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I couldn't cry for one of my unemployed brother who took loan to farm, here in Akure, only for this Fulanis to come destroy the farm with their cows..

He managed to repay the loans and now teaching in primary school.

Nigeria, which way naw?

Mr Delete Mumudu, does that changes the fact that Saraki loots and looted?

Mtchew! Disappointed.

Kei, Nigerians no go kill person

I don't know why we care less for our workforce in this country, even those in the health sector.
Very dangerous!!

pamcode:
It like the stuff is everywhere. Nnpc mega station Ib Soldiers there collect five hundred bucks to allow Cars enter from the other side and even collect bribes to help people get kegs

That's a very poor antecedent. They should be the standard of discipline. Now I couldn't help but ask 'how are the mighty fallen'?

Abimloaded:
Which filling station in Akure please ?
I also reside in Akure

Come to Oke ijebu axis

Op, here is my own experience.

https://www.nairaland.com/3046676/how-got-scammed-nigerian-soldier

And those mods can't even push to fp,

Mtchew.. Who the pictures help?

PROPAGANDANIST

Do I need bother myself in the face of nepotism?
Anyway, optimism is the best

Quakertellicus1:
Because we are not meeting daily demand from all our refineries.

We need 70 million liters. Our refineries can only produce 17 million, out of which Port produces 5 million.

That means that we have to import from outside...which is becoming costlier thanks to the depreciation of the naira vs the dollar, and thanks to CBN restrictions on forex(to prevent the naira from depreciating faster than it already is).

So, marketers ignore the DPR, and the official price and sell at high prices...so that they can have enough naira to get the dollars they need to import...and at the same time make a profit, so that they can pay their workers adequately.

This has been the narration for the past one month. Isn't not time we get reprieve?

Still being sold at #150 here in Akure o

Keystonn:
I talk am ... Yorubas are hypocrites

I hope it's won't be too late, the time you will eventually realized the Yorubas are who you actually can not do without.. .

Lagos is working, and should serve as an epitome of development to other Nigerian states. Enough of mouth promises without action. It's time we have leaders with vision and foresight.

God Bless us all

Not hilarious jo

We'll wait till after Fayose's tenure to see what happens.. .

Hi Op. You did a very great job.

More grease to your elbow

Here is the government again, doing the only thing she does best... .

Can someone start the processes of my deportation?

Maybe to Panama

HIGHESTPOPORI:
As far as you voted for Change because of ur brother who is d vp,just enjoy the Change!

I was an inec volunteer worker and didn't vote. However, I am certain a change of government was necessary owning to the massive theft under d previous govt, alongside other anomalies.

One simple thing you should know is, if the new govt does well it is for me and you, and if otherwise it's still for me and you. But definitely my support will shift if it's the latter, because I don't allow bigotry, ethnicity or religion to cloud my reasoning.

I am for what is RIGHT to both the lowly and the high

rottennaija:
You had a good fone that can video, you should have video them and post it here in nairaland and leave the rest to the social media. By now, the military headquarters would have done something about it.

True but you know that can be risky, owing to their aggressiveness

Ioannes:
next time if it's possible (I know it's dangerous) set up your phone's camera in advance to catch everything on video.

then post it on YouTube and watch the soldier's life go to nuts.

True, that's one thing I should have done. The shock I got realising that they took over the filling station really weakened me. On many occasions the station manager will stop vehicles the soldiers had allowed in through the exit gate, but all is to no avail.

DaBullIT:
While i am at liberty to doubt the credibility of the OP


I also would think it's not in the realm of impossibilities


If they are real Soldiers , the joke is on them and it's a shame to our country

I am however inclined to believe they may be fake soldiers and it was a scam perpetrated by the filling station (especially if the owner was an ex military or has military links )

My brother, it's all true I posted there. They are not fake as they were drafted from Owena Barracks in Ondo road, though they have the Nigerian army Insignia, no name tag was on them, but this particular soldier I got his nameto be Yinka, from someone who knows them at d barracks.

Useless DPOs everywhere

GworoChewinMaga:
You have been a staunch advocate of brute military force which you mistook for discipline.


You like many here are or were advocating for a military dictator as your democratic elected leader and have supported staunchly his lopsided anti corruption war which is just a guise to suppress the political opposition.

You like most here have been raining curses on the judiciary which normally would have been your only reprieve .


This is the society you wanted and so shall it continue until you wake up and listen carefully to Fela's song zombie.

No no no, do not misunderstand. I have always advocate a just and peaceful society. I never advocate for a military Takeover, while I understand democracy has its defects (as in d Nigerian scenario), the judiciary too cannot be totally exonerated from the ills of our society here. the truth is, the whole system is bad, and it touches everyone, no matter ur affiliation.

I'm beginning to understand that the solution to this menace lies in our hands as citizens, but seems we r not ready because what divides us are more than what unites us, and that's what the political class preys on. Until we start seeing the Nigerian situation above ethnic and religious lines, I'm not seeing us overcoming this problems in the near future.

