Friday, November 2, 2012

This is my response to the allegation the the police beat up an okada rider in Lagos...Well well well did the police ACTUALLY beat up the okada rider and striped him naked? I ask this questions because of what I saw at the Maryland bus stop some weeks ago. As the a Lagos commercial bus stopped to drop some passengers I noticed a naked man running after a lady, calling out to her come now ashawo come and collect your change money now. That provoked me to ask the woman to stop. I asked her what was the problem she said that she joined the bus at CMS, a central business district bus stop, to Ikeja in the mainland that when they got to Maryland bus stop the bus driver discovered that she was the only passenger actually going to Ikeja. The conductor then ask her to come down without making a refund. That it was when she asked for her money that the conductor striped himself naked and started running after her. I made the driver refund her money and apologies to her. But the question remains...what we make a man strip himself naked in order to deprive another person , a woman her fifty Naira? So it is possible for the okada rider to strip himself naked to draw cheap attention to the situation he found himself and also to give the police a bad name.

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