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TechBaron:
Yankee!

Even their riot sef dey orderly.

The policemen containing the demonstration are unarmed.

The whole thing is looking like a movie set.

In my home country, trigger happy special forces of the Nigerian Army, Airforce, Navy, Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Civil defence, Immigration, Customs, etc would have been on ground with assault rifles to shoot live rounds.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Hahaha hahaha!

Don't you know how the hearts of black man operates?

We are wicked to one another forget the religions and ethnicity you see within us.

[quote author= post=131031978]Children must be protected at all cost .[/quote]By encouraging them to be gay ba?

Yafirr:
I tot riot don't happen in a sane clime

This is exactly what they make you believe, just so you feel your country is much much worse than theirs. Meanwhile, theirs is the worst.

TriCee:
This child service thing go soon cause more wahala.

You correct your child as a parent, they come and take the child away. As in, na una born am? Just small shout for pikin, they are taken.

Errr... That is not quite what is says here and you are totally wrong in your assertion.

It will not cause any wahala, all the violent criminals/people who are involved in destroying public properties and people's businesses will be arrested and punished.

WikeTheDrunk:
UK has been allowing too many foreigners to enter and stay in the UK, including Islamic terrorists in recent times.

Are they racist towards foreigners or not? Victimisation and double standard of foreigners is appalling.

Apprentice360:
Social media has taught us a very big lesson, opening our eyes to know much more happening around the world,
I think by now, we all have known that the saner climes we grew up to hear about is not that saner as we all think of it.

Capitol
Black live matter
France riot
Now this.

The qualifying adjective is “saner,” not “sane.”

Jakumo:
Summer is riot season in the Western Hemisphere's ghettos. Temperatures are up and tempers run hot. It only takes the smallest of insignificant real or imaginary incidents that go viral online to trigger swarms of ghetto coons to embark on mass looting of shops, arson, and overturning of cars in the street.

Typically, a riot in one city starts a chain reaction of copycat riots in other cities after jobless youths see their colleagues in nearby ghettos stealing property while the police are in disarray dealing with a riot. Next thing you know more riots spread like wildfire in the summer heat. The common denominator in ALL those riots is that they are used as a cover by jobless drug-dealing hoodlums for the theft of property under the guise of participating in a "solidarity riot" whose cause most rioters may not even care to know.

Absolutely! Correct! And all the criminals involved will be arrested and put in prison in due course.

TechBaron:
Yankee!

Even their riot sef dey orderly.

The policemen containing the demonstration are unarmed.

The whole thing is looking like a movie set.

In my home country, trigger happy special forces of the Nigerian Army, Airforce, Navy, Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Civil defence, Immigration, Customs, etc would have been on ground with assault rifles to shoot live rounds.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

You can't really predict what you'll find on the streets of Nigeria during a protest. Lots of criminals are always lurking around to hijack protests here and you have to be ready to face them with lethal weapons.

However, if the security operatives are not being fired at, they have no reason to fire at any protester. That's irresponsible and criminal - that I agree.

The point at which your kids are taken away from you cos of a correction isn't the best way..
Culture and perspective differs..

Why looking for gypsies wahala. Most go about living their simple lives

davies:
The point at which your kids are taken away from you cos of a correction isn't the best way..
Culture and perspective differs..

The law is the law..

Culture comes last. An indian family murdered their daughter in the name of culture "honor killing" even though the poor girl reported to the police that she suspects her parents are planning to kill her, culture my ass!


So many children lost their lives in the hands of their so called parents and social services blamed for not intervening.

A child was totured to death by her mother's lesbian lover, the social services couldn't take the child away because they were accussed of homophobia.

I fully support the taking away of children from their iresponsible and violent parents.

It says here that the family their child was taken away are Roma gypsies, people known for abuse of the system and their children.

joseph1832:
This is exactly what they make you believe, just so you feel your country is much much worse than theirs. Meanwhile, theirs is the worst.

