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[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

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[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

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[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

No style man eye never see today 😭😭

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Good afternoon, @CustomsNG.

In this @fijnigeria video are 600 cartons of chicken and turkey, smuggled into Lagos last night by ‘Sunday Ibadan’ (pictured), IBD Dende’s right hand man, after securing the nod of Hussein Ejigbunu, Comptroller, Federal Operations Unit Zone A — a man whose media footprints is littered with announcements of smuggled goods intercepted by the Nigeria Customs Service. Can you now see why I’ve repeatedly said all those publicly-announced seizures are goods belonging to smugglers who didn’t pay the right people in Customs?

Specifically, these chicken and turkey cartons smuggled to Lagos overnight were loaded onto Toyota Avalon vehicles at Ohunbe and driven to Papa, for onward movement into Lagos. The cartons are ‘just’ 600 because of the discreetness necessitated by my recent writings; just two months ago, this would have been up to 10,000 bags per day.

Anyway, Nigerians like to know: when will you stop misleading the public with PR and propaganda, bandying humongous IGR figures about, when the biggest smugglers are in cahoots with your most senior officers?

[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

@bloodborneluvr @Knightly_H @heyheyhey441 @NPortant79347 It's been 2hrs!!

[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

The @CustomsNG has to be the most tagged @ on Twitter for the past week, crazy

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Good morning, @CustomsNG.

I am aware that you summoned Patrick Odion, the OC Operations for Ajegunle-Ilaro Road, Ogun State, over my revelation — revelation, NOT allegation — that he broke into a house in Oja-Odan at 2 am or thereabouts two weeks ago, carting away 155 bags of rice worth over N9 million. I understand that he denied it.

Well, if Odion denied the 155-bag incident, would he also deny the nighttime container raid he executed just two nights ago, at the end of which he made away with 30 bags of rice?

Specifically, this container is on the land belonging to Gaosu-Deen Central Mosque, just by the bend facing New Motor Park, Ilaro, along Papa Road. Sometime between 12 am and 1 am on Monday, Odion led some Customs officers and camp boys as they broke into the container and emerged with their 30-bag loot. They may not have noticed it, but the container was glistening from the blazing security lights of the nearby Himra Filling Station. What had been planned as a raid in the dark was not hidden, after all.

Clearly, neither raid was Odion’s first. And Odion is not the only Customs officer to have made a fortune from breaking into containers, stalls and houses filled with rice and other smuggled goods. The malaise is widespread, commonplace in border towns.

Therefore, Nigerians like to know: will the Nigeria Customs Service eradicate rice thievery and re-smuggling by Customs officers or will it only scapegoat Odion and return to pretending that all is well?

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

Public Finance 101

How do you increase IGR in your State?

1. You pass a budget that focus on productivity improvements, as Abia did

2. You actually do the work, you fix roads, clear rubbish, install street lights etc

3. Business and commerce flourish in the State. E.g. Banks see more requests for loans, they open new branches, hire more staff, those staff spend in Abia State.

4. Then you tax the business, notice in the first frame the number of umbrellas, and look at the second frame. Those new umbrellas represent new micro businesses that are conducting trade, creating jobs and wealth creation.

4.1 The tenement rates on all these homes will also increase, Thats more IGR to state

4.2 VAT from this street will jump higher as more transactions are concluded, more State generated but Federally shared IGR

4.3 These homes now become “capital” as they are now collaterable. This means the owners have access to credit. Meaning they can do more business allowing the State charge PAYE

4.4 crime and disease falls as the rubbish and stagnant water is drained off. This means the State pays less in public health and security

4.5 Business in Abia State can now sell more to this street. Geometric Power for instance will find customers in second frame not the first.

The cost of all the above listed is just to build a simple road from debt issued.

A State must invest in the people first then harvest IGR

Imagine the lesson the children of Abia are getting, they are seeing governance work

The government Of Abia State, understands this assignment, i wish they can borrow more and fix all the street in Abia State, but wishes are not horses

Great job to all that have made this possible

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Good morning, @CustomsNG. In your Easter message yesterday, accompanied by a picture of Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, the Comptroller General of Customs, you described smuggling as “a criminal act that is detrimental to our national development”.

If smugglers are criminals, what then shall we call Customs officers who steal from smugglers? Senior criminals?

Just two weeks ago, a coterie of Customs officers led by Patrick Odion, the OC Operations for Ajegunle-Ilaro Road, Ogun State, broke into a house in Oja-Odan at 2 a.m. or thereabouts, carting away 155 bags of rice.

Unbeknownst to Odion and co, the owners of the rice bags detailed someone to track the movement of the loot. The discovery: not one of the 155 bags of rice ended up at the Customs office in Idi-Iroko or Ikeja! Instead, the Customs officers facilitated their sale at the Sango market for more than N9 million. For context, this is like a policeman breaking into a robber’s house to steal from the robber.

