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The tipping point came when the crowd surged towards the distribution points for food and gifts. Witnesses described a scene of desperation as parents and children pushed forward, fearing they would leave empty-handed.

Hunger, free food...recipe for disaster.

this was better managed:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYltMapDyIo

Softmirror:


Since 1983 lol

When your father were still Gardner

Angelfrost:


There can be no excuse for failing to take precautions and safety measures when expecting such a crowd...!

Anything that involves sharing of food and gifts in today's economy will definitely attract massive numbers even if the publicity is low.


Crowd control is something that should never be overlooked... It never ends well.

So what safety measures could they have taken?

Any safety measure that didn't involve stopping those children from leaving their homes "will fail" no matter what. Unless you expected them to rent the stadium. Of which tragedies were also bound to happen

Perhaps the best safety measure in the hierarchy of control was "AVOIDANCE". meaning keep your gifts and palliative to yourself

Zionmdde:
We all shouting "crucify them" for setting out to put smiles on the faces of some children

They announced their free gift event
Do we Blame them for the massive crowd they might never have envisaged?
But we don't Blame govt for the massive poverty
We don't blame parents for the negligence on their own part.

It has become very obvious that having good intentions in this country is scary and may land you jail terms.

Can you please stop deflecting and face the issue that confronts us? How you forget so soon that something similar happened and not just in one state but multiple states where job seekers were killed in a stampedes when they went for immigration exams?

Mr. when you organize even if it is a naming ceremony and you INVITE people to come, you take on the responsibility of their safety and security especially in this case where it is one for children!

This didn't happen in a market but at a designated venue by the organisers who failed in the place of planning, so your line about government has no grounds!

The issue is about PLANNING and not about poverty as a stampede could have happened in the recent Experience Music Concert.

Let's ALL learn the lessons and let the authorities do their bid to forestall future occurrence of such

Softmirror:


The police need to pick you up. Seems you know something.

What he said it's true
Any Yoruba state that begins with letter "O"
That's "Ori e" (head)....fear them.
Skull lovers

This is not an excuse to justify what happened.

Zionmdde:
We all shouting "crucify them" for setting out to put smiles on the faces of some children

They announced their free gift event
Do we Blame them for the massive crowd they might never have envisaged?
But we don't Blame govt for the massive poverty
We don't blame parents for the negligence on their own part.

It has become very obvious that having good intentions in this country is scary and may land you jail terms.

They still need to be blamed more, for not put adequate measures to forestall, stamped and others unforseen occurrence.

Zionmdde:

Organizers of the event you Say? A group of people decided to do giveaway for children, they threw an open invitation, now tell me what exactly they could have done differently?

Bring police to control crowd? Stray bullets, stampede will still happen
Lock the gate after allowing a certain number? Stampede will happen outside the gate

Go to a stadium? How exactly were they to know the state was infested with hungry children with negligent parents

As I said before, no matter what good you want to do, once things go south, the same humans you were trying to help will bare their fangs at you

When the FG organised a recruitment exercise and tens of people died due to stampede, was the minister not tried in court for negligence and it's because Nigeria's judiciary is a failure that he did not later go to jail. It's because we're so used to anyhowness here in Nigeria that you think the organizers shouldn't be blamed. If people have previously been jailed in the past for this kind of negligence leading to stampede, the organizers would have hired security to prevent this.

Rebelutionary:

Can you please stop deflecting and face the issue that confronts us? How you forget so soon that something similar happened and not just in one state but multiple states where job seekers were killed in a stampedes when they went for immigration exams?

Mr. when you organized even if it is a naming ceremony and you INVITE people to come, you take on the responsibility of their safety and security especially when it is one for children!

This didn't happen in a market but at a designated venue by the organisers who failed in the place of planning, so your line about government has no grounds!

The issue is about PLANNING and not about poverty as a stampede could have happened in the recent Experience Music Concert.

Let's ALL learn the lessons and let the authorities do their bid to forestall future occurrence of such

Planning? For children for all kinds of background?
Mr planner give me a practical plan that could have prevented that situation. If not going to individual homes to distribute the food (a plan that may even turn chaos when people get to know what's happening)

So who and who are in prison because of immigration stampede which involved a crowd immigration were supposed to have their population count

Anything giving out free food in this country, especially when the giveaway is scheduled and publicized will turn chaotic

LegendHero:


Ask AI which region is best known for cannibalism or skull mining. The response will clear your doubt

You and your A.I are birds of the same feather.
Imagine asking a rhetorical question that even a mentally ill person will easily give you the accurate answer.

