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Politics › Re: On S Serious Note, Igbos Stop Including Niger Delta In Your Zionist Lesotho by Redcrafton: 11:17am On Oct 17, 2020
tsdarkside:
you too,sharrap....!!

igbos in the delta are deltans now....

park well....!!

f ipob....
They are Deltans now says darkside...with dark magic.

We know una...
Politics › Re: On S Serious Note, Igbos Stop Including Niger Delta In Your Zionist Lesotho by Redcrafton: 11:14am On Oct 17, 2020
helinues:
Who sent you guys to unnecessary war you could have avoided..

So you guys are blaming Awo instead of cursing Ojukcoward for sacrificing 3 millions Igbo's for his selfish ego.

Blame everyone and continue excluding yourself
How can you blame people who are defending themselves?

Igbos were killed in the north caused by a coup led by a man from your so called Niger Delta.

The Igbos left your SW and the north and returned to the east.

Then Awolowo couldn't fight the soldiers and he advised that blockade will be better to subdue them.

How was that Ojukwu's fault? Food were coming from Caritas, Red Cross and World council of churches and Vatican.

If Awolowo had minded his business in SW, you wouldn't be crying that people should stay in their region.

Igbos would have been receiving the Ghana treatment from your country by now, which they would have preferred.

But you blew it because of your greed for the oil in the eastern region and to replace Igbos in the civil service.

Igbos didn't need any coup to dominate at that time as they were in top positions in government. So don't call it Igbo coup.
Politics › Re: On S Serious Note, Igbos Stop Including Niger Delta In Your Zionist Lesotho by Redcrafton: 11:06am On Oct 17, 2020
tsdarkside:
blablablabla....
stay away from the delta with your biafra nonesense....
What is Delta?

Like you advised Igbos stay or enter the Lagoon?

Fear don catch this one.
Politics › Re: On S Serious Note, Igbos Stop Including Niger Delta In Your Zionist Lesotho by Redcrafton: 11:03am On Oct 17, 2020
tsdarkside:
park....or calabarians will use you for pepper soup....
But you are already using skulls for menu...so?
Politics › Re: On S Serious Note, Igbos Stop Including Niger Delta In Your Zionist Lesotho by Redcrafton: 11:02am On Oct 17, 2020
helinues:
You don't want to have anything to do with accommodators yet you guys are flocking enmass to their Obodo region... A visit to Ojoto park or any major park in Lagos would back this up.

Stay in your region and develop it instead of false acclaimed of developing other regions...

Developzero
Stay in you region...like seriously...?

Even if you were born yesterday, you would have known that Awolowo the first coup plotter starved up to 3 million child en to death to make them return to SW and the north in 1967.

Is it my fault that history was removed from school curriculum?

So how many times do you want them to return to their region?

Again take a look at the pics of the shitty Aba and weep in pains....as it is more developed than Oshogbo the Osun state captial.

Remember Aba is not a state capital...
Politics › Re: On S Serious Note, Igbos Stop Including Niger Delta In Your Zionist Lesotho by Redcrafton: 11:00am On Oct 17, 2020
tsdarkside:
zio-shithole....!!
Yeah! Better than your kingdom...Isn't it strange?
Politics › Re: On S Serious Note, Igbos Stop Including Niger Delta In Your Zionist Lesotho by Redcrafton: 10:57am On Oct 17, 2020
helinues:
Alaye refused the urge to shalaye.

Nobody wants to have anything to do with 5% inconsequential people.

Is that too hard for you guys to sink in yah skulls?
And who want anything to do with you accommodators?...

You just take up names and appear to talk on behalf on people from SS forgetting that Igbos are also part of SS.

Again a shitty 5% is better that you big for nothing 97%. Will that sink into your brain?
Politics › Re: On S Serious Note, Igbos Stop Including Niger Delta In Your Zionist Lesotho by Redcrafton: 10:52am On Oct 17, 2020
helinues:
grin cheesy

Why are Niger Delta people like this?

