This is my response to a post by Pauly Okpere on the illegal collection of various fees from thugs when people are developing a new building. ....... The truth is that majority of land speculators, thugs, Elders and youths don't end well. A good example is the late Enogie of Ihihinmwin, the father of the current Enogie. He and his gangs and thugs use to sell one plot of land to many people. In fact they will destroy/ pull down completed buildings. Then people reported him to Oba Akenzua, he was reported to have told the king that he, the king, was living in the past. But behold he was shot dead in his car garage at his house along Aruosa Street in Benin City. He was reported to have sustained 58 bullets. I guess the guy that shot him wanted him to die beyond dead. There is the case of Ugbekun (Upper Sakpoba Area), then they had a popular secretary one late Mr Amayo, his abode today looks like an animal pen. There was another Mr Aghaku also of ugbekun all the money he made from selling a plot of land to 8 people, he invested it into building 8 houses close to Niger College. Today all those houses have been subsumed under a major Flood. I guess the bibles said they will be caught in their wickedness, So let those who have ears, especially those new thugs and youths. They are working in vain. Their hustle will come to nothing. They should learn from history. It is the government that can stop these illegal collection. Again where were they during the Military regime?