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AMBIGUITY

[WillingÅbleŘeady @myeyescream]

You wrote "The Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners, 2023 require lawyers to maintain high standards of professional conduct and to treat the courts with respect, dignity and honour"
You didn't specify if the rules also include speaking as a citizen, and if what he said is specifically deemed as breaking the rules. We can argue specifics here, context and language, including location and intents.
Before you petition anybody you must be sure that a crime has been committed, a rule has been broken or a policy abused or not complied with, but as usual you petition first, then go about determining if "whether professional misconduct has occurred" and then "what sanction,if any is appropriate".
The Rules of professional conduct didn't guide you on what sanctions are to be meted out to defaulters? It didn't specify what can be termed as misconduct?
Hmm!
@ChidiOdinkalu professor Sir, please whatever you're doing to help stop judicial corruption and impunity in Nigeria keep doing it, it's effective, and I love that you always tag them too...
Nigeria must be okay, any guise or disguise must be revealed and unveiled..
Pressure to wa!

[WillingÅbleŘeady @myeyescream]

@femyek @MrsBBold MRN

[WillingÅbleŘeady @myeyescream]

@ChathamHouse you have consistently shown your love for corrupt Nigerian money, and instability in Nigeria.
You give your so called corrupt and biased platform for corrupt individuals to speak lies and deceive the west all because of the funds you will receive we know how your love for money controls all your ethics and values, even the @BBCWorld did same thing with the legendary failure and terrorist Buhari, you British fascists and Hitler-wannabes will never see the end or downfall of Nigeria or Nigerians.
We are a unique and dynamic people and we will triumph long after the British empire has been destroyed by Islamic revolution and by your greed and stupidity, not that I pray for it but your politicians, your reporting and your love and support for corruption will be your undoing yet.
Abstain and refrain from this pathway and retrace your steps back to ethical and moral values. You have never valued our relationship and never seen us as valuable member of the commonwealth. Time will tell and that time has already started.
Shalom.

[The More You Know @More_you_knoww]

Now you know....

[WillingÅbleŘeady @myeyescream]

@officialABAT Arrest the ones who have killed,injured and disrupted opposition rallies and town halls...then we know how serious and committed you are. You send thugs, then protect and defend them.
#RigandDie is still very active.

[WillingÅbleŘeady @myeyescream]

This is LRU. Lagos.
One of the emergency numbers to call is the 112.
This number is no longer responsive.
The unit also is no longer responsive.
The APC went on air to lie, deceive Nigerians and try to rage-bait us all.
This is what impunity, corruption and disregard for the rule of law looks like.
@DonAzag @AishaYesufu @EmirSirdam

[The More You Know @More_you_knoww]

Now you know....

[Onwa_Nnewi @Kene_Nnewi]

Meet Prof. Felix Oragwu, 92 Years Old. The Man Nigeria Tried To Bury.

Do you know this man?

This is Professor Felix Oragwu. He was the Head of Biafra Research and Production (RAP) during the Biafra-Nigeria War.

Under his leadership, Biafra did what the world said was impossible:

1. He developed the Ogbunigwe — Biafra's own weapon, built from scratch under blockade.
2. He and his team successfully processed PALM OIL to power a jet airplane.

Read that again. Palm oil. To fly a jet. 57 YEARS AGO.

Today, Indonesia is being celebrated all over the world for doing the same thing, processing palm oil to power an airplane.

But this man did it first. In Biafra. Under war. Under blockade. With no foreign help.

So we ask: Why did Nigeria bury these inventions after the war?

Biafrans also refined crude oil extracted from Egbema Fields during the war. When Nigeria captured Egbema, Ojukwu himself led SS Commandos that retook the oil fields.

This is not fiction. This is history.

And that is exactly why history was removed from the curriculum, so you will not know what Africa achieved before the coming of the Europeans.

Prof. Oragwu proves that is a lie.

