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BY ANTHONY ADA ABRAHAM
One thing our politicians and their security enforcers fail to grasp is the absurdity of branding people with dreadlocks as criminals. How many terrorists, thieves, or even Boko Haram and Fulani militants have been arrested with dreadlocks? It’s baffling how grown men in power can genuinely believe that young men with dreads are the root of society’s problems.

Ironically, these same officials travel abroad and happily interact with people who wear dreadlocks, grinning like chickens. Take, for instance, the son of one of our FCT minister, he carries dreadlocks. Many children of politicians, business elites, and even security personnel wear them. Should they all be labeled threats to the state? Who even advises these leaders? What kind of reasoning is this?

And what about those born with natural dreadlocks ("dada"? Should their heads be chopped off simply because one man links their hair to insecurity?

We must seriously reconsider the people we elect to lead us. If a leader can boldly claim that young men with dreadlocks are the primary cause of insecurity, then 99 per cent of innocent Nigerians, including their own childre should prepare for jail. By that logic, those wearing beads (like the leader himself) shouldn’t be spared either, since they’re more likely to be bandits than those with dreads.

What we needed from him was a clear stance against illegal weapons, especially among herders and "Yan daba" thugs, not a ridiculous hairstyle-based profiling system.

In Nigeria, poverty is a death sentence.

Those close to this man should advise him immediately. His reckless statement has already given the police and other authorities a license to harass and extort innocent citizens in and around the state.

©️ Okrote4real

You can now see why Nigeria is the way it is, no reasonable leadership, once they get to the position of authority, they begin to reason like cow.

Nigeria has the worse set of leaders compared to other countries. One of the criteria to be an elected official in Nigeria is to be a clown. Country filled with retrogressive leaders

list of perceived crime against the state.
1. Young men going about with dreadlock
2. sick young man with sagging tros
3. wearing different colours of slippers and shoe
4. wearing a big fake wrist watch
5. not having an ID Card on you

Just like the Sharia law the dread lock will only be applicable to the poor northerners

That particular governor did not think that through nor consult anyone for advice before dishing out the order

Pierocash:
You can now see why Nigeria is the way it is, no reasonable leadership, once they get to the position of authority, they begin to reason like cow.

Nigeria has the worse set of leaders compared to other countries. One of the criteria to be an elected official in Nigeria is to be a clown. Country filled with retrogressive leaders

I agree with you. But the electorates are the worst of them.

Omexonomy:
list of perceived crime against the state.
1. Young men going about with dreadlock
2. sick young man with sagging tros
3. wearing different colours of slippers and shoe
4. wearing a big fake wrist watch
5. not having an ID Card on you

That's inhuman

helinues:
Just like the Sharia law the dread lock will only be applicable to the poor northerners

That particular governor did not think that through nor consult anyone for advice before dishing out the order

You would be shocked that he was advised by some elderly imams and advisers. But common sense isn't common

okrote4real:


I agree with you. But the electorates are the worst of them.

how are the electorate worse? Who elected those clowns in the first place

Instead of to target people with dirty Islamic beards

That governor has lost his mind.I used to think he had sense with the way he forms religious liberality when trying to score cheap political points but a leopard can never change its spots.

How many bandits carry dreads? So why is dreads associated with criminality?

There was a top US official that visited Nigeria in recent times. His hair was dreadlocked and he is a black American. I think he heads a security agency or so. Can Bago order his hair to be shaved if such person visited Minna?

At a time that even Saudi Arabia are relaxing some of their unnecessarily stringent laws to accommodate more tourism and investment opportunities, Niger State Governor is acting like an Ajegunle version of Kim Jong.

I dislike yahoo boys; their dressing, their fashion sense, their mannerism, their loudness/lousiness, their lack of discretion and excess pride. But I will never arresting random people with dreadlocks and shaving them. Bago, have you lost your mind?

Anyways, one thing I have noticed with the Northerners is that any human right they find hard to subdue through religion, they resort to brutal force and weird agitations. Just as we saw their Sultan of Sokoto calling social media a terrorist organisation. Lol.
Meanwhile the ones killing people from Sokoto to Zamfara are simply bandits and cow rustlers.

An order is an order and if you like try and see what will happen to you.


Nonsense and dirty dread .

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May be for my eye sha the guy in dread lock looks like 5&6

I dey with dreadlocks for my house. Make dem come catch me.

Helinues no enter Niger state with that your unkept dreadlocks o

That's what they do when they start running out of ideas.

It's stupidity syndrome

It is called demagoguery

It is the same way right wing politicians make a show of going after lgbtq and are ed

This is the same thing.

If everyone had a proper haircut Nigeria would be free from corruption and poverty

Hmm

Profiling

Try

There was no sound reasoning in that logic in the first place. Stereotyping and victimisation of people on dreadlocks in this current times is a testament to how backwards the state is

May be for my eye sha the guy in dread lock looks like 5&6
Though, dreadlocks does not speak to your true nature but only physical representation.

This overanalysis is irrelevant!

If intelligence reports strongly suggests that terrorists or insurgents within a locality wear dreadlocks as their signature hairstyle then I see nothing wrong if government decides to go after them.

In China and some Asian countries people who are of criminal gangs usually have triads tattoo.

This is one of the reasons why of the Chinese national football team are banned from having tattoos.

If you're not a gang member why then would you have a triads tattoo on your body; in the same vein why would you have dreadlocks if you live in an area where terrorists wear dreadlocks as a key identification trait?!

The governor should shave to set an example. He looks like a terrorist

True

Nigeria system was never built to suit the poor man.

It is finished! And to think that those that have destroyed Nigeria right from independence till now Dey barb lowcut and no Dey carry dread o. Now, you can see why Africa can’t develop.

How many Boko Haram or bandits who have killed thousands in this country have dreadlocks?

Lol someone in Skin or Low Cut is even more brutal than someone in dread lock....


Someone on skin or Low cut will be seen as responsible buh low key Dem dey run brutality on low because nobody can suspect them... The guy in ilorin that shattered a lady to pieces was an Alfa nd not on dread I'm sure nobody can suspect such a person till he kill 500 people....


When we no dey North Korea what's the Governor problem with dread...

Abi someone on dread don colet him phone for woro si woro before 😂😂😂

If Dem cut Wike son dreads and beating . Omo, body go surplus oOoOO

Pierocash:
You can now see why Nigeria is the way it is, no reasonable leadership, once they get to the position of authority, they begin to reason like cow.

Nigeria has the worse set of leaders compared to other countries. One of the criteria to be an elected official in Nigeria is to be a clown. Country filled with retrogressive leaders

Baba even cow get reasoning them. The other day, Social Media was the problem of one like that

A foolish rule by the governor