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MadPolitician:
Most people from the former Eastern Nigeria don't know that these "extortion points" called "check points", were initially erected during the Nigeria Biafra war. They have been there ever sincess a vindictive Nigeria piles on with all sorts of evil tactics. At a point, it was so notorious that you would run into a checkpoint after every two poles or so, especially along the major highways with all the bumps and potholes. Sand bags closing one lane and all that.

Lots of officers were bribing their Ogas to be posted to the east because of this "lucrative enterprise" untill the UGM menace scared them off. If you lived in the Souh East all your life before travelling outside the country, one of the initial surprises that will hit you as you acclimatise to your new surroundings, is the absence of any AK47 wielding police crew every half kilometers

UGM, wait there is a school of thought who thinks UGM is a product of the checkpoints

That's the interesting angle.

But some critical thinkers are starting to reason out some logic. If you want to solve a crime, follow the money. Since the checkpoints are lucrative, some people will be doing everything to justify it, and even be trying to increase the checkpoint revenue.

Some observers has seen that some heavy trucks, especially those arriving from the North to drop goods, or pick other goods, are made to pay as much as 1,000 naira in some checkpoints, some 500 naira, buses 200 naira, cars 100 naira. Get your calculator, check out what will happen if 1 million cars pass each if these checkpoints in a day. Yes, go ahead, press your calculator. Have you seen the humongous amounts of money being pulled in from these checkpoints? Do you see that it's enough motive to kill?

isan:
Because y'all are criminals

Statistics has proven that much less crimes occur in the south east than in any other part of Nigeria. Most other crimes happening in the south east are committed by immigrants, herdsmen, inter state robbers and kidnappers who return to their states after stealing from the east. If you mention your region, I will pull up your statistics for you. Thanks.

Successive government have failed to do anything about these chokehold checkpoints, instead, they have witnessed a frightening increase every year. It won't be surprising to wake up in one neighbourhood and see either the police or the military building checkpoints in a previously quiet area. No explanation will be given, it will be explained away as fighting crime. These checkpoints immediately turn to extortion points where the security forces openly collect money from motorists, 3ven giving them change for those who give out high denominations of the naira. They do this without fear, they do it openly, yet the top echelonnof the Nigerian security has never noticed this, in over 50 years.

Stories has been told, of quiet village roads, that nothing happens on, suddenly there will be a surge of kidnappings on the said road, and when the locals complain, Blam! a new checkpoint will immediately appear on the road Who did the initial provicative kidnapoings? Are you thinking what am thinking? If not, just read on.

As I was going through this list of active security checkpoints on just on stretch of 100 km highway in the east, an idea struck me. Damn!

A person who knows the east will know they are mostly business people, moving around, buying, selling and moving goods and services from location to location. They also travel a lot from town to town, town to villllage, attend multiple events, and sometimes move out to another location to chill out and enjoy the day, mostly on weekends. These activities happen between the millions of people living within the south east

What about the millions of people arriving from outside the south east, to do business, to visit friends and family, to buy or sell goods, to attent events and yes, to settle and enjoy their lives.

The south east is a heavily populated area, with towns overlooking other towns, you could slip from state to state without noticing any boundaries. The towns are so close you could stand on one town and be looking into another big town. Its a lively part of the world.

For every thing that have an advantage, expect to see the disadvantages of it. Some evil people started to cash in on the movement of people between towns. They thought it lucrative to mount road blocks to (first) stop crime, but the idea quickly tuned from stopping crimes to committing crimes. Vehicles who have no reasons to be stopped, are delayed unnecessarily if they cannot pay a bribe to pass the roads, even if their papers are genuine, or the goods they are carrying are legit.

Onitsha to Enugu express security checkpoints

1. Awkuzu Junction army
2. Awkuzu Junction FRSC
2. Dunukofia LG hqts police
3. Enugu ukwu Junction police
4. Amawbia Junction police
5. Unizik Junction army
6. Mopol base Awka Junction police
7. Prince and Princess hostel front army
8. Amansea boundary police
9. Ugwuoba boundary police
10. Ugwuoba bridge police team
11. Ugwuoba Junction army
12. Ugwuoba Junction NDLEA
13. Ugwuoba Junction FRSC
14. Ugwuoba Central army
15. Oji river Junction army 1
16. Oji River Junction army 2
17. Ezeagu express army
18. Near Nkwo ezeagu police
19. Near tiles factory police
20. Umumba Ndiuno express police 1
21. Umumba Ndiuno express police 2
22. Nsude express (approach to ninth mile) police
23. Ngwo express army
24. Ngwo express anti terror squad
25. Onyeama Hill (near refuse dump) army
26. Onyeama Hill (near coal mine) army
27. Abakpa interchange police
28. Abakpa Junction FRSC

This is what a traveller moving just 105 KM from Onitsha to Enugu will endure. A checkpoint after ever 3.7 km.

Antivirus92:
Even rural roads like the awka-okpuno-isuaniocha road, police officers mount there every evening extorting money from commercial drivers and causing congestion.

It's a lucrative business, the police sometimes fight the army for more lucrative positions on all the roads.

And they will like to blame unknown gunmen.