The people that have been developing everywhere in the world are interested in developing your region and you guys are fuming...

Hahahahahahahaba
Accommodator !A shitty Aba is better than any capital of your Niger delta...

Is Shina Rambo, Gododgodo and Adeola Williams aka Ade Lawyer better than Nwafor?

Recently arrested 39-year-old vicious assassin, Adeola Williams aka Ade Lawyer, has confessed that he has killed over 100 since assassinating people was his source of livelihood.“But now I’m born again,” he said while being paraded.


Williams, a father of three from Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State, was recently arrested over the killing of one Ganiyu Ayinla, aka Pinero, who was the P.A to Adekunle Lawal, aka Kunle Poly, the NURTW chairman in Idumota, Lagos.

https://www.nairaland.com/4403021/ade-lawyer-meet-assassin-killed

Politics › Re: Sandra Eze Sanzye: 'Bourdillon’ Ordered My Removal From TVC, Says Journalist by Redcrafton: 10:46am On Oct 17, 2020
Ezennwa:
hmm!


Tinubu is the only politician in the history of Nigeria that hates Igbos with passion.

Tinubu is a pain in the ass when it comes to his chronic hatred for Igbos.

We are waiting for Tinubu to come to South East to do any sort of campaign, he might not live to tell the story.

Igbos will be against any politician Tinubu support in any election. If you want Igbos to support you in any election, stay away from Tinubu or Igbos will be against you.

We urge Tinubu to visit South East, we have a package for him.

Another politician Igbos should observe with long spoon is Osinbajo. Osinbajo is a green snake in a green grass.

Osinbajo also hates Igbos codedly, and he pretends alot. We know our enemies, and we know how to tackle them.



One Nigeria!!!
You know your enemies...?

They are the ones that make up your vast mega churches after the indigens, and pay tithes which the owners use to build their mega schools and by jets.

They are the ones you fall over yourselves to marry than other tribes in Nigeria. In UK and US..check the marriages there too.

You are the enemy.

The northerners are plain and straight forward...If not for their killing nature...they could be better.
Politics › Re: Sandra Eze Sanzye: 'Bourdillon’ Ordered My Removal From TVC, Says Journalist by Redcrafton: 10:23am On Oct 17, 2020
NGpatriot:
5 main anchors on TVC

3 out of them are ibo people.


Since Mr Bourdillon don't like ibo people, why is he hiring ibo people and how come he only sacked the unprofessional clown?


Do you bigots now see how dumb and idiotic you sound?.
You think TVC did Igbos a favour...they had to go for the best you tribal bigot

.

Check our the board of Computer Warehouse group founded by an Igboman...I have a thing with the company and I know there are almost more Yorubas working there than Igbos.

***********************************************************

Chairman at Computer Warehouse Group Plc
Philip Obioha

Chairman at Computer Warehouse Group Plc
Biography

Founder of Four Cees Gee Ltd., Phillip Obioha presently is Chairman for Computer Warehouse Group Plc. Mr. Obioha is also Member of Institute of Directors, Member of Nigerian Computer Society, Member of The Nigerian Economic Summit Group and Member of The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. Mr. Obioha received an undergra... + Show more



Number of Boards


Founder at Computer Warehouse Group Plc

Kunle Ayodeji

Chief Operating Officer, Executive Director at Computer Warehouse Group Plc


James Agada

Former Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director & Managing Director at Computer Warehouse Group Plc

Adedoyin Odunfa


Chief Executive Officer at Digital Jewels Ltd.

Olusegun Oso

Director at Evercare Healthcare Fund


Abiodun Bamidele Fawunmi

Former Head-Infrastructure Services Section at International Atomic Energy Agency


Emmanuel Ijewere

Associate at Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria


Wilfred A. Belonwu

Chairman at Dreamworld Leisure Ltd.