Our children must know: We were not beggars. We were builders. We were inventors. We were scientists.

Prof. Felix Oragwu, at 92, we celebrate you. Ala Igbo is proud of you. Africa is proud of you.

[gst @wearegst]

While Lagos ranks among the ten least liveable cities in the world, Governor Sanwo-Olu has spent an estimated ₦1 billion on luxury watches.

[The More You Know @More_you_knoww]

Now you know....

[WillingÅbleŘeady @myeyescream]

Well said.
This is a well thought out piece and very intuitive.
Hold them responsible and accountable.

[Abolaji Rasaq Oluwapese @bolazeal]

Scrap Agbero? Then Scrap the Political Structure That Depends on Agbero.

When Seun asked Hamzat, “Are you scrapping Agbero?”, Hamzat bent his head. The audience burst into laughter.
But I don't think that question was funny. It was probably one of the most important questions asked during that governorship debate.

Because the question is bigger than Agbero; it is about the political economy of Lagos. It is about the relationship between political power, transport unions, street-level control, intimidation, and the deliberate preservation of disorder.

Let's be honest: Agbero is not just a transport problem in Lagos. It is a political institution.

And that is why scrapping it has not been easy. We all remember what happened to Ambode when he tried to scrap the Agbero.

The entire political structure of Lagos, particularly the grassroots mobilisation machinery that has sustained APC's dominance, is tied to this system. The motor parks, the union networks, the street bosses(Egbon Adugbo), the collection points, and the people who control them are not operating in isolation from politics.

They are part of a much bigger ecosystem.
Chaos is not a bug. It is part of the business model.
I have written about this before. One of the biggest misconceptions about Lagos is that its dysfunction is simply the result of poor planning, incompetence, or an inability to govern.

I think we need to look deeper.

Sometimes, what we call dysfunction is actually a system working exactly as certain interests want it to work.

Think about it.

Why would a government genuinely interested in modernising public transportation continue to tolerate a system where commercial drivers are subjected to multiple collections, intimidation, and unofficial levies?

Why would a state that prides itself on being Nigeria's commercial capital allow non-state actors to exercise so much control over its roads, motor parks and transport economy?

Why does the disorder persist despite successive administrations?

Because wahala creates middlemen. And middlemen create political networks.

The motor parks are not merely places where buses load passengers. They are centres of influence. They provide access to thousands of transport workers, street-level operators, collectors and enforcers.

These networks can be useful during elections, political mobilisation, crowd control and, allegedly, the intimidation of political opponents.

A system that provides this much political utility is not easily dismantled.
Follow the money.

In July 2021, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) published an investigation titled Money for the Boys: How Agberos Pocket Billions of Lagos Transport Revenue.

The investigation estimated that Agberos collected approximately ₦123.078 billion annually from commercial buses, tricycles, and motorcycles in Lagos.
Let that sink in.

That figure represented approximately 29.4% of Lagos State's internally generated revenue in 2020.

The investigation also found that much of this money did not enter government accounts. In some cases, local councils reportedly received as little as ₦100 or ₦200 per vehicle daily, while the bulk went elsewhere.
This is not just street-level extortion. It is a parallel economic structure.

And where there is money on this scale, there are beneficiaries, protectors, and people with a vested interest in preserving the arrangement.

The political value of Agbero
There is something else we must understand about the Lagos political system.

Political power is not sustained by election-day voting alone. It requires structures that operate between elections.

You need people who can mobilise crowds, organise communities, enforce instructions, establish territorial influence and make things happen at street level.

The Agbero ecosystem provides some of these capabilities.

This is why the relationship between politicians and Agbero power brokers deserves serious scrutiny.
Look at the history of Lagos politics. Look at the influence of transport union leaders, particularly the emergence of personalities such as MC Oluomo.

These are not simply people who understand transportation. They have built enormous grassroots networks, with political relevance extending beyond the motor parks.

And this is where my argument becomes uncomfortable.

