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Nawa oooh....

Hope the policemen were dealt with before the situation was brought under control. It would be good payback for all the innocent people they've arrested and extorted money from if they were.

I saw this on a friends tweet and since I've never been to Redemption camp before, I want to ask if it is actually true. And if it is, why?

Kill d mofo's

APC, PDP, all na d same...

I've really gotten loads of valuable info just from reading this thread for 30mins. Thanks to the OP and all. Also I'll need the proficiency in english test. I tried it online and I didn't do so well. My email is fitzgeraldudensi@gmail.com.

Thanks.

Dear Mods, i believe this thread is a duplication of an already existing one. www.nairaland.com/1394612/lagos-ibadan-expressway-churches-joe

The Lagos deportation and the Law - Femi Falana

at Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Deportation of dissidents : In 1885 the British colonial regime deported King Jaja of Opobo to a remote island in West Indies where he died in 1889. His offence was that he had challenged the imperialist control of the coastal trade. In 1941, Comrade Michael Imoudu, President of the NigerianUnion of Railwaymen, was deported from Lagos and banished to his hometown, Auchi in the Benin Province as he was considered “a potential threat to public safety” . He only returned to Lagos in 1945 following the revocation of Sections 57-63 of the General Defence Regulation, 1941 under which he had been detained. There were other nationalist agitators and labour leaders who were deported and banished to prevent them from taking part in the struggle against colonialism. The barbaric practice of deporting Nigerians was resuscitated by the defunct military dictatorship. Inparticular, the reactionary regimes of Generals Ibrahim Babangida and SaniAbacha resorted to the crude harassment of political opponents by deportation.
In 1992, the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi SAN, Dr. Beko Ransome -Kuti and I were deported from Lagos and detained at Kuje Prisons for challenging the unending military rule of the Babangida junta. The retired Gen. Zamani Lekwot was deported from Kaduna and detained with us in the prison. The following year, we were also repatriated from Lagos and banished to the same prison for leading peaceful rallies in Lagos against thecriminal annulment of the June 12 presidential election. In June 1994, the winner of the presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola was deported from Lagos and detained in military custody in Kano, Borno and Abuja.
In 1995, the chairman of the Campaign for Democracy, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, alerted the world that the secret trial of Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and others by a Special Military Tribunal had been concluded and that the convicts were being prepared for execution. For leaking such information to the media the human rights leader was tried in Lagos, jailed for life and deported to Katsina Prison. The CD vice-chairman, Shehu Sani, was arrested in Kaduna, jailed for life in Lagos and banished to Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Apapa. Four journalists viz: Chris Anyanwu, Kunle Ajibade, Charles Mbah and Charles Obi, who were convicted for being accessories after the fact of treason i.e. the 1995 phantom coup, were deported from Lagos and kept in separate prisons in the northern states.
In 1996, Fawehinmi was once again deported from Lagos and detained at the Bauchi prison while Femi Aborishade and I were deported from Lagos and held at the Gumel and Mawadashi prisons (in Jigawa State) respectively. Comrade Frank Kokori who was arrested in Lagos was banished to Bama prisons in Borno State for four years. General Obasanjo who was convicted in Lagos was deported to Yola prison. His ex-deputy, General Shehu Yar’Adua was deported from Kaduna, convicted in Lagos and held at various times in Kirikiri, Port Harcourt and Abakaliki prisons.
