Just to walk by Yaba na wahala, even if you're passing by and not buying anything, they still grope u, my elder brother had issues with one because he grabbed me by d waist, imagine such effrontery and lo and behold those miscreants started supporting each other. I had to beg him not to cause a scene. Something really needs to be done about that place please. Those guys are NUTS and for them its like shooting a fish in a barrel because they know they will always get away with it.

tunjilana:
But sorry if I am ignorant ooo...this market touchings that they keep talking as if it is aimed at women or something sexual...I have bn to yaba many times...these guys just wanna make a sale...they drag every customer(male or female) say anything to catch attention no matter how lewd and they do so to both gender...the only diff is that men joke and laugh over it...buy what they need to buy and check out..while some women turn it to rape allegation...

Yeah, they drag everyone but the way they handle women is worse and can be sensual, the language they use for women is also very rude, if a guy says don't touch me and if a lady say the same thing, their response to the women is very debasing. Then imagine having to endure that from multiple guys, sometimes they gang up on the woman, they never do that to guys. When a guy says leave me or don't touch me, they often respect their space but women are not given the same courtesy.

Sarang:


I think NL is full of loose mental patients too. I weep for my country.

Sarang:


Most Nigerian men are a disgrace to education.. no single respect. You are giving discount..thunder fire that your mouth and discount you are giving. Respect another human being for god's sake and behave like a human for once.. most of you guys are just hopeless especially all these kids on NL

Sarang:


They don't need it. Keep your dirty hands and discount to your fucking self!

Sarang:
Most Nigerian men are a disgrace to education.. no single respect. You are giving discount..thunder fire that your mouth and discount you are giving. Respect another human being for god's sake and behave like a human for once.. most of you guys are just hopeless especially all these kids on NL

Sarang:


Nah you only see her as sensible because she is rich.. Nigerians you only worship money.. Stfu!!

This one is suffering from early morning PMS. Get well soon!

martineverest:
think before u type,have u been to Yaba b4?....those Ibo boys harass ladies with no mercy

Must you call a tribe in your comment? make reference to a person's character and not his race or ethnic leanings. BTW this protest is the dumbest have seen...The average Nigerian Woman is lacking in logic and this action of theirs says it all.

Hmmm

tunjilana:
But sorry if I am ignorant ooo...this market touchings that they keep talking as if it is aimed at women or something sexual...I have bn to yaba many times...these guys just wanna make a sale...they drag every customer(male or female) say anything to catch attention no matter how lewd and they do so to both gender...the only diff is that men joke and laugh over it...buy what they need to buy and check out..while some women turn it to rape allegation...

Reading you guys comments is really nauseating, just look at what you're saying, you're a guy, you can fight them off, you can even shoulder any humiliation, you're basically Teflon in a market dominated by males. I've been dragged by the waist before, insulted and shouted at when I complain, my elder bro took issues and they ganged up on him. So if u were there as a brother or my man, you will be gleefully smiling and opening teeth because they are groping your little sister/girl and they just "want to make a sale" Woooww!! What a man you are!!

U are protesting, u come go market to do so...where 70% of people if not 80 there on daily basis are not educated and u want them to understand ur plights....thou the protest is irrelevant simply because Nigeria law does not support feminism but if u want to get a message across...also sort for the right place where educated fellows are to get the message clear and crystal.... Some ladies say.. but does feminism existed in the holy books.. cos I don't know where Una dey get Una own from

Take a statistic of the number of Decent dressed ladies and the slay/indecent dressed ladies. I happen to ply yaba route very well back in the days and I can tell that the decent dressed ladies are rarely touched but the guys will always touch those slay/indecent dressed ladies to bully. This protest should start with them " Ladies stop Immoral/slay/indecent Dressing".. Before " Stop touching ladies" and infact it should be rephrased to[b] " Stop touch decent ladies"[/b]

But like seriously what is the problem of some men... If they said don't touch them is that too much to understand, some of these things they are joking with will put them in serious trouble in saner climes, if you get her type for house go touch her na... We ve heard stories of how some ladies will passed through some places and she will be harassed even if she dressed indecently not trying to support indecent dressing though but as far as she is an adult leave her you can only advise her, I see a whole lot of these men as weaklings the ladies they will just ignore and mind their own business, going forward is not about the ladies alone stop touching men too no matter how you termed it several men are being harassed on a daily basis

Up Nigeria

Sotland:
Take a statistic of the number of Decent dressed ladies and the slay/indecent dressed ladies. I happen to ply yaba route very well back in the days and I can tell that the decent dressed ladies are rarely touched but the guys will always touch those slay/indecent dressed ladies to bully. This protest should start with them " Ladies stop Immoral/slay/indecent Dressing".. Before " Stop touching ladies" and infact it should be rephrased to[b] " Stop touch decent ladies"[/b]

