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WaffenSS:
Pls share pictures of the weapons.

If they'd guns and the attackers only had knives, how come 33 of them were murdered with knives and stones yet none of the attackers were killed?

If there truly were guns you'd bet your life it'll be all over social media and the mass media, if only for the attackers to justify their crime.

Who brings a knife to a gun fight and still comes out victorious?

You people have been programmed by your pastors and community leaders to think like mindless buffoons completely devoid of rational thought.

Ignorance is the basis of your propaganda.

Somehow, you conveniently left out the issue of the wrong road they took. Kindly address that, if you may

sinkhole:
Plenty of things are not connecting here!
These,obviously non-yorubas, left Bauchi after religious program and head for Ondo! Why?
On trying to go to Ondo through Jos, they decided to pass through a known anti-muslim/anti-fulani region of Jos! Why?
Did their brothers in Bauchi not advice them on where and how to move in Jos?

Much does not add up about their ‘religious’ trip. The rife narrative in Jos at the moment is that the contingent was on its way to attack mourners at the burial of the over 70 souls earlier killed in Miango which was taking place yesterday. Infact, my military contact at Rukuba barrack told me that some of them are still worried as to how the delegation traveling from Bauchi to Ondo ended up along Rukuba road which is completely off their path.

nairavsdollars:
Twitter fall my hands sha if truly they begged

clearly there was no such begging. Twitter is just being diplomatic with a sovereign state, and nothing more. This is FG's damage control move being hit hardest by its own ban. Everyone else including opposition PDP have been enjoying twitter except the government and its apparatus, so this move was coming one way or another.

Government should have no business with such tourist endeavors, there are far too many serious issues for government to focus on.

bakesntakes:
You guys need to be careful, some of this fuel attendants are greedy people, when making payment with POS always make sure you double check the amount typed in, instead of #6,000 some of them will just put #60,000. If you eventually find out, they'll say it's mistake. This happened to a friend of mine, he doesn't receive alert on his phone, so he didn't know what they had done, it was later in the week that he need to pay for something online and found out that he had insufficient funds. So he requested for his Bank statement, and it was discovered that the fuel attendant had scanned him, he reported the matter thought and hot his money back. The attendant said it was a mistake. But it's not true, that's the style they use especially if they observed l you and see that this guy is well packaged. Be careful

This is not plausible and the attendants know it is not defensible hence will rarely attempt such dumb stunt. After deceptively charging my ATM card 70k instead of 7k how do you defend that i bought fuel of 70k into my Toyota Camry when I return later, considering there is irrefutable electronic evidence of the POS transaction?

There are primarily two ways they shortchange the customer when buying petrol.
1. The pump is adjusted abinitio to dispense less than expected. This does not only affect targeted customers but everyone that buys from such pump, and there is not much to do than to report/complain to regulatory agencies like DPR.
2. Carrying over the last sales bill into the unsuspecting or distracted customers bill by not hanging the nozzle properly to reset to zero. If the sales before you was 2000 naira and the attendant continues without resetting to zero, you get 2000 naira less value for whatever amount of purchase made. Here, you can complain to the manager/supervisor and seek redress when the discrepancy is quite obvious, thats why they mostly attempt such trick when the previous purchase is small like 500 or 1000 and the new purchase is high like 4 or 5000 naira, else the scam is easily detectable. Ensure the meter is reset to zero always before they commence dispensing to your car.

PrisonEscapee:
Critical thinking indeed. The same person who said Money laundering is legal is talking about 'critical thinking'.

Besides Wikipedia, I guess you have more accurate information than CNN and BBC combined?.

One uncovered scheme that involved English premier league was for $124 million. The investigation is still ongoing. Hush is not your regular scammer. His schemes run in hundreds of millions of dollars.

The parking lot talk just lets me know that you've never stepped foot outside Nigeria. Most people have one car and some only use chattered taxis so you can arrange with the property management to have the empty parking spaces.
Also, Dubai is mostly a tourist country so expect more empty parking spaces.
The ownership talk is flawed, Dubai police have documents to verify who the cars belong to?.

Since you keep doubting hush, best believe tobechi onwuhara made $80 - $100 million as confirmed by the fbi.

I ask you again, how many $500k cars have you seen in your life?. Even in the US, people stop, stare and take pictures when they see a $500k car.

Some people are not on your level. Stop arguing, go and hustle and stop trying to belittle a multimillionaire who is richer than your generation.

Please, let that simpleton be. All your effort is hopeless!

Newboss:
Oga, no one ever said that money laundering is not a crime. Call things what they are. Don't tag someone who only does money laundering a fraudster. It's like calling an armed robber a kidnapper, and vice versa. It upsets. In fact, that one should also be a crime. You can be into money laundering without ever defrauding anyone.

