After reading through the Oops write up, I called my sister who live around that area,her narration was just a rubber stamp to the Oops write up
She made it clear to me that not less than 40 landlords have been killed by the so called Ijaw guys yesterday,While 80% of those living around that area have packed their belongings in the fear of the next move of this guy's.
She further explain that the said Ijaw boys who are into fuel bunkering claim the Landlord's in those area wrote a petition against them to the law enforcement agency, though none of them was arrested before they start the killing of Landlord's.
The so called Ijaw guys enter the house, pick their landlord and murder them in cold blood.
I further asked her why the policemen's attached to the Agric police station were unable to curtail them, her simple response was, the policemen can't stand the Ijaw boys in terms of armory.

Here in Lagos we have a governor who claimed to have spent billions of Naira on Security.
Presently the Nigeria military men have been deployed to the area but they have not confront the Ijaw boys in a gun dwell, what they have only done is to spray their gun in the sky.

May God help this country,Ijaw terrorizing Lagosians and Yorubas on their soil. Gani Adams said in a recent interview that the OPC can no longer fight for the Yoruba course Again. where are we going. Yoruba ronuuooo

Following....

Buhari needs to understand something. Leave local business for the locals. Jonathan wasn't stupid to have awarded the contract to OPC. Same thing he did in the Niger Delta.

OP thanks for clearing the air. To be honest, the rate at which oil theft is growing in ikorodu is alarming. I thought The event of last year where officers were killed around Agric by these oil thieves would have sparked the mop up of these criminals in those areas, but viola, here is the result. The security agencies like the OP stated, aid these criminal. I've been opportuned to be a witness to this when officers of the Area N police station in Ijede went to the house of one of these oil thieves by the creeks in Majidun area to demand for money. When I got there I saw over 500 50litre kegs there. So with all these, I wonder how such will be addressed. These people have no regard for human lives. For one guy saying they're Biafrian Terrorists, the people that were killed, were they only Yorubas? Let's say No to tribalism and criminality.

MayorofLagos:



This is nothing but a backend attempt to pump up Ijaw as some invicible deadly people that should be feared. You profile yourself as some reliable journalist to gain people trust and then you spin conjectural tales to podition Ijaw as a dominant independence force on a foreign land. What are they, Ijaw herdsmen?

They rape, they torture, they vandalize, they use drug, they carry deadly weapon.....is that all the good you see in Ijaw people, is criminalty an Ijaw culture? Who send you?

It seems you wish he had mentioned Yoruba militants as the ones carrying out the act. Is there any award for that?

I said it that such act of killing innocent civilians is a not a trademark of NDA.

So SW militants are here with us. They're just like Boko haram,killing unarmed civilians.

Quite revealing. When you read the truth, you could feel it in your sub-conscious.

Jonathan awarded the contract for pipeline protection to OPC and the militants. Made them feel as part of the government and we had relative peace. May be Buhari thinks these our ajebutter military can match the fire power of the suicidal creek gangs who have nothing else to live for. Good luck with that.

Today the Yorubas are left unprotected because Gani Adams has already stated that last couple of weeks.

Lagos must remain safe. Buhari needs to recalibrate his thinking faculty and evaluate his egostistic priorities. because if Lagos boils, Nigeria is over.

Thank u op but u lie small. I live around d place and I know what's true and what's not. Btw I nd my family didn't move out yday when almost everyone was moving and we slept like a baby

UndisputedBosom:
Ok...so what are you trying to say @ OP

it's a community business and not limited to "tribe" or "militants" . Some people are trying to stir up unnecessary ethnic tensions and hatred

Twizzy30:
Thank u op but u lie small. I live around d place and I know what's true and what's not. Btw I nd my family didn't move out yday when almost everyone was moving and we slept like a baby

please can u educate us on the truth and the lie since u live that place.

Fanyogoyogo:

Biafran talking about sense, TGIF.

Keep quiet there. You are only obsessed with Biafra while we have Ijaws taking over Lagos riverine areas with audacity.
Yoruba r'onu!

sodiksan:
After reading through the Oops write up, I called my sister who live around that area,her narration was just a rubber stamp to the Oops write up
She made it clear to me that not less than 40 landlords have been killed by the so called Ijaw guys yesterday,While 80% of those living around that area have packed their belongings in the fear of the next move of this guy's.
She further explain that the said Ijaw boys who are into fuel bunkering claim the Landlord's in those area wrote a petition against them to the law enforcement agency, though none of them was arrested before they start the killing of Landlord's.
The so called Ijaw guys enter the house, pick their landlord and murder them in cold blood.
I further asked her why the policemen's attached to the Agric police station were unable to curtail them, her simple response was, the policemen can't stand the Ijaw boys in terms of armory.

Here in Lagos we have a governor who claimed to have spent billions of Naira on Security.
Presently the Nigeria military men have been deployed to the area but they have not confront the Ijaw boys in a gun dwell, what they have only done is to spray their gun in the sky.

