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baralatie:
And dangote did not get any waiver shey?

Is it only dangote that gets waivers? Which do you prefer, waivers for consumer products like rice, tomatoes and fish or waivers for industrial machinery like refinery and steel plants?

saysoo:
But this refinery is not solving an coruption thing. Subsidy will go but pms will go to abt N650-750 and other petroleum prnducts. The subsidy saved will still be stolen. The masses pays. Dangote went to a FTZ so the laws of the country will not affect him.

So you would have preferred Dangote takes his refinery to other west African countries like Ghana or Guinea abi? And then sell to Nigeria in dollars and marketers continue to enjoy "subsidy ".
Do you know how much dollars the refinery would save for Nigeria?

baralatie:
Dangote secured $3 billion loan on the back of the fg
Emefiele alone secured another wave of financial grants through the cbn for dangote
This is different from import waivers o
Then there is nnpc that has continued to remind dangote of it's stake

Others dey o

Make una dey deceive una self

What do you mean Dangote secured $3 billion loan on the back of the fg? Are you insinuating banks wouldn't loan Dangote money due to his net worth? Banks are pursuing ordinary Nigerians with loans, e con remain Dangote.

What do you mean by financial grant? Are you saying Dangote built his refinery using grants? Or you don't know the meaning of grants.

Most big boys get import waivers from the FG including igbo big guys.

It's the finance minister that approve of import waivers and Okonjo Iweala was accused of giving import waivers like kolanut so much so that the house of assembly quarried her.

sonature1:
Stop writing NONSENSE.

Dangote gets waivers from banks and government because he has proven to be creditworthy.

Nigerians have criminal mindsets. Go and ask those loan sharks what they go through in the hands of Nigerians. They borrow money and never pay back.

By the way, Dangote cannot come this far if he doesn't pay taxes. Dangote has constructed critical roads across the country in place of taxes based on agreement reached with the government.

https://hallmarknews.com/dangote-to-re-construct-4-federal-roads-2-in-south-east/

Don't mind the usual criers, I call them town criers. They have never accused Dangote of any crime. They cry everytime he invests in something great. Instead of them to lobby Dangote and his likes to bring investments to their region, they show hatred and negativity. They forget that when Oknojo Iweala was there for 4 years she was granting waivers up and down like candies to big business men including igbos. Why didn't they call her out then, as it is the perogative of the finance minister to grant waivers.

baralatie:
If the dangote inery was built on the backdrop of heavy fg financial support.
It the fg and it's arm that enable the dangote refinery has a huge stake
Is that not so?

Which FG financial support? Can you provide prove that FG gave Dangote huge financial support?

According to reports, the FG forced Dangote to sell 20% shares in his refinery, so they can have a member on its board and so some say in its operations, and Dangote was not happy with the it. - https://punchng.com/refinery-dangote-not-happy-with-nnpc-proposed-stake-acquisition-says-kyari/?amp

Redoil:
dangote has being having access to cheap and affordable foreign exchange straight from the CBN and Federal government combine.

you can not go to the bank and ask for loans to boost your business

give such support to any industrialist especially from the eastern part of nigeria will still achieve thesame or better result.

i want to use this medium to beg the CBN to give such assistance to every industrialist including farmars

Usual lamentations and victim card card playing from the usual suspects. Tell me who had been the CBN governor for the last 10 years? Who had been in charge of the country's monetary and currency policy for a whole decade? Which tribe owned most of the banks and financial institutions in Nigeria.

Must you guys alway lament, why is it impossible for you guys to congratulate anyone who does something great unless he or she is from your tribe.

OfoIgbo:
You need serious deprogramming.

In Nigeria, no ethnic group can claim to be more successful than the Igbos business-wise, which is why I see things you don't see.

Plateau people are demonstrating becuase they lost 100 people in just two days, at the the hand of Fulani terrorists, and the ruling Fulani president is doing nothing to punish his Fulani terrorist brothers that are slaughtering Plateau people.

Nigeria is not as rosy as you would want us to believe.

For the first time, someone that won the presidency in a four horse race, by a wide margin, is being denied the opportunity to lead the nation because he is Igbo, and all manner of derogatory labels have been placed on him, from being an ethnic jingoist to being a religious bigot, none of which can be proven.