Of course, you're still committing a crime. Not all criminals moving money is a fraudster. You can call them accomplices of fraudsters, but not fraudsters.

I know these sound like mere semantics but they carry a lot of weight. You doubt it, look at Kyari's case. Most comments I have seen are screaming fraudster but what FBI said he did is intimidation, harassment, abuse of power, at worst. But because he did it for Hush, he's now a fraudster to them. The word fraudster is a heavy one. It's as bad as being tagged a rapist.

All this rigmarole about fraud and money laundering is the most ignorant write up i have so far come across in the month of August

More like 'ignorant arewa youths' because from the write up its safe to say that they have no understanding of the issues and case against Kyari.

owagbeba:
Our culture of “roger” is the problem here. And I have serious doubt we will be able to take “roger” out of our life as a third world nation.

Many times we call on a police Oga to help us resolve an issue or intervene in a matter. This “oga” will intervene to help out. You call on him when other police men harass you on the road. When there is a robbery. In a case of fraud. In all of these, this “oga” will help. But you know as a culture here you must roger “boys” at the end of the job.

This is what I see in this Kyari -hush saga. I think his bosses at NPF will understand and see it from that view that he just helped “hush” to arrest Chibuzo because “hush” claimed he defrauded him (hush).

Foreigners may not really understand this “roger” culture of ours, but we here understand “roger”.

A foreigner investigating a case but not familiar with the culture here, these might appear terrible but it somewhat a way of life here. Bad as it may, that’s how the Nigeria system works!

Stop pontificating ignorance, get the unsealed damning documents that show his involvement with Hush and you wont utter such words of ignorance

einsteine:
Can you imagine what you are relying on to argue?

Go and read the actual court complaint. I am sure you won't make any of these wrong arguments after that.

You are foolishly being evasive.
Vanguard published the court documents as retrieved from the US DOJ website

Bedtec:
Abba kyari is a protector of the law , a top dog at that , guess you don't know when law enforcement agencies breaks the law they're ment to protect they're in for a bigger sentence to that of civilians.......

A dirty crooked cop is far worse than criminals!

bluefilm:
Please show me where I can read about the full phone exchanges.

It will help me to put things more in perspective.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/hushpuppi-see-court-documents-indicting-abba-kyari-others/amp/
Here, vanguard has published most of the documents.
Please do yourself good by taking time to understand the facts of the matter to avoid ignorant pontifications

Personally i have argued as far back as 2018 that there is absolutely nothing exceptional about the exploits of Abba Kyari other than the sheer incompetence of the Nigerian Police Force which makes his mediocre achievements 'stand out' as a shining star. In the land of the blind the one with one eye is king.

drlateef:
OP that’s not the whole truth of what we read in US documents. Paragraph 7,8,9,10 are not correct. From the official documents, Hush contacted Abba and told him that someone wanted to kill his family. Abba contacted a police officer to arrest the guy. Abba requested for mobilisation money from Hush to be paid directly to the officer who will do the job. The amount of mobilisation money is not mentioned in the document. Abba detained the guy and sent picture to Hush to confirm that they picked the correct guy. Abba was not aware of the motive of Hush other than the story he was told by Hush - that he wanted to kill his family. After month Abba could not get evidence that the guy actually wanted to kill Hush family, that’s why he was released.

At the end of the day, Abba did not collect any money and he did not know the real motive of Hush. This happens a lot in the society where rich people call the police and mobilise them with money so as to punish their foes. That’s exactly what Hush has used Abba Kyari for, without the poor man realising that a major scam was in the offing.

The story about someone wanting to kill hush’s family is Abba Kyari’s Facebook defense. The documents released show intercepted communications between them where Hush said something like ‘he wants to take food from me’

1x2x3:
A high ranking cop got a call to arrest someone and he was told a job was supposed to pay a certain amount in USD..... Assuming you are the experienced cop, what would be your first question?

Not just any of the averagely incompetent members of the Nigerian Police force but head of the elite crack detective team that is supposedly a shining star of the police. Abba Kyari was clearly in on it

bluefilm:
I don't see anything that implicates Abba Kyari in this narrative.

As far as Abba is concerned, he got a tip off about a fraudster and he acted subsequently.

Abba has no power to arrest Hoshpoppi in a foreign land.

Case closed.

The question now is could Abba have prevented the said fraud taking place in a foreign land?

That is the question the US courts and US Authorities will have determine its answer.

Wow! Your simpleton reasoning is heartbreaking! Did you read about the phone exchanges that the FBI intercepted between Kyari and Hush?

able88:
What's this one saying

It's very clear what he said that you are a foolish criminal!