This is ridiculous atleast there are still law and order in their country unlike in africa.

verifiablefacts:
By encouraging them to be gay ba?

Is that what you read on here? What a very dumb comment.

completeskills:
This is silly. They took your children because you were not taking good care of them. The next thing is to call your kindred and start fighting the state. Lets see how this roma gypsy will get justice by going that route.

To those of you saying trash about sane societies..you should know that as long as humans make up the society, there will always be disturbances. The difference is how often these happens and what the response is from the Government to correct it while punishing those responsible without fear or favour.

Absolutely correct!

This is even more reason for social services to take their kids away. Violent goons.

Afonjah:
4th world civilization
Spits

Yes, and that is why ThiefNuibu and other looters are rushing there for medical tourism, Pandora properties etc.
Spit on your hypocrisy, will you

julaion:
"The Pandora paper linked a house in U.K to Tinubu who acquired it by looter funds by proxy via his related Oyetola, the current governor of osun state"

PANDORA PAPERS: Buhari visited Tinubu in corruption-tainted London villa acquired by Oyetola
Governor Oyetola, a relative of Mr Tinubu, may have sabotaged his own country by buying the exotic property as Nigeria made to seize it.

It was a meeting of two of Nigeria’s most influential politicians in London – President Muhammadu Buhari was visiting political kingmaker and senior member of his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.

In July, the presidency announced that Mr Buhari was heading to London for an education summit. The office also added that the president would also see his doctors for “medical check-up”.

Coincidentally, Mr Tinubu, who had travelled to London earlier, was also receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment in the British capital. So, a perfect setting for both men to meet was created.

Media handlers of the two men later flooded social media with photos of both men having what seemed like a jovial conversation in a London house. Another photo of both men standing, with their face masks drawn underneath their chins, was also shared.

“President Muhammadu Buhari this evening in London, the United Kingdom, visited Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,”Bashir Ahmad, one of Mr Buhari’s media aides, captioned the photos on Facebook on August 12.

Certainly, it was not the first time both men were meeting, and photos of their encounter were released to the public. However, on this occasion, the release of their photographs angered many Nigerians.

Many called out the two politicians for releasing photos of themselves on medical tourism while doctors in public hospitals in the country were on strike.

But what most Nigerians did not know was that the property at which the duo met was linked to one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country since Mr Buhari became president in 2015.

A PREMIUM TIMES investigation has now revealed that the mansion where Mr Tinubu welcomed President Buhari is not only embroiled in a multi-billion fraud scandal, the Buhari government had actually secured a freezing order on the property from a Federal High Court before the previous owner, who is now an international fugitive, sold it at a huge discount to an offshore company owned by the governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, a known proxy and a relative of Mr Tinubu.

This revelation emerged as part of the ongoing global Pandora Papers reporting project, led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and in which PREMIUM TIMES is a key participant.

The project involved 600 journalists from 150 news organisations around the world sorting and analysing a trove of almost 12 million confidential files, tracking down and interviewing sources, and adding context using public records and documents.

The leaked files were retrieved from some offshore services firms around the world that set up shell companies and other offshore entities for clients, many of them influential politicians, businesspersons, and criminals seeking to conceal their financial dealings.

Google Street View Images of the Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London
Google Street View Images of the Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London
The Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London
The property, which is situated at 32 Grove End Road, in the wealthy Westminster neighbourhood of London, has become a sort of mecca to associates of Mr Tinubu, and politicians of the ruling APC, after the former Lagos governor started staying there for what appears to be recuperation.

Apart from Mr Buhari, other politicians who have visited Mr Tinubu at the expansive 6,975 sq ft property are the governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; a former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun; Mr Amosun’s successor, Dapo Abiodun; the governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi; the governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu; members of the Lagos State House of Assembly; the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; a contingent from Kano State led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje; top fuji musician; Wasiu Ayinde, among other dignitaries.