Ravi Sharma

Managing Director at Evercare Healthcare Fund


Wale Agbeyangi

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at Cordros Capital Ltd. (Investment Management)
Politics › Re: It Is Now Clear That This Protest Is Politically Motivated by Redcrafton: 8:36pm On Oct 16, 2020
Nanorest:
You blamed APC for Lagos state attact but you can't blame PDP for Edo state attact. All APC members should stop supporting this protest. You can even see that those protesting are mostly PDP members
Oshiomole has moved on.

It's better you stop sweating for nothing and move on with your life, bro sad

Politics › Re: Lawmaker, Tijjani Abdulkadir Jobe Beaten By Kano Youths Over Non-Performance by Redcrafton: 5:43pm On Oct 16, 2020
PDPdestroyer:
Nice response grin
Nice response on Taqqa sharia lies...abi
Politics › Re: Lawmaker, Tijjani Abdulkadir Jobe Beaten By Kano Youths Over Non-Performance by Redcrafton: 5:36pm On Oct 16, 2020
Arrewa:
stop deceiving yourself!

This is Abia state!

What is stopping the revolution in Abia state?? That's where your leader Nnamdi kanu comes from.
Taqqa and lying is part of your culture...

Aba is better planned than the arid Kano.

Remember Aba is not capital of Aba state.

This Aba.

Politics › Re: EndSARS: Adamu Garba To Jack Dorsey "Stay Away From Nigerian Politics" by Redcrafton: 10:16am On Oct 15, 2020
Flier:
We didn’t have this issue in 1999 beside most didn’t care about the 1999 election because we all believe the military won’t leave power
It worked in 1993,it’s going to work now if we work towards it
I said 2019?

Read my post again.
Politics › Re: Buhari Rejects Buratai’s Request To Deploy Soldiers For EndSARS by Redcrafton: 10:08am On Oct 15, 2020
laidima88:
Igbos have hijacked this SARS online protest with their hidden biafra ambition, cos I don't understand again oo, what did this protesters want afterall SARS has ended.
Let's know your true agitation

Igbos should not think if Nigeria break they will remain in Lagos and other Yoruba land, they will be banished and ban never to return to Yoruba land
Have you been banned from remaining in Britain after you worked to gain independence from them?
Politics › Re: EndSARS: Adamu Garba To Jack Dorsey "Stay Away From Nigerian Politics" by Redcrafton: 9:47am On Oct 15, 2020
Flier:
You can’t rig majority out,we are talking about protest VOTE I mean what happened in 1993.You can only nullify a protest vote you can’t rig it
Which protest vote?

Why didn't you use protest vote in 2019?

The vote in which the same old politicians will send thugs to destroy the ballot boxes while the security agents stand and watch?

Politics › Re: EndSARS: Adamu Garba To Jack Dorsey "Stay Away From Nigerian Politics" by Redcrafton: 9:40am On Oct 15, 2020
Flier:
I am not ready for a REVOLUTION,thank God they have opened airport Ama pack my bags and zoom out soon as things fall apart.Our leaders are animal we can’t fight them through revolution they will kill us all.We need to create our party and vote them out through the ballot
You believe your vote counts?

You should have known that only the parties sponsored by these leaders who are part of $600 billion rape of Nigeria treasury are allowed to stand. Its either PDP or APC for now. Those leaders move around these parties. The have no morals or political principles.

To beat them in their corrupt game, you will need to have loads of cash.

Sudan and Belarus have different ideas.
Education › Re: Oriwu Model College Ikorodu Emerges Best Public School In Nigeria by Redcrafton: 12:24pm On Oct 14, 2020
@Arrewa...

The World Bank Board of Directors has approved $500 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE).

World Bank approves $500 million credit for Nigerian girls’ education

It also said that nearly 80 per cent of poor households are in the north, which makes it very challenging for them to cover the direct and indirect costs of schooling.

