Investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo has said many of you are strangers in your own country, after VeryDarkMan’s exposé on Bobrisky.
I am shocked by the sheer number of people who have contacted me to ascertain the veracity of Verydarkman’s Bobrisky release.
“Could Bobrisky really have lived outside the prison while serving her (or is it his?) sentence?” “Could s/he really have paid EFCC to have the money laundering charge struck out?
You know, many of you are strangers in your own country. You mean you didn’t know all these before now? You didn’t know people with EFCC cases sometimes paid their way out of tro ble?
You didn’t know inmates sometimes stayed in hotels or tastefully furnished apartments while serving out their prison sentences?
You don’t know that magistrates sometimes pronounced that accused persons shoudi be “remanded in custody), only for court officials to ‘help’ them perfect their bail conditions within a few hours such that they end up sleeping in their homes same day rather than in prison? You don’t know that while serving a prison sentence, you can drink, smoke w%%d, have s+x, party and have the time of your life? You’re not aware you can go to prison and subsequently obliterate your prison records, as though you were never convicted? You don’t know that some of those comments you read on Twitter and Facebook are made from inside prison cells? You don’t know that if you possess one or all of money, power and influence, you can bypass the Nigerian justice system notwithstanding whatever pronouncements were made in court?
So, what do you really know about your country, then?
Some of us do the work we do because of our understanding of the bomb@rdisation of our institutions, under the watch of the government, of course. But you know, we are ” enemies of the government” or “enemies of progress” who must be discredited on social media and ha¥nted, hara§§ed and har@gued by state actors.
If you seek to understand the severity of Nigerian institutional decay, please google and ‘UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (II): Dr¥g ab¥se, sod%my, bribery, p%ping. The cash-and-carry operations of Ikoyi Prisons’.
There’s enormous work to be done in cleaning up this country; the first step is understanding the scale of the rot.
