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.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012


A few days ago the Edo State House of Assembly sacked the care taker committee set up by the Comrade Governor to Administer the state for the four years of his first term. Although many people are now referring to this episode as the most undemocratic era Edo State has witnessed since the dawn of democracy in 1999. They argued that Comrade Adams who can easily be referred to as one of Nigerians custodian/pillar of democracy should not be associated with the undemocratic rule in the third tier of government. Well the main concern of this write up is the information the ACN members are spreading all over Edo State that there will be no local government elections in Edo State. That what is been proposed is going to be a kangaroo election. They said the Comrade Governor and the leadership of their party will write the RESULTS of the election at the government house. My first reaction was to mobilise all other parties to boycott the said elections, but  I realise that this great forum the EDO POLITICAL FORUM, EPF should take a stand on the side of the people. My suggestion is that this noble body should form a very powerful committee to monitor the proposed local government elections and electoral process. Please it you do not have meaningful contribution please just waka pass oh.