Like King Jaja both Abiola and Yar’Adua died in suspicious circumstances while they were in custody. But as deportation of colonial subjects could not be justified even under colonial rule it was carried out pursuant to special regulations. In the same vein, the military dictators engaged in deportation of citizens under the preventive detention decrees and the Prison Act.
It is common knowledge that the beautification project of the Babatunde Fashola administration has led to the deportation of hundreds of the flotsamand jetsam from Lagos State to their states of origin. The elite and the media have been celebrating the ban on “Okada” from the major roads andthe removal of traders andarea boysfrom the streets. For understandable reasons, most of the hundreds of thousands of poor people who have been displaced and dislodged in the operation “Keep Lagos clean” are of the Yoruba extraction.
In fact, on April 9, 2009, when the Lagos State Government deported 129 beggars of Oyo State origin and dumped them at Molete in Ibadan, the Governor Adebayo Alao Akala administration alleged that the action was aimed at sabotaging his government. Just last week, some beggars of Osun State origin were also deported by the Lagos State Government and dumped at Osogbo.
It is sad to note that most Nigerians never took cognisance of the war being waged by state government against the poor and disadvantaged citizens in the urban renewal policy until the much-publicised case of the 14 “beggars” of Anambra State origin who were deported in Lagos and dumped in Onitsha about three weeks ago. In fact, it was the condemnation of the deportation by the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, that drew the attention of the elite to the unfortunate development. However, in defence of its action, the Lagos State Government stated that it entered into an agreement with the Anambra State Government through its liaison officein Lagos on the controversial deportation.
Although the Anambra State Government has not denied the allegation that it was privy to the deportation of the beggars, it is on record that in December 2011, the Obi administration had deported 29 beggars to their states of origin i.e. Akwa Ibom and Ebonyi states. Apart from such official hypocrisy, the Obi administration did not deem it fit to protest when the Abia State Government purged its civil service of “non-indigenes” in 2012.Many of the victims of the unjust policy who hail from Anambra were left in the lurch.
In June 2011, the Federal Capital Territory administration deported 129 beggars to their respective states of origin. In May 2013, hundreds of beggars were also removed from the streets and expelled from Abuja. Of course, it is common knowledge that the FCT authorities have continued to demolish residential houses without following due process in order to “restore the Abuja Masterplan” which was distorted through corruption andabuse of office. The majority of the victims of such illegal demolitions whoare poor have been dislocated and forced out of the FCT.
Last week, the Rivers State Government removed 113 Nigerians from the streets of Port Harcourt and deported them to their states of origin. The Akwa Ibom State Government has just contacted its Lagos counterpart of the planned deportation of two “mad” Lagosians roaming the streets of Uyo. Many other state governments are busy deporting beggars, mad men and other destitute persons in the on-going beautification of state capitals. Those who are defending the Igbo beggars out of sheer ethnic irredentism should be advised to examine the socio-economic implications of the anti-people’s urbanisation policy being implemented by the federal and state governments in the overall interests of the masses.
Since deportation has been resuscitated under the current political dispensation it has become pertinent to examine the legal implications of the forceful deportation of a group of citizens on account of their impecunious status. Although street trading and begging have been banned in some states it is submitted, without any fear of contradiction, that there is no existing law in Nigeria which has empowered the federal and state governments to deport any group of Nigerian citizens to their states of origin.

