₦airaland Forum

Nemere2020:
Rather than having them line up on the streets just so they can be handed a pittance after they have been deemed to have suffered enough, why not establish proper feeding centres in several zones in Lagos, where people can show up at scheduled times to pick whatever welfare items you want to give them? Philanthropy should not require that people be debased before they are fed. We get it, maintaining a crowd feeds your inner Narcissus, but what of the associated risks of that many people standing by the roadside? Then there is the issue of the public resources that would need to be regularly deployed to maintain security around that place. As he is president, security agents must have had to heighten surveillance activities around his house to ensure that mischief-makers do not hide among those beggars. Why the need for that much waste when there are far more efficient ways of doing things? He can redirect the people to the feeding centres where trained personnel will take care of the business smoothly and humanely. If he does not want to run a charity programme all year round, the centres can do it quarterly. What matters is that the “human” is not taken out of humanitarianism.

Looking at that sight, I have also wondered if Tinubu ever spares a thought for his neighbours who invested in real estate only to be forced to endure the nuisance of beggars invading the area, especially around festive periods. Prime real estate as a place like Bourdillon Road claims to be should ideally be typified by an aesthetically pleasing environment. Three factors typically differentiate quality real estate—access (to cultural centres and the added benefit of the nearness of transportation infrastructure such as the airport), appearance (serenity, clean and well-maintained environment, good air quality, etc.) and amenities (from excellent public schools to well-maintained public parks). If you live in a place like Bourdillon Road, the last thing you should ever wake up to see is the endless queue of beggars. Otherwise, what is the point of purchasing luxury?

Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty. If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance. That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.

If how he thinks this is the way fathers of actual prosperous nations like the United Arab Emirates imagined wealth generation, the country would not be the haven that drives Nigerian leaders to rob people to just to buy their luxury estates. The difference in their respective mindset largely explains why his approach to economic reforms is to first beggarise the nation. His reforms could have been activated with a view toward generating prosperity not a sadistic mentality that relishes seeing someone with five Rolls Royce reduced to nothing, but no. Thanks to his vision, Nigeria now has more beggars, on the streets, social media, public bureaucracies, and corporate offices, likely more than at any time in its history. You can hardly greet people online these days without getting a request from someone begging for money.
https://punchng.com/the-eyesore-on-bourdillon-road/

sagitariusbaby:
"Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty".

Tinubu is a desaster.

Mindlog:
Does alms giving done dignifying the humanity of the recipients, not part of Zakat?

The writer, wrote this: :"Here is a man who has occupied leadership positions for a quarter of a century but refuses to come up with an original idea regarding how to do charity while simultaneously maintaining people’s dignity and public decency".

gasparpisciotta:
As a Muslim, Tinubu believes that is part his zakat.

Alms giving has become part of our society especially when it involves our people from the North.

Even if he organizes them, they will still find a way to circumvent the motive, I believe he is used to them hanging around for a day or two after when they all disappear to reappear when it’s time to converge again🤣

No matter what you give those guys they will come back to the street

Fearyourcreator:
No be today people dey queue for there . Don't be hypocritical. Again many Nigerians love begging, free things too much

lexy2014:
pls always try to read.

even if you dont understand the law, the name of the law tells u what the law is about

babajero:
you still never answered my question.

lexy2014:
what is your question that I have not answered?

SLIDEwaxie:
Tinubu na arindin but your father and mother dey there without a single achievement

babajero:
Are Muslims going against Islam, muhammed and Quran that stipulated begging as one arm of Islam?

Ilekokonit:
What the bastard drug dealing treasury looter called Bola Ahmed Tinubu (who was last week globally voted as the 3rd most corrupt president of the world for 2024) should have done once he stole, rigged and bribed his way into Aso Rock was to institute a social security system all across Nigeria where there is a legal minimum backed by law that the state must provide to EVERY unemployed person regularly and paid direct into their bank accounts like they do in civilized countries instead of the rubbish that the drug crazed Tinubu currently enjoys viewing on his street.

Eranko jatijati (Bloody Animal)

lexy2014:
I don't know.

Does your quran and mohammed ask you to beg?

Are Muslims going against Islam, muhammed and Quran by not begging?

How is your question related to and how does it negate the Saudi Arabia anti-begging law?

What does the law stipulate?

babajero:
al-majirin that breeds beggars is been backed as Islamic doctrine by imams, alfas, sheikhs and everything that have to do with Muslims hierarchy. So who are you to go against what your imams support?

Any Muslim that says Islam is against begging is saying that Mohammed and Quran is saying rubbish.

lexy2014:
that is not what I asked you.

1. Does your quran and mohammed ask you to beg?

2. Are Muslims going against Islam, muhammed and Quran by not begging?

3. How is your question related to and how does it negate the Saudi Arabia anti-begging law?

4. What does the law stipulate?

shoodboi2:
Thank you for your insight. I didn’t even know the crowd used to go to Abiola’s house. Plus I never heard that they go during Muslim festivals. I, like most people, assumed they only went to Tinubu’s house at the end of the year.

Actually, this news about people lining up outside Tinubu’s house for handouts at the end of the year, has been making headlines over the past 4/5 years. And no one ever attributed it to religion. It’s even more of an ethnic thing than anything.

Blord, one rich dude who is under 30 years old, did something similar for his people in his town. And many Igbo millionaires do something similar in their villages too. And I know that many politicians and rich folks in the North and here in the South West do the same too. Such is quite common around Nigeria and has nothing to do with religion and it’s quite normal that people go to the houses of rich folks for money and food at the end of the year.

My grouse with the article has to do with the writer trying to frame it as a Muslim thing. It clearly has nothing to do with Islam, yet the dumbo writer attributed it to Islam and their the anti-Muslim squad here on nairaland is suddenly going on with it. I actually researched the so-called Abimbola Adelakun’s post on Punch (after reading your post) and she appears to have an anti-Muslim sentiment.

In all, I just thought it was necessary to comment to counter the anti-Muslim sentiment that Nairaland has been spreading over the past few years. Thank you for your insight once again.

shoodboi2:
Thanks for this. Actually, this issue has been making rounds over the past four to five years. No one likes it too and we all used to condemn it and talk about how it indicates the poverty in Lagos. People even used it to mock APC at some point. The issue has to do with the lady Islamizing the whole thing and trying to attribute it to Islam. This event happens everywhere -- even in the East.

babajero:
1. the only muhammed I know is the one that have kiosk on the street, and if Quran is the only book left to be read on earth I wouldn't even near it because that book is nothing but a satanic verses or manual for evil.

2. Muslims have never and can never go against begging in fact you guys encourage it in your mosques.
Saudi Arabia enacting a law to cut down the menace of external beggars disturbing their tourists doesn't mean they are against begging.

3. The law enacted by Saudi Arabia has nothing to do with Muslims begging, they just did it because of the tourists that comes to their country every year for pilgrimage and not because they are against begging.

4. It stipulates that they are against professional begging, that is to say they are against those that organise themselves to beg. For you information Saudi Arabia is not against al-majirin.

babajero:
Are Muslims going against Islam, muhammed and Quran that stipulated begging as one arm of Islam?

sagitariusbaby:
their greatest achievement is giving birth to reasonable children like my siblings and I w how are doing exceptionally well in our chosen course not Tinubu and the father of your fathers that are receiving curses daily from Nigerians and birthing queer children like you

gasparpisciotta:
Sorry I engaged you. Perfect healing 🤣