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geeez: Why are these guys so lawless?

You've been restricted from riding on only 452 out of over 9,000 roads. Why on earth is that hard a rule to stick with!?

I think government needs to get firmer

so cos LASG tells u they got 9000 roads...u sef believe? where the 9000 roads na? na inside dem office e dey

govt firmer ko...farmer ni...expect more citizen disobedience if u dont tink of the citizens before comin out weit a policy

i dont get...since the police knows the hot spots...y dont they go secure it? why tell us to avaoid it like its not part of Nigeria?

am not an agent. am house hunting

cant say am the best rap fan dere...buh i know one or two tins...

first...i never used to like MI...in fact...i hated him cos of the hype surroundin him...ruggedy used to be my best rapper...


buh...listenin to MI...u reaslise some strong points....first...he is able to maintain the rap tradition while still maintainin nigerian street credibility...

second...his 'flexibility' to rap with other genres of music is unparalled...

u need to listen to his verses in tuface's 'i wanna be there' or Djinee's overkilling it to appreciate the skill of this young man...

i ve listened to rick ross, drake et al and i can tell u that if MI were to be american...he ll be mentioned in same breath with Eminem( who i consider the best rapper of all time)...


lets not hate...MI is quality...even dbanj said he told kanye MI wud murder the rappers in the US...i share his view...

and to say he aint gud cos of one or two bad songs aint fair...all musicains have one or two songs dt didnt sell...so back off...i respect MI now..and dts coming from a former hater..d guy rocks!

How is Fashola kissing his wife gonna affect traffic on my way home or price of garri in the market? mssheewww! Nonsense!

begwong: and wetin you kom find for here
post yr front page tory.
stewpid pikkin!

na how pickin scratch car una siddon dey discuss? flood dey every whia...economy dey bad...dem dey ban okada...una dey talk pickin car scratching...? chai!!....see wetin unemplyment dey cause for Naija!

where is abijo? can i see pics?

wats d price and details...can we see pics?

first...where is Abijo?

2nd...can we see pictures?

how can this make front page? stupid thread!

can u send pics to ayo_esq@yahoo.com. can i pay a yr or a yr and half?

akthedream: The most senseless thing any human being can do is to neglet God(creator) to worship Jesus(created)..See kettle calling pot black..yeye.

oga...i understand u re probably a muslim.


i understand muslims dont worship Jesus buh they worship 'God'... for their own reasons...its their beliefs...i understand...

buh calling anoda man 'senceless' for his beliefs is called radicallism and the very motive leading islamic insurgents and terrorists...nothing makes ur statement different from those expressed by Boko Haram.

if u had any brains...u ll learn to respect other people's views and beliefs...its called religious tolerance...i worship Jesus...am proud about it...


u shud be ashamed of yourself...really...you shud..

Horus: This the Politics section of the forum. Please go to tha Alien religions section of Nairaland and dont forget to take your pale faced jesus with you when you go.

Horus...just like the Garri xter...i consider some of ur posts wierd and offensive.

Accepted that the preaching was maybe a little out of place here...altho i also counter dat wit her right to freely express herself. you dont like it, you ignore.

Buh the horus i know wont do that, you would make offensive statments bout the Jesus a lot of us worship? dats the most senseless thing you can do. I understand u 'll be tempted to retort and attack me for this buh i ll appeal to u for the sake of ur image and little dignity u ve got left to @ least own up and make a public apology...

Cos frankly...i expect you yourself on reflection to be dissapointed in yourself.

A country full of jokers!

So you can create a lane for bicycles with tax payers money and didnt deem it fit to create for the existing motorbikes and make dier operations safer?

Thats not funny enuf...wahts most funny is some idiots that will support d idea...and some even go further by attacking my post...choi! A nation of comedians!

[quote author=GARRI (x7)]Thanks for ur Good reasoning. Don't mind the foolish OP...[/quote]Garri...i see u re here again...always defending ACN. your posts on the okada ban aint any different...Dunno the intention of the OP buh the London Metropolitan Police has confirmed the arrest so u can rest and realise that the ACN politicians are also rogues like the PDP counterparts...remember Animal Farm?