If it's all about indecent dressing and not gender. All those boys that sag with to the knees walking like demented apes with their smelly boxers nauseating everyone, why are they not harassing them and calling them names.

tendingNews:


Source: http://www.thefamousnaija.com/2018/12/marketmarchyaba-amaka-sandra-feminists.html?m=1

The manner the campaign was carried out and presented tells a lot about campagners. Secondly,that part of town(a market) is very wrong for that sort of thing. Not like you're promoting products that'd be beneficial to their business.

MichaelBukamzy:
So these roasted yams after looking at their mirrow,took madness to yaba street to disturb people going about their buisness. bunch of single above 35 bitter hoes claiming feminists. evening newspapers.

Evening newspaper kwa? Guy you no get chill at all Ooo

This one no be only curse but prayer for all those guys here that are justifying the stupidity of yaba boys. may your entire generation ladies be molested sexually, assault sexually and be a subject of rapist till u get sense


The stupidity of this guys at yaba need to stop and I think the ladies should have taken their protest to the lagos state government Secretariat. all this nonsense need to be addressed

rabzy:
It is well known that igbo traders hustle hard, and they are notorious for harassing everyone. It's so terrible. If you try to board buses to the east, they will nearly tear you apart, as a guy you can resist with force and threatened but as a lady you are totally at their mercy. They have cut many ladies bags and mess up their belongings.
Like 15 yrs ago, my sister was shot in the arm on her way to Lagos after finishing NYSC, she still had pellets in her arm and bandages, while passing thru oshodi, nah so one idiot dragged her back on that arm to come and enter motor, when we were not even travelling, she screamed, I was so angry that I was shaking, it was my sister that pacified me and told me to let go, possibly because that is the way they all behave. I support this movement but they should not engage these idiots, because they are unreasoning animals, they should get NGOs and possibly government agencies to engage their market leaderships, and let them know anyone doing this will lose his market space.
That will curb the menace.

igbo is the problem of lagos !!!!!!! even in ladipo

Muscomide:
About time too. The antics of those mostly Igbo traders in Yaba borders on sexual harassment of innocent women. There should be zero tolerance of such behaviour in this day and age. Well done to the organisers of this campaign.

no arrested and killed !!!!

i can relate with this. The first time i went to buy bras by myself, i was a jambite and still naive, i wanted okirika cos i was told they last longer than the newer china ones especially for busty ladies. i was still a teenager and had no idea how to buy the correct size. i went to the street behind OANDO in tejuosho where okirika things are sold.

i entered one stall and met one igbo guy and chose some. very nice ones, tried them and they weren't my size. The guy then brought out some and i wore them, noticed they fit better than the ones i chose. he then asked to see my bra so that i could ascertain the size, i opened my zip a little cos i didn't see anything wrong. (i come from a medical background and never had issues with male doctors examining me, i was expecting the same professionalism)

He then proceeded to touch them saying that he had to guage it. i didnt think anything was amiss until i saw his erection. The slap i gave him ehn. After i selected like 5, i told him i threw 2k at him and proceeded to tell him that if he doesn't accept it. i will raise an alarm.

I learnt lessons that day. No one needs to touch your boobs to know their size, and how to select my size of bra. I have never bought bras so cheap since then.

A lot of these yaba market traders are very lewd and sexually perverse people.

"Nothing to see here at all, just being called ashawo . I love it when men try to prove they are not trash by you know being TRASH. #MarketMarchYaba"

This girl is obviously like those Nairaland misandrist who call themselves feminists. Instead of saying 'SOME MEN' she just said MEN...she is clearly showing her hate for men with this comment.


"They said a lot of things I've seen here from "educated men"."

LOL! Another senseless comment from the girl. Is it educated men that sell clothes at Yaba? SMH!


But those Yaba boys too dey tap current from girls sha. Something has to be done about it...not in this manner though.

martineverest:
u are wrong....... everything about the campaign is right.yaba harassment needs to stop

Shut you gay idiot.
You're a disgrace to men.

Sarang:


Because most Nigerian he goats only messes with a nobody.. go and touch E-money's wife and end up in prison if you ever see her in your life

Why’re you pained madam. Dem touch you before?

Lucifer66:

Shut you gay idiot.
You're a disgrace to men.

u are a big fo..ol for calling me gay.
u are a potential rapist...take your sister or wife to Yaba and see the level of harrasment she will face

It's this illiterate Igbo traders who are fond of this nonsense. They carry their animalistic behaviour everywhere they go.

