A Nigerian man was working as a cashier at a DIY (hardware) store in London.
He was caught letting his wife steal £200 worth of materials.
Both convicted.
One year later he was arrested again.
This time at Euston station with another man’s stolen credit card.
Convicted again.
He returned to Nigeria.
And he ran for governor of Delta State.
Nigerian law said you cannot run if you have a criminal conviction.
He forged his date of birth on his passport to hide his UK record.
Nobody checked.
He won. 😂😂😂
His official salary as governor was $25,000 a year.
He bought six properties in London. A mansion in Johannesburg. Properties in Washington and Houston. A private jet worth $20 million. A Bentley. A Maybach. A fleet of armoured Range Rovers.
His American Express bills showed he spent tens of thousands of dollars every single month on luxury hotels, clubs and shopping.
In 2007 Nigeria’s anti-corruption chief accused him of stealing $250 million from Delta State.
Ibori offered the EFCC chairman $15 million in cash to drop the case.
The chairman pretended to accept.
Then deposited the cash at the Central Bank.
Nigerian courts still acquitted him on all 170 charges.
He ran. Escaped to Dubai. A mob of his supporters fought off the police trying to arrest him.
Interpol caught him in Dubai.
The UK extradited him.
In 2012 he pleaded guilty in a London court.
The judge called the £50 million he admitted to stealing “ludicrously low.”
He was sentenced to 13 years.
Served half.
Returned to Nigeria in 2017.
A sitting senator was in the crowd that welcomed him home.
His name is James Ibori.
Nigeria never convicted him once.
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Dora Akunyili reduced fake drugs from 80% to 17%
Name one current Nigerian public figure doing anything close to that level of impact.
We’ve really gone from celebrating people who served to celebrating people who steal, from role models to fraudsters and hype men
We’re not having just a leadership crisis we’re having a values crisis and a society that has lost its values cannot hold its leaders accountable.
We’re really fucked as a society
Saw the video of that Jos woman crying over her dead child.
Later a useless army officer will talk about reconciliation and "they're our brothers".
Fuck them all
not long ago we used to buy eggs for 3/4 at 100 naira, a certain party came promised change and indeed changed the price of eggs to 4 at 1000. know your enemies
All of these no even concern me again, my major problem right now is that March Salary has finished and April has not yet started, what’s the way forward please
You know people chucked it down to prevalence of illiteracy when a lot of northerners supported Buhari's horrible governance.
Now the "most educated tribe" in the country got monarchs, professors, actors, musicians, Nobel Prize winner supporting the worst individual to lead the country.