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Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by qrymz(m): 10:15pm On Sep 03, 2019
The man speaks the truth for the first time. Most Shoprite malls are actually owned by these thief covering up with the Shoprite franchise so it will do more harm to their pockets

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Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by Omoluabi16(m): 10:15pm On Sep 03, 2019
What decisive measure have they been taking since these primitive people started theirs madness? If we don't act those animals won't stop.
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by gentleedu(m): 10:15pm On Sep 03, 2019
oz4real83:
It is not everytime you reveal your pains or losses to your enemies. It is wise to play "strong" to your enemies sometimes even in the face of pain, just to deceive him. Lai Mohammed has always been known to display high level of indiscretion when it matters most. I can't easily forget when he said Senegalese jollof was better than Nigerian jollof in the face of international lime-light. These people are clowns!!!
my brother i tire for this jokers, the best option now is for us to show mtn say we get roban store and show mtn say we get glo.. Let's burn them down cuz years of killing without action will only encourage more killing of our people ...
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by Neddstark: 10:16pm On Sep 03, 2019
otuekong1:
Stupidman

He is wiser than you a million times. If shoprite closes, who will feed the thousands of workers they employ? Shey na your family? We have sent the message, government has seen. Now lets face the reality and stop stupid violence.
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by thunderbabs: 10:16pm On Sep 03, 2019
Booda Lai will always talk rubbish
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by cgniyi(m): 10:16pm On Sep 03, 2019
We dey tell them since morning, dem no wan hear. In SA, they are killing Nigerians and attacking businesses and properties directly owned by Nigerians. Has there been any one South African casualty here in Nigeria that anyone can point to ? (I'm not supporting violence against anyone o)
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by badonkadonk: 10:17pm On Sep 03, 2019
Bimpeusman:
On Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described as deeply disturbing the reports that some Nigerians, angered by the xenophobic attacks in South Africa, have started attacking South African companies in Nigeria.

He said that targeting South African companies in Nigeria for attack is, for Nigerians, a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face, because the investors in such companies, especially MTN and Shoprite, are Nigerians.

Alhaji Mohammed said the majority of the workers in the South African companies operating in Nigeria are also Nigerians, meaning that its Nigerian workers who will be hardest hit if such companies are forced to shut down for fear of attacks. He assured Nigerians that the Federal Government is already taking decisive measures to put an end to the persistent xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.

https://all-gists..com/2019/09/attack-on-south-african-businesses-will-hurt-nigerians-more-lai-mohammed.html



Lai Mohammed at it again
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by einsteine(m): 10:17pm On Sep 03, 2019
Mutemenot:


You are right, those SA businesses are enjoying more than the indigenous firm . Imagine dstv chasing away other satelite companies just cos they want to enjoy the monopoly . Corruption has ridiculed this nation

How did dstv chase away other firms?

Some of you are just dull.

Pay TV is a content based business. If you don't have content, nobody subscribes. Tencent, one of the biggest Chinese companies in the world, is majority owned by a South African company, the same company that owns Dstv. They have a monopoly because they are good at business. That's why they are everywhere including in China and India.

How many Nigerian companies, other than banks, have been able to go to other countries?

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Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by tsdarkside(m): 10:17pm On Sep 03, 2019
OTayobami:
Believe liar1 at your own peril, is it not this same information minister that announced boko haram has been defeated?!
And boko haram is even doing fg work: issuing ultimatum to SAs over xenophobic attack

nawa...even boko wan show those south africans pepper....
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by Ooye12: 10:17pm On Sep 03, 2019
That your cap will remove from your head baba werey ...
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by CrestMan: 10:17pm On Sep 03, 2019
Minister of MIS-information! lipsrsealed
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by 3rdavefarms(m): 10:17pm On Sep 03, 2019
aolawale025:
For the first time, I agree with him

This will be the second truth , the first one was the feeding allowance of Elzakyshaky who is in DSS detention
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by zigziggy(m): 10:17pm On Sep 03, 2019
donstan18:
You are right.

But it wouldn't have been so if you and your fellow corrupt politicians had invested and promoted Nigerian companies with the same services.

