Touts Our Official Leaders In Lagos
It is no longer news that from the local government chairmen to the governor none of them are our official leaders, they are just ceremonial leaders. Our real leaders are the touts who have taken over the nooks and crannies of Lagos State.
The touts are the ones that determine what happens, when it happens, how it happens and why it happens. The State is so lawless that even the Police men have no say when they are talking. Its not just because of their notoriety but because they weild a power that no one knows its source.
Before a commercial bus can move from one place to another he has to pay at least five different groups of touts who are stationed at major bus stops.
Suppliers of goods are also too aggrieved to speak up because just offloading goods to their customers they have to pay a certain amount of money.
Even it has come to a point where these mallams called 'alabaru' that carry load or goods for people have to pay money for the goods they convey. I ask myself if they are paying for their strengths or what? This is totally insane for a person to use his or her own strength to carry load under the rain or blazing sun and still pay someone who doesn't know anything about the stress or amount charged for carriage.
Even before people can go into their streets or even park in front of their houses they have to pay Parking Fees in their own streets and in front of their houses. This stuff is highly messed up and I hope that if we still have a government they can get rid of all these inconveniences for their people but if there is no government then we the residents of Lagos State only look up to God for an intervention.
I'm just a concerned Lagosian fed up of all these hooligans.
The touts are the ones that determine what happens, when it happens, how it happens and why it happens. The State is so lawless that even the Police men have no say when they are talking. Its not just because of their notoriety but because they weild a power that no one knows its source.
Before a commercial bus can move from one place to another he has to pay at least five different groups of touts who are stationed at major bus stops.
Suppliers of goods are also too aggrieved to speak up because just offloading goods to their customers they have to pay a certain amount of money.
Even it has come to a point where these mallams called 'alabaru' that carry load or goods for people have to pay money for the goods they convey. I ask myself if they are paying for their strengths or what? This is totally insane for a person to use his or her own strength to carry load under the rain or blazing sun and still pay someone who doesn't know anything about the stress or amount charged for carriage.
Even before people can go into their streets or even park in front of their houses they have to pay Parking Fees in their own streets and in front of their houses. This stuff is highly messed up and I hope that if we still have a government they can get rid of all these inconveniences for their people but if there is no government then we the residents of Lagos State only look up to God for an intervention.
I'm just a concerned Lagosian fed up of all these hooligans.
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