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  • Louis Theroux rides with with KAI, the governments's kick against indiscipline paramilitary task force. With bulldozers and arrest warrants, KAI use strong-arm tactics, and are in a way as feared as the Area Boys.
    Taken From Louis Theroux: Law And Disorder In Lagos
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  • @rockolutheran
    @rockolutheran 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    The last man grieving about his shop almost made me cry

    • @Zakaria11111
      @Zakaria11111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i laughed my head off

    • @cirrus393
      @cirrus393 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Zakaria11111 woah, you're edgy aren't you? I'd pay to watch you go through a similar level of hardship, it would smack the laugh off your pathetic little face

    • @intello8953
      @intello8953 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Zakaria11111 of course you did with your cringey anime profile pic 🤦🏾‍♂️🤮

    • @MrJamesdryable
      @MrJamesdryable 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spoilers.

    • @rf10is
      @rf10is 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Zakaria11111 wow, you are just so cool, i wish i was cool as you

  • @allanhmelnitski978
    @allanhmelnitski978 6 ปีที่แล้ว +445

    Yes, it really seems that the biggest problem in postcolonial Lagos is too many shops. Yes, too many shops in an otherwise very well organized, secure and prosperous country where people have so many opportunities. Illegal shops put a tremendous burden on the shoulders of fine, honest policemen!

    • @TheTrainstation
      @TheTrainstation 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Of course, the government needs to get rid of these entrepreneurial types!

    • @nickykeightley1724
      @nickykeightley1724 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Awwww, heck! You're right! I'm from Africa😱

    • @meganperreault5191
      @meganperreault5191 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      it takes a while to build it why didn't they tell them when they did that. If they don't they did it when there really wasn't as much government securing that. They say you shouldn't build without space for parking or practice no green and leaning tower of pizza next to self identified other leaning tower of pizza. If we both lean together we get a triangle roof! and possible STEAPLE ! lol .

    • @simanaken8400
      @simanaken8400 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol

    • @toobalkain
      @toobalkain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's not about too many shops, it's about building without a permit, why should anyone respect the law and obtain permits and pay taxes if other people just see a space and build on it?

  • @deeznuts8910
    @deeznuts8910 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Other countries crush small businesses through taxes and regulations, Nigeria uses a bulldozer.

  • @paulspydar
    @paulspydar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    wow, great job guys, the area looked so much _nicer_ after wards,

    • @benben071
      @benben071 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They have to start somewhere don't they you ignorant fool

    • @smaldonemusix3281
      @smaldonemusix3281 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      TheBraveOne So it will look more nice once the rubble clears away and the same people once living there are instead living without roofs over their head sprawled across the ground? The government is spending its resources (people, money, time, gasoline) to lessen the living standards for people in an area? Taking away their shops (which most likely double as homes) isn’t going to do nothing but increase poverty and homelessness. Instead the government should create job opportunities and instead have taxes, or a charge the shop keepers have to pay before they should demolish peoples life’s works and lifestyles.

  • @Dick.C.Normous
    @Dick.C.Normous 4 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    The IQ on display here by the Lagos police force is astonishing..

    • @Sabundy
      @Sabundy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂

    • @markfisher5628
      @markfisher5628 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah the lack of

  • @benthomas8284
    @benthomas8284 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    "You know in Nigeria in Lagos some people just see space" this killed me haha.

  • @markbranson723
    @markbranson723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    One of Louis Theroux's best lines ever: "Do you know why they're smashing up your shop today?"
    Poor fella though, just trying to make a living somehow and the authorities come and destroy it all.

  • @superslayerguy
    @superslayerguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What a fantastic police force not having any tolerance for anything short of the law. Bravo to these courageous men in highlighter

  • @joekhaiphet9253
    @joekhaiphet9253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    @1:56 AHA!!!

  • @detrockcity3
    @detrockcity3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The pile of rubble sure looks nicer.

  • @kenneth8434
    @kenneth8434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    1:48 Officer was like, "Try and say nonsense lemme catch you" lol. I agree with the demolition team that these structures have to go. BUT my problem is why wait until the structures are fully built and people have started living or working there? This takes up to a year to get to that level. Better to serve people immediately than wait until they get too comfortable. In property law, they say "Equity favors the vigilant".
    This means bribes may have been periodically collected to keep these shops standing until a more influential person gave the order for final demolishment. It is a nasty form of exploiting the poor.

    • @londontrada
      @londontrada 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think he's been eating those Sour Patches 😂

  • @dreamSurfers5912
    @dreamSurfers5912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic guys simply fantastic.

  • @BM-jz4gq
    @BM-jz4gq ปีที่แล้ว +2

    that last guy really got to me. poor man.

  • @nathanbowman3907
    @nathanbowman3907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Literally complete chaos

  • @shakirelday9078
    @shakirelday9078 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    am I the only one whos seeing a face on that tractor thing......

    • @markbranson723
      @markbranson723 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I see it too. Bob the Builder ain't fixing things anymore...

