Lexusgs430:
Two words - - - - Pepper Spray.....

for a gang of 4 or 5

Rozaytee:
very crazy area..especially... early in d morning.. na their time be dat

I wonder what the police is doing about it. This one chance is becoming a norm in that area.

Everybody wanna live in Lagos.
But the truth was that u were smart. And strong,u didn't allow the situation to traumatize u........acted fast...for somepeople they will cry the wholde day,while harms are being done.

Amicable09, I'm sorry about what u went through. Mine is similar but worse.

I was the only passenger, I had just come into Lagos for a training, so I didn't really know anything. one of the guys was busy handling my breast, I got slaps on my eyes, they took my wallet, card, watch and phone. Applied aboniki balm to my eyes, dropped me off. It was a truck driver that assisted me, gave me his phone to call my facilitator, calmed me down.

Since then I have been scared of entering buses even taxis. Last friday, I entered a taxi and it was late, the driver now stopped near a bush saying he crushed a snake, I jumped out of the taxi and other passengers were looking at me like a mad person.

I haven't gotten over the trauma and it's depressing.

This was very common some ten years ago when I was working on the Island and living on the mainland. Even though I took the staff bus around 5:45am and was 100% prepared for those robbers, I couldn’t still escape the ones on the bike with army uniforms. I was chased by the bike and ran into the bush to take cover.

A friend of mine wasn’t lucky as he was shot dead on the spot around 6am while also waiting for his staff bus.

I had to make an arrangement with HR that the staff bus driver picks me up inside my estate.

I don’t know how you are going to escape these robbers if you continue to take danfos during the dark hours of the day.

Thank God u r safe n secure. these r stories one should b reading to get experienced.

amicable09:
That card warehouses all my funds. That card was really liquid.

They got the pins of all my four debit cards and just when one of the guys got off the bus to an ATM for cash withdrawal....

What's the essence of carrying your unneeded bank ATM cards about?

amicable09:
Get your card hotlisted! Block your card!

Some apps support blocking of registered cards.

amicable09:
It's better you have a designated account and subscribe to almost nothing. Not Mobile App. Not internet banking. Not USSD. Not even a cheque book. Just nothing.

An email alert wouldn't be bad.

Thanks for sharing ma, na God pass dem.

Been there, done that.. Sorry ma. I've found myself in a situation like that, I boarded a bus from oshodi going to mile 2 with friends, the same scenario. Thankfully as omo mushin born n bred no slacking...

Opoki:
A roll of weed and a brown rizla was what saved a friend sometimes ago. They simply let him go when they found the content. Since then I've been moving around with a pack of rizla

Even police will respect you.

Which kind of mumu talk is this one? So everybody should be carrying weed and rizla arround abi.Go and sit down

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
Thank God you Came out alive. Try get a stun gun or pepper spray.

Stun gun/pepper spray to stun/spray who??... in a bus, where you have more than six able bodied men, wielding axe, knives, matchetes and guns??

kawai!!


MODIFIED

Anyone who falls victim to these guys and they end up finding such item(s), stungun or pepper spray in the course of searching your bag....i just pray the person comes out alive, because they can actually use such device on their victim.

Be security conscious. Always board a bus from the Bus station(not from one random junction).


cheers!

Eyah... Pele...... Had a similar experience but, got thru it...




or=stunningjudy post=c65158923]Amicable09, I'm sorry about what u went through. Mine is similar but worse.

I was the only passenger, I had just come into Lagos for a training, so I didn't really know anything. one of the guys was busy handling my breast, I got slaps on my eyes, they took my wallet, card, watch and phone. Applied aboniki balm to my eyes, dropped me off. It was a truck driver that assisted me, gave me his phone to call my facilitator, calmed me down.

Since then I have been scared of entering buses even taxis. Last friday, I entered a taxi and it was late, the driver now stopped near a bush saying he crushed a snake, I jumped out of the taxi and other passengers were looking at me like a mad person.