To highlight how dumb your A.I is, he gave you Okija as a tribe
E sure me say u go dey use this same A.I dey write jamb...reason why jamb already knows your full details as a regular customer

Zionmdde:

So what safety measures could they have taken?

Any safety measure that didn't involve stopping those children from leaving their homes "will fail" no matter what. Unless you expected them to rent the stadium. Of which tragedies were also bound to happen

Perhaps the best safety measure in the hierarchy of control was "AVOIDANCE". meaning keep your gifts and palliative to yourself

You people must say nonsense to proof that black is white.

Were they blind wen they see incoming crowd were more than expected?
Did they involve police or civil defence for assistance?

What stop them, to send back the remaining children that came after the number expected have reached.


Common sense is supposed to tell you that, anything that is free would be bombarded by poor people, not even event that also broadcast.

Zionmdde:

So what safety measures could they have taken?

Any safety measure that didn't involve stopping those children from leaving their homes "will fail" no matter what. Unless you expected them to rent the stadium. Of which tragedies were also bound to happen

Perhaps the best safety measure in the hierarchy of control was "AVOIDANCE". meaning keep your gifts and palliative to yourself

Nope....!

1. Using a stadium with strict security mounted to allow in specific numbers at a time, with alternate entries and exits.

2. Another option would be house to house sharing of the gifts.

3. A third option would be segmented sharing or distributing at local government and street level.

This is just one incident. Most of the things we do in this country most times we don't put much thought. It would seem we don't have sense. This incident reminds me of the 20 or so people that died at the National Stadium Abuja during the evil Abba Moro Immigration recruitment years ago.

RenaissanceGuy:
When the FG organised a recruitment exercise and tens of people died due to stampede, was the minister not tried in court for negligence and it's because Nigeria's judiciary is a failure that he did not later go to jail. It's because we're so used to anyhowness here in Nigeria that you think the organizers shouldn't be blamed. If people have previously been jailed in the past for this kind of negligence leading to stampede, the organizers would have hired security to prevent this.

Immigration had the data of the number of people they invited and they were dealing with adults. Now make the comparison again

I was waiting for you to mention security. Where the security will position would have been a bottleneck, and disaster was still bound to happen, maybe not inside the venue but outside

As long as the security will not go to homes to stop the children from coming out, stampede was always meant to happen

You should be concerned about the multitude of parents that allowed their children go to scamper for freebies. That's widespread poverty.

If not that the children are hungry who will sleep over for tomorrow invent

Fiscus105:



You people must say nonsense to proof that black is white.

Were they blind wen the crowd is more than expected? Did they involve police or civil defence for assistance?

What stop them, to send back the remaining children that came after the number expected have reached.


Common sense is supposed to tell you that, anything that is free would be bombarded by poor people, not even event that also broadcast.

Sending back the remaining children? You are far from reality, it's either that security is overpowered, or a stampede will happen at that gate. Children are erratic in their attitude

Involve police, with guns? Hia na wa ooo. Stray bullet things

Going house to house would have been the best but then organizing events to help the poor should be banned in Nigeria

Zionmdde:

Immigration had the data of the number of people they invited and they were dealing with adults. Now make the comparison again

I was waiting for you to mention security. Where the security will position would have been a bottleneck, and disaster was still bound to happen, maybe not inside the venue but outside

As long as the security will not go to homes to stop the children from coming out, stampede was always meant to happen

You should be concerned about the multitude of parents that allowed their children go to scamper for freebies. That's widespread poverty.

You are a typical Nigerian with very poor reasoning.

Forkthiefnubu:
Long grammer I suspect this is an organized ritual killing disguised as a stampede, we know the innermost desire of most ppl from that side , it is to eat human flesh or some other human body parts rituals

Stop making a public exhibit of your imbecility!

I guess they weren't expecting such crowd ... I am just looking Ednut expecting 100 people , only to be shock 5000 people are waiting by 5am , tell me how will he coordinate or plan for that . I pray the Good Lord Console the Families and Government of Oyo Compensate too, because naturally they are liable too.

Angelfrost:


Nope....!

1. Using a stadium with strict security mounted to allow in specific numbers at a time, with alternate entries and exits.

2. Another option would be house to house sharing of the gifts.

3. A third option would be segmented sharing or distributing at local government and street level.

1. This is not the first time the lady is organizing such event in that same state. So was it that there was a population explosion or poverty explosion? Imagine organizing an event this year with 1000 people in attendance. If you want to organize the same event next year, will you use a stadium?