To be concluded tomorrow.

•Falana, SAN, is a Lagos-based human rights lawyer[color=#006600][/color]

Mods, pls move this article to the front page.


I believe I'm speaking the mind of a lot of NLers when I say that there have been too much Beverly Osu stories on the front page that we are starting to miss Poko...

Lagos-Ibadan Expressway And The Churches By Joe Igbokwe

By Joe Igbokwe

An urgent pressing matter in my home town, Nnewi in
Anambra State compelled me to travel on Friday
August 9 2013, afternoon after an engagement in
Lagos. As I was about leaving the house around 1pm
one of my brothers reminded me that the Redeemed
Christian Church will be starting their monthly Holy
Ghost Service and advised that I should find an
alternative route by avoiding Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
And because I did not know the state of Lekki-Epe-
Ijebu Ode Road and Lagos-Ikorodu-Shagamu axis I
decided to brave it to use Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
What else can one do in a country where good roads has
become an unachievable target?
Immediately I passed the old toll gate near 7up Bottling
Company the crisis started. To get to the famous Julius
Berger Bus Stop to make enquiries from any of the
drivers coming into Lagos of what the situation was
like took me almost an hour. I eventually got to Berger
and crossed to the other side to get information on the
traffic situation. The driver I met told me that I have
two traffic situations to contend with along that
corridor. One from the old toll gate to Mountain of Fire
Praying Ground, and then another on approaching the
Redeemed Camp. I was frightened and I looked at my
watch and it was few minutes after two o clock. It took
me another 30 minutes to get to a place I will make a
U-Turn in front of OPIC Plaza. I headed to Ikorodu-
Shagamu Road. Because of the traffic on Lagos-Ibadan
expressway many motorists also took Ikorodu-
Shagamu-Benin expressway. That was where my
trouble started. With heavy traffic on a very bad road
(from Ikorodu to Shagamu) you can imagine my
predicament. To cut the whole story short I got to
Shagamu around 4.30pm. I got to Nnewi around
10.30pm. A journey that would have taken me five
hours on a good day took me ten long hours of pains
and agonies. I was exposed to many dangers associated
with Shagamu-Asaba expressway. I have gone and
come back but yet to forget the troubles and dangers we
expose ourselves everyday in Nigeria simply because
someone fails to do his or her work or that someone is
taking impunity to another level.
Millions of Nigerians have suffered untold hardships
and pains since the early 90s when Churches started
relocating to Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The late
General AbduKareem Adisa once drove to the
Redeemed Camp to complain that the Church must find
a way to address this man-made problem but all to no
avail. More than 20 years after the visit, Churches,
companies, schools, universities etc have been
relocating to Lagos-Ibadan expressway in droves. This
is a road that was built in 1974 and it has remained
same for 40years. A road suffering untold pressure
from heavy traffic that it has become crate ridden and a
death trap, yet pentecoastal chruches struggle to add to
the pressure of the road by relocating to the road. What
is the motive for this predilection to be sited on the
Expressway?
My brother and his wife once slept on Lagos-Ibadan
expressway as a result of Redeemed Camp Holy Ghost
Night programme after a trip to Abeokuta. Few years
back when members of NAFSAT did a night
programme, commuters paid a heavy price on that road
so much that NAFSAT took pages on national
newspapers to apologize to Nigerians. Millions of
Nigerians have tales of woes to tell in the last 20 years
on Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The purpose of this write up is to once again share my
experience with Nigerians and to try to prick the
conscience of worship centres on Lagos-Ibadan road.
Do they feel for the commuters on that road? Do they
know about their predicaments? Do they worry about
the sufferings and pains? Are their actions fair to all
concerned? Has there been any practical step to stem the
tide? Has it reduced the pains, loss of man hours, loss
of money, wear and tear on the vehicles? Is it not a sin
for us to create big problems for others because we
must God in a particular place? Is God not everywhere?
When will this problem be nipped in the bud? I suggest
that all the Churches and Mosques should stop the
activities on Lagos-Ibadan expressway and allow
branches to do it in-house until Julius Berger finishes
expanding that road. Even after that these institutions
need to show practically how they intend to manage
traffic if the events must continue.
20years, even after the late General Adisa’s intervention
on Lagos-Ibadan expressway, nobody has looked into
the matter and called for solution. We cannot just
continue to live like this. We must do something. We
must not continue to bemoan problems but must have
the political will and courage to address the frontally.
The ball is in the court of our leaders.

Joe Igbokwe
Lagos

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Nice one. Select whichever stadium you guys want. You can even move the match to Ghana or CIV if you like.

Soon you'll also want to select players for us.

Malawians. Smh.

I dunno why Imo state has been cursed with one bad governor after another.