Read more https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/405732-world-bank-approves-500-million-credit-for-nigerian-girls-education.html.
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Please stop deceiving people with cheap lies that are verifiable.
Most projects in the north is either from the FG, World bank or IFC.
Education › Re: Oriwu Model College Ikorodu Emerges Best Public School In Nigeria by Redcrafton: 12:18pm On Oct 14, 2020
Arrewa:
Public schools in Borno state
This man! You love deceiving and lying to people.

These projects are WORLD BANK assisted project because of Boko haram.

People reading your posts will think that Borno state government did them with their monthly allocations.



https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/nigeria/brief/northeast-nigeria
Politics › Re: A Few Quiet, Laudable Buhari Projects In The South East by Redcrafton: 12:14pm On Oct 14, 2020
Rossinky:
Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State

Other federal roads completed or nearing completion:


1. Rehabilitation of Sections 1 to 4 of the Enugu — Port Harcourt Expressway

2. Rehabilitation of Amansea–Enugu Border section of Onitsha-Enugu Expressway

3. Rehabilitation of 18km critical stretch of Onitsha–Awka Road
Why do you pick random pictures from other places to deceive people that work is going on?

These three roads you have up there have been on the same spot since 2015 that APC claimed work has started on those roads. Mark this thread. Those roads will not be completed by 2023 when this government will leave.

So stop deceiving people.
Politics › Re: Restructuring: Northern Leaders Root For 12-State Structure by Redcrafton(op): 12:01pm On Oct 14, 2020
amc:
Don't we already have each state building its own roads and we see the mess they have made of it. State roads are worse than FG roads.
.

You might be talking about your state.

In SE most motorist use the state roads to navigate the gully Federal roads that is being repaired since 1999.

I know you are trying to be mischievous as you know the truth.

The FG concentrates on the north and SW.

What about the loan the FG talk and excluded the SE in the projects to be executed? What lies will you tell about this?
Politics › Re: Protesters In Borno Demand Reinstatement Of SARS (Pictures) by Redcrafton: 6:05pm On Oct 13, 2020
Bialegend:
These are the people some idiots wants to continue sharing a country with.
Lugard knew we were too different.

Even Tafawa Balewa the first prime minister confirmed this in 1958.

Nigeria is a like a torn cloth of different fabric whose owner continues to patch it without any success.
Politics › Re: Protesters In Borno Demand Reinstatement Of SARS (Pictures) by Redcrafton: 5:53pm On Oct 13, 2020
Arrewa:
I repeat!

We have no problem with #EndSars protest in the south.

Let the government end Sars in the south and bring them here.
I am strongly in support of end Sars in the south.

Don't expect any anti Sars protest in the north.

Any northerner that is protesting against sars here in the north need some mental check up!

We have our own problem here in the north which we are more concern about.

Many of our people don't even know what's happening in the south and many don't even care to know.

My opinion... They should end Sars only in the southern Nigeria.

We need them here in the north... Especially in Borno, Zamfara and southern kaduna.

#endsars in the south!

#BringSars to North
Do you also want the army, police and customs mostly from the north on roadblocks in the SE to relocate to the north?

https://www.nairaland.com/6177641/over-300-army-police-check-points

#BringCheckpoint ToNorth cheesy


“Between Enugu and Onitsha, there are 17 police checkpoints that I enumerated on one trip. There are police checkpoints, some police and army combined. The commercial vehicle drivers drop the money on the ground" Nwodo ex-governor of Enugu state.

I bet you have less than that on Kaduna to Abuja road taken over by Fulani militias.
Politics › Re: Restructuring: Northern Leaders Root For 12-State Structure by Redcrafton(op):
Haywhysat:
Better. We should have about 5 regions.

Western region, Middle belt, Niger Delta, Eastern region and Core North
Every region should be semi-autonomous.

You don't need to go to Abuja for building your roads.

