All this was for Fashola and now?
A peaceful protest in Lagos against planned toll gate on Lekki highway by activists and local residents soon degenerated to violence, as the Nigerian police brutally attacked protesters and journalists in Lagos.
WAKE UP LAGOSIANS
Submitted by Olu (not verified) on December 21, 2011 - 12:20.
I am shocked that some people will even consider paying 1 kobo on this road. This is a blatant rape on the people and Lagosians are accepting it. For a toll to be applied on a road, there must be an alternative route first. For example before the Lagos Ibadan express was built, you could still go to Ibadan via Abeokuta. Same way you could go to Ijebu via ikorodu and from ijebu to ondo. I live in UK and Nigeria and all tools in UK are alternative routes from usual routes that were built by Gov. Birmingham toll gives you an option to avoid the city route with traffic. Dartford crossing gives you an option to avoid going through London traffic.
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Fashola, please tell police to stop killing people.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 20, 2011 - 12:53.
Please Comment!!
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Your coment
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 23:06.
Your comment is just so awesome..The greedy Nigerians fools use the Touts, thugs, police, army, and religious leaders that have failed us just as their tools to enrich themselves even as we the mases suffer
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Occupy Lekki
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 16:09.
The Governor of Lagos State has lost the confidence of the governed. He should immediately tender his resignation letter for employing repressive force to wage war against the people that elected him into office. We will show him that the majority of the residents of the Lekki Peninsula are not only urbane but intelligent enough to deal with him in a constructive and civilised manner despite his brute response to an otherwise peaceful demonstration.
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"Politically motivated"
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 13:07.
"Politically motivated" protest indeed. such o foolish statement i must say. i'm pretty sure if you find out from most of the protesters they would have voted for ACN. Imagine yourself paying N120 at three points twice a day, 5 days a week for a
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Dont Insult my Intelligence
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 12:28.
I live in Lekki 1 and work in VI. I take offence to you indicating that the police were pushed to the wall. majority of the folks out there protesting were professional hard working folks in Corporate Nigeria AND THEIR FAMILIES. Dont even bring PDP (even though i cant stand them) into this picture. Is it PDP that will pay N109K for me annually to LCC if I only use the road for just 1 return trip per day? When you include my wife's car then school runs, that comes up to almost half a million a year! This is no PDP vs ACN issue. These are everyday living issues.
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Only GOD can save us..
Submitted by slickfiz (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 11:51.
I just hope that its not another toll they are planning to put @ Mile2. GOD save this country. I'm not trying to be a Doomsday prophet but with all these issues such as tolls, school fees increase, I forsee a blooddy revolution ahead. Our so called leaders are stirring things up with their greedd, selfishness & apathy towards the citizins of this country.
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Ifedapo when u dont knw what
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 10:06.
Ifedapo when u dont knw what to say, i will advise u shut the hell up.. i am ACN but am begining to rethink that stance, cos of ppl like u who just talk and blame evry of thing on other parties, instead of looking inward,if we say we are physicians in ACN, then lets heal ourselves, no one sponsored anything my uncle is an activist and was part of the preotest, i was there too, wht we are asking fashola is, why then do we need to pay our taxes, and development levy if we still have to pay toll fees, wht then is our task used for??? this is multiple taxation and very frudulent.
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Re Lekki toll gate fare
Submitted by Adebayo Aderogba (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 09:43.
Good infrastructure doesn't come cheap, this is what is expected from any responsible government, it is the duty of a Government to its people, The position of Lagos state Government on this is issue is very clear, my fear is the toll fare, it is rather on the high side, let government bring down the toll fare to a negligible rate and spread it over a longer period of time for the investors to realize their ROI. ACN as a party should not close their eyes to the yearnings of the people, the party is expected to come in at this stage to play a mediator's role because there will be another days of reckoning in the next election. The project is laudable but the Government should let the investors know that they should not be in a hurry to recoup their investment. Eko o ni Baje o.
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Re Lekki toll gate fare
Submitted by Adebayo Aderogba (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 09:41.
