₦airaland Forum

Hofbrauhaus:
I hope i understood you well...Somebody hit you and lay unconscious on the ground and you left him there? You didn't even go to check on him to confirm if he is dead or dying? Did he hit you on purpose? No, it was an accident. A good Christian would have at least checked on him.

fatymore:
First and Foremost, this isnt about Islam(someone said because she isn't a Muslim, so that brought Islam in)

We are have yourubas and other tribes who are Muslims and they don't behave uncouth like this.

I read all and I am boiling down in my spirit.

Check the roads now, majority of them are bikers and they drive carelessly with no regards for lives. These are what you can't do in their regions.
The kind of mentality they have is so appalling.
They can do and undo without anybody holding them. That was how they killed one guy in my area then with their small dagger.

Illiteracy is one of the factors disturbing them.

I saw a Maruwa tumbled because of one them some weeks back and yet he was insisting he wasn't at fault which was so glaring he was trying to double cross.

We are in perilous time in this country. We just need to be extra careful, notwithstanding the educated ones among them are better.

God bless Nigeria and the good people of Nigeria

Hofbrauhaus:
I hope i understood you well...Somebody hit you and lay unconscious on the ground and you left him there? You didn't even go to check on him to confirm if he is dead or dying? Did he hit you on purpose? No, it was an accident. A good Christian would have at least checked on him.

LZAA:
Which other tribes
Keep living in cuckooland
Only yorubas follow islam after hausa
Forget all those scam u dy hear from ebonyi
Smh

Martinez39:
The injustice meted to ishilove could make my blood boil for weeks if I were in her shoes. I feel your pain. What happened to you was simply mobbing and robbery. This emotional way of thinking is one of the reasons why this country lags intellectually. If you observe how it was easy and quick for a large group of people to believe you caused the accident, then you understand how it was easy for many to believe that an old woman changed from a bird to human and is a witch and then proceed to lynch her.

It all boils that to one thing: thinking with emotions other than the brain. The readiness with which people believe tales without proof is sickening. The case of Pastor Fatoyinbo and Busola Dakolo comes to mind. Imagine if you were a man and you were accused of rape.

Though I don't the full details and I am a bit naive but should you have insisted on calling the police right away and going to a better hospital?

fatymore:

Ishilove:
An industry colleague told me that such rubbish could never have happened in other areas of Apapa dominated by South-Westerners. He said when they start misbehaving, "those Yoruba boys will start reformatting their brains with slaps". End quote. Another said in places like computer village, they Easterners would have beaten them to a pulp if they pulled that kind of idiocy on an innocent person.

One Nigeria is a mirage, and it's going to get worse.

fk001:
How are we sure that you didn't sugarcoated your story so as to get sympathy from your readers while painting the riders black.

You would have atleast check on the guy to see whether he was injured or not, but instead you were busy arguing and claiming right, That's inhumane of you, if it happened where jungle justice prevails I guess they would have lynched you or something, next time for your safety don't argue in such places where there is dominace particular tribe.


Samething would have happened in Igbo or Yoruba dominated area of lagos, people tend to stand for their own. So is not only a northern thingy.

BTW your write up stinks of ethnic bigotry which makes you look like one.

quirus:
Hope you are educated and sane enough to understand this is a mob situation and that the person it happened to was a lady. More over was the biker grievously wounded? So she should stand there to be lynched by unruly mob.
You are the one who is insensitive in this situation, and I pity those who relate with you.

respect80:
In conclusion, I would implore those who see the north as allies to beware of the dragon which blandishes with the head and smites with the tail.

linkin8k:
Is there really any need to specify where each person in your story is from? Does it matter if they are northerners or southerners?

quirus:
When was the last you visited your psychiatrist? After reading your comment, as an analyst I realised you need a medical check up. Please go quickly.

Martinez39:
The injustice meted to ishilove could make my blood boil for weeks if I were in her shoes. I feel your pain. What happened to you was simply mobbing and robbery. This emotional way of thinking is one of the reasons why this country lags intellectually. If you observe how it was easy and quick for a large group of people to believe you caused the accident, then you understand how it was easy for many to believe that an old woman changed from a bird to human and is a witch and then proceed to lynch her.

It all boils that to one thing: thinking with emotions other than the brain. The readiness with which people believe tales without proof is sickening. The case of Pastor Fatoyinbo and Busola Dakolo comes to mind. Imagine if you were a man and you were accused of rape.

