Ayya! Sorry Omojuwa...

I don't know why some Nigerians are busy mocking Omojuwa. To me he took a bold step in fighting for people without voice...the #shirt he wore onboard was delibrate and did that all for attention. I have bn following this guy story since he narrated his experience. For those who can't stand for their rights, I wish you luck! Here is what I bookmarked then when I stumbled on his ordeal.
http://omojuwa.com/?p=8676&wpmp_tp=0

[b][/b]I work in a company where our keyword is "the customer is king" I happened to follow the "Omojuwa and Arik story" . He claimed that he forgot it in the plane and when he remembered, he immediately ran back and was told but a staff of Arik that "they saw the Ipad and kept it in his Luggage" now the Question, how did they know his own luggage amongst all the luggage?dear NLanders, if u have a personal issue with Omojuwa, kindly put that aside. Why shud he be blacklisted? Cos he asked for his Ipad that they claimed they saw?
Let's be fair in our judgements. It could be anyone of us oo

@Joe980. Kindly tell them

I think Arik has taken this too far....and Mr Japh should take this as a lost cause. It has happened to him and others will benefit from his 'crying out loud'. Or either of the party should take a legal action....and there be PEACE!

2 million: Heard they blacklisted the G.M of FAAN....person wey get airport na him dem blacklist...if na me u go carry your plane for head travell because no be for my airport d plane go land

why do you talk like a baby ? Who told you the G.M of FAAN own the airport ? GUY YOU BETTER PARK WELL

I only fly first and business class with Arik Air and they have amazing service. No complaints. I am valued customer.

Omojuwa is just trying to seek attention. First of all u accused them of stealing ur ipad, campaigning against them and u are still patronizing them, is that not stupid of him. If na me be arik I go chase d guy away before e accuse me of stealing again, he is just a trouble maker

And secondly u know u have been blacklisted u still went to board d plane to generate buzz arund u. Nonsense.

Joe980: To me he took a bold step in fighting for people without voice...

guy you are drunk ni ?Who e dey fight for ? why didnt he settle the issue amicably with the mgt of arik ? Why tryn to paint the airline black ? How much is the ipad that he will not allow us hear word na ?

Tell him to send me his account number make i forward money for ipad 3 to him .

Imagine a guy cryn over ordinary ipad ,what of if robber rob him of 5million ? I am sure he will kill himself o

vanity upon vanity

Themaingate:

guy you are drunk ni ?Who e dey fight for ? why didnt he settle the issue amicably with the mgt of arik ? Why tryn to paint the airline black ? How much is the ipad that he will not allow us hear word na ?

Tell him to send me his account number make i forward money for ipad 3 to him .

Imagine a guy cryn over ordinary ipad ,what of if robber rob him of 5million ? I am sure he will kill himself o

vanity upon vanity

But do you know that the information that he has in that IPAD could be in excess of N1b?

Themaingate:

guy you are drunk ni ?Who e dey fight for ? why didnt he settle the issue amicably with the mgt of arik ? Why tryn to paint the airline black ? How much is the ipad that he will not allow us hear word na ?

Tell him to send me his account number make i forward money for ipad 3 to him .

Imagine a guy cryn over ordinary ipad ,what of if robber rob him of 5million ? I am sure he will kill himself o

vanity upon vanity

If only you'll release your SIM card (with all the numbers, messages, and airtime on it) and collect #100 to buy another SIM card.

gidiMonsta:

He knew they had blacklisted him, that's why he wore the #ArikWhereIsMyIpad shirt to board the plane to give Arik more headaches, it was his own way of protesting. The mumu here is obviously you since you didn't get you stories straight before insulting him.

get ur facts right before u rant...he never knew he was blacklisted till after he bought his ticket.He has been tweeting against them bout his missing ipad and made a shirt to further insult them...he was very dumb/daft to still go buy their ticket.

No wonder he made that infamous list on twitter...bloody noise maker!

floriana: This is the tyranny of near monopoly. With most of the airlines in Nigeria going under, the fraudulent Arik air can afford to pick and choose. Another testimony to the fact that Nigeria as a country will never be a great nation.

You are entitle to your opinion.

Thank God you know 'vanity upon vanity'...this applies to your so called money. Get some attitude please!

Themaingate:

guy you are drunk ni ?Who e dey fight for ? why didnt he settle the issue amicably with the mgt of arik ? Why tryn to paint the airline black ? How much is the ipad that he will not allow us hear word na ?

