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It is not Governor Wike's fault. Don't the Igbo community love themselves? Why are the Governors from the east not saying anything? Don't they have lawyers that can get a court injunction? Can't some Igbo elders pay a visit to the Governor and tell him to stop killing and dehumanizing defenseless Igbos in Oyigbo?

If soldiers died, must the innocent suffer for the crime of a few? What about little children? So many questions begging for answers.

In addition, why don't they permit news media to monitor what the armies are doing there. What they claim they are doing is contrary to the report we are receiving from the residents.

Governor Wike should please visit Oyigbo himself and confirm what is happening or send delegates. The people have been on lock down for days now. How do they feed?

I weep for Nigeria.

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That's the journalist version of the story.

Let's hear from the soldiers

There is nothing to hear from the soldiers that lied broad day lie on the shooting that happened in Lekki Tollgate. Besides, this has been their nature. I wish we were still under the British. An average black man is wicked. We derive pleasure in killing our own.

In a sane country, this Governor doesn't have the moral right to continue to be a Governor. #sanwoolushouldresign.

Now, there is mutual fear. This should lead to mutual respect. Police IG should apologize to Nigerians for the way they have mistreated us all through the years rather than asking them to defend themselves. Then promise that it will not repeat itself. The first sign of true change is that they should stop extortion motorists. The second sign is that bail should be truly free. The third sign is to stop demanding for mobilization money before they address an issue. Then Nigerians will be friends with police.

America government rescues her citizens from far away but Nigeria government kill her citizens. God will punish our wicked leaders behind the killings at Lekki Tollgate.

No matter how they try to cover traces of evidence, truth cannot be buried. Other evidences will show up.

Wike is irrational in his decision. The Elders of the Igbo community should hold a meeting with him or better sue him for genocide against the Igbos living in Oyigbo.

Colonelswitz101:
It's been over a week since the nigerian army laid siege to oyigbo town. The harassment and recorded cases of killings are numerous to count. They have been going to people's homes and killing indiscriminately, burning people's houses while blocking exits. With the 24hrs curfew, all roads going In and out of oyigbo has bn blocked and residents encircled. Some they kill at close range and so many have died in their homes from stray bullets. We have helicopters flying over our roofs in a way it can mean a declaration of genocide on oyigbo residents. The federal government and Rivers State Government have declared war on the people of oyigbo and the press are not doing much or should I say turning a blind eye. I am writing this post to draw the attention of nigerians and the world on the ongoing genocide on the residents of Oyigbo in Rivers State by the nigerian army.

We don't have journalist in Nigeria who can get a first hand information of events like this. They rely on a third party information. They no wan die.

They should have allowed them at the beginning. I don't trust these army.

Kobicove:
Policemen also have families therefore they have a right to life.

They have a right defend themselves!

They started it with inhuman treatment of Nigeria citizens. They should repent of their evil ways and peace will reign.

Charmingrascal:
Y'all should call on Kanu to stop making misguided statement.
He should withdraw his statement calling for Wike's head.
Do u want Wike to sit and watch while IPOB miscreants cut off his head?

So, everyone including innocent children should suffer for the sin of one man. Besides, there are people of other tribes in Oyigbo. Why should Kanu be a threat to him?

Good. It points to the fact that they are guilty. The International community should take note of this. I suggest that soldiers should never be invited into any civil issue. It never ends well.

LegendAnselm:
u be idiot..send me ur watsap number...i av some video, the one that happened yesterday hw ipob kill 8army while removing their cloth...even boasting that they aim is to cut wike's head..i promise to send u the video but u ll promise me not to post it onlie......they ar smart that after killing them they will remove the army clothe

This is really serious. The Governor should please withdraw them and constitute a committee to know the way forward. The root cause is the brutality of police on people. Ironically, the police have not learnt. They are still declaring war. Let's give peace a chance. After all, the violence was not only in Oyigbo.

The recent deployment of soldiers to Oyigbo is bringing untold hardship and a lot people have been dehumanized by Soldiers.

First, soldiers are not detectives that are trained to fish out criminals.

