arent88:
stop saying it happens everywhere.u only see dis tins happening in the southwest,east and south south.

arent88:
stop saying it happens everywhere.u only see dis tins happening in the southwest,east and south south.

goldenarrow:
Foolish people deserves bad governance.

This is one of the big problems in the present day Nigeria.

sirusX:
Does the law permit them to collect?

Then why has the police not done anything

ThinkWISELY:
Glo has always being a huge disappointment,rubbish!!


Back to topic,that man is not a developer ,cos despite all odds,we the developers are still developing everywhere rapidly.

VIPERVENOM:
Unfortunately its a norm here in the south. Before u develop a place or community u must pay wat we call "marching ground" to the youths of dat community.

222Martins:
It's everywhere oh. I have experienced it on several occasions, even after paying youth development levy. They think they are doing us. Now, i am no longer a charity organization. If i have any project or CSR, i will go and do it in my hometown......Even the solar street light, public borehole, charity foundation and skill acquisition center i intend building, i will do it in my home town. To your tent oh Israel. No Time!!!!!!!!!!

slimfit1:


I agree with you West mostly.

oginga:
Jobless youths are not helping matters at all. Same thing happened to me when I wanted to open an eatery in Ajah area, some thugs demanded for 120k before anything could be done. They went as far as preventing delivery trucks from entering the street, I had no option than to give them what they requested for but I passed the price to customers and I made sure no one from the area works in the new business.

anowrite:
It has now become a custom for touts and thugs to demand money from rich people that wants to establish anything, be it house or business, popularly called "owk ile" without knowing its effect.

Mr Gbenga Samuel Wemimo, a Twitter user narrates how these touts stopped business owner, who established an hotel in their community and bought a transformer to help the community and his hotel, but was discouraged after they forcefully collected N100,000 as "Owk Ile" from him.

He wrote:
"Somewhere in Lagos, a man built a hotel on a street and brought a new transformer to help the street and his hotel business. Youths in the area then demanded he must pay N100,000 before it will be installed. That was how the transformer got connected to just his hotel."

Other twitter users also narrate their experience from the effect of this barbaric act.


https://www.gistrealm.com/twitter-user-narrates-how-thugs-prevent-rich-people-from-developing-their-community-after-demanding-owo-ile/

mekonglobal:
Unemployment is the root cause of all this, thought this case is only common among the south-south region.

umar745:
Some years back the place I was working got a rural electrification contract in Bayelsa. The youth didn't let us start work unless we settled them.
Meanwhile the second contract was in Borno state, the government and the people appreciated it so much that we were housed in a government lodge all through our stay.

Ezinwa120:


Pls don’t misinform the public pls, kindly indicate the south you came from because the south I came from precisely Anambra State, the youth will mobilize to guard your equipment. We don’t bite the hand that feeds us. � �

anowrite:
It has now become a custom for touts and thugs to demand money from rich people that wants to establish anything, be it house or business, popularly called "owk ile" without knowing its effect.

Mr Gbenga Samuel Wemimo, a Twitter user narrates how these touts stopped business owner, who established an hotel in their community and bought a transformer to help the community and his hotel, but was discouraged after they forcefully collected N100,000 as "Owk Ile" from him.

He wrote:
"Somewhere in Lagos, a man built a hotel on a street and brought a new transformer to help the street and his hotel business. Youths in the area then demanded he must pay N100,000 before it will be installed. That was how the transformer got connected to just his hotel."

Other twitter users also narrate their experience from the effect of this barbaric act.


https://www.gistrealm.com/twitter-user-narrates-how-thugs-prevent-rich-people-from-developing-their-community-after-demanding-owo-ile/

Liftedhands:
Very common and annoying thing especially in Lekki.
Before you offload container you must settle the boys and the boys must be the ones to offload your goods else they will disrupt the area should you refuse and get your own people and this forced service is still not free o .

To fill even put broken stones on potholes you must settle them. The list goes on and on and it's a very terrible thing that must be curtailed

Worst is they will tell you to leave their community if you don't like their rules.

With all this levies most of them can't still feed their children or buy them clothes it's pant from January to December as they carry stainless plates about buying beans 50 ijebu garri 20 naira.

May God help us all.

oginga:


You are absolutely right, particularly thugs at Ikate, iIasan, Jakande, Igbara, igbo-efon, 1&2nd Gate, Ajah, Sangotedo down to Eleko are all terrible areas for investors.

oginga:
Jobless youths are not helping matters at all. Same thing happened to me when I wanted to open an eatery in Ajah area, some thugs demanded for 120k before anything could be done. They went as far as preventing delivery trucks from entering the street, I had no option than to give them what they requested for but I passed the price to customers and I made sure no one from the area works in the new business.

arent88:
stop saying it happens everywhere.u only see dis tins happening in the southwest,east and south south.

222Martins:
It's everywhere oh. I have experienced it on several occasions, even after paying youth development levy. They think they are doing us. Now, i am no longer a charity organization. If i have any project or CSR, i will go and do it in my hometown......Even the solar street light, public borehole, charity foundation and skill acquisition center i intend building, i will do it in my home town. To your tent oh Israel. No Time!!!!!!!!!!

222Martins:
You are right with the aforementioned locations. I have not executed any project or investment in the North so i can't tell about that area.