A Fulani president organised an election, with a Fulani DG in charge of INEC. Is it not clear where the ethnic group of the people who are subverting the will of Nigerians?
I doubt whether PO nor his core supporters will buy into the RUN AGAIN IN 2027 mantra. Tinubu never ran for presidency before, yet he was illegally declared the winner of an election he didn't win. Someone who clearly won the presidency, and was denied the opportunity to lead, will definitely not be preparing to run again, in 2027, unless his 2023 mandate is restored.

That's why I say you guys are suffering from cognitive dissonance. In one breath you are crying igbos are marginalised, igbos are oppressed, igbos are not allowed to succeed like Fulanis or Yorubas, then in the next breadth you claim igbos are the most successful (businesswise or otherwise) in Nigeria. You see why I say you guys need to see the psychologist?
Plateau people are protesting their own cause, abi you want to leave your own and fight for them? Abi dem beg you to join them for protest?

No one is saying Nigeria is rosy, what I am saying is stop playing the victim card and plan, strategise and fight for your interests in a more sensible manner.

To me Tinubu bought the elections. He bought most important members of the political elites,he bought the electoral body and I suspect he has bought the whole judiciary. That's his political strategy. Its not about Fulani, Yoruba or igbo, although he uses tribalism among the ordinary masses to further divide the people. He also has many prominent igbos in his pocket.

Now I don't believe Obi or anyone else won the elections because the elections were not credible. The elections was marred with rigging, irregularities all over, from Kano to Ogun to Rivers and even Anambra. The only places with semblance of credibility are a few urban areas mostly in lagos and Abuja. INEC made a mess of the elections. Until now, they can provide the complete results.

CodeTemplar:
some stone are naturally sensitive to tempature around their environment and so can be uses to produce current if maintained at two different temperatures.

SS3 physics. Is like you aced WEAC from SS1 o. Miracle centre things?

No need of making baseless claims, why not show us example of such stone that can produce current by thermocouple. Abi your phone no get Google?

Alusiizizi:
Heat is just one of the produce of nuclear fission, and heat really is a very small part of the electromagnetic spectrum. For uranium(as well as most radioactive elements), you can expect copious quantities of gamma rays(which also lies in the electromagnetic spectrum, although in the very high energy part), which is what makes these elements dangerous to human health. Why? Because gamma radiation is an example of ionizing radiation(another example of ionizing radiation are x-rays). Basically such radiation is energetic enough to knock electrons out of their orbitals in molecules and even split atomic nuclei for such radiation with very high energies. How is this dangerous to human health? Because when human DNA is altered by such radiation they can behave in unpredictable ways, for example, initiate cancers and such.

Now, how can radioactive material be used to generate electricity directly? Well, since all radioactive material will emit at least one of the following, alpha, beta or gamma rays, I will be telling you how any of these 3 radiation can be used to generate electricity directly.

Alpha rays: Alpha rays are nothing more than ionized hydrogen, which means a hydrogen atom relieved of its single electron. All one would need to do is to put one metal plate on top of an alpha ray emitter and another in the earth, or a negative potential(or even better, a beta emitter) and connect your bulb light for electricity.

Beta rays: Beta rays are electrons. No need to use many words here, unless you need to learn how electrons are used in producing electricity.

Gamma rays: Gamma rays are ionizing, which means that they will easily knock electrons from the orbitals of virtually any ponderable material, thush leaving a net electric charge that can be readily put to work as an electricity generator.

Herakiri How can heat be part of the electromagnetic spectrum? Heat is just the excitement of molecules or atoms to higher vibrations or frequency.

Normal uranium gives of little gamma radiation most of the emotions is alpha particles. it is when the uranium hits critical mass and undergoes uncontrolled chain reaction (nuclear bomb)that it gives off huge amount of energy in the form of heat, gamma rays and other radiations in the electromagnetic spectrum.

All you talk about alpha rays, beta rays and gamma rays to work as an electric generator is hogwash. To create electricity you have use some sort of force to push electrons through a wire or some other conductive medium. Ionised air on its own flowing electrons through a wire is the most crazy thing I have ever heard.

CodeTemplar:
Thermocouple
/ˈθəːməʊkʌp(ə)l/
noun
a thermoelectric device for measuring temperature, consisting of two wires of different metals connected at two points, a voltage being developed between the two junctions in proportion to the temperature difference.

That's from google. You can take a look at thermocouple devices examples too to totally cure what is affecting you.
Once potential difference is generated, the next thing is electricity(current) from the generated P. D.