  • @beavis4763
    @beavis4763 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    They are hard working people doing the best they can to earn an honest living, so instead of destroying their shops the local government could charge them a small tax.

    • @detrockcity3
      @detrockcity3 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Taxation is theft.

    • @slickstrings
      @slickstrings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@detrockcity3 let me guess, you dont want to pay any tax, but i bet you still want town water, roads to drive your car on, subsidised medications, garbage collection etc.

    • @jackcr2477
      @jackcr2477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@slickstrings
      They 100% complain when they drive over potholes, and yet are anti-taxation

    • @user-fi3cz2ij4e
      @user-fi3cz2ij4e ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jackcr2477 But what if you pay taxes and there are still potholes 😶

  • @Malibongwe_Msimango
    @Malibongwe_Msimango ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We must call these guys to come and fetch them from Hillbrow.

  • @mixedman841
    @mixedman841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    They won't clearly state WHY they are doing what they aren't doing. He just wanted to show Louis the pig red X...

  • @billygiles3276
    @billygiles3276 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Them entrepreneurs should be encouraged not destroyed. A decentralised free market is exactly what you want not a centralised market with 1 or 2 major companies with zero competition, that’s a corrupt monopoly, these governments only have themselves to blame for there conditions

    • @mangoFace1987
      @mangoFace1987 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nigeria still operates like a colony

    • @juniorballs6025
      @juniorballs6025 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's largely a cash economy, and the government knows full well that it's nigh on impossible to get any tax from the businesses. Add in licensing (if they have it) and property tax etc and it's not exactly surprising, given the rampant corruption everywhere 👍

    • @SamMcinturff
      @SamMcinturff 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's the point though, isn't it. They're not shutting down the large companies, but the small traders. It's all part of the plan.

  • @edwardbennett3572
    @edwardbennett3572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That tractor has a face

  • @nafvol5053
    @nafvol5053 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    imagine playing a joke on someone by spray painting a red X on their house

  • @moosesnWoop
    @moosesnWoop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Louis is great. On the ground in Lagos, finding out the local disputes and removals.

  • @hamzemohamed4136
    @hamzemohamed4136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    His face @1.50!!!!!

  • @anomikstudio
    @anomikstudio 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    uniforms lit

  • @andrewc8441
    @andrewc8441 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sme damn fine police work right here

  • @stevenc123
    @stevenc123 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It has been marked.

  • @Tosse901
    @Tosse901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What a stupid question is that, to ask the man how he feels about the task force??? I mean, they are destroying his shop! Right in front of him! How should he feel about that? And to ask him that right in front of the chief of that task force, as if he would answer that question freely then.

    • @lorentzfactor5118
      @lorentzfactor5118 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think the point was that he couldn't answer freely with them around even though what he really thought was obvious - because the police are corrupt bullies.

  • @mixedman841
    @mixedman841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This needs subtitles.

  • @peacenotwar9267
    @peacenotwar9267 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many people in Lagos, Lagos need more development especially road and electricity

  • @stevenlazaros1500
    @stevenlazaros1500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    DEN WHY DID U REFUSE TO MOVE YA TINGS !!! ONLY GOD ONLY GOD!!!!!!!

  • @thephonomen6933
    @thephonomen6933 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    make it look nicer lol

    • @dflyboy420
      @dflyboy420 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      that moment cracked me up
      standing in front of tons of trash "improve the way it looks
      make it look nicer." xdd

  • @Ludak021
    @Ludak021 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    he had "SEAMEN" inside...

  • @stewartchampion4260
    @stewartchampion4260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    poor guy who lost his shop ,poxy world it just aint right ,aint everyone got the right to have food a roof n family ,and work ,,aint that what lifes about ,,its so worng

  • @markgash316
    @markgash316 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    In Lagos people see a space and build a structure 😅. Sounds good to me.

  • @bd603
    @bd603 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Now this is what I call first world progress

  • @sahasasahasa
    @sahasasahasa 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would the interviewer be ok, if someone build "house" Attached to his house?

  • @stiltonwilton1313
    @stiltonwilton1313 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    who the hell did that blockwork?

  • @camptube7621
    @camptube7621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder how much the area boys pay the police.

  • @Mr_James777
    @Mr_James777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:26 daniel cormier

  • @Gyroscopicnightmare
    @Gyroscopicnightmare 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    cop spits on the rubble at 1:35
    really sickening

  • @jackcherokee6176
    @jackcherokee6176 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lawless land, clowns with bright 👕👕, gangs

  • @guitaristguy20
    @guitaristguy20 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    @1:18

  • @DarkJediArtemis
    @DarkJediArtemis 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    lol

  • @wezzab3899
    @wezzab3899 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @alavista4218
    @alavista4218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is pure comedy

  • @AdolfHitler-oo3pw
    @AdolfHitler-oo3pw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When govenment gets to powerful

  • @eluelord4447
    @eluelord4447 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thunder will fire all those people that destroying Nigeria by destroying people's shops and and arresting street traders by taking poor people money.

  • @menggala30071981
    @menggala30071981 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this awesome when you put reggae music...ya maan..

