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PlasmaTV:
When I was still in town, three incidents made me almost give up on Lagos and agberos.


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One time, I was going somewhere in the morning. Say 8am. I had a traveling bag (note that I wasn't traveling).

I was at Ojota bridge area when suddenly, 3 young guys accosted me and started hailing me, telling me to give them something for the weekend. I told them in English that I didn't have shishi to give. You wouldn't believe that these fewls threatened to seize my phone if I didn't give them money.
I changed it to Yoruba and cussed them. They scuttled away. They thought I was a JJC.


2
Another bitter experience was when BAT visited Lagos and caused heavy traffic. My guy who worked was going home but because of terrible traffic, everybody had to trek at a point. Agberos wanted to snatch his bag and in the process, they stabbed his chest. He bled out like a chicken on the side of the road, with virtually nobody coming to help. Best graduating student of the faculty fa. His daughter was just a few months old.


If Lagos doesn't rid itself of agberos, the state would implode in 20 years time.

it has exploded already, you can imagine the petty stealing going on in even areas within Lagos.

probably ONIBA OF IBA..That side wey full of ma lams wey don turns LASU GATES to IDP

This is what you get when you allow animals run the affairs the society

PlasmaTV:
When I was still in town, three incidents made me almost give up on Lagos and agberos.


1
One time, I was going somewhere in the morning. Say 8am. I had a traveling bag (note that I wasn't traveling).

I was at Ojota bridge area when suddenly, 3 young guys accosted me and started hailing me, telling me to give them something for the weekend. I told them in English that I didn't have shishi to give. You wouldn't believe that these fewls threatened to seize my phone if I didn't give them money.
I changed it to Yoruba and cussed them. They scuttled away. They thought I was a JJC.


2
Another bitter experience was when BAT visited Lagos and caused heavy traffic. My guy who worked was going home but because of terrible traffic, everybody had to trek at a point. Agberos wanted to snatch his bag and in the process, they stabbed his chest. He bled out like a chicken on the side of the road, with virtually nobody coming to help. Best graduating student of the faculty fa. His daughter was just a few months old.


If Lagos doesn't rid itself of agberos, the state would implode in 20 years time.

Thats why they don’t want PDP to enter cause once they do na to remove all of them..

creolehunt:
I would never understand how a grown man will wake up in the morning happy knowing that he has no job, skill or future. Just thuggery. How do they sleep at night knowing that their lives can be cut short at anytime or that they can cut short someone's life at anytime

I doubt if they think about anything else but eat, smoke, drink and cause trouble.

This news is one sided. What stops you from mentioning the name of the so called monarch. The werey monarch is Jafo,Oba oniba.

helinues:
There is no sincerity in your submission. Just as usual whatever you accused others for must be something you mastered

Please, where, in my comment, did I infer that Agberoism is only in Lagos state?

Dzzzz:
Thats why they don’t want PDP to enter cause once they do na to remove all of them..

Lagos, under jagajaga, has turned Lagos state to a family inheritance. 🤡
PDP will hardly see the light of day.

QuinModah:
it has exploded already, you can imagine the petty stealing going on in even areas within Lagos.

Yep yep yep
They're everywhere, virtually.
These guys even steal brazenly in traffic ooo.

Sirianese:
It's only in Lagos that I see able-bodied men who refuse to work, but hang around the motor parks all day; once they see any decently dressed man they start hailing the person and he is supposed to give them money for food....

Yep

helinues:
Because you made it look like agberos only existed in Lagos state. That's a fallacy

Where and how, please?
Btw, Lagos can sort it's agberos problem. If it does, there wouldn't be need for unnecessary comparison. I stayed in Lagos for years. It has a decaying agberoism problem. Take it or leave it.

WesleyPepper:
Won fi e je seriki , o tun du lemomu
I never liked that Oniba guy .
Sanwoolu should read the riot act Abeg

Is it not the new guy, the one wearing a ton of gold on his neck, hands, it remains to put on his ancle.
The late predecessor was such a gentle man.

creolehunt:
I would never understand how a grown man will wake up in the morning happy knowing that he has no job, skill or future. Just thuggery. How do they sleep at night knowing that their lives can be cut short at anytime or that they can cut short someone's life at anytime

Because the System rewards Thuggery.

Simple.

If you have the Liver, so to say, enter Street and look for a Bus stop close by. Resume in the Morning and be asking for Owo loading, Chairman Money, Owo Booking.

The Union people will come, Police will come, LASTMA will come, just give them what they demand and in no time, you will be earning better than any Graduate in any field.

Other Thugs will want you out and want your spot, just be ready to fight it out.

And the System will do nothing.

The solution to this issue.

We have a National identity system. Ensure every one is duly registered. Every vehicle should be tied to an identity number. Those vehicles for commercial purposes should be clearly marked on the data base.

Revenue collection should be at state level and the proceeds distributed to local government monthly.

Fixed sums to be paid weekly or monthly by the vehicle owners. Fixed percentage fine on each payment missed.

If you fail to turn up with payments on three consecutive occasions. Your driving permit is revoked and your license number communicated to law enforcement to impound your vehicle once it's on the road.

You will go through stress to get your permit active again.

Lukuluku69:
Because the System rewards Thuggery.

Simple.

If you have the Liver, so to say, enter Street and look for a Bus stop close by. Resume in the Morning and be asking for Owo loading, Chairman Money, Owo Booking.