This is one of the prizes Nigerians are going to pay for valuing foreigners than their citizens.
you've said it all....... kudos......no need for me to write again.
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by Nobody: 10:17pm On Sep 03, 2019
Lia Mohammed. undecided

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Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by bskyb(m): 10:18pm On Sep 03, 2019
Importantly, a physical attack on South African biz in Nigeria would only make another wrong. Asides, those biz are insured, they will make up for their loses.
NIGERIA should explore other means of settlement.

If people are truly angry, they should boycott those biz. How many of us have dropped our MTN Sims or even stopped watching DSTV or gone to protest at their high commission?

A man who has a mosquito perched on his scrotum easily realizes that violence is not always the solution to a problem

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Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by PVC2019(f): 10:18pm On Sep 03, 2019
FG Lying FM. Idiot
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by Nobody: 10:18pm On Sep 03, 2019
For the very time, this lying machine malfunctioned and said the truth.
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by naijanaso: 10:18pm On Sep 03, 2019
DrNueLpureHoney:
Finally... Our Linus don talk

This man is one of the problem we have here in Nigeria walahi

But he is making sense naa...in as much as I never liked this man for anything, this is the first time he is saying something reasonable.

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Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by wowcatty: 10:18pm On Sep 03, 2019
What is Gani Adams waiting for now? He needs to make it clear to igbos looking to retaliate in Lagos to take the fight to Igboland.

Can you see why allowing people to be comfortable in your land can cost you? Yoruba don't go looking for trouble but the foreigners(igbos) go out to bring trouble to Yorubaland.

A Yoruba adage says, Ti aro ba daran ori eni to lese lo ma da si. Meaning, if a cripple commits a crime, it's the able body that will do the run-around.
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by Nobody: 10:18pm On Sep 03, 2019
He's right.

But he's the "WRONGEST" person to say it.
He and his cohorts forced a colossal failure called Buhari on us.
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by bejeria101(m): 10:18pm On Sep 03, 2019
And this slowpoke had to open his mouth now of all times.
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by AnanseK(m): 10:18pm On Sep 03, 2019
THE KILLINGS IN SOUTH AFRICA
THE NIGERIAN COMPLICITY
THE TRUE STORIES

I tried to keep my peace over this attack on Nigerians by South Africans but the increased calls by Nigerians over here for boycott of this and that and for our ambassador/Nigerian government to act this and act that has spurred me to pen this down here!

I condemn in its totality, the violence meted on Nigerians living in South Africa! I abhor the violent taking of life even one done legally....... BUT IT MUST BE STATED THAT NIGERIANS LIVING IN S.A. HAVE SYSTEMATICALLY DESTROYED THE VERY FABRIC OF THAT COUNTRY..... MORALLY, CULTURALLY, ECONOMICALLY AND SOCIALLY!

Let us take stock:

1. It was Nigerians that immigrated to South Africa and turned it to one of the major capital city of drugs in the world!

The drug cartels began with the Yorubas and increasingly overtaken by the IGBOS in S.A.! In fact, right this moment, the IGBOS in the drug business have effectively run the Yorubas out of S.A. to other southern African countries like Mozambique etc.

2. The Nigerians in S.A. have presently turned the country into a drug-war zone!....killings galore.....Igbos killing Igbos!

Do you know that every day in S.A., a Nigerian.....precisely an Igbo man is killed in a drug-related case?? .....I said every day not once a week!....or once in 3 days!..... EVERYDAY! In fact the Igbo boys running the shows in S. A. have dominated areas they control and all these to the chagrin of the law enforcement agencies!

Let me tell you a secret that is not so secret.....do you know that every week at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport here in Enugu, corpses of IGBOS.....slain in "drug battles" in different streets of S.A. are flown into the country??

I have personally witnessed the receiving of 7 corpses in 3 weeks in one instance! In fact at one of those occasions.....(normally the corpses arrive on the Thursday cargo flights of Ethiopian Airlines)....I was present when 3 different families were in the manager's office to receive their slain sons......two of those families were represented by the aged biological fathers to the dead boys!....the third family, represented by a younger man in age...an uncle to the third corpse!

They were making small talks between themselves as they waited for the cargo (the coffins) to be disembarked.....(to be "off-loaded"wink!