Some Nigerian senators visits Tinubu in London
Some Nigerian senators visits Tinubu in London
The 32 Grove End Road villa exudes stunning opulence. According to an advert brochure of the property released by popular United Kingdom real estate company, Savills, the estate is made up of two buildings – a five-bedroom property with a formal reception, a study, a master bedroom with an en suite dressing room, bathroom and a cinema suite with a balcony overlooking the rear garden. Two of the other four bedrooms in the property are en suite.

The Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London
The Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London
The Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London
The Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London
The second building on the estate is a self-contained two-bedroom flat which is built above the property’s double length garage. The property comes with a gym, two guest cloakrooms, a carriage driveway that can park up to eight cars, and front and rear gardens, and an electric gate.

The Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London
The Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London
The Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London
The Mansion at 32 Grove End Road, London

Bought from a fugitive at a £8 million discount
Documents obtained from the UK property register revealed that in July 2013, the property with title number 340992, was bought for £11.95 million by Zavlil Holdings Ltd, a shell company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, a notorious tax haven. Further documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that Zavlil Holdings Limited is owned by Kolawole Aluko, an international fugitive wanted by law enforcement agencies in Nigeria and the United States for money laundering.

Kola Aluko and his associate, Jide Omokore, were indicted in the U.S. and Nigeria for multi-million-dollar fraud and money laundering violations allegedly in collusion with a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

In 2016, the Federal Government of Nigeria filed a Mareva injunction at a Federal High Court in Lagos seeking to confiscate a list of properties belonging to Messrs Aluko and Omokore valued at $1.8 billion.

A Mareva injunction is a Court order which freezes the assets of a defendant pending the outcome of a litigation.

In the suit against Messrs Omokore and Aluko, alongside their companies, Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited and Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited, the Nigerian Government asked the court to grant it seven orders to prevent the accused from disposing the assets. The government alleged they were acquired through fraudulent means.

The third prayer the government made to the court was to grant it an order restraining the accused “from giving any instruction, demanding, accepting, receiving payments and/or transacting, transferring, mortgaging or howsoever dealing in any manner with assets of the Defendants in both houses and land in Abuja and Lagos and others located outside Nigeria.”

The government then listed 17 properties in Abuja, Lagos, the U.S., Canada, Dubai, Switzerland, and the UK.

Among the listed properties was “Grove End Road, London”.

The court granted the government all its prayers. In October 2017, an attempt by the defendants to dismiss the Mareva injunction granted on the properties was subsequently dismissed by Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, the trial judge.

But just around the time (on October 18, 2017) the court dismissed the defendant’s attempt to dismiss the injunction, documents obtained from the U.K. property register revealed that Mr Aluko sold the house for £9 million to Aranda Overseas Corporation, an offshore company incorporated in the British Virgins Island by two of Mr Tinubu’s most trusted surrogates – Adegboyega Oyetola, formerly chair of Paragon Group of Companies and incumbent governor of Osun State and Elusanmi Eludoyin, Mr Oyetola’s successor at Paragon.

The huge discount at which the property was sold is curious and raised questions of whether Mr Aluko desperately needed to sell the property even while a court of law had placed a freeze order on it.

The United Kingdom, especially the greater London area, is noted for rapid increase in the value of properties. According to PREMIUM TIMES’ calculation of the likely value of the property when it was bought by Aranda Overseas Corporation done on the website of UK’s National Building Society, which is the largest building society in the world, the property should be worth approximately 17 million pounds. Thus, Mr Aluko sold the property at a discount of £8,000,000.

How we used public photos to confirm Identity of London villa
In the application filed by the Nigerian government, the house number of the property on Grove End Road was omitted. However, PREMIUM TIMES’ extensive investigation in Nigeria and the U.K., including a detailed analysis of photographs of visits to Mr Tinubu, has shown that the APC leader is staying at the same property the Nigerian government wants forfeited.