May God help this country, Ijaw terrorizing Lagosians and Yorubas on their soil. Gani Adams said in a recent interview that the OPC can no longer fight for the Yoruba course Again. where are we going. Yoruba ronuuooo

These particular Ijaws are Yorubas from Ondo state.

walexy30:

Keep quiet there. You are only obsessed with Biafra while we have Ijaws taking over Lagos riverine areas with audacity.
Yoruba r'onu!

u dy mind dat boy,am not even sure he his yoruba,I just dy look him since.ijaw boys arekilling d maiming people in lagos he is shinning teeth nd claiming biafra.he think its funny

sodiksan:
After reading through the Oops write up, I called my sister who live around that area,her narration was just a rubber stamp to the Oops write up
She made it clear to me that not less than 40 landlords have been killed by the so called Ijaw guys yesterday,While 80% of those living around that area have packed their belongings in the fear of the next move of this guy's.
She further explain that the said Ijaw boys who are into fuel bunkering claim the Landlord's in those area wrote a petition against them to the law enforcement agency, though none of them was arrested before they start the killing of Landlord's.
The so called Ijaw guys enter the house, pick their landlord and murder them in cold blood.
I further asked her why the policemen's attached to the Agric police station were unable to curtail them, her simple response was, the policemen can't stand the Ijaw boys in terms of armory.

Here in Lagos we have a governor who claimed to have spent billions of Naira on Security.
Presently the Nigeria military men have been deployed to the area but they have not confront the Ijaw boys in a gun dwell, what they have only done is to spray their gun in the sky.

May God help this country,Ijaw terrorizing Lagosians and Yorubas on their soil. Gani Adams said in a recent interview that the OPC can no longer fight for the Yoruba course Again. where are we going. Yoruba ronuuooo

When your people were insulting OPC they never thought of the consequences just the way they voted an Ethnoreligious bigot like Buhari without weighing the consequences.

OPC don't intervene until your people apologize for insulting you guys.

This present administration thinks NOT before they act...

And the result??...

iamDiabolic:
u dy mind dat boy,am not even sure he his yoruba,I just dy look him since.ijaw boys arekilling d maiming people in lagos he is shinning teeth nd claiming biafra.he think its funny

which izon boys?...The ones residing there at ikorudu from time immemorial or izon boys voyaging all the way from the Niger delta...

Izonpikin:
which izon boys?...The ones residing there at ikorudu from time immemorial or izon boys voyaging all the way from the Niger delta...

face d op nt me.they are ijaw boys,yoruba's are also among them,stop putting tribe on ya head like afro

iamDiabolic:
face d op nt me.they are ijaw boys,yoruba's are also among them,stop putting tribe on ya head like afro

ok...let's just call them miscreants and robbers...abi....that should do...

Most Ijaw settlements are usually filled with armed thugs and they tend to be very violent and commits a lot of crimes. In the main cities, they are usually calm and disguise as gentlemen. They tend not to have a business or regular job they go to. Their activities are usually on the creeks where they either vandalize pipelines or launch out for robbery or piracy.

DerKaiser:


For an aspiring journalist, your use of English is abysmal.

Clean it up please. I was struggling to understand some parts of your write up.

. You were struggling not because the OP's use of English was abysmal but because you wasted several years in institutions of learning you attended without learning comprehension. I will advice you enroll into any degree issuing institute and pay for a two year course in comprehension. A year can certainly not clean up the ignorance oozing from your cerebrum.

Op is correct. Same was happening in festac around 7th Avenue. The useless police were collecting settlement.
Eventually the army came in, after which we had the festac bank robbery.

As usual, there is too much complicity because of the money involved.

Earlier this year, those of us several avenues away kept hearing automatic gunfire from 2am every morning.

Interesting... That can only mean those shouting NDA aren't far from the truth, just not the real truth...Be back to read No. 6.

Pipeline protection contracts are unsustainable, and nothing more than paying protection money to the mafia, or paying armed robbers not to rob you.

Now that this is officially in the open, the government should sit up and flush these thugs out.

This is the true face of militancy, a complete generation of thugs who are incapable of an honest days work.

This is also the future face if any Niger delta Republic. Disparate groups of thugs who answer only to their bellies.

GworoChewinMaga:


As predicted.

You ethnic bigot ran with the Ijaw militant attack without verifying now that the OP is showing you that this may be the work of rival vandal gangs you want to verify.

When I call you a confirmed zombie you go dey vex

I'm even surprised that the Fulani herdsmen theorists have not come up with their story. I guess the ND hand-fallig guys beat them to it.

DaBullIT:
i am calling my correspondent too , if you blow lie here , we go fight

Bros the Op said your ignorance is in terabytes. I like you as a person, if it were to be another person I would have hit harder, or oya fight back.

ayokellany:
. You were struggling not because the OP's use of English was abysmal but because you wasted several years in institutions of learning you attended without learning comprehension. I will advice you enroll into any degree issuing institute and pay for a two year course in comprehension. A year can certainly not clean up the ignorance oozing from your cerebrum.

Chisoz. .....

But the Op wrote better than some of these ladies and guys that claim to be qualified journalists. What I love most is that he did a first person reporting , not all that, according to a trusted contact who preferred to remain anonymous. He deployed the approach social anthropologists call participant observation.

