alexzanda's o.p.i.

THE POLICE SHOULD BE BANNED!

 

 

As much as it has been medically proven that cigarette smoking is dangerous to health, one has not heard that countries where cigarette companies exist have established a law to ban their continued existence.  

 

  

Now compare the above scenario to that of a total ban on commercial motorcycles in some states of Nigeria, most recently in Delta state, effective 1^st October, where insecurity is the major excuse for this ban.

 

 

 

The business of commercial motorcycles was as a result of failed infrastructural plan by the government to march population growth with commiserating transportation.  As a result of the entrepreneurial ingenuity of Nigerians to survive harsh economic conditions, an offshoot of bad governance, commercial motorcycle transport became an industry employing so many and sustaining so many homes.

 

 

 

In Nigeria, leaders of the nation and states within the nation never tire to convince citizens of the need to travel to foreign lands and persuade investors to come to the country and establish industries, yet they don’t hesitate to kill local industries like commercial motorcycle transport.  Should the law be used to stop the activities of motorcycle transportation or should the government use a thriving economy as a more potential tool?

 

 

 

“Molues” are history in Lagos because the state government has an efficient alternative luxury bus transport.  So, I'm compelled to ask how much deliberation and consultation is done before this kind of action is proposed and accepted.  Is it that when they hear something bad about commercial motorcyclists, they go: “if these people are not banned this will not stop,” and then they smile to themselves and say “see how smart I am?” 

 

 

The government hides it incompetence and claims that commercial motorcycle operators are a security risk.  The government proposes to kill an industry it did not establish or sustain so that it can tell the people that without this industry they can sleep better.

 

 

But from all the reports that I have read about most of the kidnappings that took place in Delta state, cars, not motorcycles were used. And earlier this year a Chief Superintendent of Police in charge of the anti-kidnap squad in Delta state was suspected to be in league with the criminals he was supposed to be fighting.      

So, I move the motion to have cars and the police banned. 

 

 

 

 

So, see how smart that makes me?