GloriousGbola: which begs the question - with NURTW now in BATs corner, cant these issues be sorted? cant these yahoos be made to see reason?
No (although they made a little bit of progress) because it will be a return to the situation in the early 2000s when he was trying to wipe them out and they were defeating him.
GloriousGbola: The problem unless I am wrong is these cases are never carried to their conclusion.
Off topic lekki Gardens building collapse
More in line with this after that otedola bridge tanker fire, there was a full investigation where among other things it was discovered the truck had been locally modified to carry a larger weight than it was designed for. Then all of a sudden, the investigation petered out.
No. The problem is that our judicial processes take way too long and either the media abandons the story and forgets about it (which is why some convictions are not reported), or governments change and new governments decide to prioritise some cases over the other or settle out of court in other to save time and money. This also happens in civil cases.
GloriousGbola: this is also interesting because i have always seen nurtw as being politically in tinubus pocket - with the MC oluomo thing.
Wrong. Bola Tinubu fought 5 gigantic battles against NURTW when he was governor (he tried to wipe them out) and he lost all of them. It was after losing these battles that he realised that, if the NURTW was strong enough to defeat him consistently, then it's better he makes them his friends rather than his foes.
naptu2: This truck accident at Ojuelegba has reminded me of the part of Bola Tinubu's war with the NURTW that I rarely write about. I have often written about the City Bus experiment, the war against agberos, the MOT issue, etc. but I rarely write about this part of the problem.
Governor Bola Tinubu decided that Danfos were one of the major causes of traffic jams on Lagos roads and that it was very dangerous for heavy duty vehicles to ply the many flyovers in the city, so he erected overhead bars at the entrances to most of the flyovers in Lagos.
You see, danfo buses usually convert the entrances to these flyovers into bus stops, which cause traffic jams and delay other road users, while heavy duty vehicles cause a huge strain on the flyovers and quite often fall off the bridges. Private vehicles, which are shorter than the buses and trucks, would be able to freely use the flyovers, while the buses and trucks would use the road below.
However, NURTW agberos, bus and truck drivers did not like this idea. Quite often drivers of heavy duty vehicles used their vehicles to destroy the overhead bars, while agberos and other thugs cut the bars in the middle of the night. The government often spent a lot of money replacing these bars until one day it finally gave up and stopped replacing them.
We are experiencing a similar problem in Lekki Phase 1. LCC built a pedestrian bridge to enable people cross the expressway. They also erected a metal fence in the median of the expressway to stop people running across and endangering their lives. You will not believe the number of times that people have destroyed that fence. LCC also stationed Man O War officials to arrest people that are jaywalking (or jayrunning), but this has not stopped the problem. People still destroyed the fence in the middle of the night. Now it seems like LCC have given up. They haven't replaced the fence in quite a while.
naptu2: Aha! This is what I was referring to. Luckily I've gotten a picture of it from Google maps.
The Bola Tinubu Administration put up these barriers to stop trucks and buses from using the flyover. It was not the first administration to do so. I know that a previous administration put up much larger and stronger barriers in the 1970s, but I can't remember who was governor at the time.
This particular barrier is at the flyover at Jibowu and it was put up by the Tinubu Administration, but see what is left of it. I remember clearly that this barrier was replaced several times when Tinubu was governor, but people kept removing it. All that is left is the posts. Every single time that it was replaced, people kept cutting off the barrier and leaving those two posts. They kept doing it until it got to a point that the government got fed up and left it like that.
You can see the yellow and black posts on either side of the road just before the bridge.
See picture 1 below.
naptu2: This is the Ojuelegba Flyover. The same flyover from which the truck fell. You can see the yellow posts on the left and right (just above the minibus), but the barrier has been cut and removed.
Origin: Put a barrier before that bridge. It is a very small bridge with a short distance and even the best should not pass that bridge as there is usually a contest between large vehicles on that bridge every single day.
All the people and cars below the bridge are always in constant risk.
And all the public transport cause delays just below this bridge as they quickly try to get passengers just before getting on that bridge.
Government should just put barrier.
wonlasewonimi: Put a height bar to prevent trucks from using the bridge
The government did that in the early 2000s, but people kept removing the barrier. In fact, they put barriers on most of the flyovers in Lagos, but truck drivers used their trucks to destroy the barriers, NURTW officials removed the barriers and scrap metal sellers stole parts of some of the barriers.
naptu2: This truck accident at Ojuelegba has reminded me of the part of Bola Tinubu's war with the NURTW that I rarely write about. I have often written about the City Bus experiment, the war against agberos, the MOT issue, etc. but I rarely write about this part of the problem.
Governor Bola Tinubu decided that Danfos were one of the major causes of traffic jams on Lagos roads and that it was very dangerous for heavy duty vehicles to ply the many flyovers in the city, so he erected overhead bars at the entrances to most of the flyovers in Lagos.