I haven't gotten over the trauma and it's depressing. [/quote]

amicable09:

Ended with me alive!

I couldn't wish for any better ending than this.

the main thing is that you are alive.. Life is more valuable than money..

It use to be oshodi, mile 2 , apapa axis in the past. So its now surulere... Well I left Lagos couple of years ago...



uthor=Rozaytee post=65157268]very crazy area..especially... early in d morning.. na their time be dat[/quote]

When I use to take public transport, my rule for boarding a bus was quite simple and effective... I only enter a bus I see passengers come down from.

You really passed through Armageddon

amicable09:

Thanks. I agree to an extent but this will only be possible if they have certain information. In one of my banks, to subscribe to using USSD service, you need to sign up using the number that is linked to your BVN which must be the same with the mobile number tied to your account. And of course, the last three digits of your BVN is required to complete the sign up.

A total stranger can't do that.

A stranger with your phone can get your BVN in few seconds. It will only cost #20. Only God will save us.

femi4:
for a gang of 4 or 5

Of which 1 is the driver (minus 1)

The remaining 3 go chop PS. While they are busy screaming in pain + temporary blinded, panic sets in, drivers stops bus and I escape........

maysimsimple:
Eyah... Pele...... Had a similar experience but, got thru it...




or=stunningjudy post=c65158923]Amicable09, I'm sorry about what u went through. Mine is similar but worse.

I was the only passenger, I had just come into Lagos for a training, so I didn't really know anything. one of the guys was busy handling my breast, I got slaps on my eyes, they took my wallet, card, watch and phone. Applied aboniki balm to my eyes, dropped me off. It was a truck driver that assisted me, gave me his phone to call my facilitator, calmed me down.

Since then I have been scared of entering buses even taxis. Last friday, I entered a taxi and it was late, the driver now stopped near a bush saying he crushed a snake, I jumped out of the taxi and other passengers were looking at me like a mad person.

I haven't gotten over the trauma and it's depressing.

Maybe that was the 36 million snake......

tolusan:


So you would have believed her if she said she lost all her life savings? Do you derive joy in others' misfortune? Do you prefer that they experience pain than God's miraculous and kind intervention?

Check yourself again sir.

Thankfully, some of us that have been here a while know the OP and have no reasons to doubt her story.

Sorry bro, you got me all wrong. The fact that those desperate robbers couldn't reached another dispensing atm before she could regain her sight and also visited all her banks to get her cards blocked baffles me. I am still surprised at her heroic display as she was able to move from bank to bank to get her cards blocked yet the robbers who were mobile could not get an atm machine to perform their devilish act. What could have happened? A miracle? If yes, no one can tell otherwise the op only wanted to educate people on some security measures. To say I have not learnt anything from the post is an understatement. I will never wish that evil should come upon anybody even my enemy. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me

Lol..... If u get snake for house let me know




uthor=Lexusgs430 post=65160207]

Maybe that was the 36 million snake...... [/quote]

gr8tone:
Your story is very educative but for the sake that NO DINE WAS REMOVED FROM YOUR ACCOUNT makes me think it's a cooked up story. Thanks for sharing. I have learnt a lot

Sorry bro, you got me all wrong. The fact that those desperate robbers couldn't reached another dispensing atm before she could regain her sight and also visited all her banks to get her cards blocked baffles me. I am still surprised at her heroic display as she was able to move from bank to bank to get her cards blocked yet the robbers who were mobile could not get an atm machine to perform their devilish act. What could have happened? A miracle? If yes, no one can tell otherwise the op only wanted to educate people on some security measures. To say I have not learnt anything from the post is an understatement. I will never wish that evil should come upon anybody even my enemy.

That it's a faceless forum doesn't make everything cooked up.

There are real humans behind these monikers with stories that would blow your mind.

Just because 'her heroic display' baffled your mind doesn't make it any less true.