Second, not everyone residing in Oyigbo are IPOB members. Even the IPOB members may not be up to 5% of the population there.

So, while will the entire community suffer for the sins of very few people. I believe those who committed the crimes should have find their way out of the community.

Governor Wike should please withdraw Soldiers from Oyigbo and find other ways of fishing out the criminals.

The rights of so many innocent people living there are being violated. He should have a human heart and do the needful to bring back life to normalcy in Oyigbo.

All that the soldiers understand is kill. The Lekki Tollgate massacre is enough lesson for us to learn. Wike should not include himself on the list of leaders that killed his people.

E don happen. Trouble dey sleep, yanga go wake am. Our leaders are the real looters. They only made the Law for the poor. And the mumu poor next election will vote for them again for 1,000 naira.

Even if IPOB did commit the criminal acts, those involved are just a few percentage of its members. IPOB historically are not terrorist though there are few criminal elements among them.

This doesn't warrant the soldiers to start shooting indiscriminately and breaking into homes. They are fighting unarmed civilians as though they are in a war with another country. Over 95% of those living in Oyigbo certainly have nothing to do with the crimes a few people committed.

If we don't condemn this act of soldiers, then we shouldn't condemn what happened at Lekki Tollgate.

They should go after the real terrorist killing both soldiers and civilians on a daily basis. Nigeria is the only country where security personnel kill her citizens without remorse and we don't condemn it.

Civilians matters are not supposed to be handled by soldiers. All that the soldiers know is kill.

#stopsoldiersfromterrorisingoyigbo

Designed for Nigeria politifians.

I thought due process was followed before appointing her. This is bad belle for Nigeria. If you frustrate Okonjo Nwala appointment, Nigerians living in the United States should vote against Trump.

They are trying to appease the youths. Fix the country. Deal with the real issues.

1. End Boko Haram. If you can't, seek help.
2. End herdsmen killing. It is a deliberate genocide against the Christian communities.
3. Open borders. The border closure hasn't solved any problems. Rather it has brought inflation and Nigerians are choking.
4. End fuel importation. Make our refineries work.
5. Establish new industries and make Nigeria a producing country. We import virtually everything even toothpick.
6. Prosecute corrupt politicians and government workers that are corrupt irrespective of party.
7. We need light 247.
8. Fix our roads. All our federal roads are bad.
9. Stop attacking unarmed protesters.
10. Restructure the country.
11. We need new constitution.
12. We need true federalism.
13. Invest in agriculture. It should not be left in the hands of peasant farmers.
14. Build border fence. Our borders are too porous.
15. Stop the nepotism in appointment.
16. Pass the new electoral bill. Next election must be electronic.
17. Reduce the allowances of legislators.
18. Reduce the transport allowance of President and vice president. The budget for transport allowance for Mr President this year is 2.5 billion naira.
19. Stop the intellectual decay in our educational institutions. Most students no longer read as they rely on sorting.
20. Reform the police.
21. Sack the present service Chiefs.
22. Complete the probe on NDDC.
23. Audit NNPC and make the result public.
24. Empower all graduates after NYSC.
25. Stop anti people bills like the bills to regulate social media.
26. Release all those arrested for stealing palliatives. Rather, prosecute those who hoarded them.
27. Compensate families killed during the #endsarsprotest.
28. Prosecute those who killed the #endsarsprotesters.
29. Fish out the commanders or those sponsoring herdsmen and Boko Haram.
30. The President should apologize to Nigerians for not addressing the Lekki Tollgate shooting.

Our leaders should be reminded the true meaning of democracy. It is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. They should therefore always do what the people want and not what they want to do.

You can please add to the list.

Commentor:
Yes, just like the police are bad, army wicked, looters and arsonists of buses, shops and banks during protests are upstanding citizens.

Don't worry, we'll find government from Mars to help us the good citizens.

Good governance flows from the top. Just the right person at the top will bring the desired change. If Jerry Rawlings could change Ghana with uncommon decisions, Nigeria can change.

These old politicians should go. In fact they should all not just go, they should all be jailed otherwise, they will influence the new leaders and act like Godfathers. There must be a total disconnect between the old politicians and the new breed which we must discover and work on.