YorubaWoman:
[color=#8C001A]It will get better.

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Amen o.
An elderly/grey hair man was whipped inside his car, with his side mirror and and front bumper damage, his crime was: after staying on the queue for like 10 hours, he was not told to come in, even when the inside is clear for him to come in.

GworoChewinMaga:
Why you should see the army as a symbol of discipline stems from your own erroneous definition of discipline.
It is no secret that most if not virtually all Nigerian adults today where conditioned and raised with the fear of the cane.
Your average Nigerian does not understand why laws should be uphleld but only sees the repercussions that will follow if caught breaking the law.
This has made your average Nigeria lawless and indiscipline and also highly respectful to the military who wield the long stick.

True! In fact many other things happened there that day, that space won't allow me to write. Of serious concern to me is how one can get justice against such military malady

SleekMallam:
You must be an iPod yoot for attempting to rubbish the military.

How?

otokx:
Sorry, by now you should have known that lawlessness and corruption is all over Nigeria.

Why will you queue in a petrol station where Soldiers are holding sway.

Anyway wisdom is profitable to direct next time.

Hmm, I regretted not leaving the filling station before my mom arrived.. One thing must teach someone sha, never thought the military is into this rubbish.

I woke up at around 5:15am on that blessed Saturday 9th of April, 2016, hoping to go pick a good spot on the queue the Total filling station queue located at Oke Ijebu Akure, owing to the information I got the previous day about the offloading of the scarce product. I located a good spot not very far to the station, and the waiting begins. The station manager called in soldiers as usual to help coordinate the crowd that has now amassed inside and outside the filling station.

The soldiers arrived at around 8:50am, and cleared out everywhere, manned both the entrance and exit gates of the station to now facilitate the smooth sales of the product. Little did we know, that those of us on the legal queue are going to face one of our toughest and most injustice-filled day of our lives.

The soldiers in a well-coordinated manner, even against the wishes of the station manager, started allowing people in from the exit gates after collecting #1500 from the motorists. As if it was a joke that will end after a while, the practice became the norm and vehicles were just trooping in from the exit gate to the detriments of those on the legal queue, in which some had slept overnight at the filling station.

WTH? this are the soldiers I keep on praising everyday on Nairaland for the war on Boko Haram, how on earth could they stoop so low to be satisfying the ones who can afford an extra #1500, to the loss of those who are patiently on the queue. I decided not to participate in this corruption, even when those at my back on the queue decided to go follow the soldiers’ way. Earlier in the day, I criticized SP Saraki for corruption on nairaland, so how would I join the military in participating in the same? I also queried the mentality of those at the filling station who had earlier on argued that it is only the military that can repair Nigeria, in the face of corruption prosecution.

By 5:50pm, I got to the front of the entrance queue (mind you: the queue was not so long or terrible but was moving very slowly since the soldiers care-less for those on it because they couldn’t afford to pay them #1500), my mom who is now very worried that I have not eaten, and was cold because of the afternoon rain, and worst still that I’m still unable to get the commodity since dawn came to meet me at the station.

To another greatest surprise of mine, was when one of the soldiers met us requesting for #1500, WHHAAAT? He commanded I get out of the queue and start going home, since I said I will not pay. I insisted on not paying, and he now on top of his voice cursing that, nothing will make him allow me enter to get fuel that day. This caused a brief argument between me and my mom, I maintained it's better we go home than pay the gay, while my mom plead that, since I have been on the queue since morning, I should just pay him so it won’t be a total waste of effort.

After much persuasion I paid him #1000, only to enter inside and not be sold fuel, as the station manager declared they are ending the day’s operation. I immediately went back to the soldier to refund my #1000, since I was unable to get the product he charged me for, and he denied ever seeing me not to talk of collecting #1000 from me. My mom also talk to him and he insisted not collecting any money from us, and went to join His colleague as they drove off.

That is how I was scammed by my most respected institution in Nigeria, I was so disappointed that I couldn’t sleep that night.
Nigerians, what can we do about our endemic corruption? I am tired of just praying, praying and praying all the time while this leaders continues to careless about the citizens. I think it’s time the citizenry start having their destinies in their hands against evils in this country.

This is adding salt to injury.

How do u know you are parking indiscriminately on a queue?

jonathanOz:
I once raised an issue like this, and nairalanders lambasted me non stop. I hate what the fulanis do but i think the media is unfair. A single story is dangerous

Does that changes the fact that they go about with weapons lately instead of rod?
Does that changes the fact that they allow their animals to feed on farmland products?
Does that changes the fact that they kill those farmers who had only harm their cows, in a bid to protect their farmlands?

To them cow life is equal to that of human, because they r cows themselves.

What you should be clamouring for is justice on behalf of their victims, because so far the media coverage that's is itching you is not helping the victim due to fed govt insensitivity.

kkkp:
if you don't know, to them yes

My question is to you and not them. Are u not d one with myopia and bigotry trying to rationalize their killing of human in place of a cow.