Tell him to send me his account number make i forward money for ipad 3 to him .

Imagine a guy cryn over ordinary ipad ,what of if robber rob him of 5million ? I am sure he will kill himself o

vanity upon vanity

chosen04:

But do you know that the information that he has in that IPAD could be in excess of N1b?

There's smthg called "back-up" u knw ....

So many pathetic comments on this thread. Many posters don't even know what dis is all about, dey just scream omojuwa is an attention seeker! When are we goin to start fightin for our rights in dis country? Customer service is poor everywhere, no1 cares about d customers. Flights are delayed 4 hours with no reasonable excuse and after waitin 4 eternity, d flights r cancelled. No1 gives a damn abt u! Commercial motorists delay passengers 4 nothin @ the buspark and everyone just sits there mute, no challenges, nuthn! And when you talk, they make it seem like ure over-doing it...I'm sure a lotta ppl don't kno omojuwa is a voice for so many unsatisfied passengers, follow his blog and see how many stories ppl have 2 recount about arik's lousy customer care and staff pilfering, then sum1 comes out 2 voice it out and sum ppl are asking him 2 stop shoutin. Dis laid-back attitude will sure get us nowhere and if someone chooses 2 speak 4 a million unheard voices, pls let him be! I'm with you on this omojuwa! #ArikWhereIsMyIpad

zinosleek: Omojuwa is just trying to seek attention. First of all u accused them of stealing ur ipad, campaigning against them and u are still patronizing them, is that not stupid of him. If na me be arik I go chase d guy away before e accuse me of stealing again, he is just a trouble maker

And secondly u know u have been blacklisted u still went to board d plane to generate buzz arund u. Nonsense.

[/color][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font][color=#990000] I'm amazed @ ur comment here, y r u in support of Arik, it cud av happened 2 u u knw........pls let's b objective and leave personal feelings abt Omojuwa aside

Forget Omojuwa , how did Azeez Arisekola manage to bag himself a nice ban, if its the same one I attended same school as that is odd dude was rather cool, calm and composed

Some people shaa, ΐƨ it only omojuwa that has complained about lost item on arik planes..its high time we took α̲̅ decisive stand on companies ąƞđ organisations that has breach †ђξ right of customers..Arik ΐƨ just a scapegoat ąƞđ i support omojuwa..if not that we live in α̲̅ lawless country, most companies would have fold up as a result of fine..MTN,DSTV yours coming soon[color=#770077][/color]

Choi!! Omojuwa, can't believe it's d same guy i finished with frm UNAAB that has turned into this.. Such is life

The blacklisted should fly other carriers now, abi na by force ni.

Arik is making a big mistake, these people can sue them!!

My name isn't on that list why?

kh0lz: THAT OMOJUWA IS A CREEPY HORRIBLE GOBSHITE. HIS MAA HAS A SKIN HEAD, A CREEPY ARROGANT Arrow THAT THINKS HE IS SO POPULAR BECUASE HE HAS 20K+ FOLLOWERS. IF YOU HAVE MET HIM LIKE I HAVE YOU WOULD KNOW HE HAS A TERRIBLE MOUTH ODOUR.PATHETIC HUMAN BEING

Unu ga egbu madu

Terrible mouth ordor also known as halitosis halitosis...na serious matter.

What a load of waffle from a perennial twitter noise maker! So glad he cleared up the inconsistencies in his idiotic claim and fight with Arik! Firstly the idiot tells the world that he was negligent to leave his ipad in an Aeroplane. What a slowpoke! He is supposed to be above 30 and does something stupid like that! How many people forget their ipads in a plane? He is not talking about how stupid and imbecilic he was in neglecting his ipad rather he is trying to douse his stupidity by accusing Arik of his foolishness.

Now later he is shifting his whole argument on a Kunle that has no capacity to represent Arik as the person who said they have found his ipad and replaced it in his bag! Firstly he should know no such staff can lay claim to such a statement and if any staff of an airline makes such an idiotic claim he should be fired. What paper work or search or proper procedure did the so called Kunle take to ascertain that his ipad was found and inserted in his bag? Does a Kunle represent the wishes of an Organization that has a customer care section? Where is the kunle he is trying to use as a cover up or blame for his stupidity in the first place?

Knowing how stupid omojuwa is, am sure when the issue first arose he wasnt diplomatic enough or patient or followed due process to allow Arik staff do their work to get to the Root of his complains! Rather the arrogant prick thinking he is a celebrity because he tweets dross daily gives him the right in the real world to be condescending to Airport staffs and Arik.