Monday, August 12, 2013

Governor Sule Lamido is arguably the most socialist inclined of the country’s 36 governors. In his six years in office as governor of Jigawa State, he has in several ways sought to give the imprint of the Talakawa ideology he inherited from his one time leader, Mallam Aminu Kano on thestate. Such policies as the allocation of slots to women and the physically disabled at all levels of government, subsidy on quality medicare and education, and the frantic effort to extend infrastructure to reach the lowest cadre of the citizenry are glimpses of Governor Lamido’s socialist inclinations on ground in Jigawa State.
Following the Sallah Durbar marking the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan, the governor sat down for a brief interview touching on the recent effort by him and four other governors to mobilise some of the country’s elder-statesmen to intervene in the crisis in the polity. Of course, he spoke on the conspiracy of the elite class against the Nigerian masses. Excerpts:

What do you intend to achieve with your visits to the past leaders?

We are people who are normal human beings who are concerned about their country, who believe in their country regardless of which party they come from. If we are going to have democracy, democracy has rules therefore we should learn to uphold those tenets of democracy. If you manipulate it you are rocking the entire system. It is not against anybody’s aspirations, we are not against anybody. But we are being maligned, we are now being called a gang of five, we are now being called desperadoes. See how we are being maligned.
But if you look at us, these are people who stuck out their necks for this country two years ago, all of us! It is because we have the capacity to understand where we are going that is why we have the courage to stand upand say. It has nothing to do with this so called aspiration for 2015 at all, it is about the way things are being done within the system, the way the government is being run. It doesn’t matter if it is my own government or any other one in the country, the way the institutions are being run, the waythe parties are being run, do they really conform with the rules of democracy? A situation where a hired hand like Doyin Okupe, a wage earner speaks only to justify his pay will malign me that I am irrelevant.

Justifying the wages
He became an aide after the election. These people who are now talking and abusing us are personal aides who became what they are when the mandate was achieved. They were nowhere when the whole thing was being worked out. It means there was an election before they were able to serve as personal aides. In their own case, it is an industry, they are justifying the wages they are earning, it is for the pay. There is nothing likehonour in that because they are just hired hands if tomorrow you have another president they go to him.
All of them are so irrelevant in their own constituencies, they have no idea what we went through. Our worry is the institution, ignore our personalities, ignore Sule Lamido, he may be an irritant it doesn’t matter, you can abuse my person but don’t abuse the office l am holding because the office is symbolic. If you demystify the office, if appointees of the president would be that audacious to organise people to pellet us with stones unwittingly they are also disrobing the Office of the President because he is also our symbol.
You can abuse Sule Lamido, you can abuse Kwankwaso, you can abuse Wamakko but don’t abuse our office because after I leave office as governor of Jigawa State, this institution will remain. If appointees of the president would insult us simply because they are justifying the pay that they are earning, because they are there for the pay. They are wage earners,they are not stakeholders.
Two, we are going round not because of any personal interest or because we have an ambition, we are going round because we feel that no matter what, a democracy must have some pattern, some standard. It must have clearly defined rules and when the rules are depressed to obtain an advantage, you are also depressing the country. How can we as governors unite and pick our own leader, clearly, our own chairman, nobody else’s. You know in the Governors Forum we don’t discuss politics, it is all about the economy.

Are you not bothered that the real agenda of the Governors Forum is being lost?

No, no. The Governors Forum is an informal thing, nothing like an agenda.

What I mean is your coming together to articulate common issues?

