Una see say these people dey mad!
Hire more sanitation workers, No!
buy more garbage trucks, No!
build more landfills and incinerators, No!
But the couldn’t hesitate to jump straight to enforcement!
The waste in my house has been piling up for months, PSP hasn’t come to pick it up and I’ve never missed a payment infact I’ve paid for a full year ahead. I live in Lekki o mind you, if they aren’t coming to pick up the thrash in Lekki for months it’s not far fetched to assume they haven’t picked up the dirt in Abule Egba in years, but sanitation police is the solution the army of halfwits in Alausa can think of!
Fucking idiots!
If i express anger and disappointments over Politicians in Nigeria stealing public funds, and directly linking that with sustained poverty, corruption, regression and dilapidated healthcare, economy, insecurity, education and every other thing bad in Nigeria, and you take it personal or even hold a grudge with me, even if the thief i’m referring to is your own parent, I’d just assume you are stupid and very dull, with a corrupt mind too like the parent.
Nigeria right now under Tinubu feels like the Pride Lands when Scar was in control (Lion King). Barren, fruitless and sad. And just like Scar, he doesn’t care. King of ruins is still a king. Terrible stuff
Not sure what cows have to do with the current spate of kidnappings in Nigeria. This current kidnapping has nothing to do with cows or grazing. The guys terrorising communities are NOT herders. In fact herders are also afraid of them. The militants steal cattle from herders, and also kidnap them sometimes. These guys are people who were armed and protected by governors and other politicians for political ends and are now out of their control. Some of them were armed for elections, some for illegal mining, some to fight political opponents. The illegal mining cartel is a well oiled machine. There is also a whole different set of problems caused by the Islamist jihadists (who are different from the Fulani militia who are kidnapping people now). Much of this conversation has lumped different things together that do not belong in the same group. You cannot have an insecurity situation without disaggregating properly. And to do this, you have to understand the various and peculiar elements, which, just from listening, most people do not understand.
It sounds like fiction: a staff member of the Nigerian Presidency paying over ₦170 million to kidnappers for a family member's release. But this is Nigeria's painful reality. When those closest to power are forced to bargain with criminals, insecurity has become everyone's burden.
This is why you need journalists who are actually grounded to push back when politicians speak like this. How will you convince people whose parents, siblings and children have been slaughtered to accept back into communities those who have committed those murders, rapes and kidnappings? What will that reconciliation look like? What justice will you offer the families of those killed and assaulted? Beyond telling those who have committed serial murders to just go and sin no more, what will this negotiation involve? How will you prevent recidivism and exploitation of any such amnesty by bad actors who simply want to get the heat off their backs while they restrategise?
You won’t see your child for a few minutes, and you’ll be wondering where they went. Now, imagine having a 2-5 year old child kidnapped and living in the bushes with bandits. Only God knows what the parents are going through. It’s unimaginable. We have failed them as a nation. Allah Ya isa.
Since it is obvious that the government, from state to federal cannot secure the lives of the northerners, let our lawmakers pass a law that allows the people to protect themselves. Assuming the people of every local govt dispose of some of their assets, purchase sophisticated weapons and match into the dens of these kidnappers, that is already known. Assuming hundreds of thousands of armed law abiding citizens matching into the den of these thousands and wiping them out completely?
The Nigerian government has done something impressive.
They have convinced millions of people that struggling to eat, struggling to pay rent and struggling to survive is a personal failure instead of an economic one.
That's genius.
“We are mobilizing protests across Northern states, then we will proceed to Abuja with our beds and Garri and stay there until Tinubu listens to us and take urgent action to solve our problems.” Enough is Enough!
- Northern Actor Sadiq Sani Sadiq
Tinubu's failure is so obvious that his people are not saying that he has not failed. They are saying that nobody can fix Nigeria and that everyone should give up on Nigeria.
Those guys are pathetic.