I do not focus on the negative of my people. And YES, INVICTUS and HUSHPUPI are MY PEOPLE. So also are Antetoukoumpo, Anthony Joshua etc etc.
I wrote a long piece on Invictus that said stories of fraud involving Nigerians only merit a shrug from me. The article I see is being reshared on Wats app group, many times I am not even credited with writing it
Nothing in this post should be taken as me encouraging crime. I do not do it nor encourage anyone to. But it is what it is.
On Hushpupi, like Invictus, my sentiment is the same. It borders on ADMIRATION at the SUPERIOR INTELLECT that gave these young men the skills to hack email and bank accounts and successfully defraud top corporate bodies. It takes me time to locate my account number even when I log i to my Wells Fargo or Chase Bank Accounts. I have an Iphone 11 Pro Max but so dumb, I do not see the difference between it and the iphone 7 I used before it. What are the three cameras for?
Point is, I did not talk much about Hushpupi or Invictus before their arrests. I will not talk much about them after I DO NOT KICK PEOPLE ON THE GROUND JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE FALLEN. Let people who have overly admired or hated them for long periods do that. Me, I just peep, shake my head and RESPECT THEIR HUSTLE as I drive small-small to my nurse job.
And if you dare talk about them spoiling Nigeria’s name and affecting your greencard, here is a gift from me… MY MIDDLE FINGER. We did not put fraud, Mafia, in the dictionary. We also are not the authors of the millions of Wall Street crimes and greed and all the global theft and destruction bu their oil companies. We did not invent PONZI SCHEMES.
JUST BECAUSE NIGERIANS ARE SMARTER AND BETTER AT IT THAN OTHERS, does not make us more fraudulent. We are just UNAPOLOGETICALLY SMARTER. Remember, 70 percent of black doctors in the US are Nigerians. Half of the top black roles in movies, from 12 Years a Slave to Martin Luther through Star Wars are Nigerians. The only foreigners winning MVP in NBA from Akeem Olajuwon to Giannis are Nigerians. The latest draft picks of NBA, NFL etc have so many “strange-sounding names, and are from Nigeria” writes a sports pundit.
So FACK YEAH!! I am proud of everything about Nigeria, from our doctors to our fraudsters. Like DJ KHALID.. WE THE BEST.
And inset is the picture of a “European” American that formed “Student’s For Trump”, Trump’s biggest youth movement, posing as a lawyer and defrauding people of over 46 thousand dollars., Hushpupi and Invictus lunch money
I refuse to apologize for our being smarter at a game the whole world plays.
People who once stole HUMAN BEINGS FROM AFRICA and ruined all oil producing countries including Nigeria and Venezuela and steal money in collusion with our dictators are in no position to criticize us at all. What is Switzerland and Cayman Islands if not LANDS OF THIEVES AND ABETTORS?
And do you know Husppupi, Invictus and all the many Nigerians of all tribes (okay mostly us southerners), many were smart enough to invest in BittCoin, a black market system made by “European” Americans etc to cheat the system? They will all come from prison still rich men. We did not create the BITTCOIN. We cannot apologize for using their own tool to “work”.
Ena Ofugara