My friend if tomorrow the issue is about sharing money, the governors of Akwa Ibom, that of Lagos, that of Zamfara, Bayelsa will be on the same frequency because they all want money. In fact, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom need more money because they have got very difficult terrain. So, the issueis not about persons, but it is about what do we get as governors from the federation account which is defined as ours. That is all. Today, the Federal Government is the custodian, minister of finance controls the money and for us to take from the money we have to go and beg and beg and beg.
Get me very clear, when the issue is about the economy, about getting money from the federation account, all the governors in Nigeria are on the same frequency. All the governors are on the same wavelength whether it isJang or Fashola or Giedam or Suswam or Sule Lamido, all of us, when it is about getting money to your state, we are on the same frequency. That is all. So, let us have institutions which are functioning. Clearly defined and when they are functioning you wont talk about problems in Nigeria for the next one million years. Not Nigeria of today and when a country is not defined by institutions we will keep on remaining in one spot.
So when it is said that Nigeria cannot break, yes it is too weak to be broken.It is too weak to break. Who will break it? The ordinary person in Jigawa orthe ordinary person in Sokoto or the ordinary person in Bayelsa? Is it the Ibo vulcaniser or the Yoruba woman who is selling kerosene by the roadside or the Okada man in Delta? They don’t have the capacity to unite because they are burdened by poverty.
We have taken away from them their dignity, their self esteem, their pride and self worth so that they cannot even organize. Who did? We the elite. Up there, we (elite) unite, we sing and so we will never allow Nigeria to break because once it breaks we will lose. But the common man loses nothing. What is he losing? He is already living in hell, he cannot lose anything more than this hell.

When you met the president did you raise the issue of his aides abusing you?

Yes we did.

What did he say?

He said it is wrong.

But they have not stopped?

You see the president as a person is a very decent man but these are people who will try to justify their pay because they are nothing but wage earners. They are not stakeholders. Where were they when we were doing the elections? Doyin Okupe who is saying all these, that we cannot be presidentor this boy, Gulak? In 2011 where were they? Did they win their constituencies? Doyin there talking and he is from the Yoruba area which is99 per cent ACN? Of course to him, he is trying to justify his wage.
So, I will not join issues with wage earners, those who are there for the pay.I will join issues with those who believe in the unity of this country, who believe in building strong institutions and we have been very, very consistent. It is not about personalities, it is not about interest. It is about operating by rules and regulations, as per the laws, as per the rules and the constitution. Political parties are also defined by constitution. But when a chairman will suspend a governor for not answering his telephone? For failing to answer the telephone of your chairman you are suspended. What are all these?

So, will you now say that PDP is a bigger threat to itself than APC?

No, no, no. there is simply no alternative to PDP. It is because those who are in there now do not know the history of the PDP. When it was founded in 1998, it had a very clear mission. At that time we were looking at the country because if you don’t look at history you cant think of tomorrow. In 1998 we were looking at the country the way it went through between 1983 up till under Abacha, June 12 and others. So, we were trying to put a mechanism which would be able to reconcile Nigeria and Nigerians across the divide caused by the misrule of the military junta.
So, the mission was how do you put in a political party people with a high profile to be seen. So you needed symbols to be able to restore hope. At that time the issue was what do you put in place as institutions as a mechanism to restore Nigeria? So, Nigeria has been fully restored and thereis no better way to assess this than seeing those who are clamouring to be president. Those who are talking now in APC, in 1998 could they talk? Could they? All the materials in APC in 1998 could they talk about Nigeria or the Nigerian presidency? Could they?
Full restoration of Nigeria
The El-Rufais, the Buharis, could they? We have to be very, very honest so it means that it is left to the PDP to restore Nigeria. Nigeria is now fully restored that they can now come out to say that I want to be president. Good! Therefore to us we have been able to accomplish the first phase. Thenext phase is for the PDP to be able to now sit down and look at Nigeria’s problems and address them. Human development which is the most difficult thing. The most difficult thing. So, it is the second phase which is now posing a big problem, but APC is not the alternative.

A few days ago, former FCT minister Mohammed Abba-Gana came out to say that the north is not prepared for 2015 and does not have a presidential material?

You see Abba-Gana is an old boy from Barewa College and he is my seniorand we defer to our seniors. Abba-Gana knows the values upon which Barewa was founded and I defer to him and if that is his opinion fine, but to me he could be a material for the presidency. The preparation he got in that school, the upbringing, he is a material for the presidency. This is my feeling.

Can the PDP under Tukur take the country to that next phase you envisage?