One of them asked the other elder which city his son was in? He answered Jo'burg!....on further enquiry as to whether his own son was married, he retorted... No!....to which the first man commented that his own son has a son from a white South African.....and that the lady simply packaged some of the personal documents/items of his son and informed him of the date of the arrival of the son's corpse to Enugu but that she has blatantly refused all entreaties to accompany the corpse home!.....That they are certain that that son of his son (his grandson) would never return home to Nigeria!

The other silent man (the uncle to one of the dead) remarked that "his own family were indeed lucky in that their slain son had been coerced to come home and marry a Nigerian girl and has 2 kids (girls) already". Then told of his own story of seeking greener pastures in S. A. and how he couldn't fit into the street hustling..... According to him.......basically all IGBOS in S.A. are on the streets......from Hillbrow... Jo'burg to Capetown!....from Pretoria....to Durban!

He said he never bargained for such a life and quickly left his host....a maternal cousin and took his return ticket back home! That he has since engaged in his petty trading and is doing well enough and has 4 kids!

As this conversation was going on, I was quietly musing to myself:

How on earth could these gentlemen.....soft-spoken elderly men take all these agony......for surely it must be agony for them to be the ones burying their scions!....how could they sit in those swivel chairs in front of the manager and stoically be discussing the end of their eras??......do they have other sons and daughters probably??.... Maybe they did their best to counsel and chide their sons to desist from the fast lane and have accepted their sons' fates??

I wondered about their wives/mothers to those sons they would never behold again....not because they died from ailment or accident but simply because they sought wealth......this fleeting wealth the wrong way!

I wondered if they would heal or forgive their sons or they would look upon the wealth and groan in satisfaction that all was not lost after all??

I imagined myself in the shoes of their grief and I swore to myself that I would sooner let go such a son from my heart who refused to heed my counsel than be forced to mourn his untimely death in pursuit of meaningless riches!

I watched them file out of the office one after the other and shuddered unconsciously again!!

3. This will shock you...... Are you aware that Nigerians living in S. A. have literally turned little/young South African girls into strings of well-oiled prostitution rings?? .....I am talking of girls between the ages of 10-14 years old! These young South African girls are introduced.....scratch that!....these girls are immersed in drugs and turned to addicts and then they are set on the streets to be prostituted and their lives are effectively and totally wrecked! .....

Now put yourself in the shoes of these South Africans!

Would we all as Nigerians stomach a situation whereby in Lagos State or Anambra State or Bauchi State or Enugu State or Yobe State or a combination of those states, Kenyans or Zimbabweans or South Africans or people from neighboring Ghana would populate our cities....legitly or illegally and begin to sell drugs to our young men...turn our school girls into prostitutes....and litter our streets with dead bodies of their gang wars?

Would Lagosians allow their children to be used as pimps and prostitutes by FOREIGNERS who desecrate daily our value systems??

Would Enugu inhabitants allow Ghanaians to run our streets into crime zones.....such that we can't sleep at night and worry if our kids sent to schools are really at school or in a drug hotel somewhere sniffing white powders....and our girls violated daily sexually??

Wouldn't we someday just scream enough is enough and take up arms to rid our city of such devilish foreigners??

Are you aware that Indians populate a city in S.A. called Durban?? Do you know that Indians at one time recently, carried out systematic killings of Nigerians living in Durban??

What was the cause??....there was some Indian youths that were sold a harsh substance by the drug cartel which would literally liquefy the innards of the person leading to instant death!

These drug pushers know that this substance is adulterated and causes death (not addiction) yet they push it out there to their peddlers!

The Indians decided to help themselves and their community and embarked on a killing spree of Nigerians in Durban engaged in the drug business and left their calling cards in their victims!

Ask yourself this:

Did the South Africans begin to hate us all of a sudden or they had always hated us all these while??

How come we all used to migrate to South Africa easily and many of us married their girls (I know some friends who did and are still living happily with their wives) but now they hate us all??

OR

Would you close your eyes to the evil we Nigerians have unleashed in South Africa simply because we saved them from apartheid era?? So because we assisted them that now gives us the gumption to destroy their society like we've persistently done ours??

