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[quote author=adusim post=45582368][/quote]a disgrace to Igbo race.you are

oduastates:
A foreigner's observations/ comments - onitsha and Nigeria at large
XIAN YORK
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Corruption and a missing state lie at the heart of Onitsha's troubles with pollution.

I have passed through Onitsha twice, both times spending long periods in stationary traffic. Eighteen years ago Nigeria barely collected any form of taxation, it's road network was unmaintained, no-one drove at night for fear of attack. Public utilities were not paid for by any form of organised metering but by extortion carried out be collectors who arrived at a property, made a quick visual assessment of the owner's potential worth then demanded a sum they thought the owner might pay. When a road collapsed it stayed that way.

Onitsha is the meeting point of trade and trade routes in West Africa, a gridlock chaos of roads, markets, traders, buses, lorries, taxis, and pollution. In Europe we view buses and taxis as a way of reducing pollution. In Nigeria the lack of regulation, the ultimate free market so loved by the right, conspires to transform these modes of transportation as dirty as private cars. There was no effective time table that I could see for public transport. Internal flights took off when they were full and the same was true of mini-buses and taxis. Having paid a taxi driver to take us from Obosi to Lagos (because the internal flight in Enugu had failed to materialise at all), a friend and I traveled west towards the capital.

Approaching Onitsha, the taxi driver left the motorway and headed into the centre of Onitsha, a cacophony of gridlock mayhem. He eventually parked his car in the middle of a vast informal space that served as bus depot, taxi depot, market, car park. He got out of the car without saying a word and left us in the full heat of the day surrounded by tens of thousands of people milling around and the thick sweet pollution of thousands of mini-buses, lorries, and private cabs. This is West Africa's transport hub. No visible structure, though there certainly must be an informal one. No road network, just a vast open space that people drive across in whatever direction they choose ... very slowly. A sea of humanity parting this way and that to afford passage to fume coughing trundling taxis, coaches, lorries, and mini-buses.

We left once the driver had found two more people willing to pay to be taken to Lagos. We had already paid for all four spaces in the taxi. Didn't bother the driver, he had an opportunity to make more money and he was taking it. The new passengers didn't even say hello. We sat there pressed together, now obliged to carry our hand luggage on our knees for hours more as we headed back to the motorway and on towards the pollution of Lagos.

[b]On the motorways of Nigeria you regularly passed the burned out shells of vehicles that didn't make it. They are sometimes half in and half out of the forest. You pass groups of people standing beside broken down vehicles no doubt praying that someone will pick them up before darkness falls. You get stopped by posses of soldiers demanding payment. You stop for nothing unless you see a weapon pointed at you. Sometimes the road has disappeared, whole motorways can tumble and slide down a hill, leaving a single lane to fight over where once there were four.

This is what a failed state is. No programme to maintain infrastructure, everyone simply getting what they can to make it through the day. What is true of roads is true of everything else. Build where you like, build as high as you like, no health & safety, no engineers to check the block of flats can take the three extra storeys being constructed on the roof. Telephone wires clumped on telegraph poles like candy floss on a stick.A raw scramble to survive and to make a profit. And millions of people trying to maintain their dignity and treat others as best as they can and enjoy life in spite of it all. This is why Onitsha is the most polluted city in Africa.

Until there is a functioning state there can be no functioning Nigeria.[/b]

nawao. u get time

Poweredbreww:
Dirty dirty people

Yoruba calling Igbo dirty people....nawao

omonla555:
Upon IPOB gragra when Nigeria is still helping them.

What happens when they gained independence?

no bother your self.. e no concern u

MabraO:
Just after 3 comments nd it's on FP How nice Carry go baba nothing do u 1000 shall fall by ur left or right but no harm go reach u

clap for ur self,bible student.u are wonderful

bloodyBLOGGER:
buhari has islamized England.

Israel is next.
iPod logic

is "IPOD" intimidating u in your dream .text awolowo to 777

Bigprozzie:
Apart from Ipob activities, are you good at anything else?

You cant see the chart? It clearly states it measures PM10 Particle Concentration. You should have just googled it



Ipobs are illiterates

If it said Lagos was the most polluted, you wont argue

ur hatred for Igbo tribe will bring your ruin.

Babylon

Psylas:
shaia muslims and sunni muslims are not in good terms, any yoruba who supports crushing shiites must be a sunni muslim

you are not smart.
how do u manage to get a phone

vickylala239:
Goodnews....

Their rubbishhh is now too much!!!!""

let them cum bck to Nigeria and protest!!!!! Surely army will reduce their numbers.....

This is why I Lik Nigeria, who go get tym arrest you...you will only hear Dat 8 to 9 are dead...

No tym

e pain u well well

Stalwert:
keep soiling your lands, govt should roll back derivation fee from states that the damage occurs as cost of their stewpidity, Lagos oil go sweet Nigeria die! Make the oloriburuku kontinu

do u think that yoruba boys won't blow pipelines once Lagos production commence..wake up,..

mind your own bizness

Fynestboi:
Hope this is not a movie scene?