It is part of the process, this metamorphosis. Even a snake before it gets out of the skin to put a new skin there are some pains, they go and hibernate and so, we are going through a very difficult period of metamorphosis.
Period of metamorphosis
It is very, very difficult, but there are pains but thank God PDP has the wherewithal, as the name indicates, the people, no matter our difficulties it will be able to overcome its own problems because there are no alternatives.By the time we are going to the brinks, we will say enough is enough, we apply the brakes and this is what PDP is all about.
Talking about institutions, northern governors were last year against state police, but with the developments in Rivers State would you be changing your stance?
Nigeria Police is no different from any other Nigerian institution. I think weshould start to build the institutions, the Police is no different from the Governor’s Office in Jigawa State, or from the presidency or from the National Assembly or from Nigerian banking or even the press. It is from the same society that we get the leaders, therefore we should be able to make sure that we as people should be able to sit down to say, how do we define ourselves? How do we give ourselves some standards, some set values? Which means making the effort, first, to do the right thing. The effort first! If the effort is there, off course we can get there.

Vanguard

I liked it better when To.to Dike was the Nigerian bad girl. #reallymissingher.

d guy definitely looks gay

Chei!!! What a tragedy!!!

Akinsete19: Please if you don't know what to it is better for you to shout up your mouth, did you think that oau is just like advanced secondary school called university that most of you criticism the school attend, nothing founded in any university,polytechnic in africa that is not found in oau-ife,get the fact right, and am very sure that most of you criticism the school don't even where the school is located talkless you knowing the school gate, the fact that you don't have the privilege or you wrote post utme five times in the school without being admitted does not mean you to criticise the school, i am not a student of the school.

You didn't need to say that you weren't a student of the school. Your english had already said it.

Has it gotten this bad that Benin Republic, Benin Republic!!!! Ancient Dahomey Empire are now doing this to Nigerians

Jonathan, pls send me there so that I can teach them a lesson.

**puts on my 'the punisher' coat*

Boko Haram slaughters 8 in Borno
at Thursday, August 01, 2013

Eight persons, including a lecturer at the College of Education, Waka, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State (names withheld) were, yesterday, slaughtered by suspected Boko Haram members.
They were suspected to have invaded the town after escaping from their camps in Sambisa and other camps in Borno and Yobe states, during the military raid.
It was learnt that the killing took place around the popular Kadafur Cinema area and other wards where a lecturer at the Waka College of Education, who was also an Islamic cleric, three members of a family and four others were slaughtered.
Meanwhile, the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Kano is considering floating a civilian JTF outfit to complement efforts by security agents to police Sabon Gari, a predominantly Christian quarters that had witnessed terrorist attack recently.
Briefing journalists in Kano, Chairman, Kano chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Tobias Idika, explained that the option had become “very viable in the light of increased activities of terrorists in the densely populated quarters.
Idika said that the “option of taking up our collective securitythrough civilian JTF, is long overdue to set an example on how members of the guest community can best come togetherto confront a national question threatening the fabric of the nation.
“Residents of Sabon Gari have been the target of attacks by the extremist group since they struck January 20, 2012.
“The motor park bombing last March, with its attendant devastation, is still fresh in our mind and the question left unanswered is ‘for how long would members of the guest community continue to lose its productive population?”

Borno Dep Gov reacts
Last Tuesday, Deputy Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Zanna Mustapha, who is also from Biu Local Government Area in an interview with newsmen in Maiduguri, lamented the increasing killing of innocent people in Biu.
He said the state government was not interested in the restoration of GSM network in the state for now as doing so will jeopardise the relative peace being enjoyed in the state.
A reliable source, who just arrived Maiduguri from the troubled town, said: “Biu is no longer safe. There were pockets of killings by suspected Boko Haram sect in the last few days.
“In fact, most of the killings were targeted at school teachers and Islamic clerics, and the most unfortunate thing is that the terrorists have devised a means of using knives to slaughter their targets, as using gunshots will attract security agencies.”
It was gathered that military task force has been deployed to the streets of the town to ensure safety of lives and property, even as some volunteered youths have offered to assist the security agencies in apprehending those perpetrating such act.
JTF spokesman, Lt-Col Sagir Musa, could not be reached at time due to lack of telecommunication services in the area.