Yahoo yahoo intellectual. Frozen minded dude. Be drinking hot garri regularly.

And a stone is a thermocouple device that can power appliances or several led bulbs.

OfoIgbo:
Nwokem, make use of your brain.

How come the oil prospecting licenses that BUA and other Fulani business interests secured, yielded results? That is the question you should be asking yourself?

How come the same Fulani and their southern slaves, are fighting tooth and nail, to ensure that Peter Obi, an Igboman doesn't become the president of Nigeria? That is yet another question you should be asking yourself.

A Fulani man is not more intelligent than an Itsekiri man, but the system has been rigged to keep the Itsekiri and the other Niger deltans, as slaves and mere security men, in the oil installations in the Niger delta. All the juicy aspects of the Nigerian oil and gas industry is being cornered by the Fulanis, and all you can see in the whole conspiracy is "I am itsekiri from the Niger Delta, so I understand oil business and politics far more than you do."

How come the same Fulani terrorists who have been killing indigenous populations in the north central are not labelled terrorists, while placard-carrying IPOB was labelled a terror group by the same Fulani leadership of the country.

You need help. It will take some effort to deprogram your mind from cronic victim mentality.
To succeed in business or any other endeavour, you have to surmount various challenges. You don't look for excuses for failure. Those that secured oil blocks with good results did their due diligence and did what they needed to do, no excuses. That's why the Chinese and indians succeed in Nigeria - no excuses, the do what they need to do.
The Fulanis and Yorubas know how to lobby the international community to further their interests, the igbos just insults and threaten everybody - the British, The French, the Arabs (muslims) other Africans, etc. Their only friend is Israel who takes instructions from the US.
About Obi, Nigerian in general support Obi, bit the Elites do not, be it Fulani, Yoruba or even igbo political elites. Soludo never supported Obi. So it's not strictly a Fulani thing. I like the way Obi is going about it. Fighting using every available legal means instead of playing the tribal or victim card. Atiku (a Fulani) had been running for president since 1993, he is yet to become president because the political elites did not support him. Abiola(a yoruba man) won the 1993 elections but the military and political elites denied him president. Even Buhari (a fulani man) contested 3 times before he was accepted by the political elites. Presidency is a game of thrones among the political elites.
Obi is along the right path, even if he doesn't get it this time he has the opportunity to try again until he eventually gets accepted by the political elites.

Alusiizizi:
Not true. All radioactive elements can be used to produce electricity directly(i.e. without having to convert heat to electricity). The three types of radioactive decay are alpha decay(i.e positively charged hydrogen nucleus), beta decay(i.e. electrons) and gamma decay(i.e. highly ionizing gamma radiation). Notice the common attribute?

That's news to me. Please explain how radioactive elements can be used to directly produce electricity. Nuclear power stations I know use heat from controlled radioactive decay to drive steam steam engines which in turn drive coils/alternators.

I love learning something new.

On further contemplation, I think the concept of turning radioactive decay directly into electricity was employed in the voyager space probes and possibly James Webb Telescope. I will google it later. But the technology had not been employed on terrestrial power generation project.

E2000:
Are you sure that stone is not URANIUM. If it is it is radioactive and dangerous. The media should learn to keep their mouth shut sometimes until we know what we are dealing with or are already established. We should learn to secretly protect our heroes and find support for them not put them in public like this. If that stone is uranium that guy may be in danger because this is a tech no one wants Africans to have.

Uranium can't produce electricity. Uranium (and other radioactive elements) produce energy in the form of heat (and sometimes light) in the process of radioactive decay into lighter elements by a process called fission reaction.

OfoIgbo:
Yes, that's exactly why the northern leaders of Nigeria awarded major monopolies to Dangote so that he can afford constructing a refinery.

Listen, all the SS people will need is to include experts as consultants in their proposed business vehicles, PO is a wise man. He will immediately realise that these SS business vehicles will need funding, which PO can held effect, as the president of Nigeria. He can use his powers as the president to bring in a policy that makes these SS business vehicles to have access to fund, so they can operate.
It will bring in Ijaws, Ibibios, Ogonis, Urhobos, Edos, Annangs and even Igbos into the controlling areas of the oil industry in Nigeria.

I have been in informed that BUA, which is another Fulani company, is now building a massive refinery in Akwa-Ibom, all in an attempt to ensure that Fulanis control the oil industry in Nigeria. Tufiakwa. All these can be done by locally put-together business vehicles.