You see, danfo buses usually convert the entrances to these flyovers into bus stops, which cause traffic jams and delay other road users, while heavy duty vehicles cause a huge strain on the flyovers and quite often fall off the bridges. Private vehicles, which are shorter than the buses and trucks, would be able to freely use the flyovers, while the buses and trucks would use the road below.
However, NURTW agberos, bus and truck drivers did not like this idea. Quite often drivers of heavy duty vehicles used their vehicles to destroy the overhead bars, while agberos and other thugs cut the bars in the middle of the night. The government often spent a lot of money replacing these bars until one day it finally gave up and stopped replacing them.
We are experiencing a similar problem in Lekki Phase 1. LCC built a pedestrian bridge to enable people cross the expressway. They also erected a metal fence in the median of the expressway to stop people running across and endangering their lives. You will not believe the number of times that people have destroyed that fence. LCC also stationed Man O War officials to arrest people that are jaywalking (or jayrunning), but this has not stopped the problem. People still destroyed the fence in the middle of the night. Now it seems like LCC have given up. They haven't replaced the fence in quite a while.
naptu2: Aha! This is what I was referring to. Luckily I've gotten a picture of it from Google maps.
The Bola Tinubu Administration put up these barriers to stop trucks and buses from using the flyover. It was not the first administration to do so. I know that a previous administration put up much larger and stronger barriers in the 1970s, but I can't remember who was governor at the time.
This particular barrier is at the flyover at Jibowu and it was put up by the Tinubu Administration, but see what is left of it. I remember clearly that this barrier was replaced several times when Tinubu was governor, but people kept removing it. All that is left is the posts. Every single time that it was replaced, people kept cutting off the barrier and leaving those two posts. They kept doing it until it got to a point that the government got fed up and left it like that.
You can see the yellow and black posts on either side of the road just before the bridge.
See picture 1 below.
naptu2: This is the Ojuelegba Flyover. The same flyover from which the truck fell. You can see the yellow posts on the left and right (just above the minibus), but the barrier has been cut and removed.
There is nothing in this world that will ever make me take anything you say seriously so long as you sit abroad and applaud people who are terrorising their own people. If you believe that what Simon Ekpa is doing is great, then you must go to Orlu/Orsu and enjoy the greatness. Until then, anything you write is fantasy and nonsense to me.
If it is so great, go there and enjoy the experience. It's only after you have done that that you can preach to me. Anything else is pure nonsense.
I am telling you about what people are experiencing daily and you are telling me stories.
I am not going to read or respond to your fantasies anymore until you have walked the talk.
A flat body truck has veered off the bridge onto the service lane at Ojuelegba, trapping a Honda car underneath. Earnest effort is currently being made towards evacuation.
A flat body truck has veered off the bridge onto the service lane at Ojuelegba, trapping a Honda car underneath. Earnest effort is currently being made towards evacuation.
I have written about this many times on my diary. There are people who live far away, outside Nigeria, who push this nonsense because they are not affected. I have seen people in Nigeria begin with this nonsense, but step away when it begins to affect them. MetaPhysical says kudos to autopiloters, why? Because none of his relations has been killed by them. They have not destroyed any store belonging to anyone that he knows. They have not extorted money from anyone he knows. (It's very sweet when you live far away and don't have to experience it every day). People who live in the area are complaining and backing Governor Soludo to get rid of the problem (https://www.nairaland.com/7047097/governor-soludo-moves-end-monday), but MetaPhysical who lives far away is applauding and encouraging terrorists who are making the lives of the people that they claim to be fighting for into a living hell (nobody has done more damage to the idea of Biafra than these terrorists. It's so bad that people are afraid to attend weddings and funerals in their homeland, all because of these lunatics). The last time someone told me this nonsense I told him that in one way or another everybody will be affected. Whether you live far away or close by, everybody will be affected. He has now changed his tune after they attempted to extort money from his father through violence. But according to MetaPhysical, killing innocent people, destroying their property, extorting money from innocent and suffering people and preventing them from earning a living in this harsh economy is not a crime (I'm sure he'll also say that the propagation of hatred of people based on their ethnicities, the view that someone like Pastor Kumuyi should be killed just because he is Yoruba, is not a crime and Adeyinka Grandson has just been given a peace prize by the UK Government https://www.nairaland.com/7057980/adeyinka-grandson-jailed-4.5-years ).
People who live far away should continue pretending that this is some kind of fantasy, one day, in one way or another, it will get to them and they will see reality. Maybe they or their relatives that will end up like Chike Akunyili, Justice Stanley Nnaji, Chioma (the student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University), the many poor keke riders or traders, including elderly traders, who have lost their goods or tricycles to these lunatics. Keep praising terrorists, you hear.
Travel › Re: Truck Falls Off Ojuelegba Bridge. by naptu2(op): 8:38am On Apr 03, 2022
