₦airaland Forum

GeorgeChidi:
Alright. Enough.

I'm George Chidi. I'm an investigative journalist of Nigerian descent, living in Georgia. I write for The Intercept and appear on local television in Atlanta. I am familiar with Douglas County, criminal justice issues in Georgia and the mechanisms of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab.

Google me. I'm easy to find.

A friend contacted me to take a look at this. The claims of Adedoja Bah do not stand up to cursory examination. He was convicted not as a matter of mistaken identity, but because DNA found at the scene matched his own. He's arguing that the tests were flawed, but a court ruled that they were not: the testing mechanism is the gold standard and the very best available. Here's the ruling: https://www.cybgen.com/information/admissibility/Bah2019.pdf

I would be the first person to advocate for someone convicted out of racial bias in Georgia. It exists. But that's not what happened here, and certainly not in Douglas County, which is not the rural banjo-playing south. It's a relatively affluent suburb of Atlanta that voted 2-to-1 for Joe Biden last year. There are parts of Georgia where justice for a Black person can be immediately questioned. Douglas County isn't one of them. It's the Nigerian equivalent of Ota or Lekki when talking about Lagos. He's trying to make it sound like he was arrested in Maiduguri.

The Georgia prison system is, indeed, terrible. It is unsanitary and dangerous -- and extremely so for people who commit crimes against children. His life is legitimately at risk. And so, I can imagine why he would look for some way to get out of prison.

But he did it. He's guilty of the crime. His protests are self-serving lies by a man with nothing but his life left to lose.

Powerhouse5050:
Dear Mr George Chidi,

Thank you for stopping by and I am also glad to know that you are investigative journalist and also you do understand the way of criminal justice system.

However even though you claimed to be an investigator it seems to me that the only thing you have investigated so far is the report that was put out by my prosecutor.

As an investigator have you taken a moment to look at the evidences I have provided?

You said they don't matter right?

Yet the GPS is an evidence that people have used to prove their innocence, even after conviction.....but in my case you said it does not matter right?

2, What was the result of your investigation in regards took the phone call and alibi at the same time I was suppose to be assaulting the young girl,could you explain your hypothesis to nairalanders?

3, You claimed my DNA was found at the crime scene, but you failed to read the testimony by GBI that says " We can not conclude that Mr Bah Is the contributor of the DNA found in the vagina"
If it is not Mr. Bah then who?

It seems you have some other result that I have never seen.....you may as well provide the report you read here.

I expect a man of your caliber to dig deeply into provided information before making a conclusion.

Did you even bother to take a look at defense expert testimony where the expert concluded that the profile of the alleles found in the vagina is totally different from allele profile of Mr. Bah and that exclude Mr Bah, that tesimoney was based on GBI data......doesn't that prove to you that the result released by the prosecution was actually FALSE REPORT.

Your conclusion lack basic iota of professionalism ,unless you can prove my evidences otherwise.

The evidences i have provided were part of 1200 pages court record that 1stGenAmerican refered to, maybe you should study the evidences and come back to prove them otherwise One by One.

Thank you

GeorgeChidi:
I have looked at the "evidences" you've provided in this thread.

You're full of shit. Straight up.

I mean, I get it. People are getting shanked and murdered all around you in the state prison at Coffee County. The Georgia prison system is falling apart, and prison gangs have effectively taken over state prisons because of the labor shortage with guards. You can get your hands on a cell phone because things are that loose right now. Those prison gangs take a very, [i]very [/i]dim view of child rapists. You fear for your life, so you're reaching out any way you can hoping someone will get you out.

You've lied like hell through much of the posts here. You were defended by a public defender, and didn't spend your own money on your defense. You challenged the DNA evidence -- because it was a close enough match to you to overcome the doubts of a judge and jury. The victim identified you in court as the attacker. There is no meaningful doubt about your guilt. Nonetheless, I have a phone call out to the district attorney and a records request to the Douglas County courthouse for the full transcript.

With that kind of evidence, you leaving your phone somewhere else while committing the crime -- your "GPS" evidence -- doesn't matter. Minor questions about whether or not you were able to ditch your clothing don't matter. Nothing you've said overcomes the strength of the evidence presented in court, or demands that I "investigate" any further than this.

You were convicted fairly. You are no longer entitled to a presumption of innocence, particularly on the strength of this evidence.

You think you're going to die in jail, and soon. I sympathize with that fear. You were sentenced to life in prison, not to be garroted by a murderer in a dark corner of a prison hall. But you belong in prison.

chatinent:
Hi,

I guess you are from D.H, thanks for coming. Do you have any suggestions to proffer?

GeorgeChidi:
My suggestion would be to sympathize with a man living in dangerous conditions in a Georgia prison, but not to accept his self-serving arguments for his innocence. He's guilty.

