Playing with death

Two gentlemen painting a mast without a harness in Lagos

The two gentlemen in the picture above were casually painting a mast near my office on Monday without wearing any harness.

There was no safety net below either. They carried on their job while everyone else minded their business.

No one was alarmed for them.

You won't find this in any society that cares about human life.

We are still 'anyhow' people around here. No safety considerations. No regard for life. You still find people climbing electric poles to mess with cables without wearing gloves. Conductors still hang from moving vehicles.

People still ferry containers on flatbeds without latching them. Containers still routinely fall on smaller vehicles killing people till today.

Oh, well. That's why we are still a third world country.

Man robbed by one-chance robbers twice in one year at Egbeda

For a second time in a year, a family friend was robbed in Egbeda about 4:30 am today while on a short commute from his house to the bus stop where he catches the office bus.

He boarded a yellow bus and was beaten within an inch of his life by the bad boys. He met some women in the bus when he boarded, but it appeared those ones too were victims coerced to stay in the bus to lure more hapless passengers. They didn’t utter a word and looked terrified according to our friend.

The robbers collected the cash on him and demanded for his ATM cards.  He told them he had none. Since his terrible experience in the hands of ‘one chance’ robbers on the same route last year when his ATM cards were collected and the money in his accounts were transferred, he formed the habit of leaving his ATM cards at the office and deleting all bank transactions on his phone as soon as they arrive.

They collected his phone and checked for transactions. They didn’t see any. They subsequently gave him back his phone and threw him out. He is currently in a hospital for treatment.

It’s getting critical for our dear country. Fulani herders kidnap those travelling. One chance robbers wait for those going to their offices. Do we still have a government?