Tunchi101: so yesterday, I had to visit a police station for d first time in my life as a result of my 1st computer village scam. did those guys scam me mehnn (and to think it was a popular store)… me wey think say I street
My experience with the Police officers…?
never have I felt more helpless in my entire life than when I was in that police station
if it was when popsy was still alive and I was still in the cantoment, na just soldiers I for resolve my issue
When I reported the issue to the police officers I met at the counter(2 females), the first thing they said was that before they can answer me at all, I would have to sort them with 30thousand naira that they are very busy people
in that very moment, I knew I already almost lost the case cause it would eventually become a game of numbers i.e d person who could sort the most
I knew I was not going to compete with one big Igbo man who owns abt 4 stores in computer village
for a moment though, I almost considered giving them the 30k because of the amount involved but then Sapa had me violently by the neck…
so about the scam…
earlier this month, I decided to switch from an android to an iOS device(Xs Max). Went to slot but they did not have the exact model I wanted. A friend of mine had just gotten an iOS device so I asked him where he got it and he referred me to BIGTECHDEVICES on Instagram. He also stated they deliver at home which was a plus for me.
I ordered and it got delivered to me
my brother uses an identical device and he’s also a phone engineer.
The next day after the purchase, I noticed something on the screen and showed it to by brother, he immediately said the phone was not a new one(now there was no way for him to vex the product before purchase because I bought it online). Tahh I rebuked him in Jesus name immediately. Phone dat I cut nylon myself
I continued flexing my phone like that
a week after using d phone, d battery health dropped from 100% to 93% and usually this should take up to a year before dropping to 93%. I still choose self denial over reasoning cause no way I spent that money and cut nylon myself only for me to get a substandard product.
What I discovered yesterday was the straw that broke the camels back and had me marching to computer village (I was going to take my junior brother along but he wasn’t around) after looking for their address online. I realized the phone was coupled in Nigeria.
I learnt a few things yesterday
not only is the police force grossly incompetent, they are wildly corrupt and lack human empathy.
Just because a celebrity is following a brand/store does not make them legit (donjazzy follows them so it gave them some form of credibility) - I am not by this faulting celebrities directly for promoting brands
If you’d have to order electronics online, make sure this from a very well know and credible store
The police is not your friend
Avoid trouble as best as you can
after so much deliberation, the officers accepted 10k. Escorted me to d store where I ordered d phone and picked up one of the sales boy. d boy explained 2 dem at d station that as he has already told me before, I’d have to drop d phone and come back after 2 weeks. This was unacceptable for me and for a moment it was for the officers too
they told the boy 2 invite his Oga, he said d oga was not around. Then they asked him to write a statement, he then immediately said the Oga was back.
The instance the oga walked into the station, it was as if the police officers we switched right b4 my eyes. They were licking his ass �
Right in my front, they were also asking him to sort cause they can see he is such a nice man. (Game of numbers)
for the small remaining part of this story…
guys dem get me proper mehnn like scam me proper left and mehnn but I no go too talk am make una no laugh me �
after the Oga sorted them, the police officers asked me to follow him back to his shop that he would sort my issue. I objected, insisted the man told us in the station what he was going to do when we get to his shop. The police officers said I should not worry at all, I should just follow him back that he seems like a nice person
He then told one of the female officers to escort us back to his shop to collect more cash. We got to his shop, he sorted her and she left the 2 of us immediately after arriving.
it was just me and the Goliath looking man in his office with his staff at the front side of the office. He tried apologizing in his own weird way stating that he won’t be able to refund my money but would get me a replacement. While I was seated waiting for d replacement, 2 different customers(1which seemed like a very impatient Lagos tout) came with very similar complaints of which he refunded their cash righ in my front.
For my replacement phone he said he did not have it in stock anymore and called one of his fellow traders to sell for him.
my replacement phone arrived packed and sealed just like the first one. He broke the seal, apologized one more time. He even showed me the transfer he made from his friend he got the phone from complaining he was actually running at a lost bcs he is having to buy if more than the cost I originally purchased it
Checked all I needed to check to ensure I don’t get scammed again. Everything was in place.
Left computer village feeling a little bit compensated and like a bad guy
Omoor only for me to get home and for my brother to confirm this morning that the new phone I was given again was actually a used phone too…
Omoor I just weak. Let me drop my pen here as I am still in perpetual confusion
I had a similar experience but not in computer village. The UK iPhone I bought the battery has been replaced in Nigeria. The battery actually ‘swell’ after some months of using. I took it back and the guy was apologizing and saying all sorts.