Some home grown truths will serve us in good stead here than this pontificating all over the place I plead!

Picture those attackers on our people....beating and burning them up as mothers or fathers or brothers or cousins who have lost a son or daughter or sibling to the cold hands of death by drug intake or whose virginity has been brutally lost and who is a human wreck to her society!

Before you cast your stone.....imagine that you lost your own dear child to crime...and not just any crime but one perpetrated by your own visitors!

My take on all these: NIGERIANS SHOULD FIRSTLY DEMAND THE CLEANUP OF SOUTH AFRICA and that includes the incaceration and/or deportation of these miscreants giving us all bad reputation in S.A.!

The drug war raging in that country engineered by our countrymen must be stopped!

Then the two countries should rapport to safeguard the lives and businesses of the many genuine Nigerians living and contributing to the economy of South Africa!

PS: Pls after reading this post, but before you start the deluge of insults upon me, kindly call up your own brother doing legitimate business in S.A. and he will confirm these facts to you as the absolute TRUTH!

Chinedum Agwaramgbo

Copied from Chinedum wall. I found it very interesting to share

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Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by deltateam: 10:19pm On Sep 03, 2019
post=81896499:

BITTER TRUTH....
But those who want violence will never agree.
Cos that is what they have been praying for all along.


What do kids know?
Until your friends come to your door to cry that the little job they are doing to make ends meet is no more, by then you will reboot!


Shut up you burnt meat seller.

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Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by Nobody: 10:19pm On Sep 03, 2019
GrabHisBalls:
The South African businesses in Nigeria you know are multinationals, while the Nigerian businesses they're looting in SA are SMEs. There are other ways to kill a rat. My problem is our government isn't proactive.

We don't want any retaliatory looting in South West. Sanwo - Olu should give executive order against this kind of things. Oba of Lagos should speak. It is against our character. They should shift to other States.
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by justifyme(m): 10:19pm On Sep 03, 2019
Blacks killing blacks

Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by Ayisatojo: 10:19pm On Sep 03, 2019
Is this Liar Mohammed alright at all? This is where they have landed us. This is the kind of leadership these idiots bestowed arrogantly on us. I know where you son is by the time we deal with him and witness some death in your family circle, you would understand what it meant to lead properly. The day of reckoning will soo. Be here and nemesis will catch up with all of you parading yourselves as leaders instead of looters. Idiot!
Thunder fire your entire generation...


Bimpeusman:
On Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described as deeply disturbing the reports that some Nigerians, angered by the xenophobic attacks in South Africa, have started attacking South African companies in Nigeria.

He said that targeting South African companies in Nigeria for attack is, for Nigerians, a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face, because the investors in such companies, especially MTN and Shoprite, are Nigerians.

Alhaji Mohammed said the majority of the workers in the South African companies operating in Nigeria are also Nigerians, meaning that its Nigerian workers who will be hardest hit if such companies are forced to shut down for fear of attacks. He assured Nigerians that the Federal Government is already taking decisive measures to put an end to the persistent xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.

https://all-gists..com/2019/09/attack-on-south-african-businesses-will-hurt-nigerians-more-lai-mohammed.html


Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by Jefe1(m): 10:19pm On Sep 03, 2019
These are the people we call leaders smh
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by lereinter(m): 10:19pm On Sep 03, 2019
The investors in mtn Nd ShopRite should go and invest in glo and foodco

All this fear backward statements

The investors in Dunlop tyres, Peugeot , Exide battery, Philips and other foreign coy that have folded up where are they investing now

Let's say it was American that arekilled in South Africa,
Imagine the sanctions that would have been met out on them.

Nigerians in solidarity should just boycott south Africa coys, stores and product
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by salford1: 10:20pm On Sep 03, 2019
That is common sense.
Re: Lai Mohammed: Attack On South African Businesses Will Hurt Nigerians More by Kubiatrealer(m): 10:21pm On Sep 03, 2019
What is this one saying # you enjoy the killing #isn't this and avenue for you guys too size that sector and own the business, employ NIGERIAN and safe then this risk you see as appropriate...
We are have this inferiority complex as a Nigerian,how did we come about that feelings.....
#dead brains in Aso Rock ...

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