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There is some sort of financial crime going on somewhere. EFCC is becoming stricter and some people are looking for loopholes to launder money which they will find impossible to move through the stricter financial system. Peace Chairman being a legal known business man comes handy as an easier conduit. How can there be a mistake to such huge sum and after a whole month of reporting it, the source is not yet found. They should tell that to the birds. The peace Chairman refused to play to the game. EFCC should look into that case. Nonsense.

Abeg allow the thieves to help their life. Which kind nonsense is this.

chimauga:
MY ORDEAL AT SOEKARNO-HATTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT JAKARTA, INDONESIA

There is this derisive impression about Nigerian passport holders in most of the International Airports in different parts of the world, especially in Indonesia. The Immigration officers molest, exploit and forcibly take huge amount of bribes from Nigerians and threaten deportation if one refuses to give in. This happens even when one has not committed any offence. They show no respect to one’s Status so far you are carrying Nigerian passport.

On the 17th June 2019, I was once again greeted with harassment by Indonesian Immigration officers. The ugly incidence spurred me to take up a fight against their intimidation of Nigerians. I know that what they are doing is a corrupt practice and we are their major victims. No matter how our country is, we do not deserve such discriminatory extortion.

So, on that day, I arrived Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Jakarta, Indonesia, in an Emirates Airline from Dubai (EK0356). On disembarking from the Aircraft, I was walking to the queue when an immigration officer halted me. He asked for my passport. As he saw a Nigerian passport, he took me to their office and handed my passport over to his colleague. I greeted the officer sitting down in the office. He ignored me. Three times I greeted so he could say what the problem was but he remained silent and kept deaf ears. So I stood waiting for him to break his silence. I was standing, waiting for what I do not know, for 30 minutes before he muttered any word. Finally, he asked of my hotel reservation, return ticket and my Visa receipt, which I presented all to him.

The next question was, "do you want to go into the country?"

I said "yes".

He replied, "Calculate the fare of a one-way ticket from Jakarta to Abuja and give it to me to permit you entry".

I pretended as if I didn't understand what he was saying. The next thing he did was to google the cost of a one-way ticket with his mobile phone and showed it to me that it was $1,200usd (N432,000). I kept silent, trying to make a sense out of his embarrassing demand. But he didn’t stop there. He threatened to deport me by making copies of my travel documents.

At this point, I remembered my sad experience on the 9th October 2018 on this same Airport for refusing to bribe an Immigration officer with $200usd which nearly lead to my deportation. On that fateful day, they had already handed me over to the security and airline staff, reconfirmed my return ticket, checked in my luggage for eventual deportation. Had it not been I was able to place a call to my visa sponsor who intervened immediately by calling the airport Immigration boss and pleaded on my behalf, I would have been deported for no reason and would have lost huge sum and time. To the glory of God, the deportation was reversed. Meanwhile, this is a country I have been traveling to for 12 years without any infraction of their laws in whatever way. I never overstayed my visit, never broke any law, never even accused of any offense. My only offense was carrying Nigerian passport.

With that bad experience, which I was not ready to have a repeat of, I decided to be soft to this one demanding I should bribe him with $1,200usd. He later came down to $500 (N180,000) after a prolonged pleading. I immediately gave him the money but copied his name and saved it in my phone.

On the 21st June 2019, I prepared petitions which I addressed to the following parastatals:
1. Kedutaan Besar Republik Federsi Nigeria (Ambassador, Embassy of Federal Republic of Nigeria)
2. Direktorat Jendral Imigrasi (Comptroller of Immigration)
3. Direktorat Saber Pungli (Anti-Financial Fraud)
4. Pengaddan Dugaan Pidana Korups (Anti-Corruption).

First, I visited the Nigerian Embassy, met with the Ambassador and handed over my petition to him. He summoned an emergency meeting with all the Embassy's senior staff. He appeared very impressive. He commended my courage and promised to follow it up.

I stepped out of the Embassy and moved to Indonesian Immigration headquarters. On my arrival at the Immigration, it was difficult to gain access to meet with the overall Boss, the Jendral (comptroller), but when I claimed to be a Nigerian diplomat, they let me in. They ran security checks on me, gave me a form to fill my purpose of visit. I filled "High Rate of Bribery and Corruption Scandal Going on at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta". This form must have caught the attention of the Immigration boss as he didn't hesitate to request for me.

I gave him my petition. He read but couldn't believe that such was going on in their Airport. I provided the name of the Staff, which I copied into my phone. He typed the name in an application in his Laptop and it displayed the photo image of the Immigration officer. I confirmed the picture was that of the man who collected bribe of $500usd from me. He thanked me for coming up with such information, which he said no one had ever brought to his desk. He made a promise that he would investigate the report and invite me for an update within 48 hours.