One region can decide to build their road and toll it...keeping the roads in good shape...while the other region might decide not to toll their roads and have them in bad conditions. Its up to them and their people.

This is against the current situation where the minister in charge in Abuja decides which roads to build.
Politics › Re: Restructuring: Northern Leaders Root For 12-State Structure by Redcrafton(op): 8:43am On Oct 13, 2020
People we are getting somewhere.

The handwriting has been on the wall for all to see, that the nation is not working at all.
Politics › Restructuring: Northern Leaders Root For 12-State Structure by Redcrafton(op): 8:42am On Oct 13, 2020
Say it’s most viable option now and foreseeable future …

Back 100% resource control, merging of Senate, House of Reps


FOR the first time since the agitation for restructuring started, some northern leaders have a made move that is bound to cause cheers among resource control activists in the oil-rich Niger-Delta region. To make Nigeria viable, the leaders are seeking a return to the 1967 12-state structure to be known as regions with full devolution of powers and 100 per cent resource control.

In a memorandum to the National Assembly Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, the Northern leaders, who described themselves as Friends of Democracy, said the 12 -state structure ‘’is the most viable option for Nigeria at the moment and in the foreseeable future.’’ The memorandum was signed by Alhaji Othman Tofa, Ambassador Fatimah Balla; Alhaji Sule Yahaya Hamma; Dr Abubakar Siddique Mohammed; Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah; Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim; Mai Bilya Bala; Mr. Hubert Shaiyen; Dr Kabir Az-Zubair; Professor Jibrin Ibrahim; and Dr Usman Bugaje.

Going down memory lane, the leaders, who argued the North has not been aloof on restructuring as being painted, said that since 2001 ‘’a new crop of Northern intellectuals, technocrats and politicians, have continued to search for a common ground with the rest of Nigeria on restructuring in different ways but the Northern effort has been under-reported in the mainstream media, for understandable reasons.’’ Noting that Nigeria, over years, has gone through various forms of restructuring – three regions at independence, four regions in 1963, 12 states in 1967, 19 states in 1976, 21 states in 1987, 30 states in 1991 and 36 states in 1996, they blamed the dismantling of the 12-state structure for the country’s nagging socio-economic challenges. ‘

’The distortion of the 12-state structure by multiplying the states to 19, 21, 30 and 36 was done to appease new minority groups that emerged after state creation, to spread federal largesse more evenly and sometimes for selfish reasons.

Today, Nigeria cannot sustain the 36-state structure due to its over-dependence on oil revenues that would continue to dwindle in the coming years,’’ they said.

Arguing that restructuring through multiplication of states produced a Jacobin effect that strengthened Federal power relative to the powers of the federating units, and weakened all political groups that are not in control of the centre, the leaders outlined five key principles of restructuring and nine constitutional proposals ‘’to substantially improve and stabilise Nigeria’s federation, cater for the welfare of a large majority of Nigerians and allocate the nation’s resources in an efficient and cost-effective manner.’’ Their key principles for restructuring Nigeria ‘’States must be economically viable and must rely on fiscal resources they generate themselves instead of handouts from the Centre. ‘’States must operate in a democratic manner and be run by Chief Executives that are accountable to the people and legislators that are independent.

“States should have the constitutional and legislative powers to determine their internal structures such as the number of local governments they desire. ‘’States must be allowed to determine their own framework and mechanism for the choice of leaders at all levels, which recognises and combines both merit and the need for fair representation of the broad identities that make up the states such as geography, ethnicity, religion, etc. ‘

’Balance the distribution of power and fiscal resources between the states and the federation to address the desire for local resource control and the viability of the federation as a whole.’’ Constitutional proposals Given these principles, the northern leaders proposed the following constitutional amendments: A return to the 12-state federal structure of 1967.

