Comments on: Nigerian vegetable helmets

By: Derek White

Derek White — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:44:32 +0000

oh my, I’ll try to get a photo of a pumpkin helmet when we go there next month. Although by then there’ll be a law making those illegal and they will have moved on to watermelon.

By: Michael Dougan

Michael Dougan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:54:17 +0000

Having worked in the Delta region for over 5 years nothing amazes me about Nigeria anymore. If there is a Hell on this earth then it is Nigeria!

Kidnapped, held at gun point, abused, robbed, mental torture………. All in a day’s work!

I would never go back there again.

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:09:49 +0000

Oh, that’s great! Let us know the details.

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:41:30 +0000

Thank you, Julius. I will email you for details.

By: Julius N'Sama

Julius N'Sama — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:58:56 +0000

Sadly, this is true. The police use any means necessary to pummel the poor masses here, and the enforcement of the “helmet rule” is the latest in a long line of anti-poor measures cheered on by the rich elite.

Please organise a drive to collect old, battered, broken baseball helmets (all sizes) and send them to Lagos, Nigeria. It will greatly help people get around the “helmet rule” thereby helping the tens of millions of people who rely on motorcycle-taxis as the only reliable means of getting from home to work in Nigeria’s large cities, however dangerous the rides may be.

We’re hanging on by a thread here.