Starting the #Arikwhereismyipad trend was to allow him and his silly brain dead followers who neither see reason or weigh truth from falsehood to assist him in pouring venom on Arik and win in the court of public opinion but at the same time he still wrote a police report,  made an official complain and still went to the Consumer protection council while still accusing Arik staffs as thieves. So he was already the judge, jury and executioner and still wanted Arik to worship him and welcome him with open arms. You need to see the daily catalogue of abuses coming from omojuwa and his followers on Arik Daily while Arik did the mature thing and did not join issues with the twitter lunatic.

Then to make things worse or more interesting or should i say an action only a yaba left patient can emulate, Omojuwa bought an Arik ticket yet again despite all the abuses, insults and accusations to fly an airline he has condemned and labelled as thieves and expect the Airline to have rolled out the red carpet for him because he is Omojuwa, a total nonenity riding on the wave of social media to gain cheap popularity and without twitter he is as insignificant as a fart in the wind. Arik did the best thing by denying him entrance into their flight lest he complains tomorrow that his smelly boxers and tooth brush has been stolen on the flight and he runs back to twitter to start crying like a child lacking breast milk to allow his dense followers abuse Arik on his behalf.

Blacklisting him puts in the category of terrorists world wide and other airlines should take note and blacklist him too because he is a trouble maker, irritant and cheap publicity seeker. I am not holding forte for Arik that they shouldnt treat customers complains with levity but respect demand respect. He handled the situation badly and he has gotten his reward. I remember losing my luggages in an Arik flight 4 years ago From Abuja to Lagos and my luggages where lost in transist. I complained and was very mad at them but at the same time i listened to their apologizes and advice that i should be patient and allow due process take place! Later that night Arik staffs called me to tell me my luggages have been found and apologized profusely! Thats what being patient means and allowing due process take place! I didnt go to facebook to scream blue murder and for my friends to abuse Arik continously. As long as Omojuwa has behaved like an Animal in the wild, Arik has every right to blacklist him and the closest he would see 50million is when he is playing monopoly. See this hungry, waif looking, long necked beggar trying to use yahoo yahoo format to obtain N50million from Arik! Better go get a daily 9-5 job like everyone else and stop trying to fool Nigerians. The smart ones will read between the lines your ploy to gain cheap popularity but not I! Am still waiting for his new twitter trend #arikrefundmyticketmoneysinceyoublacklistedme! Ode Oponu!

ON POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jenkinson: What a load of waffle from a perennial twitter noise maker! So glad he cleared up the inconsistencies in his idiotic claim and fight with Arik! Firstly the idiot tells the world that he was negligent to leave his ipad in an Aeroplane. What a slowpoke! He is supposed to be above 30 and does something stupid like that! How many people forget their ipads in a plane? He is not talking about how stupid and imbecilic he was in neglecting his ipad rather he is trying to douse his stupidity by accusing Arik of his foolishness.

Now later he is shifting his whole argument on a Kunle that has no capacity to represent Arik as the person who said they have found his ipad and replaced it in his bag! Firstly he should know no such staff can lay claim to such a statement and if any staff of an airline makes such an idiotic claim he should be fired. What paper work or search or proper procedure did the so called Kunle take to ascertain that his ipad was found and inserted in his bag? Does a Kunle represent the wishes of an Organization that has a customer care section? Where is the kunle he is trying to use as a cover up or blame for his stupidity in the first place?

Knowing how stupid omojuwa is, am sure when the issue first arose he wasnt diplomatic enough or patient or followed due process to allow Arik staff do their work to get to the Root of his complains! Rather the arrogant prick thinking he is a celebrity because he tweets dross daily gives him the right in the real world to be condescending to Airport staffs and Arik.

Starting the #Arikwhereismyipad trend was to allow him and his silly brain dead followers who neither see reason or weigh truth from falsehood to assist him in pouring venom on Arik and win in the court of public opinion but at the same time he still wrote a police report,  made an official complain and still went to the Consumer protection council while still accusing Arik staffs as thieves. So he was already the judge, jury and executioner and still wanted Arik to worship him and welcome him with open arms. You need to see the daily catalogue of abuses coming from omojuwa and his followers on Arik Daily while Arik did the mature thing and did not join issues with the twitter lunatic.