BMW 6 series? nollywood? accident? next 60 yrs

RadicallyBlunt:
Why she come ugly like this

your mum fine pass her but we no know her.

MetaHuman:


Typical ipoop yoot


Doing the same thing over and over again since 1960 and expecting different result


1st, chest beat that it cannot happen


2nd, after it has happened, cry wolf and declare praying and fasting

3rd, give government, 7-30days ultimatum

4th, carry placards and declare Biafra again as the government is imaginarily marginalizing them

5th, go back to their business of selling drugs and fake products from China

6th, they repeat 1-5 again



They now wonder why no one takes them seriously.
Agatu people already avenging the death of their people while ipoop yoout are still carrying placards for highest political bidder.

I sorry for those people.

go n pay house rent.u dey online dey yan rubbish because u get MB

victorvezx:
IPob tout, this news too pain u die. if u read the news well, it said Lagos will producing 40,000 barrels of oil per day, and not 5000 that is produced in your anambra state

my brother/sister pls sit down n think ..every oil producing state in nigeria is not doing fine,...kidnapping, pipeline vandalism, oil spillage,,,,. haven't u wonder y states like anambra,kogi n others decides not to tamper there own oyel

poshestmina:
Staying with a broke,lazy, unfaithful drunk will make her the Bey of Naija?

I know Tj to an extent, dude is one messed up and arrogant womanizer
Better to be a divorcee to be a dead or hypertensive married woman

as if u are anything near perfection... tiwa is hoe.u think u know her.u dont

OLUJOSHINS:
This media hype is getting out of hands oooooooo


But wait ooooo, APC used the media to kick PDP out.

Did they suddenly forget hw to use that weapon? or what the heck is happening?

By the way, this is terrible photoshoping.

only an utter simpleton will fall for this.

is not..can't u see d radiation of lights in cows eyed.even there shadow

shamecurls:
Some regions still find it difficult to meet-up with a Lagos of 40 years ago

Lagos leads, Others follow

how many properties do u own in Lagos..."others" are virtually owners of all properties in lagos

DaBullIT:
Lagos has upgraded beyond words



No wonder Olamide thinks , if i carry you go to Island my guy you go love Lagos o

And thats why those people want Lagos to be declared as no man's land


Mtchewww


Mynd44

how many properties do u own in Lagos..guy go n hustle,leave matter,those people own 55 percent of properties in lag

garfield16:
Only Ibos ask these kinds of questions

tribalism will never help u...what concerns tribe with this trend

msjijitar:
Technically disassociation himself to an IGBO people knowing that they are not politically smart

The recent PDP zoning explained it when north reclaim their presidential slot again


Hausa and Yoruba regions will keep ruling Nigeria forever ✔

what a mentality?

tribalism is mocking God..

Karm16:
Senate wears? Lol
When you're adorned in beautiful and graceful Yoruba attire, you felt more powerful. When you speak Yoruba, it feels like you're walking on water, miraculous. When you move to Lagos to live amidst Yoruba people, you feel like your dream came true.

This is what Ibo youth feels when they flex in our SWAGGALICIOUS attires.

So don't feel bad, don't feel like you're betraying your tribe that likes to wear curtains with primary school animal cartoons drawn on it.

life is short

Karm16:
You think. When it comes time to start applying for Visa, you'll know which language Lagos street names belong to. Fulani will soon start claiming no man's land in Enugu.

does it matter your,we will all die one day,n leave it behind,life is short

Karm16:
He's basically saying "I am more Yoruba than Igbo".

Olorun maje! We don't want. You see many of them on NL claiming Yoruba too. What a shame to point at your father's house with your left hand. We will decline his visa.

does it matter,the world sees us one country..what is the about our tribe..Even God is angry with us

Yorubasgreat:
I am Yoruba..

I am Igbo.. .

I am Hausa...

I am a witch..

I am a devil..

I am a Christian. ..


I am a Muslim...

I am this and I'm that..

My question is, who you epp?


Garri does not know Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa.. Nigerians need more Garri now than who you are..

guy.I don't know,but this your reply is epic,is legendary, I love u.

Kastonkastroll:
Abeg let me hear word. Like we didn't see how u people were mocking agatu and mile12 killings

Oga relax..weda na agatu,mile 12,Enugu..one thing is certain.if fixation no cum for this con3..the con3 to burst..as in 1967 to be virgin for how this go be...

YoursGEJ:
Wailers come and mourn your brothers

u don'chop

Kastonkastroll:
una go ever get sense. That's why I find it difficult to even sympathize with you people over the Enugu ish... Na una sabi sha

but is the truth

Karm16:
Type in Igbo if you no sabi string one sentence together

teaching mi pls..I no wenting school.