'Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo Twitter profile

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'Fisayo Soyombo

5 years

I spent five days in a police cell and eight in prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system. UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (I): Bribery, bail for sale… Lagos police station where innocent civilians are jailed and criminals are recycled

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4 years

Chadwick Boseman did all those films after being diagnosed with Stage III colon cancer, in the middle of surgeries and chemo? Then he didn't 'lose the battle against cancer'. He won. He f**king won -- because he put that disease in its place until the very end! Hero!

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4 years

If you witnessed the Lekki shootings of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers and you're comfortable sharing your experience with the international community, please get into my DM🙏.

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4 years

As someone who lived eight days in prison as an inmate during an undercover investigation, I can tell you that it is NOT possible for unarmed protesters or hoodlums to break into a prison in Edo State or elsewhere and set inmates free. Ko possible, sir. 1/2 #EndSARS

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@fisayosoyombo

2 years

How can any delegate listen to Yemi Osinbajo and Bola Tinubu tonight, and still go ahead to pick Tinubu? Politics aside, head to head, Tinubu shouldn't be winning any competency contest against Osinbajo. But this is politics. And, on top of it, this is Nigeria! #APCPrimaries

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 years

That Wizkid interview, Banky W shouldn't have granted it.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

4 years

The @PoliceNG in Edo arrested dozens of #EndSARS protesting students in Ekpoma yesterday, moved them to Benin & barred their friends & families from seeing them. Please join me in calling on the Edo State CP, Johnson Babatunde Kokumo, to set them free. They’re not criminals!

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 months

In these @fijnigeria videos, IBD Dende, the most notorious smuggler in the South West, can be seen threatening to kill a Customs officer who seized his smuggled goods. The officer he would have harmed had he not been restrained is an Assistant Superintendent of Customs. Some…

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'Fisayo Soyombo

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2 months

Good morning, @CustomsNG . What happened to the guns smuggled into Nigeria by IBD Dende in Q3 2022, some six months before the presidential election? Did you burn or destroy them, or did you sell to the public for N10,000 as you recently did with rice? Nigerians like to know.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

4 years

The Police are tracking #EndSARS protesters to their houses but tell them to track kidnappers to the forest and story go enter #EndSarsNow

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@fisayosoyombo

2 years

I will never forget that 3 days after #LekkiMassacre when Tinubu spoke to the media, these were his words: "Those that had suffered casualties during the gunshot need to answer some questions too. How were they there? How long were they there? What kind of characters were they?"

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 years

A country where the return of a presidential candidate after a 12-day medical trip abroad is newspaper frontpage headline 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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1 year

If you unfollowed Sabinus because you find his latest comedy offensive to your political god, you're only punishing yourself and that's your own personal problem. This Naija is hard already; na people like Sabinus we take dey console ourselves from time to time.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 years

Politics 101. Apparently, Bola Ahmed Tinubu raised the likes of Godswill Akpabio, Ibikunle Amosun and co to contest, or pretend to be contesting, only to divert their support to him in the 59th minute of the eleventh hour. Must have been the plan all along.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

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2 months

Smuggler and gunrunner IBD Dende is friends with Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector-General of Police. They’re both from Yewa in Ogun State. IBD Dende is friends with Bola President Tinubu. He was on the presidential train to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai! IBD Dende is friends…

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'Fisayo Soyombo

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2 years

If you really have to publicly release a video of yourself working out to prove your strength and health, then something is definitely not right. Like, why try so hard?

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

1 month

Good morning, @CustomsNG . I know you are aware already; I am aware too, and Nigerians will also become aware, by virtue of this tweet: IBD Dende smuggled seven vehicles into the country overnight, just a few hours ago while the rest of us were asleep. The vehicles came in via…

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

4 years

Happy to announce that I am the only African of 10 journalists worldwide to make the longlist for One World Media Award’s International Journalist of the Year 2020. Wasn’t planning to apply but @RGAMeyer pushed me into it. Thank you, Ruona! #OWMAwards2020

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 years

A presidential candidate who tells you to "shut up your mouth" while campaigning for office, because you're asking for 'a change of government' 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 Will definitely tell you to go to blazes if he wins. It'll surely be a govt where the ordinary citizen has no voice

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

4 years

By now, @MBuhari should've sacked the IGP & suspended the Oyo State CP. The policeman who pulled the trigger on Jimoh Isiaq should've been arrested & detained. If these three happened, I bet no policeman will shoot an #EndSARS proteser tomorrow. Leadership isn't rocket science.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

