I spent four days at Kuje Prison in October 2025 after I was arrested and charged by the illegal Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, for leading the historic #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest.
Ironically, I was not initially arrested when police swooped on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, Barrister @AloyEjimakor , his brother, Prince Kanu, a priest, and several others, who had peacefully honoured the call for the protest. In fact, after their arrest, I even visited them at the FCT Police Command in an effort to secure their bail.
But everything changed when Egbetokun became infuriated following a @SaharaReporters exposé revealing an embarrassing secret, how Pastor Jerry Uchechukwu Eze @realjerryeze had visited him inside his office, and was reportedly forced to delete a photo he uploaded showing himself with Egbetokun and "ACP" Bukola Kuti, the IGP’s Personal Staff Officer (PSO 3), and his personal Secretary, who were all at the centre of a major promotion scandal.
As I was being led into detention by CSP Ilyasu Barau at the Anti-Vice Section of the FCT Command, he repeatedly swore that if I stopped calling Egbetokun an “illegal IGP” and stopped exposing his questionable relationships and dalliances with staff, the “war” would end immediately. My lawyer, @TopeTemokun, was in the car with us and witnessed the entire incident.
That is a story for another day.
Eventually, after a Magistrate granted us bail on Friday, the Magistrate was abruptly sent away. Then, in a shocking twist, CSP Barau physically attacked me in order to forcefully remand me in custody while our bail application was already concluded and ensure I was taken to prison, right within the court premises in Kuje
When I finally arrived at Kuje Prison and settled in, I encountered a man named Jesam Michael, who had been involved in a massive Ponzi scheme that allegedly scammed thousands of Nigerians.
What he told me was both astonishing and revealing.
Jesam claimed that IGP Egbetokun personally provided him with an office inside the Nigeria Police Force @policeng Headquarters, where he operated freely.
According to him, he “served” and supported police officers and had an entire police unit at his beck and call. With this unit, he allegedly arrested his victims and sent them to prison on cyberstalking charges simply because they demanded refunds for their stolen money.
Even more disturbing, Jesam alleged that his properties were shared among senior police officers. I later learnt that DIG Dasuki Galandanchi (now retired), who he said collected ₦250 million to ensure that the victims of the Ponzi scheme were silenced and prevented from seeking justice.
Jesam, who was given police protection throughout his schemes, also revealed that he dated the female police officer assigned to investigate his fraudulent scheme, an affair he said ultimately contributed to his downfall. The only reason Jesam is in Kuje prison was because the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission took over his case.
I am saying all of this to make it clear that Nigeria does not technically have an Inspector-General of the Nigeria Police Force, even as someone acting in an illegal capacity, you would expect a bit of honor attached to the office.
What we have instead is a mercenary, an enforcer serving the corrupt, the deadly, and the cruel political, business, and criminal class.
And here is Kayode Egbetokun in a cozy photograph with the so-called “Prince of Dubai,” Nzube Ikeji who has been accused of scamming a Romanian woman of over $2.5 million.
Professor Hadi Sirika and the University of Borrowed Airplanes
Breaking news, ladies and gentlemen of the Federal Republic of Recycled Officials:
Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has just appointed Hadi Sirika — yes, that Hadi Sirika — as the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University.
You heard right.
The man who once gave us Nigeria Air, the most expensive “borrowed airplane” in world history, is now in charge of a university.
Education, my friend, is now officially under turbulence.
Professor Sirika, Dean of Aeronautical Deception
Let’s remember his thesis:
“How to Launch an Airline Without Owning a Plane.”
It was a brilliant experiment. Billions of naira vanished into thin air, and when Nigerians demanded evidence of their national airline, Sirika presented one majestic Ethiopian airplane — painted with our flag for the weekend, like makeup on a corpse.
Two days later, the plane quietly flew back to Addis Ababa, wiped off the green and white, and resumed normal service.
Nigeria Air: Gone with the wind — and the budget.
Now this same man, this modern-day aviation Picasso, has been chosen to teach our youth integrity and leadership.
See the joke?
The man who borrowed a plane now wants to borrow credibility from a university.
New Curriculum: Lootonomics 101
With Professor Sirika at the helm, expect a radical shift in university education.
Course 1: Introduction to Aviation Propaganda (AVN 101) — How to land with no runway.
Course 2: Public Fund Disappearance Techniques (PFDT 204) — How to spend billions and still smile on TV.
Course 3: Crisis Communication for Scandals (CCS 311) — Sponsored by “We Did Nothing Wrong Ltd.”
Course 4: Advanced Nepotism (GOV 401) — Because merit is for amateurs.
By graduation, the students of UMYU will not only earn degrees — they’ll earn experience in “strategic mismanagement.”
From Minister of Missing Airplanes to Chancellor of Missing Morals
You’d think a man whose last project ended like a disappearing magic trick would be quietly reflecting. But no.
In Nigeria, failure is not punishment — it’s promotion.
Steal well, steal big, and someone will find you another office with your name on the door.
Imagine the irony: while students sit under leaking roofs, their new university chairman once spent billions to paint a plane that never flew again.
Nigerian politics has officially become a recycling plant for corruption.
You finish defrauding aviation, they post you to education.
You mess up health, they move you to housing.
You embezzle from housing, they promote you to the Senate.
It’s like musical chairs, except the chairs are made of taxpayers’ bones.
Governor Radda could have appointed a scholar, a reformer, a visionary.
But no — he chose the man who took our national pride for a test flight and returned it with an Ethiopian accent.
This appointment is not about education — it’s about indoctrination.
Teaching young Nigerians that you can burn a nation’s funds, destroy a ministry’s credibility, and still end up sitting at the head of a university council — smiling.
This is the Nigeria where crime graduates with honours,
and corruption becomes a department of study.
Soon, we’ll see Sirika’s portrait in the university hallway, with the caption:
“For Outstanding Service in the Field of Fraudulent Aviation and Educational Irony.”
Nigeria is a country that punishes honesty and rewards shamelessness.
And every appointment like this is another slap in the face of students who still believe in merit, lecturers who still believe in integrity, and citizens who still believe in redemption.
So when the next scandal erupts — don’t ask how.
Ask which university trained them.
Because if this continues, the next generation won’t just be unemployed — they’ll be unemployable, armed with degrees in deception and postgraduate certificates in impunity.
And the man who once borrowed a plane for a photo-op will be proudly signing their diplomas.
All smiles at the Ronchess’ 4th Annual General Meeting with our wonderful and amazing Keynote Speaker H.E Mallam Nasir @elrufai We stay winning as always.
Alhamdulillah! I am excited to share that my PhD thesis from 2023 was recently awarded the prize for Best Doctoral Thesis by the Trinational Franco-German-Swiss Conference of the Upper Rhine.
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Please retweet and make this post go viral , they can’t keep k!lling our people and getting away with it. It needs to stop
Don’t rewrite history—Kaduna’s ethno-religious crises started long before @elrufai. I was born in Kafanchan, like my father. In 2011, we lost 18 relatives & 80 villagers in Matsirga & Madakiya, killed by their Christian neighbors. You’re just angry El-Rufai retired you.