So Nigerians like to know: if smuggling is a “criminal act”, how would the NCS describe stealing from smugglers? If uncooperative smugglers often get shot by Customs, what fate should befall Odion and other Customs officers who loot smuggled goods?

[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

@tedddyoweh More W bro

[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

Wait for the third day!

[J Girl @juliethardt]

wyd in this situation?

[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

Even that one when them pour water no fit relate

[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

People when dey mad!!

[OBIARAERI, Nnaemeka Onyeka. @emekabk21]

While the minister for agriculture under this Tinubu administration, is busy signing contracts to import 10,000 tractors at Inflated price of $1.1bn or $110,000 per tractor and accessories.

I have gotten a Chinese firm to set up an assembly plant in Nigeria and supply us with tractors and bulldozers at $82k all in price

[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

Just another morning to remind you that House/Fulanis are pedophiles

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Four days ago, I tweeted that Rollykings Hotel and Suites was “one of the many hotels in smuggling zones owned by Customs officers”. I have since discovered that Rollykings is indeed owned by a Customs agent — not a Customs officer.

I make this clarification, on the one hand, in full knowledge that adherence to journalistic truth telling necessitates recantations like this when facts get mixed up; but also, on the other hand, that mouthpieces of the people whose shady livelihoods I have punctured over the last one month have found something to hold on to. Of course, everything else I’ve written so far remains the truth, in defence of which I will tender evidence and witnesses if needed in court.

In my nearly-daily tweets holding the Nigeria Customs Service to account for the past two weeks, I have noted, for example, the unusually high number of hotels owned by Customs officers in smuggling zones and border towns. I am certain it is no happenstance:

(i) Bradevic Hotel Aradagun, Badagry, owned by Customs officer Moses Emayo, OC Federal Operations Unit Zone A, Ikeja; true.

(ii) Rao International Hotel and Suites, Km 15 Sango-Idi-Iroko Road, owned by Customs officer Najeem Akorede, popularly called ‘Najeem Custom’; true.

(iii) Ar-Rakhab Beach and Holiday Resort in Badagry, owned by a retired Customs officer better known by his alias ‘Ashimi’; true.

There are more hotels by Customs officers on my list that I haven’t yet named. And so the question remains valid: why are active and retired Customs officers the owners of the poshest hotels in border towns? Why hotels, why border towns, why smuggling zones? Why don’t medical doctors, surgeons, mechanical engineers, software engineers, teachers, professors, accountants, lawyers, tech bros, security experts want to own these hotels in these smuggling zones? Why mainly Customs officers, Customs agents and smugglers?

Beyond the hotels, I’ve written about:

(iv) how many rice warehouses in border towns are owned by Customs officers’ wives;

(v) how Akeem Adigun, the notorious but tiring smuggler better known as ‘Socopao’, got two of his sons Razak and Bolaji into Customs by bribing his way through;

(vi) how Owolabi Alaka and Shakiru Labeabo, two citizens who tipped Customs officers with information on smugglers, were murdered in Ado-Odo, very close to Seme border;

(vii) how an informant contacted some senior officers with privileged information on IBD Dende smuggling drugs, arms and ammunition into the country, only for the informant’s number to become blacklisted;

(viii) how, between 2016 and 2021 alone, Customs officers killed at least 32 innocent bystanders and petty smugglers in the Ogun West Senatorial District while chasing petty smugglers, all the while striking deals with big-time smugglers to grant them thoroughfare;

(ix) and how Customs officers are permanently lodged for free at the Ilaro hotel of IBD Dende, a notorious smuggler and gunrunner, something tantamount to policemen enjoying free lodging in an armed robber’s hotel!

All these and many more to come remain nothing but the truth.

The rot in the Nigeria Customs Service is of monumental proportions, and continues to undermine national security and economic development. I’ll continue spotlighting it until I move on to the next story. Unfortunately for the NCS, that won’t be anytime soon!

[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

It's not even up to 20min she texted me and I was still trying to remember who the hell she was!

[LERRY @_AsiwajuLerry]

Drop that “billing” memes that is in your gallery, let’s have a good laugh 😂😂

[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

The silence from the customs is alarming, I mean

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Wake up, @CustomsNG! This is Ar-Rakhab Beach and Holiday Resort in Badagry.

Owned by a retired Customs officer better known by his alias ‘Ashimi’, it is yet another proof of the unexplained personal wealth of many of your officers.

Nigerians like to know: why are active and retired Customs officers the owners of the poshest hotels in border towns? Why hotels, why border towns, why smuggling zones?

And, finally, why don’t medical doctors, surgeons, mechanical engineers, software engineers, teachers, professors, accountants, lawyers, tech bros, security experts want to own these hotels in these smuggling zones? Why mainly Customs officers, Customs agents and smugglers?

[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

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[ninjai @UTD_ninjia]

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['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Despite Paying Tompolo's Company N48b Yearly for Security, NNPCL Says It Can't Handle Oil Theft https://t.co/6SXEmtVP3n