  • @elukok
    @elukok 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It must be hard but they probably new the risk when they built the shop. Imagine that i build a shop in center of Central Park on a satates land and then act angry when authorities put it down..

    • @ajnode
      @ajnode 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      But it's not in the center of Central Park... it's in between two lines of houses. More than likely, this whole thing was a demonstration for the BBC cameras. They would have had weeks or more notice that Louis and the crew were coming; they want to make an example of something. As the guy said, his shop had been there for years then they suddenly decide to destroy it. The country is corrupt from top to bottom. The police allow known criminals to run the streets because they are being bribed - don't sit there are write that this was justified because of the reasoning they gave. It is undeveloped laws applied in undeveloped ways by unqualified and ignorant officials.

    • @sadikmeah4057
      @sadikmeah4057 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahahahahahaha! You're comparing that Shithole with Central Park???
      The place is a dump and therefore it doesn't matter if people build to survive

  • @jr.jorgesandoval9427
    @jr.jorgesandoval9427 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The end of all 2nd party wastrels. 👏🏼

  • @moosesnWoop
    @moosesnWoop 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:10
    Goes for the whole of Africa tbh
    Colonialists came, saw a space, built a shop.
    Africans are the same, we have the space, people built homes and shacks closer to the city etc. but these are temp buildings because they are rural people who come for seasonal work in the city or to find opportunities.
    Africa really isn't built up - we have ENOUGH space to build, this is why you don't see any skyscrapers

  • @antonzigando150
    @antonzigando150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ilgal strukchoz

    • @stevenc123
      @stevenc123 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It has been maakked

  • @Zakaria11111
    @Zakaria11111 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is the most Hillarious shit

  • @guychi-chifly950
    @guychi-chifly950 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I thought I saw Akon like 50 times

  • @dexterkoula3407
    @dexterkoula3407 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    REMINDER: this is one of Africa's more prosperous countries.

    • @meganperreault5191
      @meganperreault5191 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You really are Koula dexter.

    • @ephraimduke
      @ephraimduke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      “Prosperous” is a stretch but yes it has a Africa’s largest GDP and a relatively “stable” “democracy” compared to some of its neighbours but honestly that’s not saying much at all. It’s like having the nicest house in the ghetto .

  • @ChildofGod255
    @ChildofGod255 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I watched this video on BBC iPlayer and it was first shown in 2010. 8 years ago. I am a Nigerian and visit Lagos. I do not recognise any of this places shown. This video is all packaged to show the roughest part of Lagos which is less than 20% of Lagos. Just to shape the mind of foreigners about what they want them to know about Nigeria

    • @verygoodbrother
      @verygoodbrother 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      BS, Lagos and Nigeria hasn't change. Just take a look at the politicians...

  • @Xantank
    @Xantank 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's with the reuploads?

    • @oluwaseunolawale2213
      @oluwaseunolawale2213 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      john son of Morris they want everybody to think all this is still real in Lagos

    • @macklee6837
      @macklee6837 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@oluwaseunolawale2213 it is.

  • @driver2909
    @driver2909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now this is how you spend tax payers dollars! Seriously.

  • @Ludak021
    @Ludak021 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Savamala 101

  • @tralbriggs104
    @tralbriggs104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Igbo shop owners dont reason. They dont obey the law. They do the same things in Rivers state .

  • @chriscole6460
    @chriscole6460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oo yes looks much nicer .. smh

  • @TheBenzer9
    @TheBenzer9 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    They have the exact same attitude to taxi's all over the world..wake up one morning..yea let's drive a taxi..lol

  • @williamgj6777
    @williamgj6777 ปีที่แล้ว

    illegal structures

  • @walter3433
    @walter3433 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Want to lose your faith in humanity? Visit Lagos

  • @alexpegler465
    @alexpegler465 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Absolute corrupt tyrants. And the Nigerian people suffer from these clowns.

  • @sidanwarish2121
    @sidanwarish2121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    good work man for exposing such cruelty...well the USA seems to be in countries affairs why aren't they improving that country....and they felt kadafi had to DIE ...WHERE ISCAMERICA NOW.....beacuse THERES NO OIL

    • @ndorobei4391
      @ndorobei4391 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lagos has a lot of oil. The largest oil field in Africa.

  • @tracyburck7780
    @tracyburck7780 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    A good politician should have real world experience. What do u say Louis

  • @boontjes5528
    @boontjes5528 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Whats the average IQ in Lagos? 🤔

  • @alantopaz7951
    @alantopaz7951 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Didn’t know the Democratic Party wore green shirts 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

  • @TedBackus
    @TedBackus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    africa is like a sore, that is never allowed to heal. every time a scab forms, someone picks it off, revealing the red sore underneath, over & over it goes on.

  • @devanman7920
    @devanman7920 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And over here in the west you have posh never worked a day in their lives University students telling you they're oppressed 😂

  • @jackcherokee6176
    @jackcherokee6176 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's takes a long long time to build and set up, why they didn't stop them before they build,or fence it , what is the big deal anyway, those poor people just trying to survive, shame on their government