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Daewoo Racer/Le Mans = Opel Kadet = Mark II Vauxhall Astra = Pontiac LeMans = Daewoo Cielo (slight design changes).

sylve11: Daewoo and opel na the same company?

General Motors Corporation (GMC). They had shares in Daewoo (Korea), Isuzu (Japan), owned Opel (Germany), Vauxhall (Britain), Saab (Sweden) and the General Motors brands in the US (Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, GMC, Cadillac, Pontiac, etc).

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Civilised societies are governed by laws and rules. There is no law that permits uniformed personnel to use the BRT lane whenever they feel like.

One of the tenets of democracy/rule of law is equality before the law. Usually, the question we should ask is, "what does the law say"? However, decades of military rule has turned that question on its head. We ask "do you know who I am"?

Without laws or equal implementation of the law, we return to a state of nature where life is nasty, brutish and short. In that state, the rich and strong do whatever they want, while the masses suffer. Is that the kind of Nigeria we want?

The US president's motorcade stops at traffic lights when he is not on official assignment. In the president's limousine (the beast), the only window that rolls down is the driver's side window. Why? So that he can pay tolls at toll gates. The president also pays air fares (at commercial rates) when he is using Air Force one on a private trip.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013534067_obama27.html


In Lagos, fire engines, ambulances and other emergency vehicles are allowed to run through stop lights and on BRT lanes when they are on an emergency mission.

[size=14pt]Uniformed men and traffic law violations[/size]

By Editorial Board

 

Tuesday, 18 Oct 2011


THERE have been concerns over widespread violations of traffic rules by uniformed men, a development that poses a great danger to road users. Such an unruly attitude is obviously unbecoming of professionals whose lodestars are discipline and order. The Federal Road Safety Commission recently decried the rate at which military and paramilitary officers violated traffic regulations in Lagos. The FRSC Lagos Sector Commander, Jonas Agwu, observed that uniformed men were in the habit of contravening traffic rules with impunity. As he put it, “It has become an embarrassment to us that no attempt has been made by the leadership of the various law enforcement agencies to check their men in spite of our constant appeals.” He noted that “people hide under their professional calling to break traffic laws…”


Apart from occasional violent clashes, the tendency of security operatives, especially soldiers, to disobey traffic rules, creates gridlock that sometimes causes fatal road accidents. FRSC claims that excessive speeding, traffic light violations, driving against the traffic and other acts of recklessness are perpetrated by uniformed men with impunity. According to Agwu, 10 of 50 persons arrested for not using a helmet while riding their motorcycles are uniformed men. In the past, such officers and men who found themselves in politicians’ convoy had knocked down pedestrians due to reckless driving.


Clashes between the Police and other military personnel are often attributed to flagrant violation of traffic rules. Recently, another Army-Police clash was averted at Obanikoro, Lagos Mainland during a pandemonium that occurred when soldiers in different vehicles drove through the Bus Rapid Transit lane reserved for LAMATA passenger buses operated by Lagos State. The quick intervention of the Commander, 9th Brigade, Nigerian Army, Ikeja, Brig. Gen. Sanusi Muazu, saved the day.


Occasionally, innocent citizens are brutalised on the flimsy allegation of failing to grant the right of way to military motorcades. On November 3, 2008, a young lady, Uzoma Okere, was brutalised on Victoria Island, Lagos by some personnel of the Nigerian Navy. Four ratings escorting Rear Admiral Harry Arogundade, the then Flag Officer Commanding, Logistics Command, accused Okere of using her car to obstruct their superior’s siren-blaring convoy during a traffic snarl. In May 2009, Justice Tijani Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Lagos awarded Mr. Mike Igbokwe the sum of N100 million in damages against the Nigerian Army arising from an assault on him by soldiers on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway four years earlier. Again, the security detail of an Air Vice-Marshal dehumanised three civilians in Ikeja, Lagos State, on the allegation of driving near the air force gate.


In August, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bauchi State chapter, claimed that one Andee Iheme and his wife were brutally assaulted by soldiers from the 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi at Gidan-Mai Roundabout on the allegation that the couple blocked their way.


The lawlessness of the uniformed personnel must be checked. Senior military officers should set good examples. Conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman should be discouraged by service chiefs. Military authorities should immediately issue motor vehicle traffic supervision rules for the various services. Offenders should be made to pay the appropriate fines in accordance with the authorised fine schedule. Road traffic officials should strictly enforce the rules and bring any violator to justice.


The present approach of dismissing errant other ranks by the military authorities is not enough. Senior officers that encourage their security detail to misbehave should also be held liable and dealt with accordingly. There is nothing as dangerous to the society as an unruly military. A society’s level of civilisation is best measured by the extent to which law enforcement agencies, particularly the military, subject themselves to civil authorities. As members of the civilised societies, soldiers are not expected to be above the law of the land. In 2006, a survey by Harris Poll described the United States military as the most trusted institution in the country.