Good infrastructure doesn't come cheap, this is what is expected from any responsible government, it is the duty of a Government to its people, The position of Lagos state Government on this is issue is very clear, my fear is the toll fare, it is rather on the high side, let government bring down the toll fare to a negligible rate and spread it over a longer period of time for the investors to realize their ROI. ACN as a party should not close their eyes to the yearnings of the people, the party is expected to come in at this stage to play a mediator's role because there will be another days of reckoning in the next election. The project is laudable but the Government should let the investors know that they should not be in a hurry to recoup their investment. Eko o ni Baje o.
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Big fool
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 08:39.
You are a compound bastered to say a thing like this.How many of your lineage at that Epe can afford the toll????You need to go for deliverance and psychological test.
Fool.
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You are such a dull, I don't
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 08:37.
You are such a dull, I don't blame u, when u always follow bush part to go your village in Epe, so u don't know what genuine road users are going through. Mumu, Olodo.
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Our greedy class
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 05:51.
The majority of residents and business people in the Lekki corridor are subsistent and are poor. Most commuters cant afford the toll which is too expensive at N120/N150 per trip for saloon/suv. But those are not even the protesters. The protesters were mostly from Scheme 1. And those are relatively well off.
The truth is that in post-modern Nigeria, this issue is not about the road, or its maintenance costs, or the protesters or even the actual Lekki poor. It is not about Yoruba or Igbo, or PDP or ACN. It's about the greedy class who over the years have held Nigerians down for self-enrichment through treasury looting also boldly obtaining and collecting the little we make from us by force. Compare to Tender fees collected by civil servants for MDA contracts, the extortion in land allocations. See the connection?
Between politicians and civil servants, the Nigerian is between the devil and the deep sea. Touts, thugs, police, army, religion etc are just some of the tools they use.
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The pains of big citiy lagos
Submitted by Ifedapo James (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 01:08.
The Police brutalization of the protesters is condemnable.So also is the lionization of Fashola and Tinubu over the Lekki toll gates issue objectionable.The idea to always find a scape goat rather than objectively examining the issues is at the root of our development. First, to say Tinubu sent thugs and Fashola sent the police to attack innocent protesters as claimed in several online news outlets without verifiable facts is grievious. There is a price to be paid for living in a big city like Lagos. This include taxes and the toll gates. Before a verdict is reached over the Lekki toll gate protests, we must find out the role of the PDP and all anti-Fashola and Tinubu forces, we must unmask the sponsors of violence who hijacked the peaceful protest, book the policemen who attacked the peaceful and seek for a compromise on the lekki toll.As it is, it will go forward, but continous dialogue not confrontation will ensure peace.
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Breaking News by Anonymous
Submitted by Harry Iwuala (not verified) on December 19, 2011 - 00:18.
It is funny that some persons have elected to do Fashola's dirty work in the media posting stories such as the one above. I am neither PDP nor ACN but I have consistently voted Tinubu and Fashola but will not subscribe to propaganda such as the one above.
The Lagos State government must realise that they are in office for the people and it is offensive when some persons arrogate to themselves knowledge of what they think is good for the people. The Lekki issue is Fashola's own fuel subsidy removal...protect vested business interest or protect welfare of the greater majority.
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Am an Epe indigine dat goes
Submitted by Adewale Sadiku (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 21:15.
Am an Epe indigine dat goes home often I am v used 2 dat road. If u don't want 2 pay park out of dat axis am so sure there r vacant houses in Mushin 2 rent nobody is forcing u 2 use d road beta soup na money kill am it is not about Tinubu or Fashola so stop politicising it biko
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Breaking News
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 21:07.
Fashola secures release of those arrested during yesterday's protest sponsored by Chief Olabode Goerge against the commencement of toll collection at the Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe Expressway. Those released upon the Governor's appeal included Mr. Tola Animsahaun, a PDP chieftain who stood - in for Chief Bode George and led the ill-fated protest march. It would be recalled that
Chief Bode george had made frantic efforts to secure the release of his boys during a visit to the State CID Headquarters, panti last nite.
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You are an idiot.....
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 19:32.
You are an idiot.....
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And now the Traffic
Submitted by Fidel (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 19:23.
Terrible traffic jam has been unleashed on the lekki expressway due to collection of tolls at the toll gate (Admiralty Circle Plaza)..even on Sunday, the traffic is worse than anything ever experienced on that road before now...to see Photos, follow this link or copy and paste on your browser address bar.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2312878703235.2104262.128744129... reply
ejiro okene
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 17:40.
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If you so believe that the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 16:03.
