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O boy stay in your lane o

engineerd: I didn't know ibo was a race now! wonders shall never end! OKORO race??

Peter Obi is truly the most annoying governor we've had since the scourge of mbadinuju. I just pray ngige can run and by Gods grace win at the next election

Good we need more trolls if that is what will drive that soprano sounding aso rock house boy called peter obi to get his self back to awka and get to work. The monkey is trying to turn it into a tribal issue and some will succumb but the truth no go hide forever

dayokanu: Looks like el rufai is trolling Anambra

You dey vex o

Granted the man was a despot, but you must agree that an extra two or three months of his life would most likely have been means to an end in ridding us of some characters that have caused us even more grief today

Jakumo: I think God was not being fair in allowing Abacha to die on the down-stroke while phucking 2-dollar AIDS-infested Indian hookers.

A more befitting end would have been for the midget despot to have been tortured to death by a screaming mob, and for his tattered corpse to have then been dragged through the streets of his village by a trained hyena.

Khalifa. I wished you dead when you were alive but now I wish u had lived for two months longer. Then died

Fuuk off with your backwater analysis. You diseased cattle tick

namfav: oh where do these cowards come from now, can they give their names? probably ibos from the area who want to drag others into a war

help us all

@OP - moved in with tanks??

dayokanu: Bros that expensive designer shirt you are bending down to select has been worn by someone in America for like 5yrs before they washed and sent it to you

@ haka nai - shed more light on onitsha and illegal arms

haka_nai: Onitsha!!!! what can we say but na so e be!! Alot of illegal arms intercepted in Nigeria made for the locals somehow has that Onitsha connection.It seems like an illegal arms hub o!Funny thing it's distributed nation wide.As the merchants are after the cash!!!!!

Trailer load of arms, ammunition intercepted in Onitsha

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May 31, 2012 | 3:00 am

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By VINCENT UJUMADU
AWKA—THE Anambra State branch of  Importers Association of Nigeria and the National Task Force against illegal importation of firearms and ammunition said yesterday that they had intercepted a trailer load of dangerous arms and ammunition in the commercial city of Onitsha.

Briefing newmen, Chairman of the Association, Chief Emma Nwosu, said the weapons had been handed over to the police, explaining that in view of the development,  the association was re-strategizing to fight illegal importation of arms and ammunition into the South Eastern states, especially Onitsha.

According to Nwosu, the primary aim of importers and the task force was to ensure that the good image of genuine importers was restored, noting that the importation of contraband goods and dangerous arms and ammunition was denting the image of genuine businessmen.

He said: “We are saddled with the responsibility of restoring the damaged image of  genuine importers by the illegal importers who have been importing prohibited goods into the country”.

Nwosu decried the level of insecurity at the country’s borders, urging  government to strengthen the importers associations and the task force against illegal importation to tackle the menace through intelligence gathering and proper surveillance on the movement of goods into the country.

Corroborating,  Head of Operations of the group, Chief Alex Igwemma, lamented the high rate of insecurity in some parts of the country which he attributed to porous borders and called for active participation of stakeholders to curb the menace.

Igwemma said the association was working with relevant security agencies to arrest the illegal importers of dangerous explosives and other weapons across the country and urged the public to volunteer useful information to relevant agencies.

He added that Onitsha sea port when operational would be under serious security surveillance to check the proliferation of importation of illegal goods and arms and ammunition into the city.

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O boy shattap! No be your ppl introduce motor park touting and thuggery? Now u have ppl running after buses and taxis with receipts in one hand and kondo on the other all over the federation. Na only una be saints.

T9ksy: And wtf are you lot waiting for? The sooner, the better jo. we are all sick and tired of sharing the same

nationality with you guys. So, please go jo and take all your fake drugs and spare-parts dealers with you.

Chei!

Buhari's inflammatory rhetoric helped inflame the mobs that killed many southerners, now he's doing it again. Can't this man be picked up and warned?

I don't know why this sent a chill through my spine. It never really hit me, how surrounded nigeria is by backward, anarchic wastelands like chad and niger. Besides benin republic and cameroun (to an extent) all neighbouring countries are in one way or the other aiding, arming and harbouring boko haram.

Damn, now this is so weak.

*Ileke-IdI:
To be honest, I always have this intuits feeling that Igbos are part of this boko haram operation. Their desperate and continuos F.A.I.L.E.D (and should I say "Shameful" ) attempts to divide Nigeria simply coincide with boko haram palava.

But would they actually kill hundreds of their ppl to achieve the land of the teletubby sun? Well. . . . June is almost here, GEJ did say he'll put an end to boko haram by then.

Very true. I am surprised he wasn't part of the event. I actually went there thinking I'd get tto meet the dude. For all I know he was there on the downlow

Jarus: I think Seun Osewa is highly underrated in Nigeria. He should be part of these speakers as the founder of Nigeria's largest online forum, a very important social medium.

I got there pretty late but I managed to hear a couple of speeches by Hon. Farouk Lawan and some british guy from DFID

On my way there right now. Better late tthan never

No be your bros start topic over "controversy" wey nobody dey debate. Abeg make we hear word

babsjnr: Ibo get mouth no action I remember during june 12 disaster all of them disappear to they village.