If you dismantle the Agbero system without dismantling the political patronage structure that sustains it, you are only treating the symptom.

The people who benefit from it will find another arrangement.

Even Hamzat has told us something important before.
In a 2020 interview, Hamzat was asked about the government's inability to address Agbero extortion.
His response was revealing.

He argued that the NURTW was a legally recognised union and compared banning it to banning the Nigerian Medical Association. He also described its members as "our brothers and cousins."

He preferred engagement and reforming the union's leadership rather than banning it.

That position tells us something about how deeply the union ecosystem is embedded in the political and social arrangement of Lagos.

But the question is: at what point does engagement become an excuse for preserving an arrangement that continues to hurt ordinary Lagosians?

Drivers are paying. Passengers are paying. Businesses are paying. The entire transport economy bears the cost.

Yet the ordinary Lagos resident has very little power over the people collecting money on the roads.

You cannot modernise Lagos while protecting the architecture of its disorder.

This is the fundamental problem.

You cannot build an efficient public transportation system while maintaining the informal power structures that profit from an inefficient one.

You cannot eliminate road extortion while protecting the networks that make extortion possible.

You cannot promise a modern Lagos while treating political loyalty as more important than institutional reform.

And you cannot separate the Agbero question from the bigger question of how Lagos politics works.

This is not an argument against transport workers. Many people in the transport sector are simply trying to survive. Nor is it an argument for throwing thousands of people out of work without alternatives.

A serious government should formalise transport operations, establish transparent revenue collection, create decent employment opportunities, professionalise park management and enforce the law without political exemptions.

But it must also confront the people who benefit from the existing arrangement.

That is the difficult part.

Because the people who stand to lose from genuine reform may be more politically powerful than the people who stand to gain from it.

So, Seun's question deserves an answer.

Are you scrapping Agbero?

The real question is not whether Hamzat can scrap Agbero.

It is whether the political establishment that benefits from the Agbero system is willing to scrap the machinery that gives it power.

Because if you remove Agbero but retain the political patronage, the street-level enforcement networks, the informal revenue economy and the culture of political intimidation, you have changed nothing.

And if the APC's grassroots political machinery in Lagos is as dependent on these networks as the evidence and history suggest, then genuine reform could have consequences far beyond transportation.

You cannot dismantle a system that sustains your political power and expect your political structure to remain untouched.

That, perhaps, explains why the question was so uncomfortable.

And why the audience laughed.

“The agbero situation is a multi-dimensional problem. The first step is: a government has to be elected outside of the agbero network that is not a holding to the agbero network, and then you will have the political will to deal with it…”

Funso Doherty understands the problem.

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

Pls, whatever you do today, #WatchThis &, ahead of #NigeriaDecides2027, answer for yourself the question: "why do I support @officialABAT?"

[WillingÅbleŘeady @myeyescream]

@lanreneville @ARISEtv @OjyOkpe A certified MORON.

[The More You Know @More_you_knoww]

Now you know....

[The More You Know @More_you_knoww]

Now you know....

[DFF @DFF6769]

The Democrats welcome in their newest members 🤣😬

[WillingÅbleŘeady @myeyescream]

Accountability...stop hiding inside Aso Bunker.
Where is the money? Where are the projects? The beneficiaries? How much of the state funds have you and your cabinet spent, including on Judges and the National Assembly. This accountability too should trickle down to State Governments...Corruption must be faced with accountability and consequences.
A new NIGERIA that is OK is POssible

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

GOOD DAY, MR PRESIDENT: NIGERIANS DESERVE ACCOUNTABILITY

Good day, Mr President.

I congratulate you on spending a night in one of Nigeria’s states outside Lagos and Abuja. I hope you enjoyed the warmth, hospitality, and delicious cuisine of Akwa Ibom, which I am sure is even better than those of the destinations where you have spent over 260 days outside Nigeria since coming into office.