He is clearly feeling the heat that has been turned on him to deactivate the same Facebook account he used to rebuke the earlier allegations against him yesterday. With the release of more court documents yesterday he belatedly realized there was nothing more to defend and quickly deactivated.

thebosstrevor1:
Peoplegazette is a FAKENEWS site

So what if it is from the us department of justice? Fake too? Stop being foolish!
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/six-indicted-international-scheme-defraud-qatari-school-founder-and-then-launder-over-1

Masanto:
Something is fishy, Hushpuppi paid directly to the seller but the Clothes were delivered to your office? Why cant the seller waybill directly to him if there is no tie between you and Hush. Abi him de run Escrew service?

Because the guy that came to pickup the clothes from the police office also brought cash for Kyari and his team. The whole tailor and clothes story is a ruse to bring cash for them and avoid any trail of direct payments

Anyone who has lived long enough in Nigeria and understands the modus operandi here knows that the person that came to pickup the clothes from the police office brought cash settlement for the officers. Else, how do you explain that Hush had direct access to the tailor and even paid directly to his account, yet somehow, police office was resorted to as pickup point.
some of us have always held the view that there's nothing exceptional about Kyari and his IRT team. Its now clear from this half baked rebuttal

The strength of Abba Kyari's defense lies in the fact that no money was wired directly to him, rather the guy that came to pickup the clothes from their (police) office brought cash for them.
However, there was definitely phone conversations, Whatsapp messages, etc

IgboWarlord:
This one Abba Kyari responded and even admitted that he paid for some clothes worth 300k..Hmm,i smell a rat,a very big black,adult rat..

Clearly there was some monetary transaction between them for him to admit that much. My take is that the delivery pickup guy brought wads of cash for Kyari

Kingcalls:
He did it...after u found out that he lied against the guy u still discussed fashion with him and he decided to buy the kind of native u wear as per ebuka wey u be... lol...

This is already a red flag on Kyari's integrity

As it stands Abba Kyari may not be able to travel to the US without first clearing his name in the allegation

advanceDNA:
Well, no one will listen to him without hard evidence...

This will be just be tagged as a devil looking for who he will drag down with him to hell.....

Abba kiyari shouldn’t be too dumb to receive bribe money into his personal account...


But then again...money can make u silly sometimes...

I doubt the US Department of Justice will put out a statement with ABBA Kyari’s name if Hushpuppi’s claims were not backed with ‘hard evidence’ as you put it.
https://www.nairaland.com/6674810/us-department-justice-indicts-police

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/six-indicted-international-scheme-defraud-qatari-school-founder-and-then-launder-over-1
Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Central District of California
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Six Indicted in International Scheme to Defraud Qatari School Founder and then Launder over $1 Million in Illicit Proceeds

Nigerian National Known as ‘Hushpuppi’ Admits Money Laundering in School Financing Scam and Additional Cyber and Business Email Compromise Schemes

LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury indictment unsealed this week alleges an elaborate scheme to steal more than $1.1 million from a businessperson attempting to finance the construction of a school for children in Qatar – and the subsequent laundering of illicit proceeds through bank accounts around the world.

The three-count indictment returned on April 29 and unsealed Monday charges three U.S.-based defendants who were arrested last week – as well as three defendants believed to be in Africa – with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to engage in money laundering, and aggravated identity theft.

The criminal complaint that initiated the prosecution in February was also unsealed Monday, revealing that Ramon Olorunwa Abbas – also known by his social media handle of “Ray Hushpuppi” – was initially charged in this case. Court documents ordered unsealed today show that Abbas, a 37-year-old Nigerian national, pleaded guilty on April 20. A version of Abbas’ plea agreement filed late Tuesday outlines his role in the school-finance scheme, as well as several other cyber and business email compromise schemes that cumulatively caused more than $24 million in losses.

“The defendants allegedly faked the financing of a Qatari school by playing the roles of bank officials and creating a bogus website in a scheme that also bribed a foreign official to keep the elaborate pretense going after the victim was tipped off,” said Acting United States Attorney Tracy L. Wilkison. “Mr. Abbas, who played a significant role in the scheme, funded his luxurious lifestyle by laundering illicit proceeds generated by con artists who use increasingly sophisticated means. In conjunction with our law enforcement partners, we will identify and prosecute perpetrators of business email compromise scams, which is a massive and growing international crime problem.”

“Mr. Abbas, among the most high-profile money launderers in the world, has admitted to his significant role in perpetrating global BEC fraud, a scheme currently plaguing Americans,” said Kristi K. Johnson, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. “His celebrity status and ability to make connections seeped into legitimate organizations and led to several spin-off schemes in the U.S. and abroad. Today’s announcement deals a crucial blow to this international network and hopefully serves as a warning to potential victims targeted with this type of theft.”