The 12 states would be the federating units; The 12 states shall be re-designated as regions and shall have full control of their resources while paying appropriate taxes to the Federal Government; The regions shall have the powers to create and maintain local governments as they desire; Overhaul the Legislative Lists and reassign agriculture, education and health to the Residual List in which states alone would have competence but the Federal Government would share a regulatory role with the states; Mining should be reassigned to the concurrent list with on-land mining under the federating units and off-land mining under the control of the government of the federation; Policing should also be reassigned to the concurrent list with only inter-state crime, cyber-crime and international crime under the jurisdiction of the federal police; The power of taxation should remain concurrent; The Federal Character Principle should be retained and strictly and universally observed; and The current Senate should be merged with the House of Representatives under a unicameral legislature.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/restructuring-northern-leaders-root-for-12-state-structure/

Politics › Re: Over 300 Army/Police Check-Points Choking South-East — Investigation by Redcrafton: 8:07am On Oct 13, 2020
I blame the weak leaders of the region for this problem.

The uninspired leaders told ipob to relax, that they would take their problem to the federal government, but they have not done anything.

Now I blame the youths of the region for allowing this to continue.

If the leaders are adamant, let the people protest simultaneously in all the towns and cities in the region....in House of assemblies, government houses and houses of the so call leaders.

If this is sustained for days and weeks, the world would notice, like they did with #EndSARS, and the extortion, harassment, stealing will end.
Politics › Re: Over 300 Army/police Check-points Choking S-east —investigation by Redcrafton(op): 7:57am On Oct 13, 2020
This is definitely more than you get in NW and NE where there is literally...war

Can our southern neighbors from SW help on this with protest to end this?

This is not the time to be selfish

#EndextortionAndHarrassmentInSE
Politics › Over 300 Army/police Check-points Choking S-east —investigation by Redcrafton(op): 7:54am On Oct 13, 2020
…Harass,
intimidate citizens …
Motorists lament massive extortion
Stakeholders condemn the ugly act
By Our Reporters



THE South East zone can rightly be said to be under siege by soldiers and police that have mounted checkpoints almost at every two kilometers in all the major roads in the zone. From Aba to Umuahia to Owerri, Enugu to Abakaliki, Awka to Onitsha to Nnewi, the story is the same. From Aba to Enugu, a distance of 150 kilometers, there are at least 12 army checkpoints and over 16 police checkpoints, permanently mounted and a couple of stop and search police teams.

The situation has been a source of worry to motorists and other road users in the zone, some of whom have described it as an embarrassment and an assault of the people of the zone. Recall that during the last South East Security meeting with the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo raised alarm over the multiple police checkpoints in the zone with the attendant extortion of motorists, harassment and intimidation of even passersby. Abia: Army, Police checkpoints having bazaar on motorists In Abia, Aba-Umuahia, both the expressway and the old road have several number of army and police checkpoints; Umuahia-Uzuakoli-Bende-Ohafia road and the Umuahia-Owerri road are not left out.

The motorists plying the Abia State section of the Enugu–Port Harcourt expressway and the old Aba-Umuahia highway have been lamenting the extortion, harassment and intimidation they pass through from the soldiers and policemen at these checkpoints. Vanguard observed that soldiers in Abia engage the service of young men who stop motorists, collect money for them at various checkpoints. They extort money based on the size of the vehicle. Big vehicles, like trucks, tippers carrying sand or chippings, give as much as N1, 000, while those conveying containers are forced to pay much more. Buses are extorted between N200 and N500 and the amount could be higher if the bus is overloaded with commodities. It is a similar situation at checkpoints mounted by policemen but their own is done with brazenness as they even negotiate and give change to the motorists. One notorious police station involved in this illegal act is Ndiegoro Police Division in Aba where a ‘Civilian DPO’ once held sway, arresting and detaining residents who purchased their freedom at very high prices. From the Imo gate border between Rivers and Abia States to the boundary between Abia and Enugu State, it is always extortion bazaar by soldiers and policemen at the multiple checkpoints on this route. READ ALSO: Kidnapping: Kaduna outlaws checkpoint on Abuja-Kaduna highway It is further observed that similar situation takes place along the old-Aba-Umuahia highway. From Acho Nwakanma junction to Obikabia junction

