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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by allcomage: 3:17pm On Jun 26, 2019
Let's hear from far right Igbo senator in Italy.
Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by TSRC: 3:18pm On Jun 26, 2019
Nigerians abroad can be very useless. They go abroad and mess up everywhere for good people.

And many of them are on nairaland. Na God go punish all of una.

Bastards.

It is high time the Nigerian govt begin to publicly denouce and revoke the citizenship of these criminals.

Useless god forsaken bastards.

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by Nobody: 3:20pm On Jun 26, 2019
I said it on a previous post that all this cultist have infiltrated all this countries,they know white men are gentle and won't easily kill them if caught,all this hush puppy and Co na dem dem

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by kcute(m): 3:20pm On Jun 26, 2019
Blogger bloggers, see ur cheap lies.
Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by bigeliot(m): 3:21pm On Jun 26, 2019
Come to naija and take over
Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by Nobody: 3:21pm On Jun 26, 2019
Fùcking degenerate.

Put him to sleep and harvest all his organs for use by more deserving human beings.

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by MyGeneration(m): 3:22pm On Jun 26, 2019
thesicilian:
Benin boys be feeling like they own Italy, until they start deporting all their sorry asses, guilty or innocent.
let them kill them. If they deport them thats more criminals adding to our streets

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by grandstar(m): 3:23pm On Jun 26, 2019
Equal2DeTask:


shocked

See lips


@the bolded, We know them for trafficking....be it drugs, human, prostitutions....haba!


Anyway let me hand over to NCAN....for proper interrogating & investigations.... grin



As if the Yoruba vs Igbo tribalism isn't already bad enough, you now want to include Bini people!

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by grandstar(m): 3:25pm On Jun 26, 2019
Junkie1:
NIGERIANS NEVER DISAPPOINT HELPING US DESTROY OUR ALREADY TARNISHED IMAGE

IF THEY START KILLING THEM UP AND DOWN NOW THEY WILL BE SHOUTING RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA ...




The police officer said something very interesting, that when the Italians got to America, they took crime with them.

It should be food for thought for you. Meditate on it

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by TSRC: 3:26pm On Jun 26, 2019
MyGeneration:
let them kill them. If they deport them thats more criminals adding to our streets
I support this.
The government should hang them.

I don't support mindless xenophobia by the citizens, but i would gladly support any action of the host governments including the death penalty for these Nigerian criminals.

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by Angelfrost(m): 3:27pm On Jun 26, 2019
I pity Italy... They better grow a pair and review their immigration laws before Africans, especially a section of Southern Nigeria, turn that historic nation to Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by wakes: 3:33pm On Jun 26, 2019
Even in far away land, o Nigerian?

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by Nobody: 3:39pm On Jun 26, 2019
Suspect33:
tomorrow we'll cry how racist Italians are, forgetting how this illegal immigrants paints the entire continent black

U fools should stfu and stop painting us evil... Every country has its criminals on the news daily but na we sabi cast ourselves pass with people like u.. What do u know about organized crime Educate yourselves, Read up about the LCN or Yakuza and traids to name a few and see how these people infiltrated America and still hold power till tomorrow... Dumb idiots. Nigerians still dey kindergarten for crime.. Y'all need to stop being ignorant by selling our bad sides to the world, they are worse off angry
Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by kitaatita: 3:41pm On Jun 26, 2019
EDO

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by thunderbabs: 3:48pm On Jun 26, 2019
Dey use crime swear for una... Una export una eiye frat go abroad again... Buhari, why? shocked
Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by HeyCorleone(m): 3:53pm On Jun 26, 2019
Suspect33:
tomorrow we'll cry how racist Italians are, forgetting how this illegal immigrants paints the entire continent black

You understand.

This is so depressing.

Blacks are just castaways. Why go to another man's land to do dirt? It's disheartening, really, because it could pose a problem for the few sane legit ones abroad.

This shows that the position "people do crime in Nigeria because there are no jobs" is wrong. What excuse so those in foreign nations have?