If you so believe that the massess are in support of this fraud why don't stop earning your salary and start earning that of a school teacher and live in Ajah, then pay the 3 toll every morning you go to work, after a month come and tell me the toll is fair when you don't money remaining just to feed yourself
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nitwit
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 15:50.
I have measured you and found you wanting, with your intelligence absent arguement, you are a disgrace to common sense
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I wish ur parents and
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 15:46.
I wish ur parents and relatives were part of those that were maltreated and beaten to death yesterday, u r a shame to does wit brains
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demo-crazy in lagos
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 15:18.
I'm not so supprise @ the inhuman behavior played out by the state Government and our Bribe overwhelmed police force. This act alongside several others have proven that Fashola and Tinubu...conniving crooks of the first order. But the blame isn't totally theirs; the voters/supporters of ACN(Association of Crooks in Nigeria) have there part. Smh....
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TInubu/Fashola
Submitted by Imiava Tendency (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 14:01.
With the way The Nation newspaper carries on, one would think Tinubu a saint. It's a shame that the company collecting the toll belongs to Tinubu. Does this mean that Tinubu financed the road construction out of his pocket, and if he did, perhaps, not a few will ask where he got the money from. Fashola has been carrying on with this face of a boy next door, who sees, hears and therefrom, does no evil. What has been your role in all these.
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We have given them licence to
Submitted by Obi moore (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 13:53.
We have given them licence to mortgage the future of Lagosians, it is unthinkable that three Toll Gates can be constructed on a Road that is less than 40 miles, moreso when the road is already existing road. This is cheer fraud plain and simple. it can only be allowed by a Government that is out to defraud the people, they have increased virtually everything in this state. They jerked up water rate to 100%, same as vehicle license renewals, yet one is not seeing what they are doing with the money for the masses, Lagos does not have cheap houses for citizens, every country in the world build mass housing estates for her citizen. We like to copy what is obtainable in other climes that suits us while leaving the most critical part of what is obtainable there, talking about essential services to the people like affordable accomodation, good access roads, good water, qualitative and cheap education, health services and even electricity.
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Sometime our blind stupidity
Submitted by Obi moore (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 13:39.
Sometime our blind stupidity amazes me in this country, when this issue was raised sometime last year even before the election, I was one of those that campaigned vehemently against it. I wondered how an existing Dual Carriage way can be tolled just because one lane was added into it, I could figure out the fraudulent intent behind it, even hoped Lagosians would send a signal to the imperial Lord Tinubu by rejecting them at the polls., but they cleverly suspended the toll collection on the Road in order to enable them secure re-election into second term. This people does not care about the people of this state, they only care about the Billions they are making off Lagosians. Everything is all about Business and money for them, yet some unsuspecting fools are praising them for job well done. I asked at what cost? What is the level of transparency in the Award of contracts in Lagos State?
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Revolution
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 13:20.
We have to take after Egypt & Libya with peaceful demonstrations but if they continue waging war against us, we might have to take the bull by the horns & respond violently. Enough is enough. Boko Haram, Fuel Subsidy Removal, No Light, No Roads, ASUU on Strike, No Water, No Health Care, No Education, No freedom of Speech, Bad Governors, Bad Senators, Bad Rep. Members, No Government Airlines, Even Police & Army
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Revolution
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 13:17.
We have to take after Egypt & Libya with peaceful demonstrations but if they continue waging war against us, we might have to take the bull by the horns & respond violently. Enough is enough. Boko Haram, Fuel Subsidy Removal, No Light, No Roads, ASUU on Strike, No Water, No Health Care, No Education, No freedom of Speech, Bad Governors, Bad Senators, Bad Rep. Members, No Government Airlines, Even Police & Army
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You're wrong
Submitted by Vanguard (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 13:01.
Your position will make sense if it were only rich people that lives in that axis. How about the thousands of people that live in the more remote parts and that rent rooms not own apartments or houses? What about those that live on the mainland but work in that axis? Let's call a spade a spade.in developed countries, when a toll road is implemented, there is also a very solid alternate route that may take longer but in very good condition. Has that been provided for the people? And for Fashola and his Godfather to resort to brute force to ensure they get their money is plain barbaric, and just shows the previously acclaimed governor is nothing but another political thug. Change is definitely coming!
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