Earlier this year, I was in Port Harcourt for work and I had to get to Market Square on Peter Odili Road for some work materials.
Finished buying and stepped out to get a taxi and this guy walked up to me with a smile on his face....Greeted "hello" and I responded.
Then he said to me, "go to xhdyz hotel on xyz road and wait for me, I'll meet you there soon". Then he went ahead to give details of the place, I'm not familiar with Port Harcourt roads but I'm pretty sure he mentioned Rumuola area.
For a moment, I was too shocked for words so I stared in unbelief, disgust or maybe his juju caught me for a few minutes. Then I turned in anger and said, "are you mad" then proceeded to say a lot of other things to me.
I noticed that each time people passed us, he'd say "are you talking to your husband like that, is that the right way to talk to your husband". So people looked at me cray cray. The funny thing is, I couldn't leave..I was cussing him out yet I couldn't feel my legs let alone moved them.
He kept throwing the husband line and telling me to move to that hotel and a whole other stuff, he also had a bottle of water he occasionally drank from...I didn't make anything of it.
People didn't get close because they thought it was family issues and on my own part, I was too dazed to speak.
I don't know what happened but somehow I found my voice and scolded him even more and this time louder. Then I turned to the security man around and asked if he knew the guy, I explained what happened to him and he said the guy told him I was his wife.
I left the goat there and walked to the road, he stood and stared for some minutes. I boarded a taxi going my way. Immediately I got in, I saw this same guy seated in the taxi or he joined after I boarded ,I can't remember now. But he kept looking at me, drank from the bottle and then started talking again. When the driver looked back, he tried to play the husband card again. But I didn't let him speak.
This time, I was really angry so I yelled at him so much while explaining to the driver...The driver swerved to the side of the road and asked him to get out....he did and the driver moved.
Told me to go thank my God because the man is either a serial rapist, murderer or ritualist.
Here's the shocker, during that incident, I remembered the name of the hotel he told me to go to while the incident lasted, but after the driver chased him out, I explained everything to the driver but I could no longer remember the name of the hotel....I only remembered Rumuola.
The driver said I don't even understand what God did for me.
Yesterday evening, I had a similar experience again in the same port Harcourt but this time around King's Assembly. I stayed somewhere close to King's Assembly so after I return from work, I'd take a stroll.
Yesterday, I had a meeting around Big Treat and after the meeting, I left for my accommodation and just as I made to cross the road, this guy came from nowhere and put one of his hands on my neck calling me something "sweetheart". With a scowl on my face, u shouted "who's your sweetheart, shey you're mad". He called me that again. Something just told me to run back to where I was coming from and I did. I ran back to those guys selling stuff around there and pretended like I was buying fruits. I explained everything to a female hawker around there and she told me to stand there till the guy left and she said "even if na tomorrow"
I stood for some minutes and this guy didn't leave....he stood on that road stuff waiting for his mother not me. It wasn't long, a Camry came with two guys in the owner's seat, he jumped from that stuff, crossed the road quickly and got into the car and they zoomed off.
I like to believe this is the new way of kidnapping, scam, ritual or whatever they're doing. .
Once I was riding with a client and this SUV was infront of us, a woman was squeezed between two men and one of them had a baby who was crying uncontrollably...it was obvious that all wasn't well because why wasn't she feeding the wailing baby and she had fear written all over her face. The driver had a small white sheet betweeb his lips.
One look at them and my client said, "Kai, they don kidnap this woman". And he was like he'd call the attention of the police when we reach the checkpoint! Whosai! They got to a point and drove into another street.
They have a new style now and they probably operate with something on their tongues to weaken their victim's defense.
Please be safe. I have left your city for you people, abeg! Copied
Heard something similar a while ago. God saved you truly your head strong.
God please I want to leave Nigeria. Help me o Lord. Imagine!!! You are going for that kind of risky operation and your soldiers don’t have common walkie talkies to use in communicating. Na their mobile phones with their credit dem go dey use communicate. Hey gawd.
lostnegro: ***modified*** Download the Barter app by flutterwave create a virtual dollar visa card and fund it up to 10,000 Usd using the naira in your account.Thats what i have been using to make my assessment payments.
Please can you tell me how much you paid for each assessments? Make I know how much I dey look at. Thanks.