4 years

As we speak, Nigerian soldiers are still shooting in Lekki. Two residents of streets off Admiralty Way are telling me they can't sleep because of the gunshot sounds. #EndSARS

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

5 years

My 8 days in prison to expose how the courts & the prisons short-change the law...The Part II you've been waiting for UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (II): Drug abuse, sodomy, bribery, pimping… The cash-and-carry operations of Ikoyi Prisons #CashAndCarryPrison

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

4 years

I survived the longlist! Happy to join Sky News’ Alex Crawford and BBC News’ John Sudworth on the three-man shortlist for One World Media Award’s International Journalist of the Year 2020. Fingers crossed for the final decision of the jury #OWMAwards2020

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

3 years

In a sane society, after that David Hundeyin investigation, the IGP would've queried the Akwa Ibom CP by now. The CP wld've sacked the policeman in that unholy alliance with the killer-kidnapper. CSOs would be drafting petitions, the gov would be fuming, But... this is Nigeria!

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 years

'May Nigeria never happen to you' is a terribly underrated prayer.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

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1 month

Good morning, @CustomsNG . In your Easter message yesterday, accompanied by a picture of Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, the Comptroller General of Customs, you described smuggling as “a criminal act that is detrimental to our national development”. If smugglers are criminals, what then…

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@fisayosoyombo

4 years

History will forever be unkind to President @MBuhari . Under his watch, at the Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos, Nigerian soldiers shot live bullets at young, unarmed, innocent protesters demanding an end to police brutality. The history books will forever remember you for this! #EndSARS

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@fisayosoyombo

4 years

It is only in Edo State, Nigeria, that you will scale the high walls and break out of prison and, instead of you to 'japa', you will pause a while to first grant interviews🤣🤣🤣.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

1 year

thoroughly impressed with Doyin Okupe's resignation as DG of Labour Party's presidential campaign team. In this part of the world where volutary resignations are like rains in the desert? A huge bonus point for Peter Obi and Labour Party. This is how to inspire hope.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 years

Just a reminder: an absentee presidential candidate will be nothing other than an absentee president, were he to win the election.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

1 month

Good morning, @CustomsNG . Despite police insistence that @fijnigeria 's board chair must produce me, I'll see you on Monday as usual. For now, 'enjoy your weekend'.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

1 month

Good morning, @CustomsNG . I am aware that last week, you summoned Chief Superintendent of Customs (CSC) Sabo, the OC Operation for border drills in Ogun State, to Abuja where he is facing disciplinary action for selling off one half of smuggled rice he seized in Badagry while…

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1 year

A presidential candidate who doesn't understand the gulf between delegation of duties and abdication of responsibility🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 Chatham House sham!

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 years

Professor Yemi Osinbajo (in particular) and Pastor Tunde Bakare are the only APC presidential candidates who spoke tonight. All others just came to step down, play politics, worship Buhari or amuse themselves! #APCPrimaries

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

28 days

In the last six weeks, I’ve fielded numerous questions about why I took on Customs every day, bar weekends. One person inboxed me to ask: “Why do you still tag Customs even though they won't eventually reply to your claim?” On the timeline, some accounts with links to smugglers…

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

3 years

I really like how @aproko_doctor simplifies complicated health issues for us all on Twitter. 'Fantastic' is an understatement when describing the impact of his work. I'm a distant beneficiary. And a huge fan, too.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 months

Good morning, @CustomsNG . Are you aware that many Customs officers are regularly lodged for free at IBD Dende’s hotel in Ilaro? For context, this is tantamount to policemen enjoying free lodging in an armed robber’s hotel! Nigerians like to know: how can the Customs service…

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

3 years

I'm shocked that the IGP ordered for the arrest of Sunday Igboho but didn't order his men to enter the bushes of Ibarapa North LG & fish out killer herdsmen & kidnappers. True, Igboho's outbursts are capable of causing anarchy, but you can't go after him & ignore the terrorists.