Its achievable!!...as long as IOC introduces 'corruption' as a sport by 2016

Na wa o...this horus guy is one of the paid agents of the govt ba? to influence public discourse in support of the ban init?

The same way they have paid pple to suppress the anger of Lagosians towards the ban...a newspaper i am a columnist for even refused to publish my article against the ban cos they 'supported' the Law...government propagandist...horus or watewver name u re sniffs aroung the web looking for materials supporting the ban and pastes it here ...u know what goes around comes around...and so wat the f.uck if daramola or watever group seekin government favour supports him? is it today that groups do dat only to get some form of favor from the powers that be? shameless apologists!

only in Nigeria does the few 'priviledged' pple try to force policies down the throat of the majority...for your 411 tho...this will fail..Fashola doesnt even have the right to ban okada operations in a federal highway in the first place...just await the outcome of the court action....


you may recall that thats not the first time fashola wud be runnig foul of proper legal reasoning...last year the courts also ruled that the LASTMA had no right to impound cars...wait...just wait...we ll see y'all shamed @ d end...psycophants...i wonder how much y'all were paid!

Wadeoye: Thanks my man - most of the people here seem to be mentally and physically lazy. All we want is shortcut shortcut... They dont want to trek, they dont want to wait and they see putting pressure on government to do the right as something unachievable. Our thinking is too shorterm - no vision, no planning. These guys think they are helping the Okada riders by not supporting the ban. They think they are helping the peopple/commuters by saying no to ban. How short-sighted can these people be? For the Okada riders, what becomes of their future if they waste all their useful lifetime riding Okada when the same person can probably own a farm land and get his life more organized. When the same man can focus on his profession (bet it carpentary or plumbling, etc) and get a more organised living. If government is an impediment to this, why can we all work together and put pressure on government? - state and federal instead of looking for shortcut and postponing the evil day while destroying your future.

i really dont get the reasoning onf some of our self acclaimed 'exposed' people in this forum...i read a bit of political science and i understand the purpose of government is to provide solutions for the governed. my question is...has the ban created any solution? if u make a ban and u dont give an alternative...u re as dumb as the many dumb posts on this thread.

i laugh at the argument som pple are profering sayin they want a mega city...then my question is ...wat purpose is a mega city? to impress our oyinbo counterparts or to make our lives better? is beijin not a mega city? wats the official means of transport there? i ve noticed a trend here...most of the pple sayin the okada shd go are pple who dont use dem...and now see it as a nuisance not forgettin they once used it @ some point before they became comfortable...and for the safety fear...i ask...does planes not have accidents...does carsw not have accidents? do we ban it all?

let me state categorically here...esp to Wadeoye...ur mind is made up...to u the bike men are rats and pests that shd leave d road for pple like u dat can ride comfortable cars so as to have the 'mega city' feel...we dont need pple like u here...dats why u left d country in the first place...only pple who feel wat the average man feels will understand where it hurts...am comfortable...i have a car buh i also use bikes and i knw they damndeserve the raods as much as u do...


dnt bother tryin to sound knowledgeable...cos ur reasoning is as faulty and dysfunctional as it gets...