WillyWonda1: I got an opportunity to get a leave at the oil rig where I work and then joined the company chopper to osubi Airport in Warri.
Then I went home. I already had someone clean the house, so j just slept lazily. So it's Saturday, no light, it's hot, I want to go sight seeing around after a Long time at the rig.
So I settled for a Jetty around my hood and do the locals before evening cruise. Abeg I dey the Warri too. We side you dey? We can share the bills for the drinks. I like person like you lol.
So this guy walks up to me. He greets me He: Senior braa, I hail Me : Shakes him.
Then he just started telling things he had before he was wrecked by his babe from Ghana.
Then he just drops the bombshells Him: Senior braa.... Even if na H. (#100). I go use am package. So I just laughed and gave him#3k. He just shouted EWOO!!��. Mehn see prayers. So I sat him down and asked him to order for anything. And I told him to get high as much as he wanted. I don't have friends.
I'm a very low-key person. I just want to feel free. It's been long. And I'm linking up with some colleagues this evening. I'm thinking of calling him along make he enjoy life small.
Explorers: A recent test showed Al’s car had significant damage to the ball joint of the suspension arms.
He told Plymouth Live: ‘I asked the manager down there for the workshop, and he said it had likely been caused by driving over potholes regularly.
‘It’s absolutely ridiculous, we’ve been on to them for the past four years about it.
We’ve filled in about five forms, rung them a number of times, and all we get is “oh the road’s fine”.
‘We sent them (the council) the MOT bill in the last complaint but we haven’t had anything back from them yet. I highlighted on the bill the repairs I’d been told were likely caused by the potholes.
It all just falls on deaf ears.
‘Over four years we’ve been on to them about it, and they’ve partially filled some in once, and then now they’re even worse.
‘It needs the whole stretch redoing, especially with the amount of traffic that comes down here now. It’s just constant.’
StagethemTVee: Armed Bandits in the troubled Northern region of Nigeria are not only smiling to the bank with money collected as ransom from their Kidnap victims, they are also getting hooked and married. This video shows a newly married bandit couple observing the marriage rites while fellow bandits celebrate and applaud them. Check it out.
The country needs a leadership that is firm and decisive in dealing with the threat these bandits and terrorists have become to the continued existence of Nigeria. So many people are killed on a daily basis as a result of the activities of the bandits and terrorists. And here they are celebrating, smiling and laughing with guns and weapons all around. What a pitiable sight. The country's security forces should step up and nab this act in the jugular now.
Nigerian army would never know where these ones are. If na ipod now them go find them enter thick forest. Sad. Omo! The way that lady cradle that kala eh, it’s evident that she knows the working of that gun and can handle it well. Wawu!
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Observer11: The Nigerian army through their official Twitter handle claims to have apprehended the masked soldier who made a video to warn his colleagues not to harm citizens.
Troubling video purportedly shows newly recruited soldiers vowing to deal with Nigerian civilians
A video making the rounds on social media shows the moment some newly recruited soldiers vowed to deal with any civilian who steps on their toes.
In the video, the new recruits are seen warning civilians of what will happen if they err.
One of the new recruits was asked what she thinks of civilians and she said: "They are very useless and hopeless. If I catch them, body go tell them. Tell them say make them no cross my lane o. If them try am..."
Another said in the video: "The worstest thing on earth is to be a civilian."
Another said "I'll flog them. I'll flog them," when asked what she will do to erring civilians.
Sharing the video to Twitter, Ibn Rabiu wrote: "So, this is actually what is coming out from the mouth of the people that are supposed to protect us. We are really f***ed up in this country."
Nigerians reacted to the video by tagging the Nigerian Army, while some defended them, saying they were just joking.
fergie001: The Chairmanship election of the Nigerian Medical Association, Enugu State branch, turned into a free-for-all, following weeks of terse statements by warring factions.
seanblaise: The aim of FRSC has been defeated. Their primary aim is "Road Safety" and this duty is to be carried out on Federal Roads accross the country. But what we have today are a group of tax collectors stationed on the road and looking motorist to extort. Once you pay, it doesn't matter what rule you break, you are good to go. Also body camera should be introduced in ALL security outfits in the country.
My thoughts exactly o. Only on federal roads but with this ruling hmmm...
Upgraded tail lights? Meaning they upgraded the side mirror with integrated turn signal repeater not to talk of the antenna on the roof of the car and the fog lights on the front bumper.
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