How many jobs has he created? Rubbish

Very poor comparison in my opinion. Mugabe has hounded, murdered and victimised his own people in the name of dictatorship. The man evicted white farmers and gave his people land but a loaf of bread costs something like 1 million zimbabwe pounds or something like that. I had a zimbabwean chick years back in the UK who lost her father to mugabe's hit squads. Now compare that to a mandela who left his country after a term in office and bequeathed a legacy of unity and prosperity (even if zuma is messing up)

Chei! What and obtuse little girl. That's what you get when you copy oyibo culture and fail to flog students in our schools. Stoopid brat!

Negro_Ntns: Seriously, there should be no jump to conclude this is BokoHaram. There are worse enemies within with secret plots to cause problems in face of the free-for-all security breaches.

If this is Boko, OPC must followup, if Ibos or SS people are behind this act then OPC must also act.

This is some extremely insidious nonsense. So igbos or SS ppl going about their business are in your view plotting some scheme to invade the south west?? Guy too many pulp history pamphlets and overactive bigotry is really messing with your mind.

Negro_Ntns: Naptu,

I do not have the ruling on this dispute. Thank God for the wisdom of the Idejo chiefs refusing to support the British treaty without first getting an outlined clarity on the rightful owners of the land. If it hadn't been for their resolve, Federal Government through the various regimes would have kicked Aworis off their land and indeed declared it a "No man's land.

Property owners should be made to pay property tax to the State Government since the land is leased. The deed to the land gives authority to develop or occupy but the right to use ought to be levied.

Err dude property owners in lagos and all other states in the federal republic of nigeria DO pay Ground Rent and Tenement Rate to the state government

;DChai! Excellent abeg give me your account number make I put money inside

Ojiofor: Gowon=Onye Ara + Onye Asi = Osu Imi.Now u are begging for forgiveness and still lying at the same time.

Kobojunkie: See how spoilt the average mind is. So because you got teargassed back in 1993, you have done all you can?? ROFLMAO!!

^^ you are a better internet troll than you are a comedian. I repeat what have you ever stood up for in your life.

@ Gbawe - Spot on! What pains me about Obasanjo is that no man has ever had the opportunity to write his name in gold as many times as he has had. In addition to choosing shagari over awolowo, he forced donald duke/el - rufai to step down for yar adua/ GEJ. At times it makes me feel like weeping

@1025 - read my post again we are saying the same thing

Kobojunkie: Because those of you who were children in the 80's have yet to step up to your responsibility as citizens. Nigeria is not going to serve you freedom on a platter of gold. You have to take what is yours and so far, it seems you 80's/90's children don't even consider yourselves worth much.

Abeg can someone help me translate bullshit into french so I can qualify your comments aptly. What do you know about responsibility or the sacrifice that students like myself faced when I got teargassed and once locked up overnight at panti for joining street marches with pro-democracy groups during the june 12 struggle. What do you know about sacrifice or taking destiny in your hands. What did you ever stand up for?

As a child of the eighties, I and millions of others my age grew up in the era of the Military Heads of State. I personally was old enough to see buhari, ibb and abacha seize power turn by turn style. Over those years we saw a steady decline and accelerated rot of particularly the ibb era. Power supply became erratic, violent crime grew in freuency and the poverty index swelled because our economy began to stagnate leading to massive umemployment caused by capital flight and the fleeing of many companies, especially foreign business owners.

Ibb's plague sparked dreams of deliverance into a bright future free from military rule that had brought us nothing but repression and chaos. As fate would have it, 1999 was the year that the military would return to the barracks and democracy would return to allow us rebuild our country in freedom, honesty and unity. Well... we know how it looks 13years after. Corruption is at unprecedented level, national consciousness is dead and ethnic sentiment is at its highest level EVER, the economy is paraplegic and sputtering to cut the crap, the entire nigerian project as represented by the Fourth Republic could be described as being at the lowest point in history.

The question is how did we get it wrong? I personally think that the blame should rest at the feet of Gen Olusegun Obasanjo. As the repository of all our hopes for nigeria his actions or lack of, set tthe pace. Listing all his sins will take ten pages but what set the tone for a corrupt and diseased democracy can be traced to an incident (for those who can remember) in 1999 when it was revealed by Tell magazine and a couple of other publications that he attenpted to bribe members of the House of Reps with ghana must go bags full of cash to buy their obedience. That I believe was the moment when the frightened devils became bold and stealing became normal again like it was under the military. Only this time the civilians are making the khaki boys look like amateurs.

I've been trying to get online copies of Tell magazine so I can pinpoint the particular event. Still looking

CyberG: Alh, no I am not angry, why would I? I repeat when the law that upholds Nigeria currently expires; EVERYONE including the posters MUST carry their slippers on their heads and LEAVE. Simple! If you are lucky enough, Naija stays like it is but once everyone gets their own country, you will either leave or become permanently unavailable. No need to get angry about it!!

All this chest beating about people leaving. Its hot air as far as I'm concerned. The real Lagosians no dey do all this xenophobic gra gra. I believe exposure to diverse peoples, nations and tongues has ensured a level of sophistication that hinterland states may not easily meet up to.

If the country is to split, issues like the question of non-indigenes shall be addressed maturedly and properly by leaders of thought and not street mobs.


Back to topic - simple answer to the question is

1. Aworis originally owned the lands we refer today as Eko
2. The land use act of 1978 puts it in the hands of the governor on behalf of lagosians