I am itsekiri from the Niger Delta, so I understand oil business and politics far more than you do. Oil business ruined one of my rich uncles. He bought an oil prospecting license for $150 million and they did not find oil in commercial quantities in his allocated oil block (I suspect sabotage from NNPC officials). He had to relocate to the village after selling all his houses in Lagos and Abuja.

As I reiterate, no one is stopping any igbo man from owning a refinery.

OfoIgbo:
Yes, that's exactly why the northern leaders of Nigeria awarded major monopolies to Dangote so that he can afford constructing a refinery.

Listen, all the SS people will need is to include experts as consultants in their proposed business vehicles, PO is a wise man. He will immediately realise that these SS business vehicles will need funding, which PO can held effect, as the president of Nigeria. He can use his powers as the president to bring in a policy that makes these SS business vehicles to have access to fund, so they can operate.
It will bring in Ijaws, Ibibios, Ogonis, Urhobos, Edos, Annangs and even Igbos into the controlling areas of the oil industry in Nigeria.

I have been in informed that BUA, which is another Fulani company, is now building a massive refinery in Akwa-Ibom, all in an attempt to ensure that Fulanis control the oil industry in Nigeria. Tufiakwa. All these can be done by locally put-together business vehicles.

Please stop this victimisation syndrome, it looks like a mental health problem. Some igbomen see everyone pursuing them in their dreams.
No one is stopping any igboman from owning a refinery. In fact Abacha who was the first to issue licenses for refinery gave many igbo men, my brother inlaw was one of the first people granted refinery licence (for your information my wife is igbo). He gravely underestimated the cost of building a refinery, he borrowed $200million from a German bank to build the refinery. At the end of the day he died of a heart attack due to the failure of the project (due to inadequate funds). Even Dangote overshot his budget and had to go looking for money to borrow from everywhere in order to complete the refinery. He had spend over $20 billion so far. That's his whole net worth. Now how many igbo men can take such a risk. Igbos are better with businesses with quick turnover and not long term businesses like refinery that can take up to ten years to turn over.

chatinent:
They see this boy as a threat already. Do you know how much billions they syphon from power outage? Damn

My friend you are supporting a hoaxstar again while you have not recovered from the rape case.

No one can see the boy as a threat. Stones even if they contain metal ores can't generate electricity. If it could electricity would have been discovered centuries ago instead of just less than 300 years ago.
If all it takes is to dig huge rocks (special kind) into the ground and connect wires, lots of people will pay millions to acquire such rock.

That's a spiritual rock that defies the laws of physics.

PrincessDiana:
For those who don't believe this....
Watch the video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dXcS3v1cxw

Try buying actual data instead of relying on free 10mb or is it 100mb, you would then have been able to watch the video to the end and realise the guy was mocking you guys.

Mjshexy:
In saner climes he'd get supported by the government but does our government care about young Nigerians with such exceptional discoveries, no they don't . All they are interested in is to borrow on behalf of Nigerians, steal all they borrowed and die leaving Nigerians in unfathomable indebtedness

In saner climes the guy along with all those that believed his stupid hoax will first be put in a mental institution and on discharge will be enrolled in adult educational school to learn basic physics.
Stone (mainly silica) can not store or transmit electricity.

aieromon:
https://dailypost.ng/2023/05/22/refineries-how-dangote-group-was-chased-away-from-rivers-bobmanuel/

Same thing happened in Ogun and Ondo state. See the report on Ogun State.

Disagreement between Amosun govt, Dangote caused loss of $16bn refinery to Lagos —Abiodun

OGUN State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has said the breakdown of discussion between Dangote and the immediate past administration in the state led to the loss of a $16 billion Dangote refinery to Lagos State.

He, however, said his administration is working towards ensuring that the state takes advantage of its oil rich deposit and becomes an oil producing state.

The governor gave the position in the lecture he delivered at the second and third convocation ceremony of the Mountain Top University, with the topic, ‘Quest for Excellence: The Nexus of Faith, Knowledge and Resilience.’

Abiodun expressed disappointment that Ogun lost $16 billion Dangote refinery to Lagos after a break in discussion between the Ibikunle Amosun-led administration and Dangote.