Then to make things worse or more interesting or should i say an action only a yaba left patient can emulate, Omojuwa bought an Arik ticket yet again despite all the abuses, insults and accusations to fly an airline he has condemned and labelled as thieves and expect the Airline to have rolled out the red carpet for him because he is Omojuwa, a total nonenity riding on the wave of social media to gain cheap popularity and without twitter he is as insignificant as a fart in the wind. Arik did the best thing by denying him entrance into their flight lest he complains tomorrow that his smelly boxers and tooth brush has been stolen on the flight and he runs back to twitter to start crying like a child lacking breast milk to allow his dense followers abuse Arik on his behalf.

Blacklisting him puts in the category of terrorists world wide and other airlines should take note and blacklist him too because he is a trouble maker, irritant and cheap publicity seeker. I am not holding forte for Arik that they shouldnt treat customers complains with levity but respect demand respect. He handled the situation badly and he has gotten his reward. I remember losing my luggages in an Arik flight 4 years ago From Abuja to Lagos and my luggages where lost in transist. I complained and was very mad at them but at the same time i listened to their apologizes and advice that i should be patient and allow due process take place! Later that night Arik staffs called me to tell me my luggages have been found and apologized profusely! Thats what being patient means and allowing due process take place! I didnt go to facebook to scream blue murder and for my friends to abuse Arik continously. As long as Omojuwa has behaved like an Animal in the wild, Arik has every right to blacklist him and the closest he would see 50million is when he is playing monopoly. See this hungry, waif looking, long necked beggar trying to use yahoo yahoo format to obtain N50million from Arik! Better go get a daily 9-5 job like everyone else and stop trying to fool Nigerians. The smart ones will read between the lines your ploy to gain cheap popularity but not I! Am still waiting for his new twitter trend #arikrefundmyticketmoneysinceyoublacklistedme! Ode Oponu!

obowunmi:

Tehehehe

LMFAOO!!!! U HAVE KILLED THE GUY

For those blaming omojuwa please read as a background for the story

Japheth Omojuwa: On Arik Air, I admit my madness



by Japheth Omojuwa

In the Land of many victims, the man who dares the oppressor is seen to be mad. For that, I admit my madness.

I left my iPad in an Arik Air flight and that was my fault. I will not excuse that negligence on the fact that flying just days after the Dana crash I was still gripped by its horror. What is not my fault though is the fact that when I returned for the iPad, the Arik Air staff in charge of “Lost & Found” left to check the aircraft and came back saying “they said they found it and put it in your bag.” My response was sharp and simple. How did they match an untagged iPad that was not checked in with a bag that was checked in and tagged? Who gave them the permission to open my bag for them to put the iPad? I asked to make a written complaint but the Arik Air staff, Lanre, said that by speaking to him my complaint process had been completed, that there was no need to write anything. That did not go down well with me. Some have focused on the first part of the issue about why I’d forget my iPad in a plane, they conveniently ignore the part about the Arik Air staff saying they found the iPad and put it in my bag. Someone have even questioned why I’d even forget my iPad in the first place. These are angels and aliens who have never forgotten a thing in their lives. I am human and I forget, not to mention the fact that in about 35 flights this year, that was a first.

I hate to admit it but I live in a country where people have lived with being victims for decades, victimization has become the culture. Rather than take on their oppressors, many Nigerians are still counting on the day God would come down and personally take on that challenge. Here, people never see the principle behind anything, as most things are weighed in naira. For people of principle, my issue with Arik Air had stopped being about an iPad long ago, but for those whose only valuation of life and the decisions they make come from naira and kobo perception, this remains about an iPad and I needed to shut up because “it is only an iPad.” In the end, these are victims of years of oppression, people who have never stood for themselves, people who’d rather adjust to bullies but are now experts on how to treat oppressors. That in itself is normal because I come from a society of many paradoxes.

I do not have a problem with bloggers who would create any fiction out of this to get hits. Many have become the anomaly they report. I once saw a story about Nigeria’s First Lady concerning the Black Sunday plane crash. I knew from the word go it’d be a hit story but I refused to publish it because I could not see the possibility of its content being the truth even though it’d put the First Lady in bad light. Some others did publish and got their hits. For these ones, it is not about the society, it is about their blogs. The hits first, other things second.