Twizzy30:
Thank u op but u lie small. I live around d place and I know what's true and what's not. Btw I nd my family didn't move out yday when almost everyone was moving and we slept like a baby

I would have believe your claim that the op lied a bit but for your own statement that you did not move but rather slept like a baby. My thought....you are either lying or you are one of the rogues killing and maiming. That is the only way you can sleep like a baby in the midst of such identified danger

Bekwarra:
Before I continue, I want to state categorically that I'm not moved at all by the rants of some folks here who reek of ignorance or whatever you can call it. In fact some accused me of making up the story since it doesn't suit their myopic understanding. To some others I am a Biafran or IPOB, well some mental slavery can never be cured. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not a journalist and I'm not working as one (I only said I used to be a campus journalist), these are just my personal experiences there. To the fools shouting Biafra and reading ethnic meanings into it, you can't be more Yoruba than I am. The first time I was there I was so annoyed with the brazen attitude and the impunity of the Ijaw boys on Yoruba soil. It was so sickening and annoying, so shove your bigotry into the blackest hole in your body and face the topic. You can call up anybody living there or just travel down there to confirm. I'm responsible for what I write not what you understand or believe.

6. The current crisis
This cannot be analysed without making reference to the current spate of pipeline bombings in the Niger Delta which has disrupted the flow of refined fuel from the Niger Delta to the NNPC depots through the pipelines. This has invariably affected the businesses of these militants/vandals from Majidun to, Arepo, from Ishawo to Igbo Olomu. Many of these militants in many parts of Lagos and Ogun states are from different parts of the Niger Delta while those involved in the current crises are the Ondo Ijaws. The stop in the flow of oil has pushed the militants into other crimes for survival. For example while I was there earlier this month precisely on the 6th of June, a group of villagers came from Elepete phase 2 to lodge a complaint with one of the oldest people in the village and a community leader (names withheld). I was there discussing Nigerian politics with the man because I saw him as being cerebral and well-informed and the first time I met the man, we bonded so whenever I go to that place, I sit with him in front of his house to learn and analyse. So they came to report to the man that some Ijaw militants came overnight to pack all their chickens away and that as if that wasn't enough, they came during the day (that Sunday) again and shot at some goats. While some people rushed out to see what was happening as the goats scampered for safety, they were threatened with guns pointed at them. The man only told them to exercise patience because he will talk to the CDA (community development association) to fashion a way forward because series of reports to the police have yielded nothing except them being told to go and settle it in-house. Besides the man himself had earlier this year suffered harassment from the militants in which he was manhandled and his car vandalised. In fact, a couple of months back, 2 police officers were killed in Igbo Olomu for venturing close to the creeks with their bodies taken away. One of the police officers was named Wale, very popular and young officer attached to the Owutu police station.

7. The Real Issue
Last week Friday, some of the Ijaw militants went to rob at a filling station popularly know as Bravo along Ogijo road and the robbery was successful. Four of them later lodged at a hotel close to transformer junction in Elepete Phase 1. I won't mention the name of the hotel but I once spent a night there. I don't know how some SARS officers got the information but they stormed the hotel and killed the four guys there carrying their corpses with them. This enraged the militants who accused the members of the communities of sabotage and tipping off the policemen. They went on a shooting spree shooting at people sporadically. This prompted some of the landlords to write a petition against them. This actually enraged the boys further and on Thursday night through to the early hours of Friday, they went after landlords killing LOTS of them in Igbo Olomu, Elepete and Oke Muti. Many people have fled the areas for the safety of their lives. The government should as a matter of emergency come to the rescue of the people in those communities before they are wiped away. How do these poor villagers contend with militants fully armed with guns and grenades? Yes they have grenades.

NB: I'll ignore the cries of the naysayers, cry babies and the ethnic warlords. Bring out your facts and quit the rants.

Weldone . Your post has clarified the entire saga and something in me believes you intoto. Ignore the bigots and those seeking to puncture your well thought out prose written in impeccable English and easy to comprehend.. Thanks

The insecurity and lawlessness in Nigeria is monumental. Sadly, for some ethno-political reasons, you will still see some normal comfortable humans supporting these alleged marauders.

ayokellany:
. You were struggling not because the OP's use of English was abysmal but because you wasted several years in institutions of learning you attended without learning comprehension. I will advice you enroll into any degree issuing institute and pay for a two year course in comprehension. A year can certainly not clean up the ignorance oozing from your cerebrum.

In Shao khan's voice. Finish him!!!

I believe the OP!

[quote author=designking post=46909444]What the op just wrote is absolutely the truth. I have some friends who were deal makers and vandals around this area and I have seen pictures of how armed these boys are. Also I have heard exactly these stories from them.

Most Ijaw settlements are usually filled with armed thugs and they tend to be very violent and commits a lot of crimes. In the main cities, they are usually calm and disguise as gentlemen. They tend not to have a business or regular job they go to. Their activities are usually on the creeks where they either vandalize pipelines or launch out for robbery or piracy.

[/quot I work with the DSS.......can I meet u?