In less than 24 hours of my report, I was invited by the Immigration boss. Upon my arrival to his office, I was given a VIP treat. The Jendral, that is the Immigration boss, started with an apology on behalf of the entire Immigration and Indonesian government. He went further to tell me that the officer who extorted money from me accepted he did it, and implicated four other senior “intelligent” officers who were involved in the indecent act. He narrated that the five senior officers had been dismissed immediately, that their dismissal letter would be given to them at the end of our meeting.

A sealed envelope was handed over to me. Inside the envelope were an apology letter and a sum of $1,600usd. The Jendral did not know that the money enclosed in the envelope was above the amount they collected from me. He was so amazed when I told him the money was in excess of my money. He decided to confirm it himself and discovered that the corrupt officers at the Airport enclosed all the money they forcibly collected from Nigerians on board the Emirates Airline that conveyed me to Jakarta that day.

That was how I salvaged other Nigerians who arrived the Airport from that moment onwards. I was told Nigerian passport holders are now being attended to with full respect at the point of entry. The era of $500 to $1,000 bribe for nothing has been defeated.

Funny enough, the Nigerian Ambassador to Indonesia, who I first reported this case to, did absolutely nothing about it. He once told the Consular General, Emabassy of Nigeria, Indonesia, to inform me that they were still trying to get an appointment with the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Indonesia. Two months gone and they are still booking appointments. If I had waited for them, my money would have gone and our citizens visiting Indonesia for businesses would still be suffering intimidation and extortion. This is why nobody cared to report this crime to our Embassy because they all know that the report will be swept under the carpet.

In the photos are the petitions (with different addresses), Immigration form (Purpose of visit) and Immigration Letter of refund.

Kudos the Chairman. We are recommending you to Buhari to take over the office of SSA on diaspora affairs because Abike Dabiri is becoming a failure in that post. Buhari can use her for tribalistic affairs.

Is he Buhari brother?

Tissue:
Click like if you also don't follow up this stupid show

Viewer. You don't follow the show but you always hussle to be FTC on every topic about the show

This lady is just as tribalistic as Buhari. Why not just say 21 Nigerians and forget about their states. LovePeddler of Babylon. Though I won't blame her because it is Drug Dealers that are the best friends of our stupid Governor Obiano.

I no send anybody. Na Allah give me Aso villa as retirement home. Nobody should disturb my peace here.

Everything in Nigeria stinks of mediocrity. This kind of costly mistake, if they are not all lying is supposed to cost the head of IG of police and COAS. When you are on such mission, it should codedly involve all security agencies within the jurisdiction of the operation.

Starlight10:
hope the Land is not in Bwari or Giri junction... lol. Just kidding.

Congratulations to the couple on their marriage.

I heard it is in Abaji

I'm sure the Senator is keeping those items for another election campaign. He may actually still distribute that to his constituents but it must be during campaign period. That's how politicians think

Trump protecting his country as if it is some exclusive paradise. Sorry to burst your burble,I think I prefer shithole than some deadly land mine.

I don't know much about Nigerian politics but the only thing I know is that Ahmed Bola Tinubu can NEVER be Nigerian President QED

The Tunde is the one that is dumb.Does BBN Winner has xteristics.

Logobenz1:
Look there is an undertone to everything bro.
Do you know what love is?if you love a person,moving on won't be that easy!
That's why the dead man's family is protesting because it kind of tells them the woman did not love their brother enough.
I remember 2008 when the first woman I ever loved left for France for studies.God I cried,did not date any other person till 2014 or so...
Love is not that easy to move on from.

What you are saying is really true but whether she loved him or not doesn't matter again, he is dead and she is not being suspected of killing him as I can deduce. Why waste time crying over a spilled milk. We will all die one day, if you can mourn your death a day as Muslims do and move on the next. As you mourn the death your own time of death is coming closer.

We just left kleptomaniacs, common petty thief that is usually despised in every community. People who steal petty things they don't need just because they have impulse of stealing to be our Leaders. What a hopeless country

Sorry Nigeria is a failed country. It is no longer possible to make money and enjoy it in Nigeria.

Davash222:
All these small girls no get parents for house

Her parents were the Generation of illiterates during Soyinka time

Aeronautics Engineering with white chalk and black board I guess. That's how Engineering is studied in Nigerian Universities

So we should be using Benin Airways then because that's the only affordable available option now

Finally too much money has made Jay-Z turn to Rasta

In a kind of way I like tacha but the kind of stories about her life before BBN flying around, I thought she was going to be really crazy in the house but no she seems to be always quite and calculative. That's one character usually associated with a witch . So I don't really blame Jackie

Mr Kalu, if what you earn is small compared to what other people who slave for government in this country and still can't take care of his family, let Amadioha strike out that your mouth before you finish that four years in the Senate. Nonsensical nonsense

SageMK:
Oh. Here we go again...

All I know is men should stay away from ladies that see relationships as employment opportunities. If you don't want to be with a broke guy, then don't be a broke girl.

