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Sonnobax15:

TBH,I'm so baffled seeing how some Nigerians have found joy in the arrest of VDM......come on,this is someone who has been fighting for you and I... Someone who has put his life countless times on the line just to see no Nigerian is oppressed..... Someone whom you and I aren't bold enough to emulate.......But there you are, criticizing and happy that he was arrested........And you think Nigeria can ever get better when some of you still possess such illicit mentality? Never!!!

#freeVDM..

Most Nigerians deserve their leaders.
They are in tune with their oppressors.

shoodboi2:
He has said too much and the next thing is to silence him. His only offence was pointing out the corruption and stink oozing from the offices of those who call themselves EFCC.

You kidnapped someone and didn’t talk about it. Then, once he was tracked to your offices, you turned around to claim he was picked up by the SSS, when it was you who called the SSS to pick him up.

They also refused anyone access to him, including his attorney and those who brought food to him. Then, all of a sudden, they are looking to charge him to court. Instead of chasing shadows, maybe the EFCC should focus on cleaning up the garbage in their offices. They are easily the most corrupt agency in this country despite being an anti-corruption agency.

You have sense, and you said it as it is.
Too many ignorami and dunces on this platform arguing like someone with no deposit of grey matter whatsoever. Clouded by bias and of course, ignorance. They are largely why the government keep enslaving the nation. They keep justifying the same system and government which has rendered them the way they are. Until so many of them see otjer places other than Nigeria, they wouldn't be able to quantify the damage Nigeria system has done to them. The system that makes you feel less human

Lifestone:
Calm down.
I can assure you that VDM was arrested with a valid warrant of arrest. Anybody can be arrested if you are suspected to have committed a crime. Police, efcc and other law enforcement agency can't arrest everyone, so the fact that other were not arrested was never an excuse in law, that is rule of law. Agreed that everyone is equal before the law, but even in the advance democracy like the USA, we know that's not always the case.
My point is that anywhere in the world, when you called out a law enforcement agency like VDM did, you can be sure you will soon run into troubles.
If VDM is audited for tax evasion only, he will go to prison. He should just face front.
You mentioned DT, abeg don't just go there.

You know the facts, and you yourself know that you are trying hard to bend it, even though it is obvious. You must really be a foreigner living in Nigeria.
We all know what we are doing.

Efcc chairman said above a year ago that he would resign if he didn't prosecute Yahaya Bello. The same Yahaya Bello walking free today, not arrested for once, but you are here pontificating the shitty things happening to ordinary people as normal.
Which law are you reading upside down that when a government institution is called out, the next thing is to abduct the person, blindfold him and beat him and then keep him locked behind bars for days without appearing before court? If you have a court order to arrest someone, do you arrest him to lock him up without taking him to court? Did you know how lame what you typed up there sounds?
Help yourself, listen to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frSkmz31KXY?si=eSLqbG2C3eDXo28k

EFCC claimed VDM was arrested as a result of petitions from various people whose names can't be disclosed? So, he doesn't have a right to go to court and lay bare his facts and all that.
I knew the days of Abacha, possibly you weren't yet born or still small, I can tell you that a lot has not changed going by the most recent trajectory.
Things are so bad in the country that individuals don't even know how a democratic country should be run again.

Case rested; please learn better. What's happening in Nigeria is not how a normal state should be run.

Lifestone:
VDM Should face front. He dabbles into too many things.
The day he called Efcc out for arresting E-Money, I knew a day like this is coming, it was a matter of time them.
I'm sure this is to teach him some hard lessons.

You are still missing so many points.
Calling out EFCC is wrong on why they do did selective judgements, how? They arrested one person for disregarding naira and letting another persons go scot free?

We all knew a day like this would come for VDM, because it is what has defined the society called Nigeria. And that's what makes it a lawless society. Why do the politicians keep escaping the law? Because they have intimidated all into believing that if they voice out, they will be arrested


Try to gain knowledge a bit.
EFCC is simply police unit cut out to address special financial crimes.
There is no law of the land that empowers anyone to arrest someone and lock him up without charging him to court. That's not a working country, that's a jungle.
If VDM has contravened any law, deal with him, but let the court be the one to decide, not you arresting and locking up someone and refusing him access to food, and you are here claiming that VDM dabbles into too many things. Go and learn what true democracy means. The way AC party plus Tinubu constantly lampooned Jonathan as the then President, if Jonathan was a powerdrunk person like them, he would have arrested some of them. That was what the administration of Sani Abacha looked like, by killing dissenting voices. But this is a democracy. Even President Trump is criticised on social media...how many people has he arrested?
If law enforcement agency cannot observe the law, you don't have a country.