We were also able to determine that it was at the same property that Mr Tinubu welcomed Mr Buhari on August 12 as well as other politicians who visited him. Our reporters carefully analysed some of the photos of these visits. Sources close to Mr Tinubu also confirmed that he stays and welcomes guests, including Mr Buhari, at the property.

Two photos of the visit of Mr Abiodun, the governor of Ogun State, were particularly helpful in making the initial connections.


We compared the photos with those of the estate published in an advertisement brochure for the property by the real estate firm Savills, and they matched with features seen in some of the photos shared by those who visited the political kingmaker and presidential hopeful.

In one of the photos, Mr Abiodun, wearing a blue jacket and brown pants, stood beside Mr Tinubu, who spotted a white robe just behind. Double door entrance in front of a staircase. They smiled as they touched each other with their elbows in what seems like a playful coronavirus “shake”.

The floor tiles of the doorway and the intricate mental work of the railings of the staircase are identical to one of the photos in the advertisement brochure of 32 grove End Road published by Savills.

Bola Tinubu and Dapo Abiodun in London Mansion
Bola Tinubu and Dapo Abiodun in London Mansion
In another photo, Messrs. Abiodun and Tinubu were captured having what seemed like a hearty laugh. A comparison of the concrete rectangular concrete slabs around the garden with those of the garden in the Savills brochure showed that they are identical.

Bola Tinubu and Dapo Abiodun in Londom Mansion
Bola Tinubu and Dapo Abiodun in Londom Mansion
We also compared the photos taken during Mr Buhari’s visit and those taken during the visit of the Kano State governor and his entourage and they clearly showed that Mr Tinubu met with them at 32 Grove End Road.

President Buhari, Governor Ganduje during a vist to Tinubu in London
President Buhari, Governor Ganduje during a vist to Tinubu in London
Beyond analysing photographs of the interior and exterior of the building, we also sent representatives to visit the location and determine that the APC leader stays there.

We put our findings to Tunde Rahman, the spokesperson for Mr Tinubu. He promised to get back within 24 hours when we reached him on the telephone. Four days after, we are yet to hear from him.

When reached for comments, Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant on media to Mr Buhari, asked that questions be emailed to him. We did as he instructed. However, we did not hear from him subsequently.

How Oyetola broke the law
In November 1999, eighteen years before it was used as a vehicle to purchase the London property, Mr Oyetola and his billionaire partner, Mr Eludoyin, sought the service of a Bristol, UK-based international company registration agent, Jordans Limited, to help them set up a company.

They wanted a kind of setup that would guarantee some secrecy and on November 11 of that year, the company was registered.

Leaked confidential records revealed that Messrs Eludoyin and Oyetola became the shareholders and directors of Aranda and we did not see any record that the latter resigned from the management of the company even as he served as chief of staff to his predecessor, Rauf Aregbesola, thereby breaking Nigeria’s law.

In Nigeria, a person is statutorily obligated to withdraw from engaging in or directing a private business, except if it is farming, upon becoming a public officer, Section Six (6) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act stipulates.

Apart from Aranda, Mr Oyetola has another footprint in the offshore shadow economy. He and Mr Eludoyin, in 2003, incorporated another shelf company in the British Virgin Islands, Global Investments Offshore Limited.

Gboyega Oyetola, Governor of Osun State.
Gboyega Oyetola, Governor of Osun State
He ran the company as a director almost throughout his term as Mr Aregbesola’s Chief of Staff. However in June 2018, months before he became governor, he withdrew from the company and made his children – Rukayat Oyetola, Hafiz Oyetola, and Rasheedat Oyetola directors.

He also transferred his shares in Global Investments Offshore Limited to Mr Eludoyin and his son Haifz in June 2018. A register of directors we saw shows that all the formalities for the transfers were concluded and signed on June 1, 2018.

By remaining a director of Global Offshore for the entire period he was Chief of Staff to Mr Aregbesola, Mr Oyetola violated Nigeria’s code of conduct law and could be arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal if authorities decide to prosecute him for the infraction.