The Union people will come, Police will come, LASTMA will come, just give them what they demand and in no time, you will be earning better than any Graduate in any field.

Other Thugs will want you out and want your spot, just be ready to fight it out.

And the System will do nothing.

Accurate description.

They are basically law unto themselves and nobody dares stop them.

lexy2014:
Are you saying that agberos operated in Lagos in 1965?

They have always been around but largely restricted to the Parks.

Note the word: Restricted to the Parks.

Now you see them on almost every Roads, corners. In fact the whole space collecting Levies here and there.

I know of Jankara Motor Park, Iddo Motor Park and Idumota Motor Park while growing up in the early 70s and 80s.

Kalulu44:
Though I am no longer in that area for now but I can guess exactly what might have happened.
The said Monarch whose real name I have forgotten but is popularly known as "Jafo".
He was formerly the Chairman of RTEAN in Lagos after using his boys to chase away the National chairman who they call Alhaji Mala.
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Alhaji Mala fought back from Abuja and Jafo was totally removed from the union to go face his Kingship. Until now I didn't know the new park that was build at exactly PPL bus stop beside Alaba Rago was king Jafo's own. So I guess during the opening Alhaji Mala boys feel threatened by it and knows they won't be collecting dues from there so they went to forment trouble and Jafo who is widely known in the whole of Mile 2 down to Badagry with ferocious thugs won't agree and I guess that's what cause the fracas. My personal opinion and analysis of what might have transpire

The whole stretch of Badagry to Orile is a nightmare to bus drivers. At each bus stop, agberos must collect money forcefully from bus drivers. They seem to be in the world of their own with absolutely no form of control from Government. The menace makes transport cost very costly for commuters.

Lukuluku69:
They have always been around but largely restricted to the Parks.

Note the word: Restricted to the Parks.

Now you see them on almost every Roads, corners. In fact the whole space collecting Levies here and there.

I know of Jankara Motor Park, Iddo Motor Park and Idumota Motor Park while growing up in the early 70s and 80s.

Are you saying that agberos operated in Lagos in 1965?

simple yes or no

post=136184475:
Stay Safe Please, What Is Happening In Lagos?

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Nothing is happening, Lagos is not one place, one motion. Stop causing unnecessary panic.

lexy2014:
Are you saying that agberos operated in Lagos in 1965?

simple yes or no

What is simple yes or No?

If there are Parks in Lagos in 1965, then I am sure their would be those that do some Luggage Loading, calling for Passengers and Route/Destination.

These are what is known as "Agbero" if you understand Yoruba, this shouldn't be an issue Sir.

Whose legacy then is the fake n fraudulent result Mnesoma, kidnapping killing mpiri miri fake drug production across the lenght n breath of Anamvra n ipob slaughter that ravaged Anambra ?!

agentNija:
Obi's legacies in education sector keeps bringing glory to Anambra state, while Tinubu's legacy in thuggery keeps bringing shame to Lagos state.

Tinubu built LAGOS...

Shawnnn01:
Whose legacy then is the fake n fraudulent resuly mnesoma, kidnapping killing mpiri miri n ipob slaughter that ravaged Anambra ?!

All these would have been sorted out by the state government if only they were creative enough to set up ministry of thuggery affairs.

This is why you are been flogged mrecilessly n chased off like the criminals in Ghana SA Malaysia Cambodia soon it will be Lagos.

PlasmaTV:
They actually don't care, my good man. They just want to drink, smoke, fight, oppress civilians, sleep with prostitutes and shout Emilokan.

During the last elections, my friends who resembled Igbo but were in fact Yorubas had to lodge in hotels and stay put because in some areas on Lagos, agberos were on the hunt.

A known fact but you dare not say Obi built Anambra because we all know he built nothing tangible or sensible in the state.

Wven the beer parlour built in the state he had no single penny in it so wail all you like. Lagosian will till eternity appreciate the development stride of Tinubu.

esnbrutality:
Tinubu built LAGOS...

Yes TINUBU built Lagos from scratch..

See IKEJA in 1999..

Front0lane:
A known fact but you dare not say Obi built Anambra because we all know he built nothing tangible or sensible in the state.

Wven the beer parlour built in the state he had no single penny in it so wail all you like. Lagosian will till eternity appreciate the development stride of Tinubu.

agentNija:
Obi's legacies in education sector keeps bringing glory to Anambra state, while Tinubu's legacy in thuggery keeps bringing shame to Lagos state.

No be una,it no dey hard una , you guys can commissure two unrelated issue together at ease..what's relationship between this and ,Tinubu and Obi..or what's the difference between you and the so-called agbero....more reason why Nigeria can never be one....

Come warri, that is the most lucrative and desirable job available to the youth and elderly.

Once day have break, you see dem roaming about on the roads. Police na their partner sef, because they could beat you up in front of law enforcement officers!

Sirianese:
It's only in Lagos that I see able-bodied men who refuse to work, but hang around the motor parks all day; once they see any decently dressed man they start hailing the person and he is supposed to give them money for food....

nedekid:
Is it not the new guy, the one wearing a ton of gold on his neck, hands, it remains to put on his ancle.
The late predecessor was such a gentle man.

He’s the one nah
The bleaching criminal parading himself as king

post=136184475:
Stay Safe Please, What Is Happening In Lagos?

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Mr Blogger why can't you be active to post something lighthearted for a change. Must it always be BAD NEWS?