This is funny, but I cannot laugh

Amidst the stinging hardship occasioned by the present economic recession in the country, the spate of insecurity is rising and taking a tinge of the ridiculous by the day.

In Kwara State, cooking a pot of soup is now an invitation to robbers, as cases of eagle-eyed hungry men absconding with cooked food still on the fire is now a daily occurrence.

The incident is widespread in areas without perimeter fencing and among women who cook or have opted to cook with coal pots. At each of such areas such as Tanke, Basin, Sango, Offa Garage, and Kilanko, the incident according to The Guardian investigations occurred over five times in just a week.

According to Alhaja Hamidalat Olawale at Sango, “I was cooking around 5.00p.m. in readiness for the breaking of the fast for the day. It was beans and I decided to use coal pot at the open backyard. I had added all the food condiments and was waiting for the broth to dry up. But to my greatest surprise, I did not see the pot of the beans again.

“I was shocked discovering this. What amazed me was that the thief did not come for it before it was ready; he or she came when the food was ready and we were already salivating, meaning the person must have been closely monitoring me.”

Another victim, an undergraduate of the University of Ilorin, Anita Bazuaye, said it was her pot of soup that disappeared beside her window.

“It was painful because as a student, it was difficult for me to get money again for another soup. In fact, when I managed to start cooking again, I did not leave the place until I had securely packed the pot inside my room.”

Reacting to the development, the Police spokesman, Ajayi Okasanmi (ASP), said no formal report to that effect had come to him or anyone within the state command, but warned that “it is a serious matter and we will not take it lightly with anyone caught in the act. The Penal Code frowns at theft and we will treat anyone in the act accordingly.”

A former chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state, Emmanuel Ayeoribe, said the development could not be divorced from the non-payment of workers’ salaries.

“If nothing is urgently done to commence regular payment of salaries, very soon, people will start leaping over the fence to steal food, not just from unfenced quarters,” he warned.

http://guardian.ng/news/theft-of-cooked-food-on-fire-becomes-widespread-in-ilorin/

But they voted for change, Are they feeling hungry in the season of change??... This is unusual, This is unacceptable!, There should be an over-flow of food now that buhari is president.

Hungry people everywhere in Kwara
Kpomo eaters

@Ishilove: Why can't you laugh?

Adesiji77:
@Ishilove: Why can't you laugh?

I can't laugh because it shows the level of poverty in the land. The other day in Ekiti a woman stole her neighbour's amala from the kitchen and together with her hungry children, ate it with raw palmoil.

Olohun ooo
Poverty everywhere
State government ain't paying salary....things are expensive.....they are embezzling money since they know they have impunity as long as they are in APC...Kogi governor ain't paying salary buh he uses #16m to clean government house every month..

We are one year into APC government things are getting worst , still remaining three years if God allow.

Ishilove:
This is funny, but I cannot laugh



http://guardian.ng/news/theft-of-cooked-food-on-fire-becomes-widespread-in-ilorin/

Na waa ooo people now acting comedy skits live in reality, this is no more jokes, just today report have it that a man left his 5 year old son at a rice seller's shop for a bag of rice. Lord help Nigeria

There is hunger in the land!

Ishilove:

I can't laugh because it shows the level of poverty in the land. The other day in Ekiti a woman stole her neighbour's amala from the kitchen and together with her hungry children, ate it with raw palmoil.

Amala and RAW palm oil... What a pathetic combination. *sobbing*

SeverusSnape:

Amala and RAW palm oil... What a pathetic combination. *sobbing*

pap and pepper nko....I heard that a female teacher always took pap and pepper until she fainted one day...it happened in Ilorin

SeverusSnape:

Amala and RAW palm oil... What a pathetic combination. *sobbing*

hmmm severus snape, are you not supposed to be dead or sumtin? *shrugs* kilokanmi
Anyway amala and palmoil na the highest o...e for even use 50 card buy okro sef!

Let's not laugh about these things please, even though it sounds funny.

May Sopanna strike dead all those stealing our money o! Ha, what a pathetic situation

Power of hunger

januzaj:
pap and pepper nko....I heard that a female teacher always took pap and pepper until she fainted one day...it happened in Ilorin

Wow!... This is not funny o. Haba, not fair.

This brought back some memories then in my school hostel. You Dare not leave ur beans on top of ur cooker for long, na empty pot you go meet o.
This one is terrible sha. Hunger and desperation redefined.
God should help us.

Ishilove:

I can't laugh because it shows the level of poverty in the land. The other day in Ekiti a woman stole her neighbour's amala from the kitchen and together with her hungry children, ate it with raw palmoil.

This is not funny, in Bayelsa State, a pot of soup was stolen last week, it is that bad bro, there is serious hunger in the land, some civil servants have not received their pay for the last 8 months, pensioners nkor, zero payment, so tell me why will there not be crime in the land.

wooh. Stealing food on fire? Lol. If u tiff my hard earned food from fire if i catch u its either u kill me or i kill u

I hope everyone can now appreciate the 'stomach infrastructure' governor

Its nolonger funny whalahi.

There is hunger in the land. So bad in ilorin now that people now beg everywhere once they see you are neatly dressed.

From casual beggars to corporate beggars to part time and full time beggars. The situations is really pathetic.

The hunger is real

Abraham! What has Buhari and APC turned our country into?
But we warned them during the campaign and election period...
We screamed it to them. We reminded them of what happened in 1984 that Buhari would endanger this Nation,but they didn't listen.
This is totally shameful. Tufiakwa!

God Help Nigeria...



Ps: Yesternight I thought I saw a thread where Ishilove was accusing Mynd44 of something, but I woke up this morning and couldn't seem to locate the thread again...


Please tell me I wasn't dreaming

This is no longer funny the worst part of it all is that the government doesn't care, rather they are busy fighting over their selfish interest.
Nigeria is ripe for revolution.

Not surprised, those thieves are are learners from Saraki. He and his thieving family have stolen and eaten all the yams left in Kwara state.

Woow

what a country we live in...

Even in the school hostel sef food on fire do get stolen and funniest thing is in the morning, your pot will have been washed and place at your doorstep and some with a note of "Thank You For Dinner"



"That moment when you just came back from school after a hectic day and you placed beans on the fire in the school kitchen and you went to go and rest in your room but you fell asleep and when you wake up damn hungry and you went to the kitchen but you met your pot of beans with water boiling on the cooker"

That is what change has caused