Here's the thing with DNA evidence: if it's not you, it's usually really obvious. You don't have to prove it with deep statistical analysis. It's just ... not there. What they had was close enough to present to a jury, "inconclusive" only by a narrow technical reading of the law and the science. That's why he tried to get a court to throw it out: as evidence, it's solid enough.

Again: the victim testified. I'm going to read this transcript, and read this testimony. Every new comment in this thread re-victimizes a 13-year-old girl.

I am arguing loudly that most of the people in prison in Georgia should be released right now on humanitarian grounds. I wouldn't make that argument for Bah today, based on what I've seen. He should never be a free man again.

chatinent:
Thanks for your input.

Please, when free, try revisit the case again using these facts:

1. As opposed to what you said, there was actually no in-court identification. Yes, it was falsified!

2. The jury never heard the DNA weren't his...he was standing for himself then (story for another day). The judge prevented his DNA expert from testifying!

3. He was deemed guilty even before the court said so.

4. Do you know him in person? You sound like he has done it before and you bailed him!

I do not mean to disrespect you but I wish to provoke your mind! The best way to help is checking two facts! You hate the figure who raped the minor, yes, it's normal! Don't let it becloud simple judgements and human reasoning! People who were set-up also look guilty! How do people set-up prove themselves innocent? Wear those fccking shoes too!

With due respect, if you cannot help, don't add to injury! We summoned you to help...not play the devil. Whoever you are, it's all six feet for us all!

You would reduce your temper to check possible facts if it were your brother in jail! You wouldn't tell him he'll die there because the court facts said so!

Professional journalism is when you discover what the court didn't want others to know! Not being grandiloquent on already known facts with abysmal insults that would weaken one's bone!

Who am I? I am nobody! I'm a crazy lazy dude on the street of Lagos hating on direct insults to injuries! Yes, and that's why you think nobody is nobody to you! I guess you are feeling pained and want to exercise your “connectedness”...that's what it feels to be accused wrongly!


An investigator tries to let the defendant know beyond all reasonable doubts that there are guilty! To help, they proffer solutions if they think the defendant is repentant at least!

You just came in and pronounced judgement like you live in heaven!

Do you even know what he is asking for? He is not asking to be innocent! He only needs the momentum so his case can be revisited and due process followed! That's all he is asking! If he is guilty, wouldn't it end the same way!

Whether Lagos or Maiduguri in Georgia, human government and system is not PERFECT!

I provoke you to read! It seems you only read to rewrite and not read to discover!

I provoke you to wear those shoes!

I provoke you to show the whole world you were the journalist who spoke out for due process!

Yes, I provoke you that you can do better beyond your emotions!

I put it to you....you are going to do the right thing!

I am now done provoking you! Don't bother replying because I am SORRY!


Thank you!

#JusticeForBah.

chatinent:
GeorgeChidi is a 40-something ne’er-do-well refugee from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who, prior to stumbling upon the job of a lifetime with the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District, earned an unmarketable MBA from Georgia Tech. He also holds a journalism degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which he has not yet chosen to pawn at Manuel’s Tavern to cover his tab. Chidi has contributed to Creative Loafing, Atlanta Magazine, The Guardian, VICE, Computerworld, The Bitter Southerner, CNN.com and other disreputable publications. His journalism career began as an enlisted U.S. Army news reporter covering infantry training in the Pacific with the 25th Infantry Division – a job made excellent by the fact that it is extraordinarily hard to fire a military journalist.

While pretending to work as a business consultant and writing for the scurrilous political blog Peach Pundit, Chidi earned the privilege of sitting in the cheap seats of the Georgia legislature visitors deck from time to time to fling his venomous body fluids onto their desks and in their hair and their beverages. He also served on the city council of Pine Lake, population 700 discounting geese, which paid $599 a year and requires an encyclopedic understanding of goose excrement to perform effectively.

Chidi is happily divorced, without children. His mother tolerates him. His new wife does not tolerate his mother. He hates his pets and they hate him right back.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/person/c/george-chidi

GeorgeChidi:
Glad to see my sense of humor comes through. I confess to it all.

GeorgeChidi:
I believe 12 jurors spent the better part of a week hearing evidence during a trial and unanimously -- and quickly -- voted to convict him. A jury conviction is a powerful statement of guilt that requires more than a cursory claim of innocence to ignore. The burden of proof shifts to Bah to prove his innocence after that kind of conviction, and he's not meeting that burden, since everything he's arguing would have been evident to those 12 jurors.

He also has tremendous incentive to lie like hell right now, given what he's facing in prison.

There's no point in arguing half-measures: you can't sort-of-rape a 13-year-old girl, and there's no real provision for leniency in sentencing given the conditions. The only way he ever gets out of prison is by arguing that the state broke its own laws prosecuting him. And, again, he isn't offering sufficient evidence of that, because that's a high hurdle to leap.

