Tinubu’s Lagos And The Power Of Entropy – By Jesse Adeniji

All that talk about Ambode being able to stand up to Jagabandit. Nonsense.

He was brought in to destroy Fash the Flash Fashola.

He lacked the temperament, nous and maturity to relate to people beyond crass, crude power politics.

His decision making was puerile, based on the same gangsterism template of his godfather.

He stepped on too many toes and built no bridges.

When it was his turn to suffer the attack he was used as a bulldog to mete on another ex-bourdillon twat, he had nothing to rely upon.

This explanation, is the control system Ojuyobo has in place.

The current schoolboy running the show runs around with his tail between his legs, obeying every single order. Won ke s’ibe ni.

Lagos is a garrison.

So not comparable to Edo where the incumbent was central to the emerging of the godfather in some quantifiable capacity.

As I discussed with a politician friend yesterday, the concept of entropy is a law of thermodynamics.

It will play out with different Deleuzian Intensities.

I was writing an update about the misunderstanding of strategy which is divided into tactical and thematic parts but lost it whilst typing onto Facebook via my PC. What counts for strategy in the Nigerian space is the tactical response to events. Not the calculated 360 degrees plan of action and feedback looping.

I will try to write it again.

But back to entropy, which means the natural state of things is disorder. This is why most of our life’s job is geared towards keeping things in order.

If you left a while city alone, as we say in Chernobyl, nature will reclaim it and disrupt the order that was constructed.

When you transfer that reality to the political space, you find that entropy ensues when there is a convenient control of things. The Jagabandit camp have cornered the money, the people and are and occupying force. They don’t need to negotiate with anyone but themselves.

So they become complacent. Complacency is merely a reflection of a system that has seeped into entropic degeneration.

Everything appears easy and formulaic. Regenerative activities stop. The whole control system is geared towards anyone not rocking the boat.

And if you don’t rock the boat and shake things up, entropy is the next line of eventuality.

When you start seeing extortionists like Oluomo, Igboho and the rest of them become the leaders of thought in Yorubaland, you understand that the educated elite have been taken over. Entropy has run its course and the only way is down.

I saw this scenario play out in the motor parks of the West in the early 80s. Agbero (handymen) were emaciated, struggling drop outs who begged for work. They would help the drivers of danfo and coaster buses fill up the sits. The drivers were then the head honchos. Top men. Then controlled the investments in the parks. They enjoyed the good life. A danfo driver in those days had multiple concubines. Even the revered IK Dairo made reference to them in his song where he said ‘Danfo N’pawo’.

But entropy set in. The greedy drivers undermined the work of their conductors by using agberos. That break down of process and order brought about the relevance and rise of the Agbero, complete outsiders. Never do wells who were social rejects.

Soon, they seized the NURTW and instituted Sicilian Mafia extortion controls. That brought so much money to them, as well as power and influence. They were never afraid to use force and violence.

The drivers who were top of the motor park food chain soon became the slaves of the system.

The tariffs and costs started ramping up.

The politicians, without a soul, wanted to get their hands on the money from the parks and also use these thugs to rig elections. So they formed a pact.

That cancerous pact completely destroyed the West. Able bodied youths decided the motor parks was where the action was. Not schools.

These were the original Marlians. They didn’t bother with school. And they made money. Good money.

Soon, those Agberos who lost out of the park games joined the police force. Extortion mentality never stopped.

The rise of Oluomo is directly linked to the unholy and disastrous alliance of the politicians who needed them, and the extortion racket stranglehold they have on the parks
They are above the law.

We were all shocked when Colonel Marwa confessed that the NURTW, when proscripted upon his assumption of duties as the governor of Lagos, brought a bribe of 20 million naira cash as bribe! This was in the 90s when 20 million then equals over 10 billion in today’s Naira.

This was how the intellectuals left Yoruba politics. It doesn’t happen this way in the North because the elite has always maintained a buffer between their criminal underworld and the seat of power.

They use them but keep them at an arm’s length. But in Yoruba land, they are seating at the table.

This is what entropy looks like.

It is the falling apart of rigid structures that keep the shape and form of carefully constructed societies, institutions and states.

Even the monarchical systems and heirachies of Yoruba land are now steeped in the introduction of lower society elements who have no education, grace and comportment to lead.

Look at Iwo. Who would respect that shit?

The thing that will dethrone Ojuyobo is simple. It’s entropy.

He needs Oluomo as Oluomo needs him
The people are beginning to wise up to the fact that they also have a stake.

The catalyst for the final battle in pulling these people down would be th economic situation.

Nigeria is broke. The Naira is now 620 to the pound.

The insatiable dragon that the Jagabandit and his band of looters are need more money for fuelling their insatiable wants.

The people have to pay more taxes, officially or unofficially.
You want to build a house, you pay the government as well as Oluomo gangs. A won Fe she decking. 150,000 le ma fun wa.

MTN spent note money paying off criminal elements in Yoruba land more than anywhere else in Nigeria!

We hail them. But people wonder why Lagos is a Shithole and one of the most expensive cities in the whole world!

I spend considerably less to feed in London than in Lagos. And you.het better quality of food in London.

That because you’re taxed on two levels. And investment costs is so high that it has become a barrier to economic growth.

With the economic crunch about to hit that country as a whole, things will come to a head.

And all the years of the Jagabandit palmerworm and cankerworm will be exposed. It’s already vulnerable.

If he needed one bullion van to rig elections last time out, he will need 5 this time.

And if any other party comes to power they would have little money to bring about change their only option would be probe after probe of the Jagabandit heist.

Maybe something good will come out of that. The cash that the criminals of NURTW are milking will be needed by the state. And the state will have to go to direct war between them and the Oluomo gangs.