Lifestone:
Can a person of VDM exist in China? Never

Let's attune to the message and leave the nationality of the messenger.
China does not practise westernized democracy like Nigeria claims to do, so China is out the question. When Ali Baba critiqued the Chinese government he was dealt with.
The message is clear, if Nigeria claims to practise democracy, Nigeria should really do democracy, not witch hunting individuals who speaks against the ills of the society.
VDM is not a Saint, I am not his fan, but the path Nigeria is taking, things will get to boiling points someday unless there is a change.

helinues:
Those who arrested him came in all black. That's DSS not EFCC

Now that EFCC has come out with their chest, that it is responsible for the arrest, any further defence in their favour again?
https://www.nairaland.com/8417209/why-arrested-verydarkman-efcc

By the way, which section of the law says that someone "dragging the others", (in your own words" should be locked up without being taken to court? Should he denied food? And those he dragged who reported him shouldn't be named?

Not calling a spade a spade is one of the reasons the country is becoming worse than a jungle.
This is the intimidation antics those oppressing Nigerians have always used.
And again I maintain that his arrest is connected to calling out efcc for arresting emoney for mishandling naira and and for not giving Okoya kids same treatment when they did likewise. Every other allegations are secondary. Even if he dragged people, is it abduction or an official kidnapping the way to go about that? What happened to the court of law? So anyone can go to EFCC and ask them to arrest anyone that offended them? What is the primary functions of that commission again?
Someone called the country a zoo, is he not being proved right on the daily?

Zulu11zulu:
I don't understand did efcc have any rights to give bail or curt of the law.

You see why wee call Nigeria animal kingdom, how can you give bail in police station before taking him to curt what is the Job of Magistrate.

It is called official abduction or better still official kidnapping.
Which law says that someone can be locked up without being taken to the court because the person in question slandered some powerful people? Efcc, is the police, the court and the judge...

helinues:
Those who arrested him came in all black. That's DSS not EFCC

Okay.
The position still holds, either DSS or EFCC, security forces are nothing but tools of intimidation and harassment. The ills and vices in every corners of the country, the kidnapping, ritual killings and banditry activities have not been curbed in the least percentage, but when citizens express their displeasure against what the mad men in politics are doing, then suddenly the uniformed become informed enough to incarcerate and harrass. At the sound of protest, they develop their superpower
I have been in other places, I have seen that Nigeria government at best is still using prehistoric, barbaric skills to rule their people.

If they claim that people elected them, why are they not answerable to the people? Ruling the most populous black nation like it is 5th century. They criticized other ruling party of yester years more than this, but with them, the country has gone down the more and they don't want to take criticism.

I am not a fan of VDM, either long or short, but the government which can't take criticism isn't for the people

helinues:
This is purely junk news by Vanguard.. Arrested for cyber stalking by EFCC? Is Cyber stalking the duty of EFCC?

Hahaha, I still remember when NPF created a website for cyber stalking and anything related to online matter for people to report those who might have been attacking others unnecessarily on social media.

I reported someone and they gave me the link for proper reporting. Let me even check my email self

It is the same intimidation rule. The last video he made was calling out efcc because efcc picked up emoney.

When people say that Nigeria has been captured by the powerdrunks,their paid dummies come online to defend their paymasters. A country run like Nigeria where intimidation has replaced the law and corruption is the new law...aiming for growth is going to be seen a mental sickness.
It will touch everyone praising the anomaly parading itself as a government of the progressive.

DMerciful:
Oturugbeke

It is finished!

Tinubu, master strategist with no strategy

Who dash am strategy?
Politics of stomach infrastructure.

Now statistics don dey chop dem

Whatever they may release,
It might not change anything.
Nigerians are not ready.

Some paid fools would rather die than not support the man called BAT with all questionable traits ever traceable to a public leader

Reno is looking for job. An hungry man is a dangerous man.
The next he wants to do is to worship BAT and swear by his name.

What most Americans are tired of?

Are you playing?

jmoore:
Solution: Ban public grazing.


But government doesn't want the solution.

Because they don't want to offend the north, and thus lose their votes during elections.
They all know what they are doing. Running a country like a circus

Ola64:
The current gale of defections pervading the political sphere may be a disruptive booby trap for the ruling party, APC after all. Or what do you feel👌
By the time nominations/primaries for the 2027 elections hots up, there may be a tsunami that will consume the "broom " party expectedly 🤛

It is a matter of time, abd observations will be proved right.
PDP claimed that they would rule for 50 years. Where is PDP today?
The so-called APC is not even an organic party that grew in a normal way. Those that joined are self-serving and seeking folks who are bent on getting their shares. No proper ideology and principles.
That someday APC will collapse is a sure prophecy. Any structure built on shallow foundations won't pass the test of time.