I sincerely hope this visit will inspire you to travel to the remaining 33 states of the federation, spend time with the people and, more importantly, explain what your administration has done with the ₦15.8 trillion saved from the removal of fuel subsidy, the over $100 billion you have borrowed, the increased revenues accruing to the government from taxing Nigerians, and the additional government revenues which your administration celebrated last year as having surpassed its target.

Nigerians deserve to know how many that were pulled out of poverty within this period, how many out-of-school children were returned to school, and how many functional primary healthcare centres you have built. They also deserve to know how much electricity supply has improved, especially given your promise that if you do not fix power, Nigerians should not vote for you. They deserve an explanation of how you have secured the country, which still ranks among the most terrorised countries in the world.

Mr President, Nigerians deserve answers. They deserve to know what has been done with the resources entrusted to your government.

The New Nigeria we want to build will be based on accountability, transparency, and the physical, measurable impact of our public resources on the lives of citizens.

A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Texans waking up in Blexas. 🤠

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

A DARK CLOUD IS GATHERING OVER NIGERIA

By
@BabafemiOjudu

The violence of recent days demands an immediate response, but it is a symptom of a deeper crisis. Public confidence in the institutions that shd help us settle our differences peacefully is eroding. Ethnic suspicion is increasingly being put to political use. What is at stake is the survival of our democracy & our ability to live together as one country.

@FederalHigh in Abuja has set aside the @dabmark48-led leadership of @ADCNig & voided the presidential nomination of @atiku. The #ADC has announced its intention to appeal. That appeal deserves a fair, independent & timely hearing.

The ruling also raises a question that concerns every #Nigerian, whatever our party preference. Can we trust that the rules of political competition will be applied fairly, even when the outcome is inconvenient to those in power?

In Ado-Ekiti, @sowore reported that he & his team were attacked.

In Calabar, assailants smashed the windscreens of vehicles in @PeterObi's convoy.

In Kebbi, #ADC campaign says its convoy was attacked & cameras & other equipment belonging to its media crew destroyed, cutting short live coverage.

When those covering a campaign are attacked, the public’s right to see & judge for itself is also at risk.

The ruling party has also faced intimidation. In Lafia, Nasarawa State, @OfficialAPCNg campaign visit was disrupted & @officialSKSM’s convoy was reportedly obstructed during his visit to the Emir of Lafia.

In Yankara, Katsina State, @PoliceNG confirmed that vehicles were set ablaze & political posters burnt.

These incidents deserve investigation wherever they occur & whoever is affected. A citizen has every right to call for a president to be voted out. Every party has an equal right to campaign peacefully.

A democracy depends on our willingness to defend both rights at once.

We have seen how quickly a crisis of confidence can become a crisis of the republic.

The disputed Western Region election of 1965 was followed by arson & killings. By Jan 1966, the 1st Republic had fallen. This will snowball into a 3-yr-long civil war & the loss of more than 1m lives.

The disputed elections of 1983 brought bloodshed again & by Dec the 2nd Republic was gone.

Each crisis had its own causes, but both showed how vulnerable civilian govt becomes when citizens lose faith in the means of correcting its abuses.

June 12 1993, offers another lesson. #Nigerians across regional & ethnic lines gave MKO Abiola broad support. The annulment squandered a moment in which citizens had shown at the ballot box how much they could agree on across those divides.

A credible election can strengthen the bonds of nationhood. When citizens believe their votes can be discarded, the damage reaches far beyond the candidate whose mandate is at stake.

There must still be a country for whoever wins in 2027 to govern. Every candidate seeking the presidency should tell Nigerians what they intend to do to restore confidence in our institutions & hold our country together. They can begin now by rejecting ethnic incitement, defending the right of their opponents to campaign & committing themselves to respect a credible result. @officialABAT bears a special responsibility to ensure that the institutions of state serve all Nigerians impartially throughout this election.

[publikphigor @publikphigor]

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