Arik Air is yet to say a thing about this officially apart from their desperate Black List, but they have indeed been talking. They are speaking by proxy. A lot of those acting like they are giving personal opinion are indeed doing their job. You know personal opinion when you see one but when you see someone seemingly speaking his or her opinion, yet repeatedly attacks my person and repeatedly seeks amplification for same, it is hard to see that as opinion. Social Media is on the front burner and I am absolutely certain I helped a few people earn some money just by creating a need to defend a company. I only hope the pay is worth it because standing for my own rights has been worth it.

At the end of the day, I have done something few people have ever dared. Given the chance, I’d do it again! When the story is told, no one will remember the multi-coloured friends or the analysis, they will remember the ordinary man who stood against an organisation that even the government of the day had to let go. Rosa Parks was called names by fellow black men who felt her stand to sit when she could have stood up, walked away and avoid trouble was avoidable. There are iconoclasts and the strength of their reality is that they get to do what others never had the capacity to think about, let alone think possible.

I muted in a blog I’d seek a N50 million damage. It is my iPad and my content. It is my right and my prerogative. I never sought the damage but it has become the major line of the long abused victim who wonders how a man could first dare to go against the same people they in their normal state of being victims have learnt to bow to and then go a step further to even contemplate asking for that much. I never asked for that but yes, if I did, it’d be in order.

In the Land of many victims, the man who dares the oppressor is seen to be mad. I am mad.
When Arik Air was called out on their over N84 billion debt by the authorities, they never argued about the content and essence of the issues, instead, they chose to blackmail the minister of aviation Stella Oduah and diverted many from the issue. In a country where many have learnt to chase shadows, diversionary tactics have always been the tools of people who are accused of one crime or the other. It is a tactic perfected by huge debtors and serial tax defaulters. Who best fits the description than one of the subjects of this issue?

Isn’t it also ironic that the same people who heard about the issue being with Consumer Protection Council for over two months without anything to show for it would now advise me to go to court. In a country where justice resides in the court of law, that’d be a natural channel to have justice now but in a country where court judgements are for sale, I’d rather not bother. I will find justice elsewhere because I don’t have N84 billion to bribe judges from and even if I did have, I’d rather justice comes to the fore without bribe incentives. This is would be the anomaly in an average court and I am not about to pretend about it.

I stood for myself and my rights, not just as a citizen but as a consumer, most of those have been beaten into the victim mentality they will always see that as an affront on the norm they have come to accept as the preferable reality.
I have been put on a Black List by Arik Air along with some 25 others including a managing director with one of the industry regulators. That illegality was not communicated even though Arik Air conveniently collected my money last week for a flight and have since not refunded. In trying to board them last week, I had my agent book me on another flight. My attempt to board their flight was my own way of fueling the issue all over again. I knew I was never going to be allowed to fly. The Black List has only just changed the hue of the issue all over again and we will indeed be on this for a while. I am not a victim, I am a fighter and no man alive would cheat me and have an easy ride doing so. Never! That they can abuse and manipulate the system does not mean they will successfully do that with me. I am but one small, ordinary citizen but I will show that sometimes, being seemingly small is not being definitely weak.

“In our quest for justice, we will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail”

@ Jekinson:
You opened a Nairaland account some minutes ago just to write all these?Certainly, Arik sent you.O ga gan o.
All the Arik goons are so abusive and unrepentant,talk of brain-dead and all sorts.

@ darray

Am not new to Nairaland and I can't log into my NL account hence my new I.d! Arik did not send me and I am only angry at that idiot omojuwa because he feels his twitter popularity is a reason to bring a company down and criticize incessantly! Why should he have a lot of supporters praising him and when a dissenting voice arises to counterattack his waffles, the person becomes an enemy, voltron, 40 laptop guy etc. There are 2 sides to every story and I have given my own 2 cents about it, write your own in support of omojuwa and I will reply that Omojuwa sent you and paid you to defend him.

Nobody is talking about the kook of the whole thing which is that he accepts that he negligently forgot his iPad in an aircraft. Why should a company take liability for his stupidity? You forget your wallet in a bus and you want to blame the conductor for your stupidity? Does that make sense?

kh0lz: THAT OMOJUWA IS A CREEPY HORRIBLE GOBSHITE. HIS MAA HAS A SKIN HEAD, A CREEPY ARROGANT Arrow THAT THINKS HE IS SO POPULAR BECUASE HE HAS 20K+ FOLLOWERS. IF YOU HAVE MET HIM LIKE I HAVE YOU WOULD KNOW HE HAS A TERRIBLE MOUTH ODOUR.PATHETIC HUMAN BEING