Yeah. He did it. I can say that because a jury said it.

chatinent:
Now, George is talking.

Well, I read the jury said he did it...but I don't believe the jury.

chatinent:
Here is my point. He told me everything you are saying. I read others.

The thing is that it didn't really happen how the court wrote it down.

You are a professional and that's why I also respect your views. I am a professional too...and what he says in line with what you said is spot on...when there is a third ear to understand.

It looks like a lie to sb who is only reading the script.

To sb who is examining, it looks like sth is missing somewhere.

That's my point.

chatinent:
We want the Nigerian government to be involved. If momentum from the FG can be drawn, and these evidences scrutinized, this is the target. Until it goes viral, they are hellbent on imprisoning him.

chatinent:
Here is my point. He told me everything you are saying. I read others.

The thing is that it didn't really happen how the court wrote it down.

You are a professional and that's why I also respect your views. I am a professional too...and what he says in line with what you said is spot on...when there is a third ear to understand.

It looks like a lie to sb who is only reading the script.

To sb who is examining, it looks like sth is missing somewhere.

That's my point.

MMotimo:
Post modification in progress so I’ll just immortalize a few comments and leave the rest in the previous screenshots

chatinent:
Those scripts are confidential, bro. That's my point.

chatinent:
No, I didn't ignore. I only refused to keep recycling answers over and over.

We are supposed to be done with this rhubarb already, sir.

I've been reading and responding some people privately, or showing support or detestation by liking or sharing the posts.

You cannot compel me to share or paste some confidential 1200 documents to you just because you want to verify sth. The document already says the rape happened! All we were doing from frontpage was arguing the rapist couldn't have been Bah using evidences provided to refute the claims.

The dis​so​nance isn't what I want to do here again.
Shey oyibo people say action speaks louder than words?

Let's watch as things unfold, boss. We cannot keep recycling the schisms within.



Thanks.

chatinent:
Everything you need to know is on this thread, boss. Read over.

Ola17:
What is going on here?!
Chatinent what is the purpose of removing the thread’s title?

This thread here is a repository of vital life lessons and exposé. A lot of people invested time, effort and emotions here and trying to subdue this thread is being inconsiderate on your part.

1stGenAmerican:
The things that you have mentioned are things that can be essential to growth and positive change. A person who makes changes in order to conceal the truth is a person that truth doesn’t not live within.

A poisoned plant will never be capable of providing nourishing fruit to anyone.

MMotimo:
I only read the first line of this before and didn’t bother with the rest. Now, I have some time.

“ Nobody holy pass” has become the excuse for a multitude of sins - yahoo yahoo, money ritual, polithiefing, influencer profiteering, etc. Nobody holy pass is the reason why you would without a second thought become the mouthpiece of a child rapist abi? And assume that everyone else would do the same thing if they had the opportunity, ko?

@bolded: Some of you think everyone on here grew up the same way you did with zero moral compass. I’m not the epitome of perfection but understand that you and I do not belong in the same class when it comes to morals and scruples. You don’t have to believe me but hear this- My mother put the fear of lying and stealing into her children at a very early age. That is why till tomorrow, myself and my siblings do not lie and do not steal nor bear false witness. Yet, without exception, God has prospered us and blessed our offspring in ways we could not even imagine. Through it all, not one of us has ever been involved in any sort of criminal behaviour or aided criminality. God has prospered us through the work of our hands without us identifying with rapists and criminals.

“Oruko rere san ju wura lo” a good name is better than gold
Ranti omo eni ti iwo nse remember the child of whom you are
Evil communication corrupts good manners

The above and more are what we heard from older family members and friends when we were growing up. These are everlasting values that we teach and preach to our own children. These are the values upon which we were raised. Ultimately, even without those, God has blessed each person, INCLUDING YOU with a sense of right and wrong.

Go back and read about my $1 example on the previous page. Like I’ve said before, ALL WAY NO BE WAY! That is why lots of us have lived abroad for decades and never seen the inside of a police vehicle or a jail or even been interrogated or become a suspect in any crime. Hustling to make ends meet is not a crime but hustling that is completely devoid of scruples and the basics of human decency is. That you would even consider hustling on the back of a 13 year old rape victim is particularly egregious!

The tribalism on Nairaland is bad enough, it is disastrous that rapists, their apologists and all manner of perverts have created a thriving community on this site. To the extent that characters like yourself with a “followership base” see nothing wrong with capitalizing on said Nland yeyebrity influence to advance the cause of a duly convicted and unrepentant serial sex offender.

Ishilove:
Bravo!! Bravo!!!! You, sir, are quite the story teller. I was immersed in this well written, captivating epistle and I did not jump a single line.

More ink to your pen.

LilMissFavvy:
Can someone pls summarize for me? , NL and their drama. Till now I can't read pass page 6.

jornwhite:
Seems the captivating well written epistle changed someone mind, i come in peace