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Will History Be Fair To GOPS

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This may appear as a slant or bias for or against your idol. But those who know me herein this ville are aware that I have zero tolerance for ills even when same is perpetuated by someone very close to me. First of all let me make it clear that the 12 EDHA members elect that have refused to resume duties because of the fracas between GO and Comrade are undeserving of the pains voters went through under the sun, in the rain and more to pick them over others in the course of the electioneering process. They have so far shown (in my thinking) that they are more concerned with politicking than the yearnings of Edolites. While I am yet to see any visible life impacting project of the current government of Edo state in Edo North, it is pertinent to mention here that GO has nothing tangible to show he has offered the Afenmai people. However, Comrade has no moral justification whatsoever to create a divide between his hitherto today's imposed goons and his acclaimed self-righ

The Nigerian police: No Pay, No Pass

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 Yes, am back again with my usual police yen yen yen and this, though not new, is about the pass _way pass, gate pass, bush pass, path pass whatever pass you can mention. As long as there is a police manning the pathway through which a driver/rider is plying, the pass payment is due. In clearer terms I’m basically talking about the no longer foreign but familiar context of police extortion of poor masses on the highway. Terms are clear. Once your are driving or riding to and or from a destination and you come in contact with the-men-in-black at a check point, you must as a matter of “ na so the country be ” drop a tip not less than #50 (fifty Naira) otherwise woe betide you. As Nigerians we’ve grown into this ignoble norm of once a checkpoint is spotted and a police is on the way, a pass transaction is imminent. In fact, how dare you not comply? This is an ugly trend that has come to stay in a vacancy that has been structured to fit. It’s a menace we’ve embraced together with