I was driving recently and got super frustrated by how rowdy most of the Lagos drivers were.

Tailgating, driving in multiple lanes, driving on the sidewalks, driving in the bush...

In all of this, not one single erring driver was pulled over, NOT ONE!!!

I just started thinking to myself, of how and why I was born into such a lawless land. In no other country I have visited in my WHOLE LIFE, will drivers just be allowed to do whatever they want, without a single police officer pulling anyone over in their squad car.

I mean it doesn't make any sense at all. It's like we are all in agreement that we are animals in Nigeria and should live as they do in the wild with no governing bodies.

You will see police and lasma just standing at junctions, when they could be patrolling in the their vehicles giving fines to erring drivers and pedestrians. There actually is a whole lot of money to be made by the police and government in general by fining erring drivers even if the fines are just N5,000.

I'm just so sad and frustrated. I don't know who to mail this to, or where to start, but Nigeria needs a whole lot of change, my goodness.



May God save us in Nigeria
May God give us a leader that will see all these things as important.
May God give us followers that will not elect leaders they know are bad simply to spite other tribes.
May God grant the means to our people to get educated, so that we can move beyond this animalistic thinking into the intellectual realm.

There is but only for the bourgeois. The class system is a bitch.

There's but this what you get in democracy.. we are hopping for communism

chatinent:
There is but only for the bourgeois. The class system is a bitch.

Not even for them bro, the lawlessness affects all classes in Nigeria.

Just that they can be even more lawless and get away with it.

tsephanyah:
There's but this what you get in democracy.. we are hopping for communism

I don't believe the problem has to do with the system of governance as I have been to countries with different kinds of government systems, yet, Law and Order in everything is still held supreme in those countries.

I think it has to do with the way we think in Nigeria. It seems we are content with lawlessness and decay that it doesn't even bother some people again.

I once told someone that if I became the governor of Lagos, one of the first things I'd do would be to cover all open gutters in Lagos, with sidewalks and what not. His response was "is that one a problem?".

So you can see that he already sees open gutters filled with feces, trash, urine, algae and teeming with bacteria, as a normal everyday occurrence of life, when that should not be the case. If such a guy were to be the governor tomorrow, he wouldn't care if gutters remain open forever, not minding that when he travels to other countries, he would need a GPS to find ONE SINGLE OPEN GUTTER.

Just sad this morning, but God is in control. Nigeria is just...

VaselineCrew:


I don't believe the problem has to do with the system of governance as I have been to countries with different kinds of government systems, yet, Law and Order in everything is still held supreme in those countries.

I think it has to do with the way we think in Nigeria. It seems we are content with lawlessness and decay that it doesn't even bother some people again.

I once told someone that if I became the governor of Lagos, one of the first things I'd do would be to cover all open gutters in Lagos, with sidewalks and what not. His response was "is that one a problem?".

So you can see that he already sees open gutters filled with feces, trash, urine, algae and teeming with bacteria, as a normal everyday occurrence of life, when that should not be the case. If such a guy were to be the governor tomorrow, he wouldn't care if gutters remain open forever, not minding that when he travels to other countries, he would need a GPS to find ONE SINGLE OPEN GUTTER.

Just sad this morning, but God is in control. Nigeria is just...

So true. thanks for the matured reply

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Law is studied in school and school is haram to the Nigerian government. Where will they learn law and order?

My brother this country is just too messed up! Sane people like you and I who worry over the level of lawlessness in this country are sometimes tagged wailers.

The saying goes that if you cannot beat them you join them. But some of us can't join them because our conscience won't let us.

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Fact: Only a mad man can drive on Lagos roads

MONIKERREVEALER:

Yep Or Islamic State of west Africa. (ISWAP)

tsephanyah:
Yep Or Islamic State of west Africa. (ISWAP)

Yes, be truthful about your true desires!!!

We biafrans wish you and your afonja sidekicks a beautiful arewaoduanistan republic!!!

Zoo must fall!!!

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This is exactly what i was thinking this morning.
in the place where i work,we are fed because we are far from home.
we also have other nationals working with us, Americans,Europeans and the bulk being Asians.
you go to the mess to eat,you will see these other nationals comport themselves,they will just collect the amount of food they can finish and if they are not satisfied ,they will go and have more but Nigerians,goodness me !
Nigerians will pack all the food and meat they can't finish,sometimes you see them quarrelling with the steward to add more of this or that.at the end they will end up trashing the whole stuff.sometimes i just feel ashamed wondering what these foreigners think about us concerning this level of profligacy and wastage from a third world country.