A distance of 5 kilometers, there are over 7 police checkpoints harassing motorists for ‘roger’. Attention is always focused on buses from Akwa Ibom/Cross River who came to buy goods from the various markets in the city. The Police in Aba have also converted the Aba–waterside bridge to a checkpoint where they extort money from motorists, especially tricycle operators. Despite warnings boldly written at these army checkpoints, that no bribe should be given or taken, the soldiers never obey the warning as they embark on their extortion spree. Most guilty are the checkpoints at Asa High School, Ukwa West; the Isiala Ngwa junction; as well as another at Itungwa on the old Aba–Umuahia highway. Others include those at Obikabia junction in Obingwa council area and another one on the Umuahia–Ohafia highway. Even the Federal Road Safety Corps are not left out of the menace as they now openly collect bribe from motorists.

A motorist, Ikechukwu Chijioke, narrated to Vanguard how he was once assaulted by a soldier for refusing to part with N500 at a former checkpoint at Ndiolumbe, Isiala Ngwa South council area. On August 7, 2019, a soldier, Lance Corporal Ajayi Johnson shot dead an okada rider, Chimaobi Nwaogu, for refusing to part with N100 at a military checkpoint at Ohanze in Obingwa council area. For riding past the checkpoint, Corporal Johnson pursued the deceased to his community, Umuokereke Ngwa, a distance of about 6 kilometers from the checkpoint, and shot him dead. This illegal act by the soldiers and police is a source of worry for people in the zone. The chairman of the Civil Liberties Organization, Aba unit, Prof. Charles Chinekezi, lamented that the security agencies in the state have abandoned their duties and focused on extortion of money from the people. Anambra: Motorists already used to situation In Anambra State, the story is the same. Motorists plying the roads in the state know what to expect from the security operatives who position themselves on the various routes anytime they drive out from their homes, which is that they have to part with some money to be able to reach their destinations. Between Awka and Onitsha through the expressway, which is a distance of about 40 kilometers, there are checkpoints at Amansea (Police), Aroma junction (Police), Umuopku (Road Safety), Umuopku (Police), Enugwu Agidi (Police), Dunukofia (Police), Awkuzu (Police) Awkuzu (Road Safety), Nkwele Ezunaka (Police), Borromew roundabout (Police) and Bridge Head (Police /Road Safety/ Army). Along the old Enugu–Onitsha road, there are checkpoints at Amansea (Army), Mobile Police junction (Police), Zik’s Avenue (Road Safety), Enugwu Ukwu (Police) and Ugwu Nwasike (Police).

On the Onitsha–Owerri road axis, there are also checkpoints at Oba, Ozubulu, Okija, Ihiala, Uli and Amorka and all these are points for extorting money from motorists. Some commercial drivers who spoke on the issue said there are checkpoints that collect N100 while others collect N200 and above. For Road Safety, the amount to be collected depends on the number of charges recorded. Mr. Johnson Onuigbo, who plies the Onitsha-Awka road said the drivers already know the amount to pay on each trip, adding that what they do is to keep the money aside and just hand it over once they approach any checkpoint. “Police checkpoints are even better than those of Road Safety because we just bring out the money and hand it over. There is only trouble if the driver refuses to drop the money, in which case you waste your time and that of the passengers. “In the case of the Road Safety, you have to park your vehicle and then approach them and hand over the money. The amount is between N500 and N2000 depending on what one is carrying”, Onuigbo said.