While also noting that he had the privilege to work as the chairman of the Olokola Free Trade Zone that was meant to have the refinery sited in the state, Abiodun added that the project was not just conceived with the aim of refining petroleum products only but to take advantage of the mining lease that was awarded around the corridor.

“I worked as chairman of Olokola Free Trade Zone that was meant to have the Dangote refinery sited in Ogun Waterside. However, discussion broke down between Dangote and the then administration, which led to the loss of that project to Lagos State; a $16 billion project was lost to another state.
https://tribuneonlineng.com/disagreement-between-amosun-govt-dangote-caused-loss-of-16bn-refinery-to-lagos-abiodun/

7lives:
There's no pipe, rest bros.
Pipe kor rope ni.

I no wan answer am. They are adept at making stupendous claims or playing the victim card. He is talking about oil from the east as if there are substantial oil deposits in the east. Even at that why would dangote pipe oil from the east when Ondo and delta states are nearby.
Then the pipes are in his imagination, because dangote will supply his refinery through ships. That's why he sited it next to the ocean. Besides, he will not rely on only on crude from Nigeria but can get crude from any other African countries or even outside Africa.

OfoIgbo:
Let Dangote go and source for his oil in Russia and Angola.

Peter Obi has already promised that he will issue modular refinery licenses to Niger Delta groups that wish to refine their God-given crude oil.

No more monkey dey work, baboon dey chop policies. It will end with Peter Obi.

See the way you dey call modular refinery like say na kain kain refinery, or you thinks say na those iron drums wey ijaw boys dey take cook diesel na him be modular refinery? The minimum cost of a small 1000 barrels per day refinery costs nothing less than $100 million, and am not even talking about the cost of land acquisition, licences and other cost necessary to build the refinery, before talking about cost of getting crude yo the refinery and running costs.
How many Niger Delta groups can afford it. Besides even now nothing stops anyone from getting a license and build a refinery if you have the money.

Styluss:
I think I understand better Thanks, I think Ondo State is a better alternative considering lagos congestion, only that there is no readily available sea port.

There were allegations that talks between Governor Amosun and Dangote and between Mimiko and Dangote broke down over bribes. Dangote initially wanted to site the refinery in Ogun or Ondo state.

sisisioge:
Niger Delta has proven not to be the safest place for oil investors to plant their investments. Little wonder Dangote jejely chose Lagos. The guy cant be fighting the numerous wars from the militants there o.

Exactly, even most of the oil companies operating in the Niger Delta have sold their onshore assets and moved offshore, and you expect Dangote to thread where angels dread.

Styluss:
I dont think thats bigory, I think he is talking from economic point of view. Why harvest Cassava in Ibadan and make garri in sokoto? It does not make any economic sense.

From an economic point of view, you have to consider security, good access roads, good access to the sea, available of skilled manpower and benign government policies, eg tax breaks and incentives.

Rutherford2019:
What's the logic of siting oil refinery in Lagos but the oil is produced in Niger Delta?
Is there no land in SS and What's the cost of transporting crude oil from Rivers state to Lagos..
My Niger Delta brothers Igbos are better than you people at least if the oil is located in SE nobody can try this shit

The logic is security. Despite the menace of agbero, Lagos still remains one of the safest state in Nigeria. Furthermore, Lagos is one of the investment friendly state in Nigeria. Siting a business in the Niger delta is a very risky proposition. You will have to contend with various extortion from youths, community elders, traditional rulers, local government, etc. Then various youth groups will come periodically to demand "deve" and threaten to shut down your operations if you refuse to pay. There is also the issue of kidnapping.
The east is a no go area for non native investors. IPOB, ESN, auto pilot, etc, reigns supreme other there.
The refinery should naturally have been sited in ogun or Ondo, but it was alleged that their governors were demanding huge bribe before they gave permission to dangote not caring about the long term benefits such project could bring to the state.
So I commend Tinubu and his prodigies - Ambode and Sanwo-Olu for bringing the largest refinery in Africa to Lagos State. The problem now is how to deal with the expected traffic in an already over congested route.