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by opribo(m): 4:02pm On Jun 26, 2019
Why would a man leave his country only to go and be a menace to his host country. This thing continues to baffle me. He could have stayed here to carry out his nefarious activity than to go out and be gang leader.

Well now he has disgraced the whole nation like his zombie president. All I can say is justice must be done. EHIGIATOR na dem

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by baby124: 4:11pm On Jun 26, 2019
opribo:
Why would a man leave his country only to go and be a menace to his host country. This thing continues to baffle me. He could have stayed here to carry out his nefarious activity than to go out and be gang leader.

Well now he has disgraced the whole nation like his zombie president. All I can say is justice must be done. EHIGIATOR na dem
A lot of these criminals are highly mentally unstable. They don’t understand law and order like normal people do. They must misbehave everywhere. From cultist to yahoo boys to corrupt politicians. They are all criminals and social misfit. That is their nature and nature must show itself. They are defective from birth.

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by Kaydeexotic(m): 4:30pm On Jun 26, 2019
Chikpat:
Is this one mafia boss?
When lords like Don Corleone, Don Clericuzio, Guido Fellanti, Don Barzini dem dem stand , this poor looking Edo cult boy will join? What an insult on mafia boss dem class!!!

Na one woman wey den dey call "Black widow of Camorra" dey hand twist Italian government now for like 4 years... They don't know her identity... Even if they arrest her they can't jail her cos she's singlehandedly funding part of Italy's national budget every year.... See money... grin grin

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by AgentGoat: 4:33pm On Jun 26, 2019
thesicilian:
Benin boys be feeling like they own Italy, until they start deporting all their sorry asses, guilty or innocent.
How come you are Sicilian?
Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by thesicilian: 5:20pm On Jun 26, 2019
MyGeneration:
let them kill them. If they deport them thats more criminals adding to our streets
Lol.
There's a Nigerian saying that when a thief is caught in the market, a mother does not join others to shout "kill him!" until she has see it's not her son.
Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by Baroba(m): 5:27pm On Jun 26, 2019
thesicilian:
Benin boys be feeling like they own Italy, until they start deporting all their sorry asses, guilty or innocent.

They real Mafian's will start taking them out soon..

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by Simbrixton(m): 5:28pm On Jun 26, 2019
Nigerians are into drugs porn robberies visa scam Internet fraud terrorism religious and ethnic bigotry and we have the most corrupt politicians in the world we are the world's most desperate people

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by Udochee(m): 5:29pm On Jun 26, 2019
Why go to a foreign land and cause trouble

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by wealth2al(m): 5:33pm On Jun 26, 2019
Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by Suspect33(m): 5:48pm On Jun 26, 2019
dairykidd:


U fools should stfu and stop painting us evil... Every country has its criminals on the news daily but na we sabi cast ourselves pass with people like u.. What do u know about organized crime Educate yourselves, Read up about the LCN or Yakuza and traids to name a few and see how these people infiltrated America and still hold power till tomorrow... Dumb idiots. Nigerians still dey kindergarten for crime.. Y'all need to stop being ignorant by selling our bad sides to the world, they are worse off angry
SHUT UP!! defender of criminals

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Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by dnawah(m): 6:09pm On Jun 26, 2019
chelseaimmortal:

Osabuohien Ehigiator, a Nigerian Mafia boss arrested in Palermo

In a country that has fought for decades to weaken its homegrown mafia, a foreign crime group is gathering strength.

The group’s members are Nigerian. They hold territory from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo. They smuggle drugs and traffic women, deploying them as prostitutes on Italy’s streets. They find new members among the caste of wayward migrants, illicitly recruiting at Italian government-run asylum centres.

Investigators and justice officials say the Nigerian mafia, as it’s called here, has capitalised on a half-decade of historic migration – a scenario merging crime and migrants in a manner nationalist politicians in Europe and beyond have long warned about.

As Italy’s politics swing to the right, the country is contending not only with a foreign mafia, but also with a divisive question: Are long-held migration fears coming to fruition?