Anambra petitions Jonathan over dumped igbos in Onitsha, Lagos State Govt denies

Thursday, August 01, 2013


Governor Peter Obi on Wednesday wrote President GoodluckJonathan to investigate the dumping of 72 homeless people atthe Upper Iweka Bridge, Onitsha, Anambra State, by suspected agents of the Lagos State Government.
In a letter titled, “Unconstitutional, Illegal and Forced Deportation of Nigerians to Anambra State from Lagos State,” Obi described the action of Lagos State Government in the matter as disturbing.
He said it had serious security and political implications, considering the fact that it was not the first time that such an action was taken by the Lagos State Government.
Part of the letter read, “This latest callous act, in which LagosState did not even bother to consult with Anambra State authorities before deporting 72 persons considered to be of Igbo extraction to Anambra State, is illegal, unconstitutional and a blatant violation of the human rights of these individuals and that of the Nigerian Constitution.
“Your Excellency, no amount of offence committed by these people, even if deemed extremely criminal, would justify or warrant such a cruel action by a state authority and in a democracy.
“Even refugees are protected by the law. Furthermore, the extant provisions of the Nigerian Constitution states, ‘Every citizen of Nigeria is entitled to move freely throughout Nigeria and to reside in any part, thereof, and no citizen shallbe expelled from Nigeria or refused entry thereby or exit therefrom.’”
However, Lagos State Government said it did not deport anyone to Onitsha in Anambra State.
Speaking with journalists shortly after the state Security Council meeting, chaired by the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Wednesday, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Umaru Manko, said the government only rehabilitated and resettled the people.
Manko said, “What happened was that the state rehabilitated citizens from other states that came into the state and turned into beggars.
“After that, they indicated their interest to go back to their home towns to be resettled. That was what happened. There was no deportation.”
The police commissioner said security in the state was perfect, adding that security operatives were on top of the situation.
He said, “The residents should go about their lawful businesses. Of course, everyone knows that theEid-il-fitriis around the corner. We have done everything necessary to ensure that the festival comes and go peacefully.”