skelemba: After going thru this I laff at what I read. I cnt believe nigerians r actually dis backward. N d truth still remains dat d citizens r 80percent of d problem not d govt. What is okada? U all shud b ashamed of urselves dat u r getting all worked up over okada been ban. So wot move on life continues. N if I were fashola, after dey r totally eradicated frm d state, let dem get rid of does danfo guys too and sanitize d transportation system. Cmon. We need to step up our game. Itsnt gona b easy nothing gud comes easy but if its d sacrifise we ve to make to get our beloved country to where it is. Why not.I ve lived in wales n obviously okada isn't an option. So many pple dnt ve cars n even those dat do dnt drive it. Do u knw dat there r places dat buses only come thru ur street every 30-45mins and d walk to d trains station or bus station is bout 20mins. Wot do dey do? Dey walk. Ask anybody u walk in d uk. Where to change either ur bus or train is 10mins away dey walk. In d freezin cold u walk. My hood was hilly. I wud walk n rest n walk. Did I blame d uk govt dat in nig we ve okada?. U even c old pple wit their walking stick walking. N here we r crying okada okada. For d xcuse of no alternative plsvent u seen movies. Ve u seen rush hour in train/bus station where u wait wit crowd n d train comes n u ve no more space sef. So wots d fuse its everywhere. N dey is no okada. So nigerians stop being spoilt brats. N d truth is if we lagosians jst set a standard for ourselves n dnt patronise dem dey wud look for something else to do. D truth is dey shudnt b doin dat cuz its no job atall.life isn't easy, but okada isn't d only pple dat r affaected, hw about pple who lost their jobs in banking, telecoms, did dey resort to stealing. So get over dey wud b robbers if dey wud let dem b n let God judge dem. D govt is trying. Its a step at a time but some things shudnt b permited and one of it is okada is not a means of transportation. Thank u

Let's not mislead pple here...steppin up our game aint advocating trekkin...in taking ur stand...u shd consider some tins...first do they have an efficient rail and water transport system in d Wales u copiously refer to? Is same condition applicable here? Wats d population of Wales compared to Lagos alone? Wats their per capital income? Oga...tink tru it all. And who says Lagos must follow d wales example? Uk has d best transport system in d world...can u say same for Lagos?
Each country has to make a choice of transport dt fits with its peculiar circumstances...dts y china wud encourage and make bicycles its official means of transport...so let's not come here and be fanning our egoistical nuances abeg

Wadeoye: Use Okada till when?

Okada should be banned now so we all appreciate the problems we have as a nation and face it together - transportation, power and attendant unemployment. Okada is not a decent means of transporting human beings.

Do you get that?

Wats indecent about d okada? I wanna knw.


Perhaps...trekking is more decent? I have d feelin u dnt use okadas so its more of 'who cares?'...and wen did 'banning so we can suffer to appreciate our problems' become a solution to problems?

Wadeoye: I am advocating for total ban. That the state government has only restricted them to some roads is even what some people will call a good gesture.

What do you mean by masses demand for Okada? Who asked for Okada as a means of transportation? We asked for good transportation system from government and good road network. If we have all these, who will use Okada? Okada can't be a substitute for good transportation and road network - so, let go back to where we stopped and begin to demand from government for good transportation system.

Guy...y u arguing from two contradictory angles...u say u want total ban yet in same breath u say no one wud need okada if govt provided gud transport system and roads...meanin govt has failed to provide both..dts d reason pple nid okadas...dnt u tink its more logical to say okadas shdnt be banned until govt provides d gud transport system and good roads?

The reason we kip lamenting about bad leadership in Nigeria and we kip gettin more bad leaders is cos of some idiots who never cease to defend govt actions.

First..u can't compare Lagos to any oda state cos of d population density. Differrent solutions re applicable to different climes. U can't make Lagos 'develop' like oda developed countries wen ur oda sources of transport like rail and water are non existent. If there are so many okadas in Lagos, it means they have a big 'demand' by residents. Means they need it. And for yall sayin its just some routes banned..pls be educated... Roads within my housin estate were also banned...re dose highways too? Dnt be decieved by propaganda...dey want okada to stop fully.

2ndly...u say 107 pple die in 2 yrs tru okada...buh almst 300 died tru dana air in one hour...does dat mean we shd also ban air travel? I also can tell u dis...no serious robbery takes place with okada cos okada can't go far like cars...okada robberies re mainly petty and pale wen compared with car robberies. Who robs banks with okadas? D biggest robbery in lagos happened a few weeks ago wen some bureau de change were attacked. It was so serious d IG of police asked lagos police to wake up...did dey use bikes? For yall sayin they shud go farm...u miss d point...if dey farm, wat happens to d demand for their okada services?