FreeSpirited:
I dream of a time when a real leader will emerge in AsoRock who will review all national monuments that our useless looting corrupt politicians have named after themselves... And properly rename it with a name more befitting and honorable. It will happen

I believe that also...
Institutions are named after people by another sets of people after them, after they possibly have delivered services to the people meritoriously...but heck no!
These folks have taken the dishonour lower than ever known. How do you name a government institution after yourself when still office? It is a new kind of low, a record-setting low.
I think Buhari started and championed that anomaly.
If you are truly great, you won't be seeking to immortalize your name by yourself naming edifices and structures after yourself...but no

We can't you all just become APC once and for all?
People without personal dogmas nor ideology...anywhere belle face kind of humans.

Reign only with the reigning one today, then by tomorrow tiptoe back to wherever things are happening...

You all should declare everything as a one-party country

YoungLionken:
Crossed which line🙄? Well, the masses are not ready yet to fight and secure their freedom from the kingdom of darkness in our government. Until then, let's keep ranting online and do nothing offline...

This has always been my stand.
Nigerians are not ready

Just look in the first page...
You would see measly paid fools leaving the message to attack the messenger.

Spade is spade.
Your President cares less for anyone. Just himself, his family and obsession with power.

If the present evil happening around has touched any of you guys' family, you wouldn't see any good but to condemn anyone sitting on the seat of responsibility but who has decided to run when most needed.

A heartily comprehensive beating...

donleo92:
Since this guy can openly support tinubu now, I don't think he is a man of good character.

After the whole event of the just concluded election!! Were he was busy singing the praise of atiku. Now, he is busy defending tinubu. Dude is after his pocket

Have you heard the statement like "anywhere belle face"?
That man is an hungry man, he would kowtow even for a baboon for a morsel.
It has been rumored that appointment is already in the cooler for him from BAT.

From all indication, he is living to defend BAT and APC. The same man he called unprintable names, deserving though.
Next to a mad man is such who can do anything for selfishness reason. A man without an idea of what moral is isnt supposed to be called man

brain54:
Trump is a huge joke...

The Chinese didn't react the way he expected. Now he doesn't have a back up plan. And pride wants to destroy him!

You are so correct and apt.

All he is doing thereafter is to save face and maintain superiority by any funny means

Protest as a service.

This is one state, for that matter, yet so divided.

Nigeria as an entity, is as divisive as it comes. That's why politicians keep winning

Reactor, taking over from where Buhari stopped.
Reactive agents...

Lovit:
Aside Lagos, and a handful of people in Port Harcourt and Abuja most Nigerians in other cities and Towns depend on politics to survive

someone who is gainfully employed won't have time for this and can't be easily swayed by politicians

70% of our population don't have anything tangible doing, politicians inclusive.

You got it right.
The deprivation is a creation of the politicians for such tools as this.
Protest-as-a-service.

Even if God wants to help us as a nation, how we won't stop Him will be left to imagination.
We are not a ready people.
The division is too real to ignore.

Many people don't believe in doing what is right in as much it put something on the table.

Why do you protest in favour of an illegally installed sole administrator.
Hunger can indeed deprive people of quality reasoning.

When you hear, "aura for aura", now you can see it

Loool

Funny as it sounds

kettykings:
Only in Nigeria can a convicted drug lord become president and still be hailed like a hero. If that's acceptable, then every drug dealer — from Mushin to Medellín — deserves an apology and compensation. Why? Because clearly, crime isn't just forgiven in APC — it's rewarded. In fact, if the Anti-Christ himself picked up the APC ticket, some die-hard supporters would probably print posters and sing his praises at campaign rallies. Anything goes in this circus.

You are thinking like this because you are sane. Not so many would subscribe to this thinking, even with gun to their heads.

Watch them still come out to defend him that that used to his past and now he is a changed person.

With this type of madness and warped mindset, Nigeria going forward is left only to imagination.

ItisWell22:
A tour across his luxurious dining area with customized furnitures, which may cost some civil servants’ 35years’ pay.

God help us. 😢

That's it na

This is why they want to perpetuate their political seat; a 4-year term is enough to make you wealthy...meanwhile political offices are not meant to make you wealth...BUT not in Nigeria. Beside politics, we can hardly point to what job or career he ever had to get what he has that he's flaunting now.

Shameless lots.

But where is the lie?
If any opposition happened to be in power and APC is not, could they truly keep quiet and not criticise the heck out of the ruling party?

What they gave Jonathan, they can't take?

Part of the biggest problem is the fact that we celebrate lies and like sugarcoating it.

Country is hard....yeah country is hard.

Someone has traveled to France alone close to 10 times, while state of emergency can't be decleared on national health sector and so on...these and many, but you want praise singers that would tell them that they are the next best thing after sausage roll?

Tomfoolery

nothingspoil70:
Another labouring in vain

Everything is not trolling. Trolling won't feed you for life!
This is not about Obi or whoever wants to get that boy out... it is about seeing sanity within a country that believes it is no more in the stone age.

An underage serving term in a maximum prison for an offense not established or proven in a court of law?
Where is humanity? If it were to be your brother, would you still enjoy this trolling?

Hmm