MatrixReloaded:
To digress your ignorance, that IG stop police from searching your phone publicly, same does not imply when a financial enforcement like Efcc or Icpc stops you on the streets claim they acted on intelligence and seize your gadgets, they may not request for the code but you will be detained, and they will subsequently obtain a warrant from Any jurisdiction to access your property. Your freedom is when you are clean, & corporate with them to the fullest , they are trained and humans too that have feelings, then u can get your freedom. There is no loggerhead fighting a government doing so will put you and loved ones in jeoperdy

I think that because the Nigerian government and its agencies had abused the rights of ordinary Nigerians for so long, some of you have come to see such anomalies as normal. To correct your wrong impression, the EFCC, the ICPC, the police does not have the rights to seize your gadgets without a just cause . I know that has been the norm in Nigeria, but there is no law backing it. If there was intelligence report of a suspected crime, the legal thing to do is to take that intelligence report to a court and convince a judge with it on the need for a search on your property or gadget. It is legally and morally wrong for the police, EFCC to arrest you first and then go to court to obtain a search warrant. It does no even make sense, immediate you are arrested, your criminal colleagues, friends, family will have been alerted and they will remove all evidence from your property. I have seen it happen before. A set of yahoo boys on my street was arrested indiscriminately, by the next day when police came to raid their house all evidence - laptop's, phones, documents had been removed. They found nothing incriminating. Even the evidence on the phones that was seized on them was wiped clean remotely using the cloud.
The constitution guarantees rights to privacy and that privacy can only be violated through the courts.
Furthermore the constitution assume innocence until proven guilty, so it is criminal to lock "up an "innocent" man in jail for weeks or months before a court pronouncement. What then happens if he is declared innocent? Who will pay for the lost time spent in prison?

MatrixReloaded:
Yes the police or any law enforcement agency have the rights by law and duly obtain warrant authorised by court to search any individual whom by social phenomenal is undoubtedly perpetuated a questionable act.

It seems you have no idea of how a sane society is run. In an organized society law enforcement agencies do not have the rights to search your house without just cause. They cannot just be walking down the street and decide to search your house just because they have personal issues with the occupant. I also doubt they got a search warrant to search Seun's house, because they need to show just cause to a judge before he or she can authorised a search warrant. I am sure a search warrant if obtained was an afterthought. We would like to see the basis on which the search was approved by the judge.

Any lawyer fresh out of law school will te you that police cannot use a case as an excuse to start fishing for crimes. Seun commited a crime by slapping a police man, the police cannot use that excuse to start looking for drugs in his house or evidence of crime in his wife's phone. That's an abuse of authority and I hope Seun's lawyers would take that up.

slivertongue:
Justice Tsammani told Olanipekun SAN that the portion he was citing to justify his arguments against live coverage had been amended and the portion being cited had been deleted completely.

I am shocked a lawyer of Wale Olanipekun status does not have a competent team of lawyers researching each law and its case study before presenting such argument in court.

Jakumo:
With the death of a close relative who truly imagined that one person could change Nigeria for the better, my entire worldview changed completely, as summarized in my earler post typed above. I respect your idealism and wish you nothing but the very best sir.

Your own is just the death of one close relative. Societies we run to today to live a better life had people that lost a whole generation in order to build what you have today. Ukrainians are losing whole generations and cities as a sacrifice to build a free and just society.
Black Africa is bleeding and destroying itself because people like you - the intellectuals, the elites and the enlightened have given up. They run away from their mother land and leave their families, clan and generations to suffer enslavement and exploitation by a few select elites that have cornered all our birthright. If the Jews ran away from Israel, would the state of Israel be one of the most industrialised countries today? If the French ran away from France after they were subjugated by Hitler, would France be a world power today?
If Mandela and the blacks had "Japaed" from South Africa, would bkacks South Africa experience the relative prosperity they are experiencing today?

The situation is getting worse, even our Japa is being restricted as more and more countries are banning Nigerian passports from entering their countries. Benin republic passport is far more respected than your Nigerians passport at the moment.
So unless you plan to join the Japa crew, you have no choice but to fight (not using violence of course) to establish a working and just society.

Jakumo:
My philosophy has evolved over the years to become purely existential. I accept that there is NO Utopia where all human rights are protected in strict accordance with the letter of the law. In the USA, black men are killed by trigger happy policce officers with absolute impunity and on the flimsiest of excuses after routine traffic stops. In Nigeria, policemen demand cash bribes from motorists, and I cough up that loose change promptly with a cheerful smile on my face while sharing jokes to lighten the mood.

Life is too short to be stressing over the way things ought to be, as opposed to the way things are in practical terms. Globally, money buys impunity, thus dividing ALL justice systems into one applicable to the poor, and a far more lenient version available to the rich. The Golden Rule states that he who has the gold makes the rules. Long after you and I have joined our ancestors in the great beyond, the realities I have listed in part above, will prevail with the same certainty as the rising and setting of each day's sun.

