Every day, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social matters, etc. Sometimes, they are even just downright ridiculous. We make it our job to take down the names of these noisemakers.
Here’s our list from today:
1. Henry Okelue
The Malabu scandal has been the trending topic on social media today, after Shell admitted it paid political kickbacks to members of the Jonathan administration.
Nigerians have been screaming bloody murder since then.
At the fore front of the pack has been Henry Okelue with these tweets:
When GEJ was President, these ALONE happened:
1. $20bn + went ghost
2. $1.3bn(which could be $500bn) went ghost.Don't cry for me Nigeria😭
— Errikos 🇳🇬 (@4eyedmonk) April 12, 2017
His wife whose only known occupation were:
1. A non-paying "First Lady" role
2. A non-paying (she said) ghost perm sec roleOwns $15m plus
— Errikos 🇳🇬 (@4eyedmonk) April 12, 2017
If you sell a property for 500 times less what it is worth, then you must be hiding something. $500bn for $1.3bn? Damn!
— Errikos 🇳🇬 (@4eyedmonk) April 12, 2017
If you sell a property for 500 times less what it is worth, then you must be hiding something. $500bn for $1.3bn? Damn!
— Errikos 🇳🇬 (@4eyedmonk) April 12, 2017
But Goodluck Jonathan can't be prosecuted. He has an unwritten, unspoken political cover. But look at our economy.
— Errikos 🇳🇬 (@4eyedmonk) April 12, 2017
I keep saying it, the Nigerian economy was handed near-dead to the present administration. $21.3bn (which could be $521.3bn) is major now😱
— Errikos 🇳🇬 (@4eyedmonk) April 12, 2017
And there was an outpouring of agreement:
People still either don't get it or just want to be blind to reality, the heist that went on under GEJ would have destroyed any country.
— The Godfather JP (@AyoOyalowo) April 12, 2017
They sucked us dry mehn. The goats ate the yams big time.
— A³ (@Abiola__AA) April 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/jag_bros/status/852056253228609536
So one oil contract = Nigerian GDP? 😂😂
— Ik (@geenieeus) April 12, 2017
2. Oddy
Oddy thought he might step in to inform the gang that this case is more complicated than the new revelations on social media.
And so he took them to school:
I'll do a thread on the little i know about the contentious OML aka 'Malabu' today.
— Edmonton Harvey Specter (@oddy4real) April 12, 2017
But Twitter NG did not care for the explanations, which they tagged “whitewash”:
Good morning to everybody except those that have received credit alert to start whitewashing and sharing misinformation on the Malabo deal.
— Jola (@Jollz) April 12, 2017
I've already started seeing them
"don't trust what white journalists tell you"
"It's funny you people believe what you see"— Jola (@Jollz) April 12, 2017
So, I'm reading Oddy's thread on this Malabu deal. If you don't know better, you'd think he was part of the deal and was taking records
— Foundational Yorùbá Boy (@Chrisbamidele) April 12, 2017
lmao d guy at times dey talk like say na ile keeu e graduate from . Bloody fool
— Softlife (@folayomi2020) April 12, 2017
This is my problem with gullible folks. The $1.2bn isnt Nigeria's money. So I dont understant the faux outrage
— Kingsley 🇵🇸 (@kingysly_01) April 12, 2017
If people admit GEJ was corrupt it won't kill them. Not everything is APC propaganda. Partisanship is making people blind
GEJ is no hero
— kenna (@kennagq) April 12, 2017
3. Dolapo Oni, expert and analyst in oil wells, mining and related matters decided to chime in.
He clarified that the Malabu oil well could not have sold for 500BN as touted by Henry Okelue and co.
But people had already made up their minds.
Anyone trying to spin this, your life will spin out of control and it will be in shambles. You are mad.
— Big Fish Gee 🦈 (@GbemmyG) April 12, 2017
This is for all your MCMs and WCW doing stupid threads on this matter.
— Big Fish Gee 🦈 (@GbemmyG) April 12, 2017
4. @EuginhoCortez
Meanwhile, this dude has a different problem: He would like people from non-oil producing states to shut it:
IMO you've no business whining about stolen oil money if your state doesnt have oil. Our real problem is the uselessness of the other states
— Gene Grey (@EuginhoCortez) April 12, 2017
Idoma girl wasn’t standinv for it:
https://twitter.com/idomagirl/status/852085511204339712
https://twitter.com/idomagirl/status/852086237691351040
5. Afrispheric waded in with a lesson in history. Summary: Nor be today all these tins take start. We built our systems to accomodate it.
This thread is very instructive abt how oil fields are valued.
Read & learn, don't let "overlords" do your thinking for you… https://t.co/OAjxwS4jSZ
— afrispheric (@afrispheric) April 12, 2017
Why are Nigerians acting suprised about the Malabu oil deal fiasco?
Why?
— afrispheric (@afrispheric) April 12, 2017
6. Rotimi Fawole
The lawyer also waded into the matter to give crucial context:
Untangling the wuruwuru behind the payments is the issue. Money paid to Malabu is probably legit. It holds the OML…
— Tex (@TexTheLaw) April 12, 2017
Malabu paying money on to govt to get approval for assignment of rights is where the corruption probably is.
— Tex (@TexTheLaw) April 12, 2017
Yeah I think 2 issues. 1 is discretionary award of licence to Malabu in 98 and the other is payment to govt official to facilitate transfer
— Mr Bablo (@MisterBabs_) April 12, 2017
He paid $2m out of $20m
— tyro (@DoubleEph) April 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/oladayo01/status/852181006274756608
That was the 'design' of the award. Collect inside, walk outside and sell for huge markup, pay bonus. Others like TY did it. He didn't
— tyro (@DoubleEph) April 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/i_am_dayoB/status/852182866691796994
Like the LRT says, govt is usually the majority stakeholder and will still take taxes on the oil company's rev. Move away from sale amount..
— Tex (@TexTheLaw) April 12, 2017
7. Adamu Aderinsola and Soma OJ
Soma is simply uninterested in a matter that spans decades and involves several presidents, when we’ll never get to the bottom of it. They also do not understand the token outrage, when we would have already forgoteen about it by tomorrow.
They are wrong: We have already moved on tonight.
