@wandyvirus - Ayọ̀wándé Adálémọ 🇳🇬
I have seen takes like this in response to my tweet.
1. I don't need you to understand my tweet. I made that tweet to address another tweet that says the govt is responsible for the failure of a 6 month old start-up. And it comes from the "govt is bad" (translated APC is bad) zombies.
2. NURTW is NOT illegal. There's nothing illegal about their dues and fees. They are part of organised labour and collect rent from their union members.They have a structure around them across Nigeria not just Lagos. In that sector, you WILL negotiate. I am unapologetic about it and i know that none of you "yabacon" offsprings will get it. If you see me as doing PR for Union members you call agbèrò, then you just made my point. You lots should keep your heads in Silicon Valley asses.
3. My industry is high tech, not transportation. In my Industry vandalism and sabotage is the order of the day.
"Iron condem" will cut your buried fiber, and try to cut your Telecom towers and poles in collusion with "guards" and sometimes security agencies. They will steal your manhole and expose your ducts to not just the elements but also pollution. That open manhole immediately becomes the next ṣálángá.if I organise street urchins and pay them to protect my infrastructure from Oṣòdì to Ìkòròdú, from TBS to Abúlé Ẹ̀gbá, to give me heads up if there's a digging around my buried cables and to patrol my infrastructure at night when most vandalism happens and you call it bribery as a business model, I don't know what adjective to use for your extraordinary stupi.dity.
4. Finally wait for "ease of doing business" and all the plentiful English you all like to bandy around; or step into the ring and build infrastructure that is perversive and that catalyzes "doing business easily", significantly improves security and fosters law enforcement response and digital economy such that the next generation of enterprise will not need to go through what we went through.
Pontificate and dance for VC money.
Shout P&L like it is the magic wand for attracting investors. It is fine your call, your world.
In MY world, it is COLLABORATION-AS-A-BUSINESS. It is structured and accountable.
I forgot you didn't read what I really wrote you are just going Bunkers because it is coming from an @officialABAT ardent supporter, it is also a slap on the face of the Yabacon army.
Stick with your silicone valley rhetoric, while I am building and at once working with govt to improve conditions for startups.
I have been here longer than you. I will be here a while. Take my tweet as a lesson or keep your head buried in the sand of absolute stupi.dity and pretentiousness .
I did not come in peace.