Though I don't the full details and I am a bit naive but should you have insisted on calling the police right away and going to a better hospital?

ornicus:
sorry again

to be honest it is not a tribal thing in that sense
i live in festac and they pull the same nonsense there on the regular when one of their fellow eejits gets into an accident.
anywhere there is an accident, okadamen will gather and intimidate the owner of the vehicle, no matter the circumstances

aboki will erm always be aboki, though it is also a nigerian thing. i am sure you saw me dragging with supposedly educated uber drivers who formed brotherhood and proclaimed they were right no matter what

it is time for the govt to ban okadas. their wahala pass their usefulness. we sha have opay now

LZAA:
So because it's ishilove u dy boil abi?
Watch your view on tvc and see how igbos get insulted or read online and offline yet we chill
See if u support bad tin one day it must nab u

The injustice meted to ishilove could make my blood boil for weeks if I were in her shoes.

maasoap:
Tell that to those who opted for Atiku as the best available alternative to Buhari

Ishilove:
(contd)

The passenger, whose accent proclaimed him of eastern extraction answered "the boy lying unconscious there". I was baffled. Why do I have to go back for any bloody reason when he is the one that hit me? I was already getting mega pissed by now and I told the idiot man as much and walked away with TJ. I had barely gone a few steps when I was surrounded by what seemed like hundreds of illiterate northern bikers commonly known as...you are. right. Very correct.

I was wondering what was happening when someone rode up with the idiot biker who struck me. Apparently he had regained consciousness his right cheekbone was scraped raw and swollen three time it's normal size.

They were all chanting "treat him" and were becoming agitated. TJ tried to explain that this hopeless guy had struck me from behind, but the more he explained, the more agitated they became. One of them who could speak English said I fvcked up. Ha, fvcked up how? He answered that after I caused the accident the least I could do was to stay behind to see if he recovered. Ha, aye mi o! How did I cause the accident? He answered that I caused it when I was "trying to cross the road".

Jesus Christ...

Ha, cross the road to where?? To go and dance Alingo on top of the double parked trailers on their way to drop empty containers at the terminal? I was heading to the ATM with this guy (I was pointing at TJ) when your brother came with his unfortunate self to jam me.

Then it dawned on me. None of the members of this motley mob of stark illiterate bikers were present at the collision, but they were already cooking up strange and satanic stories in allegiance with their comrade. Demonic accusations were flying around, the strangest of them being that I 'pushed' the idiot biker and he fell.

One of my staff members who happened to the passing by came down from the vehicle he was escorting and jumped into the middle of the crowd. He told them to stop pushing me. Instantly a set of hooligans pounced on him and gave him hot chase down the extremely slopy side of Coconut bridge. These people seemed volatile and were ready to unleash violence. The boy ran to the shop of one of the eastern traders to report the incident. The trader, an elderly gentleman came, and after hearing my own side of this ridiculous matter whispered to me that there is trouble in Nigeria, and that haven't i noticed how 'they' have practically overrun all sectors of the economy, and in Lagos state as a whole? Didn't i know they have an agenda?

He advised that for my own safety and for peace to reign, I should just take the rider to the clinic. Another eastern gentleman who had left his shop to come and investigate this furor centered around an angry, wild haired, bespectacled and furiously gesticulating lady concurred.

Ishilove:
An industry colleague told me that such rubbish could never have happened in other areas of Apapa dominated by South-Westerners. He said when they start misbehaving, "those Yoruba boys will start reformatting their brains with slaps". End quote. Another said in places like computer village, they Easterners would have beaten them to a pulp if they pulled that kind of idiocy on an innocent person.

One Nigeria is a mirage, and it's going to get worse.

Ishilove:
I was advised by the doctor that for peace to reign, I should just treat him and take it as a sacrifice for the 'Mber' month. He charged me 10k, but I was to give the bike people 2k out of the money.

I went to the ATM, withdrew the amount and gave everything to the Doctor. God forbid i dignify those people by addressing them directly.

I collected the receipt and walked out of the clinic. On my way out, i favoured them with the most disdainful look I could muster, hissed at them and walked away.

My heart is full of anger, but I know, Dear Reader, that you know exactly what will come out of my fingers if I really give vent to what is in my mind about these northern bikers that flood Lagos on a weekly basis in cover body trucks, armed with nothing but the clothes on their backs and Yamaha bikes. They have this herd mentality that begs the question-"even if you no go school, shey you no get common sense?" It is still this same mentality that causes religious lynching in the northern part of the country. A rumour goes round and without any kind of investigation, they pounce on the hapless victim.

