@nwamakata1@saniyusuf Instead of spending money on pedestrian bridges, they could install properly timed traffic lights with marked pedestrian crossings. Then strictly enforce penalties for drivers who run red lights.
@Gatsoxo As a Nigerian I support this. Impound all of the cars, there are some who also have Rolls Royce Cullinan, impound them all. Stupid idiots that don’t know how to live a low key life. That idiot who bought maybach and was antagonising South Africa. Investigate him.
You won’t understand how dangerous the olodo pandemic is until it starts showing up in professions where competence is the difference between life and death.
I think that this is something anyone who knows Nigerian politicians should have anticipated. Making Nigeria work will be a difficult task and to succeed you must find ways of dealing with all the roadblocks to progress that will be put by those who benefit from the current rotten system. Starting with getting a ticket.
So perhaps this is your first real test. If you cannot find a way around the system and create a platform that works, then why should people trust that you will be able to govern Nigeria and make very difficult changes (all of which will be fiercely and violently opposed by the parasites currently sucking the life out of Nigeria). Goodwill alone will not work. Being nice will not work. This is why those of us watching could predict this outcome from the day you decided to partner with the very people you once accused of destroying the country. Did you think the people who you know benefit from Nigeria being the way it is would just let you have a platform with which you will snatch stolen food from their mouths?
In the famous words of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, if you ride the tiger, you will end up in its belly. Nigeria is very difficult and it is bold even just to try. But you cannot assume you will do this by partnering with people whose very existence relies on the broken system.
You still have the chance to go back and build the platform that millions of Nigerians gave you, one where you are not dependent on the whims of the very people you have so loudly condemned. You still have support among millions of Nigerians. This is not something you can rush. Because whatever they did to ADC they can do to NDC.
In the end, as many of us fear, being a third (popular) candidate and splitting the votes has the potential of guaranteeing an even bigger win for the incumbent who currently has a stable political party, and the resources and will to stifle opposition. Either completely distinguish yourself from the rest and prepare to fight, or fully join them and play their game until you can find a way from within (highly unlikely but not impossible). You cannot have one hand on the table of dysfunction and hope that those who sit on that table with nowhere else to go will play fair and help you dismantle the table.
“We want the South African government to be paying us R1,000,000 for the rest of our lives. They can do it, our GDP is billions, that’s why these foreigners come here.”
— Jobless South African Man
“All these jobs that belong to unskilled and uneducated South Africans are occupied by foreigners. We must flush out all illegal foreigners in the workforce and replace them with unemployed South Africans with strict conditions with them and COSATU.” - Prince Mashele 🇿🇦
Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!