For the leaders who won control of Italian politics with pledges to stop the “invasion,” the Nigerian mafia helps justify the lock-the-doors border approach put in place last year. Italy’s most prominent politician, Matteo Salvini, recently used Twitter to highlight one Nigerian crime case after the next, writing that the “African” crime bosses pose “a growing threat that needs to be eradicated immediately.”

A street in Palermo, Italy. Nigerian mafia said to hold territory from Turin in the North to Palermo in the south

For the far-right’s opponents, the Nigerian mafia has proved to be a trickier case – a problem that is politically risky to downplay, but that they say is being exploited as a cudgel against all migrants. They note that the Nigerian mafia primarily occupies immigrant neighbourhoods, preying on those residents in a way that might feel familiar to Italians who have lived under the mob.

In an April speech, Pope Francis – whose migration advocacy runs counter to the Italian government’s stance – made the case that delinquents can be found anywhere and that the mafia is “ours – made in Italy.”


“It was not Nigerians who invented the mafia,” Francis said.

Nationalists and strongmen have long portrayed migration as a source of danger, saying people crossing borders might be intent on terrorism. Data from some countries, such as the United States, shows those claims are overstated. But the emergence of a new foreign mafia strikes at some of the most emotional chords in a country still traumatised by its so-called mafia wars.

There are no reliable estimates of how many members of the Nigerian mafia operate in Italy. But interviews with detectives, prosecutors, aid workers and human-trafficking victims, and a review of hundreds of pages of investigative documents, show that the Nigerian mafia has built Italy into a European hub, smuggling cocaine from South America, heroin from Asia, and trafficking women by the tens of thousands.

police in Palermo leading the crackdown on Nigerian mafia

Italian investigators say the Nigerian syndicate meets the definition of a mafia, rather than a criminal gang, because it has a behavioural code and uses the implied power of the group for intimidation and silence. Nigerian members have been sentenced on mafia-related charges that were drawn up by Italy decades ago in its fight against the homegrown mob.

Though perhaps lesser known than organized-crime syndicates of Japan, Russia and China, the Nigerian group has become “the most structured and dynamic” of any foreign crime entity operating in Italy, the Italian intelligence agency said this year. Some Nigerian members sneak their way into Italy with the intention of joining the criminal groups. Others are recruited after arriving.

Members of Salvini’s League party have emphasised some of those dangers, and politicians in a smaller far-right party, the Brothers of Italy, have pushed in parliament for tougher oversight of foreign mafias, while accusing the left of looking away from the threat in the name of political correctness.

But leaders in at least one city where the Nigerian mob has gained a foothold have tried to push back. In the Sicilian city of Palermo, Mayor Leoluca Orlando, a 71-year-old who keeps a Koran in his office and calls Salvini a “little Mussolini,” said he refuses to distinguish one kind of criminal from the next on the basis of ethnicity or “blood.” Several Nigerians in Palermo have held news conferences and rallies, holding signs that say not all Nigerians belong to the mafia.

“Just like with the Sicilians,” said Samson Olomu, the president of Palermo’s Nigerian Association. “Not all of them are mafia.”

The Nigerian mafia has had a presence across Europe since the 1980s. In recent years, it has not only expanded, but also pushed into the one Italian territory where no foreign mob had dared to go.

Sicily was conquered and raided by Greeks, by Byzantines, by Normans. But for much of the past century, the island’s overlords have been Mafiosi, members of the Cosa Nostra group who specialized in racketeering, gambling and murder, and who have not typically shared their turf.

“In the 1980s, 1990s, this never would have happened. Never,” Giuseppe Governale, the head of Italy’s central anti-mafia agency, said of Cosa Nostra sharing territory with outsiders.

Today’s Sicily is different. Cosa Nostra is hobbled. Its leaders have been jailed, one after the next. The group has grown quieter, less openly violent, and over the past decade, a new wave of people have come – hundreds of thousands of Africans, arriving in Sicily, Italy’s de facto front door for migrants until Salvini closed ports last year. Many of the migrants have moved on to other parts of Italy, or even Europe. But some have stayed.