Former President General of Onitsha Markets Amalgamated Traders Association, OMATA, Chief Ozoh Anaekwe has also expresses worry over the several security check points in South East, saying they are crippling the economy of zone. “The activities of the security men particularly the Police, Army and Navy, at the check points have become a source of embarrassment to Nigeria, this is because foreigners come into this country and pass through these checkpoints. “ I am really embarrassed by the level of indiscipline that is now common with the Army as regards extortion on the roads and at check points without minding who is watching them. Soldiers of the Nigerian Army have become shameless over extortion at the checkpoints. We are asking the Chief of Army Staff if he is not embarrassed by the high extortion being carried out by his soldiers in the South East; he should answer that question, why they are mounting of military check points on the roads under democratic government.” Enugu: Police checkpoints cause long queues In Enugu, many checkpoints are mounted by soldiers and police along Enugu-Abakaliki highway, Enugu-Aba and Enugu-Awka as well as those along Nsukka road and between Nsukka and Benue State boundaries. There are also checkpoints mounted by men of Air Force at Penoks Bus stop and at Emene, near the Akanu Ibiam International airport.

Within Enugu metropolis, Police check points cause long queues along Abakaliki express road at peak periods when residents go or return from work and business. Annoyingly, what takes place at these checkpoints is extortion of money. It is observed that the new extortion style of police in the state is targeted on market routes, where they mount multiple checkpoints and collect tolls from commercial vehicles that convey goods, especially food produce, to and from the village markets. On an Orie market day, Vanguard observed that seven police checkpoints are mounted between Ibagwa-Nike and Orie Ugwuogo, a distance of ten kilometers. Between the same Ugwuogo and Opi junction in Nsukka localgovernment area there are another eight checkpoints including a military checkpoint that all collect tolls from motorists heading to the Ugwuogo market.

Still on the same Ugwugo market are other four check points that take care of commuters emanating from either Nkwo Neke or other rural markets in Isi-Uzo local government area. This ugly acts of the police prompted a group of legal practitioners in Enugu state to petition the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, demanding for justice over an alleged assault on a colleague, Mr. Nwanneka Agwu, who the lawyers said was dazed by a group of police officers at a checkpoint in Trans-Ekulu Enugu for no just cause. Imo: Police extortion ‘toll gates’ now new normal The case of Imo State is interesting. The people call the daily extortion as “toll gates” which has become a new normal in the state. While military checkpoints are mounted at definite locations on all the major federal highways in the state, most police checkpoints are itinerant, not for any known operational reasons, but for obvious financial gains. Army checkpoints have since become money spinners. The modus operandi adopted by the personnel posted to the checkpoints are the same. They hardly check any vehicle or collect the monies themselves. They all have able-bodied young men working for them. It was noticed that while the soldiers sat comfortably in their tents, the stick-wielding boys take full charge of the checkpoints. It was also noticed that it has since become a routine that all articulated vehicles stop and “pay their allegiance” to the soldiers before continuing on their journey.


Ebonyi: Army openly extorting motorists In Ebonyi State, the extortion by the various security operatives became too much for motorists plying the road, forcing them to recently block the road at the boundary between Enugu-Ebonyi on the Enugu-Abakiliki expressway to protest the extortion and harassment by police. According to one of the drivers who gave his name simply as Chukwuma, the policemen did not only extort money from them but also manhandled any driver who refused to comply with their monetary demands.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/over-300-army-police-check-points-choking-s-east-investigation/

Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Redcrafton: 6:55pm On Oct 12, 2020
okeyglm:
dalu nna, Enugu State has most docile governors in recent time. coal is in comatose, ironstone dead, limestone same too. in wonder those people clamouring for restoration of Biafra do they think how will the state survive without oil.
presently the governor of ondo state has revitalised bitumen deposits across the state. they even partnered with private sector for asphalt development . now coming to Enugu , all the inustries created by okpala are all dead. we need serious deliverance in Enugu State.
Honestly I don't know what it will cost the government to plant trees along the airport road for serene ambience.

When the officials travel abroad, they see all these things, but lack the will to replicate them at home.

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