Lagos Is Safe For Igbo, Says ACN
at Wednesday, July 31, 2013


The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has lashed out at those who are playing cheap and dirtypolitics by the decision of the Lagos State government to move some homeless, indigent citizens to their home states for rehabilitation.
The party said that no sane government would be blackmailedinto allowing homeless Nigerians to continue to inflict security and environmental problems on its state just to pleasethose that readily play lousy and retrogressive politics with issues for their selfish and ulterior interests.
In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Joe Igbokwe, the party said it is particularly irked by the decision of some professional chancetakers and political opportunists to take advantage of the recent movement of some indigent, homeless and social miscreants to Onitsha for the purpose of re-connecting with their families when they have no tangible business in Lagos.
The party said there should be an end to opportunistic politicsand cheap ethnic and tribal politics as are being played out over the issue. The party said that transporting indigent, homeless miscreants to their home states is not a new idea andnot limited to Igbos.
“We expect that the opposition in Lagos and its array of frustrated politicians in Lagos will certainly seek to play politics with the decision of the Lagos State government to move some people that have no tangible business staying in Lagos to their home states. We expected that the professional ethnic agitators who have wasted public offices in Igboland, pillaging resources that would have served the interests of thepeople are now cashing further from the plights of their vicious approach to governance on this issue. We however want to state that it is a shame to the opposition that it is seeking cheap political capital from the plight of the hapless victims of its free loading approach to governance and has drawn the support of ethnic irredentists whose failure on governance left the Igbo people so poor that they have become homeless refugees in Lagos and other parts of the country. It is a huge irony that the PDP, which has purloined the country in fourteen years of vicious corrupt governance, is the one now seeking to make political capital from the plight of its victims and says so much of the dominant politics of deception, corruption and greed which had hallmarked the unfortunate PDP governance of the country since 1999.
“To put the records straight, the Lagos State government, with its commitment to the interests of Lagosians and in its effort to build a functional modern mega city, had long embarked on the decision to pick up the many derelicts, the homeless, beggars and social miscreants that inhabit all parts of Lagos.”
Clean them up, find means of livelihood for those that are employable and send those it cannot manage to their respective states. We are all aware that this scheme has seen the practical reduction in the number of the beggars, street urchins and social miscreants that used to constitute real danger to life in Lagos and has seen such people moved back to various states, mainly in the North.
“We should note also that other states in the South, including South West states have received such people and the Lagos State Government has been careful to ensure that the number of people involved in such periodic movements are minimal and are only people who do not have where to stay in Lagos, who don’t have any real engagement in Lagos and who constitute nuisance to other Lagosians. We also put the nationon notice that before the latest movement of some people to Onitsha, we notified the Anambra State government, which neither responded nor took action on our complaint. We also want the public to note that the Lagos State government was involved in similar deal with the Akwa Ibom State government when some indigent Lagosians were moved back from Akwa Ibom State to Lagos. We want Nigerians to note that such movements are common with nearly all states in Nigeria and is becoming an issue just because selfish politicians and ethnic reapers who were prominent in the despoliation of the country see it as new and worth cashing inon.”
ACN added: “We want to throw a frontal challenge to the PDP and the ethnic chance takers now making undue issue over the present case to let Nigerians know any one of those sent back to their states who has a home, job or business in Lagos. We want them to go further to tell us any of those deported with any fixed address or legitimate means of livelihood. We are peeved that selfish politicians and their ethnic soulmates who have relentlessly pursued the pauperization of Nigerians even in their home states are the ones seeking cheap political ends from the plight of their victims and this is condemnable.
“Lagos ACN wants to let Nigerians know that Igbos constitute over 45 per cent of the population of Lagos and they dominate key sectors of the Lagos economy. Is there anycase where any of the millions of Igbo with one legitimate business or the other in Lagos is involved in the recent movement? Igbos find Lagos a safe haven for their legitimateproductive activities and the present government has sustainedgood and cordial efforts to ensure this prevails. We want to state that Lagos hosts the largest population of Igbo in any single state outside Igboland, how is it that the movement of about 60 Igbo miscreants to their home state has now becomean issue political and ethnic reapers want to cash in to destroythis priceless relationship?
“We want to warn Ndigbo and Lagosians to beware of the leaven of the PDP and their ethnic collaborators who have spared nothing to deepen poverty and want in Nigeria and always turn round to cash in on the fate of the victims of these deadly politics. We want to assure Ndigbo in Lagos thatnothing will be done to hurt and injure their interests and equally let those whose stay in Lagos constitutes threat to others that the Lagos State government will do everything within its rights to protect the lives, interests and well being of the over 20 million Lagosians who are law abiding and find legitimate reasons to stay in Lagos.”

dolphinife: Did FAAN and NAMA used dialogue before grounding the helicopter conveying Oshiomole to a social function?

Infact, Oshiomole should ground it to maximum paralysis. This FAAN spokesman is suffering from diarrhea of forgetfulness and obsolete disillussionment. The same fate was meted to Oshiomole, and none of the aviation agencies gave a cogent reasons for the grounding of the helicopters

So its a 'do me, I do you' thing now? When will Nigerians understand that 2 wrongs will never make a right?

I just want to see 1 MRI machine...

edi287: Italy vs Korea.

Actually, it was Spain Vs Korea