Simple. Anybody with contrary opinion is a packaged call girl (Igbo people call them Akwụna Akwụna. I don't know what Hausa and Yoruba people call them.)

cinoedhunter:
Does presidential panel have that much power ? or everything about this Buhari government is k-leg

Did Senator Nwaoboshi acquire the properties legally. Every thing about some people na thief thief

funkmrflexx:
My girlfriend is about a month pregnant and she's in school. She now wants to terminate the it because she can't cope with it in school (we had both agreed she would keep it) and I don't want her to terminate it cus I want the baby. (We both do) I'm even thinking about doing our wedding soon.(But some family issues came up. So we can't go on with d wedding for now) now she wants to terminate the pregnancy but I don't want her to nb terminate it and i also understand because it's not easy combining it with school. So she said it's either she terminates the pregnancy or she stops school (which she doesn't want to and me neither) I don't want her stopping school because of my request (even though I'm doing most of the sponsorship in her school)

What do I do?

Tough times doesn't last but tough people do. That's a fact. There's nothing scary as your wife is pregnant but you don't have a dime but when it is girlfriend then it is a nightmare. You got to toughen it out but no matter what you do don't abort the baby it maybe difficult now but as times goes on you will realise what a blessing the baby will be in your life but an aborted baby may turn out being a lifetime regret. I believe you are already a working class. Married pregnant women do attend school and most still graduate with their set, it is no different when you are unmarried but the psychological bondage, "I am unmarried" Your fiancee should find the options available for pregnant students,in her school. You have have to really be a strong support for her this time because it will be a difficult time for her if you have to keep the baby she is the one bearing the blunt of what two of you enjoyed.An advice, everybody wants big wedding but you should cut the crap of big expenses in marriage because in few years time nobody remembers how big was your wedding but you. Go to her family, do the minimum introduction and she is your wife, the family may be angry but at this stage they don't have a choice



On a lighter note I hope you know you've already bought your dick a lifetime gift. Don't come here in a few years time and tell us she has a baby for me but I don't want to marry her or I love another. You are now officially off market pronto. Happy Married life

The young and deprived from Nothern Nigeria who know nothing before now but to live a life of begging to survive is now learning a new and scarier way to survive and it is becoming more explosive. Let the Northern Elites keep playing politics with the Tsunami that is going to overtake them all.

The two twitter accounts are not the same. One is DSTV and the other is Dstvng. One is likely a Nigerian and most of his Bosses are Nigerian while the other is likely a South African

El Rufai is a cunning Midget. He can set the man up so that he can disgrace him. The man rushed thinking that his criticism has earned him a commissioner slot not knowing he is dealing with a perfect fulani conman. If El Rufai wanted him he would have influenced on the law makers to confirm. It is El rufai he criticized not the lawmakers

johnmartus:
It's now their son and family affairs.

That he is the son of a former Governor even makes him more experienced than most people. If his people likes him, he can be voted in. We are only against installing your family members as an incumbent as okorocha wanted to do in Imo

The story is chilling but with good lawyer they are supposed to walk free.

lonelygem:
If I hear hard work for Una mouth ehn.

I lost reasonable money to Ecobank staff negligence sometimes ago.

I made a transaction which the beneficiary claimed didn't receive and had been debited from my Ecobank account. I insisted the beneficiary should hold on till I confirm what happened from Ecobank before making another transaction.

I went to Ecobank branch and I was asked to fill in a disbursement error form which I did.

I asked repeatedly as I never trusted the beneficiary if I could go ahead and make a new payment to the beneficiary, the customer care lady said a capital yes assuring me the initial fund will be reversed to my account immediately as I'd filled the disbursement error form.

I left and made a fresh payment to the beneficiary, and I forgot about the whole thing..

2days, 5days one week gone no reversal.
I went to the branch again to complain, it was then they started looking for the disbursement error form I filled a week ago.
When they eventually found the form, it was discovered that the form wasn't processed, during the period, the cash cleared into the beneficiary's account unaltered because the form was not processed..

We started sending mails to Lagos office to rectify the issue, the guy in Lagos equally didn't respond tilll about 26days of the whole mess.. We kept calling from the branch phone, the branch manager's mobile number and my personal mobile number, the idiot was not on desk for days, and wasn't responding to mobile phone calls..

When he finally responded after 26days.. He only commented "the transaction cleared into the beneficiary's account" that was how I lost the money..

I quietly stoped using the account for any transaction since 2016. I just counted Ecobank out of my business life.

It may be funny that most employee don't deserve what they actually earn and can be so shameless to come to protest ground without conscience..

To the extent it was their fault. But dealing with the type of character is another issue. It is not like paying money to a stranger. Sometimes you have to cut some characters off your life for your peace of mind no matter the business they bring to your life.

This is Garba Shehu message not Buhari. Can't Sick Buhari type ordinary congratulatory message by himself. Sick Nigeria just elected a statue as President