3rdly,y can't d govtmake dem safer by creatin a seperate lane for dem like its done in cotonou? Me tink its cos d rich don't ride it so dey jst dnt care.they can even decide to register d okada men to reduce possibility of robberies tru dem...buh d govt apparently prefers d lazy 'emperor style' banning of tins. I even wonder if fashola has a right to ban okadas on a federal highway.


4thly...difficult to deny fashola is elitist...how do u explain d hile in lasu fees, lekki tollgate, displacin makoko residents and dis one on okadas? I voted for him 2wice...buh I won't ever!

No need to take tins personal...even marwa tried to provide keke as an alternative...fashola didn't bother...d traffic law is a senseless legislation...and er...dts me, a lawyer saying dt...

Osiris...honestly...I tink ur senselessness shd baffle u urself. Whether its exact 1000 roads or more than..I challenged u to give ur authority, u cudnt. Philosophers call ur fallacy argumentum ad miscericondiam...google dat!


IF u dnt have a contrary statistic to mine...its better u shut up dan say 'even a snail knows'...check d list and tell me which road aint dere...ur words here shd digrace ur pple...u just a deviant who tinks cos he can string one or two words in english togeda...has become a professor of some sorts...dnt try mess wiv dis writer bro...it aint safe s.ex...idiot

meanwhile...we all als forge to note that the traffic law also provides a 3 yr jail term fr smeone driving without a driving licence or someone who takes one way...have u tried to get driving licence before? how easy is it? to den proclaim a 3 yr jail term is @ best insane! and some stupid pplewill cme and bepreaching sanitising lagos trash here...nonsense!

Honestly...am scared for the future of this country...posts by some of the youths here are scary...lemme break it down-

Is okada only used for rituals, armed robbery? No.

Is it used to transport a lot of Lagosians? Yes

What is the percentage of okada used for armed robbery and rituals? less than 7%

Are cars used for robbery and rituals? Yes

Have they been Banned? No.

Can a knife be used to kill? Yes

Has it been banned? No

Flowing from the above? only;

a. A mad man

b. someone who doesnt care about the large no of Lagosians who take okada


will support the okada ban.


With these few points of mine, i haope i have been able to convince and not confuse you that the okadaban is unjust... Thank you. ;

[quote author=GARRI (x7)]Em sir, I think you are DULLER THAN AKPOS!!!

Sir, even a snail knows that Lagos State can't have less than 1,000 roads...[/quote]osiris...this is for ur education...u dnt just assume that Lagos has 1000 roads...just cos u 'feel' so...in d absence of u knowing how many roads lagos has...its more inteeligent for u to keep quiet...honestly...stop just assumin and talk som sense...if u read my poost and read urs....u ll realsie who d dull person is...mumu

[quote author=Osiris.211]What roles are you talking about? That every toad be allowed to come here and start riding Okada?




@ Bold, don't stretch your luck too far by thinking the government will fold her arms and allow touts to cause anarchy without swiftly taking care of them. Simplicity of Fashola doesn't mean he is a whimp.[/quote]am scared we have pple like osiris on this thread...

lemme break it down...fashola lookin simple is a child-father mentality u failed to leave behind with your childhood...our governement was elected by the people so being a whimp aint an issue...ultimate sovereignty lies with the pple and they also retain d right to protest policies they dont like...dis is a democracy Godamit! so okada men re now touts ba? the agberos tinubu used all tru his tyenure aint touts buh bikemen are touts ba? lets make attempts to use our brains @ times pple!

[quote author=GARRI (x7)]If 99% of Lagos roads amount to 475 roads are you saying there are only about 480 ROADS in Lagos??

Stop exposing ur ignorance...

Besides, now you see y you shouldn't have skipped Mathematics class.. [/quote]@ garri...and wat makes u tink we have more than 480 roads in Lag...gimme contrary statistics befoe i believe i was wrong na...see name sef...'Garri"...i wont even get bugged down by u...am lookin @ d big picture...its high time the LASG is cautioned...d govt is sooo anti pple!