There is an urgent need to reverse the poor image of the Nigerian military and other uniformed forces. They should be repositioned to be the epitome of absolute deference to constituted authorities. Curiously, Nigeria’s security men who are on peacekeeping missions abroad comport themselves and even win laurels. But, ideally, charity should begin at home.

http://archive.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201110184542570

Governor Fashola "arrests" okada riders and bus drivers.

https://www.nairaland.com/811537/fashola-arrests-5-okada-riders


Governor Amaechi "arrests" NDDC boss.

https://www.nairaland.com/470556/gov-amaechi-stops-nddc-boss


LASTMA+police arrest FRSC official (he resisted arrest and got thugs to beat up the LASTMA officials).

http://www.compassnewspaper.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5539&catid=32&Itemid=47


Equality before the law.

It's one law for everybody. Fashola has accosted okada riders, Nigerians, foreigners, bus drivers and an airforce officer. I would have been disappointed with him if he reprimanded all these people and ignored or gave special treatment to an army officer.

Tinyemeka: I tire. What do they even mean by "...USD1bn and counting"?

I was made to believe that just before his death, MJ had almost gone bankrupt. Now I'm hearing this amount. Well na dem sabi.

Jermaine and co sef should be ashamed of themselves. Going this dirty way. As for their dada, MJ never had much love for him.

MJ is worth more in death than he was worth during the last years of his life.

1) His death triggered an increase in demand for everything MJ (memorabilia, album sales, merchandise, etc).

2) While alive he had to spend some of that money to sustain an expensive lifestyle. He doesn't spend a cent in death.

This is one of the reasons for the controversy. For example, Sony want to release some of his unfinished works. Some members of the family are in support of that, while some are against it.

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michelin89: And to think i read that thread few weeks back. my nose don suffer!

There's absolutely nothing wrong with your nose.

This thread is waaaaay better than the "assassination plot against Musiwa" thread!

Boy do I love this! I've just landed in heaven!

[size=14pt]You spoiled little b****': Extraordinary moment singer Janet Jackson 'slaps niece Paris' as family feud descends into violence [/size]

Janet 'storms house' with brothers Jermaine and Randy in 'bid to remove three children'

Footage shows singer attempting to snatch Paris' cell phone

Janet accused of slapping her niece and calling her a 'spoiled little b****'

Paris reportedly screams: 'This is our house. Not the Jackson family house. Get the f*** out!"

Cops called to family home following physical fight between extended Jackson family

Feud erupted over Michael Jackson's disputed $500m will, which leaves everything to the children and nothing to his siblings

Matriarch Katherine has not been in contact with grandchildren for nine days after her children took her to Arizona and cut off her phone access

Lawyer for Michael Jackson's children claims they 'aren't safe' around Jackson family

Marlon Jackson gives a tearful interview - and claims he has been cut-off from contacting his mother

By Jennifer Madison and Lizzie Smith

PUBLISHED: 15:12, 24 July 2012 | UPDATED: 11:56, 25 July 2012

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This photo shows the extraordinary moment Janet Jackson is believed to have slapped her niece Paris and called her a 'spoiled little b****' during an attempt to 'ambush' Michael Jackson's three children.

Police were called as the singer, along with brothers Randy and Jermaine, stormed the children's house as the feud between the warring clan erupted into open warfare on Monday.

When Janet allegedly screamed abuse at Paris the 14-year-old responded with a slap of her own, a source told TMZ, telling her aunt: 'This is our house. Not the Jackson family house. Get the f*** out!"


The argument then moved inside with Jermaine and Randy allegedly getting into a physical altercation with Trent Jackson, Joe Jackson's nephew who has sided with his young cousins.

At one point, Trent allegedly had Randy in a headlock; he is also accused of punching Jermaine in the mouth.

No arrests were made, but officials say there is an active battery investigation.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2178262/Janet-Jackson-loses-Extraordinary-moment-singer-slaps-Paris-calls-spoiled-little-b-.html

This is not enough. We need to revisit the issue of how we train our armed forces personnel. I do believe that officers are properly trained to respect the laws of the land, but I know that other ranks (NCOs, ratings and airmen) are told terrible things about bloody civilians and policemen. This must change.

michelin89: I doubt it is. there were no caricature!

Yes it is. The caricature part is just my memory playing tricks on me. That picture is still on nairaland and google images. You should try and get them to take it down for security reasons.

https://www.nairaland.com/347640/what-moderators-still-doing

https://www.nairaland.com/111460/girl-bigger-nose-than-this

Spot the difference.


1) Lance Corporal Sunday Ayodeji who drove on the BRT lane in 2011, resisted arrest, fought with police, called for reinforcements and endangered citizens.

2) Colonel Ki Yusuf who was accosted by Governor Fashola

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