It we talk now, they would say we are marginalising them but it is this same animal behaviour that gets them killed in Asia.

Smarttravels:
But Yaba traders do it a lot. Those "Johnny just come lately " from their village just go berserk once they are employed as apprentice trader in Yaba, they grope and touch ladies by pretending to show them their goods. As a young lady, I hated going to Yaba because of those "ibo boys". Taking the campaign to them is certainly right.

Yea. It has been going on for years...or decades sef. I wonder why they do act like that though. Is it that they are sex starved or something?

rabzy:
It is well known that igbo traders hustle hard, and they are notorious for harassing everyone. It's so terrible. If you try to board buses to the east, they will nearly tear you apart, as a guy you can resist with force and threatened but as a lady you are totally at their mercy. They have cut many ladies bags and mess up their belongings.
Like 15 yrs ago, my sister was shot in the arm on her way to Lagos after finishing NYSC, she still had pellets in her arm and bandages, while passing thru oshodi, nah so one idiot dragged her back on that arm to come and enter motor, when we were not even travelling, she screamed, I was so angry that I was shaking, it was my sister that pacified me and told me to let go, possibly because that is the way they all behave. I support this movement but they should not engage these idiots, because they are unreasoning animals, they should get NGOs and possibly government agencies to engage their market leaderships, and let them know anyone doing this will lose his market space.
That will curb the menace.

Best comment on this thread.

martineverest:
u are a big fo..ol for calling me gay.
u are a potential rapist...take your sister or wife to Yaba and see the level of harrasment she will face

What are women for?
Can't they protect their self you gay idiot.
Keep disgracing yourself and later call yourself a man.

SKhanmi:
Smh,Anyway it's the pioneers of any movement that gets it rough. It's just plain stupidity trying out oyinbo trends in a country where the law doesn't even favour you as a normal citizen. Imagine LGBTs parading oshodi,boys would just look them waka abi? Not to mention that less than 2% of them really know the true form of feminism. Especially the nonsense displayed about on NL

like someone said right idea,wrong move and execution. These ladies or protesters lack wisdom.if you want to do stuffs like this, penetrate the oba first.get his support, after you have succeeded,get support from the police pro,then church and schools and also iyaloja (mind you these boys pay her her bills through shop rent so they need wisdom in getting her blessings and support) then chimandas influence and money Its the guys that will tàlk to themselves. But you skipped the major socialization process that could have made an impact. This is downright ridiculous but anyway obani,kobaje.since it has gotten to the internet they can have international recognition. The international communitywill see the real face of patriarchy and look into it

Do you think its easy penetrating the real Nigerian society? What do yaba boys understand as misogynism?illiterate boys.smh....wisdom and discretion is far from them

franzis:
i am not justifying the actions of the guys in the market but i feel this ladies knew what to expect , such would likely happen if its taken to ladipo market , why didnt they take it to market mostly dominated by women like oyingbo , mushin market but rather took it to a male dominated market

They took it to where the problem is.

Imagine Nigerians going to America to protest that they want constant light, does it make sense?

But Lagos is so uninhabitable, aswear!

Meet the presidents general of the market, sensitize them and they'll pass the message to their boys instead of protesting vociferously as if you are at war with them.

Jaw-jaw before war-war. That how educated people should solve the problem.

If you engage the leadership and involve powerful personalities like Okey-odumakin, Oby ezekwesili etc. You might even have the leadership and some yaba boys carrying your placards with you during your campaign.

#commonsense

Sotland:
Take a statistic of the number of Decent dressed ladies and the slay/indecent dressed ladies. I happen to ply yaba route very well back in the days and I can tell that the decent dressed ladies are rarely touched but the guys will always touch those slay/indecent dressed ladies to bully. This protest should start with them " Ladies stop Immoral/slay/indecent Dressing".. Before " Stop touching ladies" and infact it should be rephrased to[b] " Stop touch decent ladies"[/b]

Single sense, you don't have.

So because someone did not cover herself and wrap herself like Christmas present, you have the right to touch her.

You should have told us you are an animal without self control so that you will be locked in a cage.

Even if a lady is naked, you have no right to touch her.

MichaelBukamzy:
So these roasted yams after looking at their mirrow,took madness to yaba street to disturb people going about their buisness. bunch of single above 35 bitter hoes claiming feminists. evening newspapers.

Have U seen that USELESS guy posting trash on NL? If U see him tell him he is a fool & give him a dirty slap. He must be a wasted sperm. Pity his mother, he father is useless as well.