Nigeria has been battling with power supply for years now. I believe the only way out of this is to take away power supply from exclusive list. The federal government is biting more than it can chew. They should allow state to generate and distribute power. So many things have to be removed from exclusive list. This is the only way forward. Our next protest should include this demands. Security and power should live the exclusive list.

The actual problem with Nigeria is corruption. There is corruption in our power sector.

They are lying to us. We use to hear that our power generation is insufficient. How come it is now excess? Even the monies they get for supplying other countries can't be accounted for.

These set of leaders are just thieves.

Commentor:
You are the one that started with oil.

What if we have resources?
Countries without resources use their brains whilst those with it believe in MMM.

The bottom line is that our leaders should be blamed. They don't have plans to grow our economy as long as they have their loots.

Dismissed. I hope he looted enough that should be enough to either feed him for months or start a retail store. We will soon dismiss this government. They are responsible for the suffering of Nigerians.

Benblaq:
I don't know if it's everywhere, or just this River State that the price of groceries is this high. How's it in your place?

You are funny and too narrow minded. Nigerians are generally too slow to react to price increase. I thought it should have been our major focus during the protest. One of our demand should have been #openourborders.

The cost of most stable food items have increased astronomically.

1. Sachet of tomatoes paste now cost between 100 - 120 naira in Rivers State.
2. A foreign bag of rice is about 40,000 naira as against 9,000 when Buhari starred ruling.

I could go on and on. It's not just about onions. Onions price fluctuates and it will certainly drop depending on how the supply comes.

But the price of rice hardly drop.

The border closure is the cause. In any case, the rice still find their ways in illegally. They have to bribe security personnel and some go through routes where they spend more. And the local rice price is determined by the price of foreign rice.

If the borders are opened, the price of rice will crash.

The high price of rice also make those selling Garri to increase their price. So, the border closure only succeeds in bringing inflation and affliction to poor Nigerians.

Government should open the borders and local rice producers just have to find ways to make their products much cheaper and availability in commercial quantity.

If foreign rice sells for 20k and local rice for 12k per bag, so many might go for the local rice but if the price is close like say, 17k, many will prefer foreign rice.

Commentor:
I should allow you to continue being an ignoramus but I cannot allow the rest of the populace be so .

I'm sure in your mind you think if you earn 200k but have 10 children you are better than a family of 3 earning 150k.

Let that stew in your brain.

Use your brain also. Our population is not a disadvantage. India and China are far bigger than us but they have much stronger economy.

Besides, we don't lack natural resources. We are over dependent on oil.

Commentor:
So how many barrels do you produce?

Stop asking stupid questions. Oil is the richest source of income for any nation. Nigeria just decided to mismanage theirs. We have so many oil wells. Most companies in Nigeria are here because of our oil. We just have big oil thieves who declare much less than what they sell.

The soldiers will not get away from this. Thank God that the International community are monitoring the investigation. Heads will roll.

Commentor:
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Oil rich but overpopulated Nigeria.

200 million people and 2 million barrels of oil daily.

Is that wealth?

That is the figure they gave us. The money Allison Madueke alone looted proves that there is money but most of the resources goes into private pockets.

There was a country. Foreign countries gave palliatives to all but oil rich Nigeria couldn't plan for even 10 % of her population. The 2 million target was even too small compared with the Nigeria population.

Our Commonwealth has been squandered by our politicians. And most of the revenues generated goes into private pocket.

I don't think we will survive with this government still in place till 2023. We need a miracle.

id911:
We didn't actually see Pele play and so they might have deceived us he was good, maybe not. I quite agree with others but Ronaldo De Lima was an exceptional talent. He should have been higher up than that.

Go to the Internet and download clips of his game. No one has an international goal scoring ratio like Pele till date. 79 goals in 92 appearance. Who does that?

I concur with the ranking. It is difficult to break Pele record. World cup is the peak of soccer. His world cup win would have been up to 4 if not for injury that sent him out in 1966. He is skillful and very fast with the ball.