Santalpharay:
You are truly plying the roads. So annoying the numerous hold ups they cause. And kidnappings are happening in between those check points. No be juju be that?👀👀

We all know The whole thing is a charade to collect money and slow down economic activities in the east, they are not really searching for any crime or arresting any criminals. The highest criminals they have ever caught on all these checkpoints for over ten years are innocent passengers caught making calls from inside their stationery vehicles.

tishbite42:
Watch the Afonjitis come to blame IPOB/ESN while their Fulani masters continue to kill and rape them

This is the fault of amaka in Canada

This news is not important, they can kidnap the whole Ekiti, let's keep our focus on one phantom amaka in Canada while our brothers are being slaughtered in Ekiti

princeade86:
remember this is company issue. Why can't guo have fuel down for their buses. To be sincere,I fear traveling to East. None of them are honest at all. There was a time my friend was traveling to Port from Lagos, mazamaza. He paid for Port money, and dey dropped him at in another destination. He said but he paid for Port Harcourt, that ok they should give him money that will take him to Port Harcourt, to his surprised, they don't give him shishi. That's wickedness. He now used close to 4k again to enter motor.

It is also country issue my brother, why can't there be fuel at every filling station, why should GUO management have to do NNPC work join their own duties? Honesty from the driver when there is o honesty from the FG? Can he invent honesty at his small level? These things have multiplier effects. The blame reach everyone, not just the driver or company. Some of the passengers follow vote bad government sef

(Looking for trouble)

Really?

Goodvibes007:
You can open a thread on Ilorin of the 1800s before Nigeria was created. Tag me, then, I will come and educate your silly self.

Don't make it look like you lost ilorin a long time ago, have you reclaimed it today? Beware of the Emir.

Bobloco:
Now that they are in power, why are they no longer pushing for it, oh! Because it's their turn to eat

Do you mind the hypo sellers

To fight malnutrition?

60 years after the war?

Tiny open gutters, bumpy roads that will break the spinal cord of motorists, I willmake sure not to use this road to they demolish it

What nonsense.

What kind of rubbish is this?

Seyi makinde should be impeached immediately for doing a road that a councilor can do. In fact, rich people in my state use their money to build longer, better roads than this.

I repeat, this man should be impeached.

Goodvibes007:
Enugu brown roof 👇
https://www.nairaland.com/7299051/enugu-not-ibadan-pictures-video

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a space of 3 football fields, Ibadan is a space of 5 states covered with brown roof.

Warning: Graphic images.

Goodvibes007:
Sharap. Oil only contributes around 5-7% of Nigeria's GDP.

Your oil and gas. 🤡
South East contributes less than ordinary Lagos state sef not to even mention Ondo state

And brown roof contributes the rest.

Goodvibes007:
We know the ones shooting their kids and selling their children to eat. Same people that sold their votes for Okpa and Jollof. Same people that robbed an onion truck even as far back as 2021. Same people that were queuing for Eba and bitter leaf soup from Ikpeazu 😂

Or the people who protested against hunger when their son is in charge of the CBN

Goodvibes007:
The only people hunger would finish are the ones that are refugee all over Nigeria. Your kinsmen that leech on Nigeria 😂

My oil and gas is the revenue that keeps you fed and made you buy phone to talk back at me. If not for the resources on my land, you will be poorer than Burkinabes.

Goodvibes007:
Awolowo asked for Secession clause in the 1950s. Seperation without bullet. Azikiwe an Ibo man fought against it. Chanting an indivisible Nigeria.

Ojukwu asked for a Secession after the SE lost out. You can't eat your cake and have it too.

Secession clause is very different from Secession.

Goodvibes007:
Secession after you lost out.

When you lost ilorin, you didn't deem it fit to fight for secession?

Goodvibes007:
Ordinary Ondo generates more oil than the 5 plots states of the SE combined together.

That's propaganda. If you people leave Nigeria, hunger will finish all of you.

Goodvibes007:
The west politicians have been the one pushing for regionalism and self governance, while the ones from the east do not care except for their rifraf who want Biafria but also cry when the west help them to echo their ibomust go demands.

Who among the top west politicians called for secession like Ojukwu did?

alanto:
Ibadan has more infrastructure than all SE states combined. You really want to measure dick. Look to your mate man. Even North has more infrastructure than your 5 plots. You can compete with Bayelsa

We are having a mature discussion here so stop throwing temper tantrums. How many houses have new roofs there?

Na wao

It seems like the only people happy about one Nigeria are our brothers from the west.

alanto:
First TV station in Africa was founded in Ibadan in 1959 at that time Southeasterners are still walking about naked.
I imagine if Bishop Ajayi Crowder hadn't taken Christianity and Western Education to Igboland, you guys will not be here dragging with Yorubas.

What then destroyed Ibadan? A nuclear war?

Max24:
You said APC, up there some other Obi supporters said its the work of PDP. Seems most of you Obi supporters are always confused like Obi is changing parties. No wonder some people call Obidients headless mobs. I won't be surprised if he goes back to PDP in 2027 or another party. All LP incompetencies are heaped on APC. LP is a bunch of incompetents.

Knock yourself out pal, you have zero points.