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Lagos Demolitions: Law, Justice, and Compassion
A week ago, a team of concerned leaders visited the demolished Aspamda Market in Lagos. Since then I have carefully followed the reactions trailing the demolitions, our visit, and feel that other extraneous variables are affecting our compassion for each other as Nigerians. The situation calls for deep reflection on the relationship between law, justice, and compassion in governance.
I recall an incident in the nineties, when I bought a house in the UK at 66 Donnington Road, NW10. While the building was still being refurbished, some squatters moved in. When I consulted my lawyer, he advised that I should write to them formally and approach the court. It would have been unthinkable for the state to simply wake up one morning and demolish people’s houses - especially when such houses were neither used for crime nor taken for any overriding public purpose.
Those seeking to justify the current demolitions in Aspamda Market Lagos, and similar situations across Nigeria must be reminded that the law is not an end in itself; it is a means to ensure order, peace, and the protection of human dignity. When the law becomes an instrument to inflict undeserved pain - enforced without compassion or regard for human welfare - it ceases to serve justice.
Even if, for the sake of argument, some of the affected traders failed to obtain the proper approvals, which is unlikely, was demolition the only option? If opportunities for regularisation truly existed, as some have argued, why were they not pursued? Does it truly serve justice to destroy billions of naira worth of investments and livelihoods when less destructive remedies could have sufficed?
It is like punishing a man who stole a bicycle with death instead of imprisonment - a sentence grossly disproportionate to the offence. That is what these demolitions represent: a punishment that far outweighs any alleged infraction.
My appeal is simple: governance must always balance law with compassion. A government should not pride itself on being legally correct if, in the process, it becomes morally wrong. Justice, to be just, must be tempered with mercy.
These demolitions are a test of our collective humanity, justice, and compassion. Power must always be exercised with empathy - for it is in how we treat the vulnerable that the true character of leadership is revealed.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Do you remember 83-year-old Imam Abubakar Abdullahi of Nigeria? In 2018, he risked his own life to save 262 Christians, opening his mosque and home to protect them from extremists bent on sl@ughter. His courage stopped a m@ssacre and showed the world what true Islam looks like.
True Islam values human life above all else. Anything that takes life in its name is never Islam and never will be. May his example inspire Muslims everywhere, especially our Arewa brothers, to choose humanity over hate.
Socrates was the wisest man in the world.
He trained Plato.
Plato trained Aristotle.
Aristotle trained Alexander the Great.
Basically, he trained civilization.
But guess what?
At home, baba no fit train him wife. 😂
The reason I bother to respond to drivel like @osazenoo is simple: silence allows foolishness to masquerade as truth. And I will not permit charlatans in APC’s rented choir to sing false hymns unchallenged. These guys are beyond irredeemable.
Sometimes I wonder: are these people in the APC cursed? Almost all of them, what else explains this collective derangement, the audacity to defend a regime that has bled its people dry? What exactly are they smoking, and who in hell’s name is supplying it?
Osas, you have tried harder than ever to plead for validation from a tribe that will never truly accept you, and in return, you argue like a drunken vagabond in support of the most corrupt regime Nigeria has ever had, excusing Bola Ahmed Tinubu as though the Constitution tied his hands. Spare us. Was it the same Constitution that empowered him to unlawfully remove a duly elected governor in Rivers State? Was it the Constitution that handed him the keys to trillions in inflated contracts for his cronies? Do not insult us with this theatre of ignorance.
Understand this: corruption is not Tinubu’s enemy. It is his business model. His regime is less a government than a cartel, a mafia jungle where loyalty is purchased, dissent is crushed, and state institutions are bent into tools of patronage. And the rot drips down, from the Villa to the states, from the ministries to the parastatals.
And yet, you pretend not to know. You list constitutional “limitations” like holy scripture, mistaking excuses for wisdom. But here’s the truth: those same limitations are levers, waiting to be pulled by any leader with courage and clarity of purpose.
No, a President cannot fix senators’ salaries, nor jail governors at whim. But he can set the moral tone of the nation. He appoints the EFCC, ICPC, DSS, and Police. He commands the budget. He can veto corruption-ridden bills. He can audit ministries, expose thieves, cut off slush funds, and isolate the predators feeding on Nigeria’s carcass. Above all, he can lead.
But Tinubu will not. Because corruption is not a vice in his world, it is the very currency of his survival, and you all are his enablers.
So, Osas, stop dressing cowardice as constitutionalism. What you defend is not the restraint of law, but the rot of inertia. And until Nigeria finds a leader who refuses to hide behind the Constitution while his people drown in hunger and humiliation, corruption will remain our national anthem as it is today, and men like you will keep humming along to the dirge.
Have some shame, you all, in the APC choir club. Have some shame.
Where Did ₦1 Trillion Go?
I recently read a report from the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN) stating that it has disbursed over ₦1 trillion to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria since 2015. By simple conversion over the said period, this amounts to more than $1 billion.
I did not comment immediately on this claim because I wanted to investigate further, especially through my travels and contacts with small businesses across the country. The reality is that most of them are not even aware of any such disbursement, and over 80% are unaware of the Bank’s very existence. The level of knowledge about the existence and utility of such an institution is directly proportional to its impact on the people it is meant to serve.
If indeed such an amount was deployed to support enterprises, the results should be evident. For instance, if $1 billion were disbursed in small loans averaging about $,1000 each, it could have supported at least 1 million small businesses. The ripple effect of this would have been no less than 3 million new jobs, with visible growth in enterprises, an improved economy, and measurable progress in lifting people out of poverty.
But the reality before us today tells a different story: unemployment remains at a record high, businesses are struggling to survive rather than thriving, many enterprises are shutting down or relocating outside Nigeria, and poverty is deepening instead of reducing. So the critical question is: if ₦1 trillion truly left the coffers of DBN to empower Nigerians, where did the money go?
How can such a huge sum be disbursed and yet ordinary Nigerians feel no impact? Empowerment is not a slogan or a campaign tool - it must be proven by results. Nigerians need to know where the money went. Who exactly were the beneficiaries? What tangible businesses were created? Where is the proof of jobs generated or poverty reduced?
Without answers to these questions, the claim of ₦1 trillion disbursement remains yet another round of grand deception, where scarce national resources are captured by a few elites and recycled under the guise of empowerment schemes.
Nigeria must insist on transparency and accountability. Our people deserve evidence that such vast sums are being invested in their lives and future—not lost to corruption or buried in empty statistics.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
You cannot be close to me and be into Fraud|Yahoo. On God, I will personally report you to the EFCC!! I will follow them and arrest you! I have done it before and I will keep doing it!
Most of us choose to not go into fraud simply because we not thieves.. I remember back in school years ago when Yahoo was hot. Everybody knew about it but most of us said No. It was a conscious decision. These Yahoo boys always want people to join them because it’s like cult. When e cast them go arrest everybody. They don’t mean well for you.
And what gets me angry is when I see idiots saying Yahoo is hard! Your REAL PAPA!! There’s nothing in this life that’s easy! You’re a thief and one day them go catch you and you and your papa go see jail. Your time is coming. Nonsense!
When Daniel Regha wore this to an event, what was African Culture was he showcasing?
You’re calling other people un-African, yet you came here looking like a lost Eskimo starring in a duvet advert from IKEA. 🤣