those who imposed an illegal suspension in clear breach of constitutional rights — something the Federal High Court confirmed. Natasha wasn’t a random “citizen” trespassing. She is a duly elected Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, unlawfully denied entry by a Senate more comfortable with sycophants than with accountability.
Third, you mention “thugs.” Show one shred of evidence that Senator Natasha brought or ordered thugs. You won’t — because it’s a lie, fabricated by those desperate to smear her for refusing to bend to their political godfathers. Calling supporters “thugs” is a tired, cowardly tactic used when the establishment is rattled by real grassroots momentum.
Fourth, if we’re talking arrests**, why hasn’t the Senate President been arrested for defying a court ruling, weaponizing his office against a fellow senator, and dragging the National Assembly through the mud of political vendetta? Or are we now saying some politicians are “more above the law” than others?
And just to remind you:
The Nigerian police were present — and they did not arrest Natasha because there was no crime committed.
Her conduct was lawful, civil, and constitutional — unlike the unlawful siege tactics employed by Senate leadership.
So no — this isn’t about law. This is about power-drunk cowards afraid of a woman they can’t control.
If anything, Natasha Akpoti should be commended for standing tall in the face of tyranny — while people like you grovel at the feet of those abusing legislative authority like personal property.
Keep barking online. The court has spoken. History is watching. And no amount of propaganda can bury the truth.
If you check your dictionary you will clearly see my adjectives were in order...
Bulldozed in this instance means "use force insensitively when dealing with (someone or something)" the security men were forcefully pushed but they showed restraints...that violent character is the character of thugs. See how they were insulting and shoving and pushing legitimate security, doing legitimate work.
Senators have no immunity, Nigerian police must do it's job without fear or favour. Any senator or reps member that wants to act like a thug must be treated like a thug and arrested, this nonsense must stop.
The people, Nigerian citizens should eat from these revenue, the wealth of the nation is to be enjoyed by the people not politicians alone...give to the people through food subsidies, electricity subsidies, healthcare subsidies, transportation... These areas have the largest impact on the generality of Nigerians
Terrorists and bandits kidnappers are not average criminals, they are an existential threat, public enemy... even in America we see how terrorists public enemies are treated.
1) Full resource control 2) State police 3) Power to states to do their laws to ensure security and cultural heritage. 4)Empowering the judiciary and removing the previledges of the president in selecting INEC chairman, and attorney general. Their professional institution and senate should select the best candidate, based on integrity and pedigree.
obama30: Meaning that all district in North East and North West, that are breeding yandabas that grow to become Bokoharam and baptized terrorists bandits are accomplice. Even authority knows about them and Mai ngwa that are taken care of them.
Nigerians don't know that it is an obligation to be patriotic to your nation, for your own safety. Most of them relate with terrorists because they think they are of same religion, but this is ignorance because the religion a terrorist or jihadists portray is an act of deceit, a colouration and disguise of his demonic mindset and mission.
Ignorance is not an excuse. Amnesty and activists in troubled prone areas of Northwest and Northeast should enlighten their people, they should alienate and expose terrorists not live among them and support them...if they are bombed in raids do not blame the military.
As a citizen if you see any terrorists or bandits or you have information on them, it is an obligation to expose them to the authorities, and there are several ways pass messages now to police or army, through direct message on X, through Facebook, by publishing information on nairaland etc, or dropping notes in police information box.
Do not live around terrorists, if you live with them you are an accomplice and liable to be bombed among with them, or hurt in an attack.
Cooking for terrorists, sleeping with them, buying them fuel, helping them move money and kidnapped victims, giving them information on police and army movement is a serious offence, an accessory can be prosecuted like the terrorists himself.
chichar1: Madman anthem. Even in that your American political system, people like Tinubu the drug baron and fraudsters like Akpabio and co, will never ever near the corridor of power, talk more of acquiring political power. Mtcheeewww
Typical of fascists, they ignore topic and fly off to something entirely unrelated. You obidients are the reason reasonable people won't support Obi. You people are fascists and rabid.
God bless Nigerian army, best forces in Africa, God's own army. Terrorists and jihadists you will meet your end in this lands, this lands will consume you.
Wallade: Okay, tell Natasha Apoti to go and file again in the court for contempt of court decision.
Simple, we don't need all her drama.
Her trying to force her way yesterday was totally unnecessary, abusing police officers, shoving them, even in America you can't do this, you will be arrested for breaching the peace, unlawful entry and assault.
State governors need to be held accountable by the indigenes of the state, the constitution gives you a right to write petitions to EFCC to report cases of embezzlement. In a democracy the people have an active role, collectively, we employ politicians to work for us.
If you employ managers to take care of your company, won't you monitor them and calculate how they use the budget and revenue?
allowing politicians who we employ become bosses over us is due to sycophancy and ignorance.
She was lucky she was not arrested for attempting to bulldoze her way into senate chambers.
Nigerian politicians are not above the law, if a Nigerian citizen does this they would be arrested, why was Natasha not arrested for using her thugs to harrass and shove security at the senate grounds, this is incitement to violence and assault. Nigerian police senators have no immunity.
mastermaestro: Rwanda still had pockets of conflicts when it began rebuilding its global perception. It's not too early to begin. Conflict de-escalation and image modeling can go side by side.
mastermaestro: Popular and notorious don't mean the same thing. Congo is notoriously known, not popular. The country needs the rebranding badly. We've all known Congo to be a war-ravaged, rebel-controlled, blood-flowing African country. To change that perception, it will take more than just making it safe.
They need to attach their name to a credible global brand to help change the negative view the world holds of them. It's a smart plan. Rwanda did a lot to change its global image. If you know how much Rwanda spent to whitewash its image on CNN and BBC. Those who are familiar with CNN will tell that Rwanda's advertisement on that network popped up more than 10 times a day for many years. That's millions of dollars in ads!
Look at Rwanda today, their global image is at an all-time high. It works!
Congo's conflict is not yet over, Rwanda successfully ended their crises and warfare, but Congo have not, and no major power is presently backing them to ensure dismantling of the various rebel groups to ensure security...a lot of rebel groups in different areas of Congo still warring. Rebranding is good, but visitors and tourists won't come to a nation plagued by rebel warfare.
Enice: Oga! Stop spewing your ignorance on the net. Subsidy is a privilege not a right. It depends on what the government wants to achieve at that particular time. When it is achieved, it can be discontinued.
you choose to waste your life as a sycophant...go argue with your primary school mates about the difference between rights and privileges...your being a citizen, is it a previledge or given?
Citizens rights to enjoying dividends of democracy is not a previledge.