The attack on the flagboi is part of the orchestrated plans to intimidate the #Obidient movement, using state and non-state actors. The plans, already in plain sight, are as follows: 1. Deploy security and intelligence services at some of the known faces of the movement;
Plan number 1 was tested on Saturday morning with the arrest of BigJoeofLagos.
2. Non-state actors will be deployed to attack known faces of the movement.
3. A coordinated campaign of calumny against Peter Obi -
(i) as a drug peddler
(ii) as an IPOB promoter and supporter
4. The use of a well known blog ran by an unidentified blogger to run dirty campaigns on Obi and Obidients.
5. Harassments of some of the well-known Obidients, using the so-called "No-Fly" list.
The battle is going to get dirty in November and December, so let's get ready.
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"Whatever is happening will keep happening", E.J Dionne famously quipped. Those who don't understand how the Black Swan (read up the Black Swan events/ Nassim Nicholas Taleb) appears in electoral politics and changes dynamics will not understand changes in phenomena as
that physicists describe as the "quantum leap", philosophers as "paradigm shift", biologists as "punctuated equilibrium", and new age digital nerds as "disruptive technology".
The likes of Reno bandy phenomena they don't understand and try to ethnicisise
what is happening that'll keep happening.
You need a clear understanding of political theory and electoral praxis to understand what's happening, in order not to fall into Reno's trap and idiocy.
Anyone who don't see the fact that the internal contradictions
Profiling is both arts and science. And in today's modern policing, it is dependent largely on evidence derived from data on crime and actionable pieces of crime detection and prevention works. Not from previous experiences.
Profiling by Nigerian police is not dependent on art or on forensic science. It is what it is: crude. Where's the data on white collar or black collar crime, for example? How is it possible to profile dread-locked guys as the potential perpetrators of a white collar crime when
there's no data on prevalence?
Social theory is important to understand crime prevalence and crime recidivism. Patterns of criminal behaviors will always be exhibited by criminals at the crime scene and when not committing crimes.
"I spent thirty seconds at the second. Officer: You be Uber? Me: No. it’s my personal car. Officer: Find me something na. Me: I no get anything. Officer: See as you fine. Find me something na. Me: (silence). Officer: Oya, dey go"
- Ben Hundeyin, PRO Lagos Police
There's everything wrong with the social experiment of the PRO. The wrong-ness lies at two levels: 1. Though he cautioned that his tweets don't in any way invalidate the behaviour of police officers; but in actual sense, his tweets do the exact opposite that he cautioned against
2. Mr Hundeyin oversimplified the problem of police harassment.
Let me take the second. Harassment is borne out of police profiling of youths and stereotypical behaviour towards the youth demography. Hundeyin should know that a older man spotting grey beards
If you dropped into the space of @LeadershipNGA last night, you'd have listened to the GO on the Ikorodu drug bust. Make no mistake, as Kemi Olunloyo reiterated with reference to GO's point, Nigeria is becoming a narco state. For three reasons:
1. Our huge population is creating attraction for drug cartels - as a transit hub and as a consumption market. Kemi correctly illustrated this point; 2. Our weak counter narcotic regime has fueled illicit drug import. Thus creating a direct link between drug and terrorism;
3. Our poor surveillance regime - whether on our territorial waters, borders, or night clubs that have become places of exchange.
"This is how the Guardian of London reported it a few years ago:
Nigerian drug gangs have always been an energetic presence on the global
G.O needs to weigh in on the recent auction of cars of roads traffic offenders in Lagos. Straight off, the auction of cars for dangerous driving or route violation- two offences which constitute driving on what Nigerians describe as "driving on one way"- is draconian.
Not all roads come within the legislative jurisdiction of Lagos State and it will be interesting to know the specific routes/roads that the Lagos Road Law covers. Some roads in Lagos are federal roads and only the FRSC have specific powers by virtue of FRSC Act and NRTR 2012
to exercise powers/jurisdiction over them. The Federal legislations- mentioned above - don't include auction as a punishment.