According to the indictment, Abbas allegedly conspired with Abdulrahman Imraan Juma, a.k.a. “Abdul,” 28, of Kenya, and Kelly Chibuzo Vincent, 40, of Nigeria, to defraud the Qatari businessperson by claiming to be consultants and bankers who could facilitate a loan to finance construction of the planned school. Juma allegedly posed as a facilitator and consultant for the illusory bank loans, while Abbas played the role of “Malik,” a Wells Fargo banker in New York, according to court documents. Vincent, in turn, allegedly provided support for the false narratives fed to the victim by, among other things, creating bogus documents and arranging for the creation of a fake bank website and phone banking line.

Yusuf Adekinka Anifowoshe, a.k.a. “AJ,” 26, of Brooklyn, New York, allegedly played a role in the fraud, assisting Abbas with a call to the victim posing as “Malik.” Special agents with the FBI arrested Anifowoshe in New York on July 22.

The conspirators allegedly defrauded the victim out of more than $1.1 million.

The proceeds of the fraud allegedly were laundered in several ways. According to the indictment, Abbas was assisted in laundering the proceeds of the fraud by Rukayat Motunraya Fashola, a.k.a. “Morayo,” 28, of Valley Stream, New York, and Bolatito Tawakalitu Agbabiaka, a.k.a. “Bolamide,” 34, of Linden, New Jersey. These two defendants also were arrested on July 22 by FBI agents.

Approximately $230,000 of the stolen funds allegedly were used to purchase a Richard Mille RM11-03 watch, which was hand delivered to Abbas in Dubai and subsequently appeared in Hushpuppi’s social media posts. Other illicit proceeds from the scheme were allegedly converted into cashier’s checks, including $50,000 in checks that were used by Abbas and a co-conspirator to fraudulently acquire a St. Christopher and Nevis citizenship, as well as a passport for Abbas obtained by creating a false marriage certificate and then bribing a government official in St. Kitts.

Court documents outline a dispute among members of the conspiracy, which allegedly prompted Vincent to contact the victim and claim that Abbas and Juma were engaged in fraud. After this contact, Abbas allegedly arranged to have Vincent jailed in Nigeria by Abba Alhaji Kyari, 46, of Nigeria. According to the affidavit, Kyari is a highly decorated deputy commissioner of the Nigeria Police Force who is alleged to have arranged for Vincent to be arrested and jailed at Abbas’ behest, and then sent Abbas photographs of Vincent after his arrest. Kyari also allegedly sent Abbas bank account details for an account into which Abbas could deposit payment for Vincent’s arrest and imprisonment.

Anifowoshe, Fashola and Agbabiaka were arrested in New York and New Jersey on July 22, and they are expected to be arraigned in Los Angeles in August. All three are currently free on bond.

A criminal complaint and an indictment contain allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Both conspiracy counts alleged in the indictment carry a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. Aggravated identity theft carries a mandatory two-year prison term.

The FBI is investigating this matter as part of Operation Top Dog. The FBI thanks the government of the United Arab Emirates and the Dubai Police Department for their substantial assistance in this matter. The FBI also thanks the Kenyan Office of Attorney General, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and Directorate of Criminal Investigations for their substantial assistance.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Khaldoun Shobaki of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section. The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs provided substantial assistance in this matter.

ImmaculateJOE:
Although I don't know shit about drainage systems, but I'm so convinced that the major causes of flood is;
Poor drainage system
Dumping of wastes inside drainage
Lack regular of sanitations
Ineffectiveness of the ministry of environment and lastly
Joe Ibekwe

Often, but not necessarily always.
Sometimes it's just freak deluge! A whole month of rainfall falling within hours, such as just experienced in north Western Europe.

Buckeyemedia1:
Common sense Mr Man, her party pdp told her to vote against the bill, & she is like why should I vote against something I helped create? To please her party she abstained.

The 'common sense' seems to have eluded you.
APC senators voted in favour of an amendment of her committee's recommendation, while the opposition PDP opted to retain the committee's recommendation on transmission of election results. She should have remained and voted against the proposed amendment, but chose to be absent during the vote, so its not even 'abstaining' but absenteeism.

BluntCrazeMan:
Nonsense.!!

Madam, no matter what you say, it's of no importance now.
..
Every time, you people would stage a Nonsense WALK-OUT... Yet, everything that is Very Very BAD would still happen behind you guys after you must have walked out... Why don't you stay back and fight on, and let it be that you did your best.?? Why staging a cowardly Walkout??
In fact; You, and Uche-Ekwunife, and Ifeanyi-Ubah are a total disgrace to Anambra State.

This one has clearly missed the direction of the discourse.
There was no walk-out at the senate on the electoral amendment issue please

naptu2:
https://www.thecable.ng/stella-oduah-why-i-was-absent-during-voting-on-e-transmission-of-election-results

This unnecessary explanation is an insult to the sensibilities of Nigerians because she could very well have voted against the proposed amendment in favor of her committees work. Also, she did not 'abstain' but was 'absent' during the vote, there is a difference.