2. House to house sharing of food. So they will carry trailers of freebies and people will not attack them? Hia

3. At local government level? What made you think that those children traveled from different LGAs to the venue? Max. There would be 3LGAs. Now divide that crowd into 3 and tell me how big ur LGA sectetariat is

johannu:

You are a typical Nigerian with very poor reasoning.

Counter what i wrote there with logic and don't result to insulting your country. If you and everyone around you have poor reasoning, that's not enough sampling to make a generalization

RenaissanceGuy:
When the FG organised a recruitment exercise and tens of people died due to stampede, was the minister not tried in court for negligence and it's because Nigeria's judiciary is a failure that he did not later go to jail. It's because we're so used to anyhowness here in Nigeria that you think the organizers shouldn't be blamed. If people have previously been jailed in the past for this kind of negligence leading to stampede, the organizers would have hired security to prevent this.

You said it the way it is. We are ne'er-do-wells who do things anyhow. I hate us.

Zionmdde:

Planning? For children for all kinds of background?
Mr planner give me a practical plan that could have prevented that situation. If not going to individual homes to distribute the food (a plan that may even turn chaos when people get to know what's happening)

So who and who are in prison because of immigration stampede which involved a crowd immigration were supposed to have their population count

Anything giving out free food in this country, especially when the giveaway is scheduled and publicized will turn chaotic

Go back and read the article and stop putting a premium on folly abeg! The OP already did!

Read: Enforce ticketing or registration to control attendance.

How does a church like RCCG house millions for days and not once has there been a stampede?! Oh you think it is magical.

See the question this one is asking that ties to the answer he is deflecting from! Common sense they say is not common and in Nigeria some of you make it an art!

Immigration already knew their numbers because people registered and even paid a thousand Naira back then....common sense should consider staggering the days for the exam! What's so difficulty in that? Asking me about who is in prison is you running on empty but just want to say something to "fill your tank"!

Space booked.

Do you think is easy to gather 5000 pupils/students? The organizers really fuk up

Forkthiefnubu:
Long grammer I suspect this is an organized ritual killing disguised as a stampede, we know the innermost desire of most ppl from that side , it is to eat human flesh or some other human body parts rituals

There is nothing in your head. Perhaps, filthy water!

A good lesson learnt

Blame tinubu poverty

Rebelutionary:

Go back and read the article and stop putting a premium on folly abeg! The OP already did!

Read: Enforce ticketing or registration to control attendance.

How does a church like RCCG house millions for days and not once has there been a stampede?! Oh you think it is magical.

See the question this one is asking that ties to the answer he is deflecting from! Common sense they say is not common and in Nigeria some of you make it an art!

Immigration already knew their numbers because people registered and even paid a thousand Naira back then....common sense should consider staggering the days for the exam! What's so difficulty in that? Asking me about who is in prison is you running on empty but just want to say something to "fill your tank"!

Ticketing? Registration? For children of the poor? Who probably don't have access to smart phones?. Ticketing? So how will the tickets be distributed?

Your last paragraph shows you don't know how to read and understand. So let me bring it down to layman's terms
I'd immigration that had everything and data they needed to organize a hitch free event failed and nobody was jailed, why are you hypocrites baring your fangs on a woman whose plans were overthrown by the poverty explosion in the country?

F117nighthawk:
He be like say u Sabi this blood sucking country wella,
Nothing is ever done for the poor people with good intentions from those so called highly influential people.
Just that the poor people too never learn from past experiences, their poverty state sef no dey gree them see the dangers ahead

How I wish that the poor people know that "nothing is ever done for the poor people with good intentions from those so called highly influential people."

Zionmdde:

Ticketing? Registration? For children of the poor? Who probably don't have access to smart phones?. Ticketing? So how will the tickets be distributed?

Your last paragraph shows you don't know how to read and understand. So let me bring it down to layman's terms
I'd immigration that had everything and data they needed to organize a hitch free event failed and nobody was jailed, why are you hypocrites baring your fangs on a woman whose plans were overthrown by the poverty explosion in the country?

Unfortunately, you just made your ignorance bare for all to see! So, because "nobody was jailed" then nobody should demand accountability from this ones (like there was no uproar at the time)!

Some of you need to go back to the stone age because you don't belong in a society that seeks improvement! Keep your emotions in check cos body is baring fangs on any woman but simply saying they could have done better! You see where your education failed you?

Just so you know this is not the first time she's organising such an event and if something like this happens in this instance it tells of a failure on their part and like I said in my initial mention they/we all should learn the lessons.