Let it go, my brethren, and live your life as best you can. Get laid, enjoy the ride, raise a family, and the world will turn.

That's the exact reasons Africa has failed to build a viable and developed society in the 21st century, we cannot see beyond our personal or immediate needs. All our thoughts, energies and actions are tailored towards immediate or near immediate gratification. And that's why prosperity Christianity that emphasis immediate gratification spread like wild fire here than anywhere else.
Europeans and Asians are able to build and develop their societies because they plan and make sacrifices not for today but for the future. They think not just what benefits their personal interests but their societal interests. How can you build a viable society without having a police thar put the interests of its citizenry first. How can your have a developed society where the justice system including the police cannot be relied upon to keep justice. In the US you are referring to, the police itself make effort to sanction and correct rogue police officers. Many police officers have not only been dismissed but prosecuted for violating the rights of citizens. The police has a department that polices the police itself. In Nigeria the policeman is a law unto itself. I gave an issue where a DPO insisted I bribe him N150,000 before he release my car in their custody. I reported to the police marshal that's supposed to discipline police officers. The DPO told me that there is nothing that they can do to him. It was after I took the matter to court that I got my car released, after spending over N150,000. Is this the country you want to bequeath to your grandchildren?
People like you should be at the forefront of fighting for a better Nigeria instead of adopting the "enjoy the ride, raise a family, and the world will turn" philosophy, which is resigning to a state of helplessness.

Jakumo:
As other respondents to this topic have correctly noted, Seun Kuti has provided the police with the perfect opportunity to search his house, his vehicles, and any other landed properties traced to his ownership. His licensed guns will likely be confiscated and later sold to armed robbers by the police, who may also take the opportunity to plant cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and PCP in his house in order to file criminal drug possession charges that could send this entertainer into the bowels of jail for many years to come unless he is prepared to empty all his bank accounts for the purpose of bribing his way out of the avoidable predicament that he created with his own hands.

The moral of this story is that regardless of how corrupt and unjust a police force is known to be, common sense dictates that nobody in their right mind should dare become physical with a uniformed officer, regardless of the provocation, to avoid being shot or locked away for years. It is best to regard the Nigeran Police Force as a kind and gentle armed robbery gang that is supported by the government. With that in mind, have cash ready to hand over to members of the gang as the situation dictates, and do NOT ever try to be a smartass by getting into any kind of argument with its officers, ince nothing good can ever come out of such a foolhardy loss of decorum.

My confusion is not necessarily with the police as police are known to misbehave around the world, my anger is at the Justice system. Why will the justice system permit or condone the police to search your house and personal property without a court order? Why will a criminal justice system headed by lawyers and civilians allow police to violate the civil liberty rights of ordinary citizens? Why should police just pick you up from the streets or from the station as in Seun's case at gun point and demand they search your house including your bedroom without telling you what they are looking for.
Lawyers and civil rights activists including Femi Falan (SAN) have failed Nigerians. I had though that Femi Falana would have instituted a case of civil rights violations against the Nigerian Police for searching his clients house illegally without just cause and assaulting his wife.

Then your moral story, people are assaulted all over the world, whether the police, the military, politicians or ordinary civillians, assaults happens on a daily basis. That's why appropriate laws and sanctions are in the statutes. Assaults are like any other crimes or misdemeanors, its should be litigated. Because you wear a uniform does not insulate you from assault or even murder, that should not give you or your organisation justification to take the law into your hands or engage in jungle justice. As a law enforcer, the police should even be more calm and professional.

7arrows:
No they are looking for the hand he used to slap the police. They need the hand for evidence. Useless people. I hope they prosecute officers who cork and point their gun to innocent people just to say park well. For an officer to say I'll shot u for no reason is that not assault? I'm not in suport of seun because he has anger issues but the police also needs a reform.

It doesn't make sense. An assault occured on a highway and police are searching the house of the person that carried out the assault. What's the connection between the assault and a house search. To make matters worse, they assaulted his wife and seized her phone. Find the obtain a search warrant before invading his house? The police in Nigeria are so unprofessional and feels they are not bound by any law.

I hope Femi Falana takes up all these human rights abuses on Seun Kuti up with the relevant authorities- both local and international.