Investigators say they first saw signs of the Nigerian mafia presence here in 2013 with an uptick in violent assaults. Two years later, evidence emerged that the new group might be cooperating in the drug trade with Sicilian mafia: A taped conversation showed two Cosa Nostra higher-ups describing the Nigerians as “tough young’uns” who are dangerous but know their place. That peace between the groups has held ever since.

Authorities say that might be because the Nigerian mafia has built much of its business on the one thing Cosa Nostra has never shown an interest in: prostitution.

Some experts say as many as 20,000 Nigerian women, some of them minors, arrived in Sicily between 2016 and 2018, trafficked in cooperation with Nigerians in Italy and back home.

“Think of the port – hundreds [of women] pouring in every day,” said Sergio Cipolla, the president of Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud, a Palermo-based nonprofit organization that deals with migrants, describing that period. “The women would be taken to government reception centers. But they weren’t forced to stay there. They would flee and vanish.”

According to documents, investigators and personal accounts, the women come to Italy on a promise, agreeing to pay a steep fare – 20,000 or 30,000 euros – for a life in Europe with a job. Before leaving Nigeria, most swear to repay that debt during a voodoo rite. But women arrive in Italy to find out there is no child-care or hairdressing position awaiting them.

One Nigerian trafficking victim, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution, said she was handed a short skirt and a pack of condoms and told to go to work. Within several months, she tried to kill herself by swallowing bleach.

“I believed the oath,” said the woman, who is 23 and came from Nigeria’s Benin City. “If you don’t repay the debt, you die.”

Because of those oaths, it is rare for women to come to the police – but when they do, the payoff for investigators can be significant. Francesco Del Grosso, the head of the foreign crimes section at the national police unit in Palermo, was at his desk in 2017 when a Nigerian woman showed up, saying she was afraid but ready to talk.

She described several years of sex and coercion – a pregnancy, being forced back onto the street – and she said she was being sheltered by a charity group. People were looking for her.

The woman described details about the men she had seen around her: ritual handshakes, colour-coded blue and yellow outfits – a telltale of the Eiye group, one of the main Nigerian mafia clans. Del Grosso showed the woman some headshots of Nigerian men he already had on file, and a new investigation opened.

Nineteen months later, 14 Eiye members were arrested on mafia and drug charges, including the suspected Sicilian Eiye boss, Osabuohien Ehigiator. Del Grosso said all 14 people had come to Italy “on boats” in the past several years.

Soon after the news broke, Salvini tweeted his thanks to the investigators.

“One more blow against the Nigerian mob,” he said.

Del Grosso said he has to keep politics out of work. He never intended to fight foreign crime. He graduated from the national police academy and requested a transfer to Palermo “because of what it represents” – a holy land in the fight of the state versus the Italian mob.

“It’s where all the biggest clashes took place,” Del Grosso said.

Instead, he found a job with a window into Sicily’s immigrant crime world, and the neighbourhood where much of that crime takes place is a short walk from his office.

One day last month, just before lunch hour, he took a walk with a deputy through the Nigerian mafia’s Palermo hub, a neighbourhood of dilapidated buildings, tight alleyways, food vendors, motor scooters zipping by.

Del Grosso came to a wider street and stopped, noting the places where he had made arrests and the dozen or so prostitution houses hidden away in upper floors. Del Grosso’s deputy pointed out a building that, until recently, had been used as a drug den.

“This, for Italy, is a new criminal phenomenon,” Del Grosso said. “But from my perspective, it changes nothing. They are criminals.”

Criminals, he said, have always crossed borders.

“When Italians went to America,” he said, “they brought crime, too.”


Source: https://www.collinsuchendusblog.com/2019/06/nigerian-man-osabuohien-ehigiator-leads.html?m=1
them d sell bleaching cream for Europe?I beg I want buy.
Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by Nobody: 6:09pm On Jun 26, 2019
Amuocha:
Good for Italy
you can say that again bro.
Re: Osabuohien Ehigiator, Nigerian Mafia Boss Arrested In Italy by badman007(m): 6:35pm On Jun 26, 2019
Oba of Benin needs to go see his people in Spain and Italy.

Igbo and women would not emancipate the great people of Benin kingdom.

Dont be lazy!

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