Can you guys stop trying to disprove people's stories just because it does not fit into a stereotype?

She got into one chance, and God came through in unique ways including giving her the calm to think straight. Oga, let's give thanks in her behalf.

Btw, it's not a cooked story. I know Amy and she was attacked indeed. Plus, on this same thread someone has identified the second co-victim of that same attack. Although, you don't have to believe it anyways.

May they not disbelieve your own Thanksgiving.

maysimsimple:
Lol..... If u get snake for house let me know




uthor=Lexusgs430 post=65160207]

Maybe that was the 36 million snake......

I thought you normally ran, at the sight or hearing about snakes?

sexdoll:
I really enjoyed the whole narrative.

My dear OP when are you writing your next blog post?

'Cause I'm already in love with your writing.

Is this truly all you could make of the post?

stunningjudy:
Amicable09, I'm sorry about what u went through. Mine is similar but worse.

I was the only passenger, I had just come into Lagos for a training, so I didn't really know anything. one of the guys was busy handling my breast, I got slaps on my eyes, they took my wallet, card, watch and phone. Applied aboniki balm to my eyes, dropped me off. It was a truck driver that assisted me, gave me his phone to call my facilitator, calmed me down.

Since then I have been scared of entering buses even taxis. Last friday, I entered a taxi and it was late, the driver now stopped near a bush saying he crushed a snake, I jumped out of the taxi and other passengers were looking at me like a mad person.

I haven't gotten over the trauma and it's depressing.

So sorry to read this. Right now too, taking buses frighten me. I try to use BRT as much as I can except for places where I can't get one.

Yea I do. Got too much phobia for that creature.... But, if its about the one that swallow 36mili, if I run make my papa ghost slap me....



author=Lexusgs430 post=65160528]

I thought you normally ran, at the sight or hearing about snakes? [/quote]

geekybabe:
Amicable09, sorry about the ish.
I had a similar experience 2 weeks back. My phones and laptop was taken from me. Same scenario. Boarded a bus around past 6am. They were calling obalende/cms. They picked me by gbagada. Me and 2 other ladies. Took our atm cards and evry cash we had. Took phones jewelry and slapped us left right. They dropped us off at Berger axis.

Thank God it wasn't more than that. A couple of pple I know shared similar stories on Facebook,

If you are in Lagos be vigilant.
These is really rampant this days.

How do you want to be vigilant about this? The vigilance I could see is to let the day breaks before going out of your house. And by doing that, you will be late to work.
The police need to step up to this menace, that's the only solution.

EzeJustme:

Please i need to no how you can block your Sim through phone

OK. By calling contact center. If you use MTN, dial 180 and follow the prompt to speak with a customer service representative.

The rep blocked my SIM after asking a series of security questions that proved I was the actual owner of the line.

maysimsimple:
Yea I do. Got too much phobia for that creature.... But, if its about the one that swallow 36mili, if I run make my papa ghost slap me....



author=Lexusgs430 post=65160528]

I thought you normally ran, at the sight or hearing about snakes?

We plenty for line, dey wait that type snake......

Lexusgs430:
Two words - - - - Pepper Spray.....

No bi who get liver dey spray pepper. But how many of them would you put pepper in the eyes without been beaten.

mavinc4u:


No bi who get liver dey spray pepper. But how many of them would you put pepper in the eyes without been beaten.

After all those slaps, wetin remain?

AgricSalt:


Well. Let me praise the first good thing I see. I admire your superb command of written English.

Well back to the main points. In reply to the bolded, it is better to subscribe to USSD than not. If you don't want to use it, then you use a random pin you can forget by tomorrow.

Because the robbers when they get hold of your phone, can subscribe to a USSD service to your account in a matter of minutes.

What's more, not subscribing to a USSD service can actually leave you open to fraud. As someone "borrowing" your phone can as well subscribe with it and siphon your funds.

Exactly what I did with my mom. Just for when I need some few cash...