It however remains unclear why Mr Oyetola would rush to buy a property his country was pushing to confiscate due to well-known corruption allegations against its then owner.

Also unclear is why Mr Tinubu, who apparently wants to become Nigeria`s president, would agree to stay at the controversial property.

As for Mr Buhari, it is yet unknown why he would visit Mr Tinubu at a property suspected to have been originally bought by Mr Aluko from the proceeds of alleged theft of Nigeria’s oil money.

Mr Oyetola ignored multiple requests for him to comment for this story. His spokespersons declined to revert days after they promised to do so.

As indicated earlier, the spokespersons for Messrs Buhari and Tinubu also declined to comment for this report despite multiple requests by our reporters.


source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/pandora-papers/488537-pandora-papers-buhari-visited-tinubu-in-corruption-tainted-london-villa-acquired-by-oyetola.html

WikeTheDrunk:
UK has been allowing too many foreigners to enter and stay in the UK, including Islamic terrorists in recent times.

Roma are more Christian than delusional retar@ded imb@cile IPOB terrorist cannibal monkeys like you.

These Islamist welfare king’s don’t wana work. They only wana make babies and live free on welfare

WikeTheDrunk:
UK has been allowing too many foreigners to enter and stay in the UK, including Islamic terrorists in recent times.

The Gypsies aren't Muslims

TriCee:
This child service thing go soon cause more wahala.

You correct your child as a parent, they come and take the child away. As in, na una born am? Just small shout for pikin, they are taken.

So you correct your child to point of injuring that child that they need hospital care right? Congratulations, this just shows how you Africans are addicted to suffering

Thekaghan:
The social service system is a strict one. A pregnant Nigerian lady’s two children were taken away from her and the social service still waited for her to birth her baby and still took the infant.. Thanks for her good lawyer she fought the case for over a year and got her children back.. I expect the family to at least seek a legal means instead of a riot now their chance of getting the kids back is zero

If you beat up your four children to the point that they had to be sent to the hospital for treatment then that child should be taken from you

Origin of the crisis

The main video in this tweet shows the moment the crisis started. Apparently Social Services tried to take the children from the home, but they were resisted, so they called the police. The video shows policemen dragging children from the home (the children were resisting the police) as a large crowd gathered outside. Some in the crowd began to challenge the police.


A Roma man in one of the quoted videos explained what happened.

He said that the adult was not at home and that one of the children dropped another child on the ground. He said that the child that was dropped did not cry and the parent did not know that anything had happened when they returned home.

The next day the side of the child's head was swollen, so the parent took the child to the hospital. The man telling the story was asking if they think that the parent would have taken the child to the hospital if he actually did anything wrong.

🇬🇧 Did State overreach cause the Harehills Leeds riots?

🎦🚸 Video of West Yorkshire Police dragging reluctant Roma Gypsy kids taken from their parents after suspicions of child neglect emerges. https://t.co/L0PzoTi926 pic.twitter.com/aqUfp5w7pT

— Real Global News (@FelastoryMedia) July 19, 2024

Must u mention Islam? They said Rome u carry Islam enter quote author=WikeTheDrunk post=131031879]UK has been allowing too many foreigners to enter and stay in the UK, including Islamic terrorists in recent times.[/quote]

Damn mehn

This is supposed to be the utopia where our people are selling their children to raise money to relocate to..

Check it carefully.

It will be those muslim Animals rioting

The riots broke out in the Romani community. The Roma used to be called Gyspies, but they hate and reject that name.

They are believed to have migrated from India thousands of years ago. They are known to be itinerant entertainers. In the past they moved from place to place in horse drawn wagons and made money by entertaining people (singing, dancing, organising plays and fortune telling) wherever they went.

The Roma are mostly Christians, though a few still practice a form of the Hindu religion and a few are Muslims.

They have suffered massive discrimination because they have no country of their own. They are mostly found in Europe and the Americas.