Let me stop here before I run afoul of Rule 2, but l will drop a word of caution to my fellow Nairalanders of northern extraction- MAKE A CHANGE IN YOUR INDIGENOUS STATES. What I witnessed today made me understand for the first time why a lot of northerners are very vulnerable to extremist ideologies and conditioning. Many of these people have been so completely starved of even the most basic enlightenment that it seems like they are now incapable of rational thought, and as a result act like the Missing Link.

Perhaps basic education will curtail the menace and complete nuisance so many of them constitute when they migrate to other states.

Ishilove:
I was advised by the doctor that for peace to reign, I should just treat him and take it as a sacrifice for the 'Mber' month. He charged me 10k, but I was to give the bike people 2k out of the money.

I went to the ATM, withdrew the amount and gave everything to the Doctor. God forbid i dignify those people by addressing them directly.

I collected the receipt and walked out of the clinic. On my way out, i favoured them with the most disdainful look I could muster, hissed at them and walked away.

My heart is full of anger, but I know, Dear Reader, that you know exactly what will come out of my fingers if I really give vent to what is in my mind about these northern bikers that flood Lagos on a weekly basis in cover body trucks, armed with nothing but the clothes on their backs and Yamaha bikes. They have this herd mentality that begs the question-"even if you no go school, shey you no get common sense?" It is still this same mentality that causes religious lynching in the northern part of the country. A rumour goes round and without any kind of investigation, they pounce on the hapless victim.

Let me stop here before I run afoul of Rule 2, but l will drop a word of caution to my fellow Nairalanders of northern extraction- MAKE A CHANGE IN YOUR INDIGENOUS STATES. What I witnessed today made me understand for the first time why a lot of northerners are very vulnerable to extremist ideologies and conditioning. Many of these people have been so completely starved of even the most basic enlightenment that it seems like they are now incapable of rational thought, and as a result act like the Missing Link.

Perhaps basic education will curtail the menace and complete nuisance so many of them constitute when they migrate to other states.

maasoap:
She didn't realise that that wasn't specific to any tribe, just mob mentality that many Nigerians have, from the north to the east to the west. That's why I'm always standing against jungle justice if the suspect is "guilty". She was pronounced guilty in this case. Many that didn't witness the accident would have been made to believe that she was guilty as charged if she had been physically attacked (remember that she wasn't not physically attacked because she is not a man)

LegendHero:
Sorry OP for what happened to you.

But I think you’re profiling those guys here and looking at this through an ethnic biased mindset.

It’s a normal thing for Okada drivers and Taxi drivers to rally around and support themselves irrespective of whether their members are right or wrong. It’s not unique to any tribe or religious association.

Either they are Yorubas, Igbos, or Hausa, most of them will always toe the path of their member because they know if it’s their turn tomorrow those guys will show the same solidarity.

While I agree with you that some of the okada northerners are hostile, on drugs, and most times dogmatic such that they don’t like shifting ground, I can also tell you there are some that are friendly, down to earth, and truthful.

If it had happened in the East, with an Hausa man in your situation surrounded by Igbo Okada riders, what do you think would have happened? In all honesty, don’t you think they will toe the same path?

Hofbrauhaus:
I hope i understood you well...Somebody hit you and lay unconscious on the ground and you left him there? You didn't even go to check on him to confirm if he is dead or dying? Did he hit you on purpose? No, it was an accident. A good Christian would have at least checked on him.

LegendHero:
Sorry OP for what happened to you.

But I think you’re profiling those guys here and looking at this through an ethnic biased mindset.

It’s a normal thing for Okada drivers and Taxi drivers to rally around and support themselves irrespective of whether their members are right or wrong. It’s not unique to any tribe or religious association.

Either they are Yorubas, Igbos, or Hausa, most of them will always toe the path of their member because they know if it’s their turn tomorrow those guys will show the same solidarity.

While I agree with you that some of the okada northerners are hostile, on drugs, and most times dogmatic such that they don’t like shifting ground, I can also tell you there are some that are friendly, down to earth, and truthful.

If it had happened in the East, with an Hausa man in your situation surrounded by Igbo Okada riders, what do you think would have happened? In all honesty, don’t you think they will toe the same path?