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

1 year

If you've suffered this 3-month-old fuel crisis, queueing for hours, buying at exorbitant prices, enduring the induced traffic, with no end in sight, and watching the govt totally ignore you, yet you want to vote for APC next month, let me tell you what nobody may have told you:

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

3 years

The government banned Twitter thinking, among others, that a protest like today's won't hold. But it did. Proof that bad governance - - not Twitter - - is the problem. #June12thProtest #EnoughIsEnough

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 months

On IBD Dende/Nigeria Customs, petition to IGP and the threat of a lawsuit, I have three quick things to say: 1. I earnestly hope Dende’s lawyers sue me as quickly as possible. My unsolicited advice for them, though, is to wait until tomorrow when I release the next story so that…

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@fisayosoyombo

2 months

Nigeria wiil be great again in my lifetime. I’m hopeful. That hope is the soul of my journalistic risk-taking. The day I lose that hope is when I kiss investigative journalism goodbye and send an apprenticeship request to DJ Cuppy to kickstart my unexplored love for…

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2 months

Good morning, @CustomsNG . This is Rollykings Hotel and Suites, one of the many hotels in smuggling zones owned by one of your officers. Located on John Olubukola Ajani Close, off Old Badagry Expressway, Badagry, the initial outlay for constructing this hotel was a whopping N500…

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

2 months

Good morning, @CustomsNG . Nigerians would like to know: have you managed to locate the senior Customs officer who smuggled four trailers of rice from Benin Republic into Nigeria, as inadvertently revealed by IBD Dende in the now-viral video? What punishment awaits this rogue…

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'Fisayo Soyombo

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Owolabi Alaka and Shakiru Labeabo were recently murdered in Ado-Odo after 'seeing something and saying something' to Nigeria Customs. If @PoliceNG investigated and prosecuted their killers, it would enocurage more Nigerians to 'see something and say something'.

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@PoliceNG

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You are a stakeholder in the Nigerian Security Architecture. When you see something, say something!

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'Fisayo Soyombo

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1 month

Wake up, @CustomsNG ! This is Ar-Rakhab Beach and Holiday Resort in Badagry. Owned by a retired Customs officer better known by his alias ‘Ashimi’, it is yet another proof of the unexplained personal wealth of many of your officers. Nigerians like to know: why are active and…

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Good morning, @CustomsNG . In case you did not know, the smuggling of three 2024 Toyota land cruisers and four white coaster buses into the country two nights ago by IBD Dende was executed with the express say-so of Hussein Ejigbunu, Comptroller, Federal Operations Unit Zone A —…

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4 years

With the Nig Govt announcing it has raised the fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5million, I'd like to know if there's a price for hate leadership -- leadership that robs, insults, depraves & impoverishes the people, either subtly or unashamedly. Is there a fine for that?

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2 months

Good morning, @CustomsNG . This is Rao International Hotel and Suites, Km 15 Sango-Idi-Iroko Road. Located along the Idi-Iroko smuggling route, it is owned by one of your men, Najeem Akorede, popularly called ‘Najeem Custom’. For context, this is like policemen establishing hotels…

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2 months

BusinessDay, a newspaper without scruples. How much were you paid to betray a journalist, one of your own? How much to promote a notorious smuggler and gunrunner? How many shekels of silver to undermine the peace and security of your own country?

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For @fijnigeria , I smuggled 100 bags of rice from Benin Republic into Nigeria. I found out Customs bosses took bribes from smugglers, then betrayed their colleagues by updating smugglers on the itinerary of patrol officers. Undercover as a Smuggler

Undercover as a Smuggler

Investigative journalist ‘Fisayo Soyombo attempted to smuggle not one or two but 100 bags of rice from the Republic of Benin into Nigeria.

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@fisayosoyombo

3 years

CBN has now become so idle that it's most pressing mandate is chasing the court for an order to freeze the accounts of 19 individuals and a company that supported the #EndSARS movement. But ask them to strenghten the naira against the dollar and it's mission impossible!

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

1 month

Tomorrow, I will halt my six-week-long campaign against @CustomsNG corruption and smuggling. Reason: my yearlong fellowship at the Wallace House Centre for Journalists, University of Michigan, will ‘officially’ come to an end in three weeks. The climax of the last leg of this…

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Some of the shocking discoveries I’ve made during undercover investigations: If you want to tackle smuggling, clean Nigeria Customs up. There is no smuggling without the cooperation of Customs. Piercing. To end crime, reform the police. Crime cannot thrive without police…

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Don’t ask me how bandits have access to so many motorcycles. I already told you weeks back!

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VIDEO: Bandits celebrating Eid-el-Fitr festival in the Munhaye community of Zamfara State. CREDIT: X | ZagazOlaMakama

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3 years

Heartbreaking to watch Chioma Ajunwa say on national TV that she never got the three-bedroom house that was promised by the then Lagos Govt for becoming the first Nigerian and black African to win an Olympic gold — because she isn't from Lagos. The evil cost of bigotry!!!

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Good morning, @CustomsNG . As you and I both know, in Ipokia Local Government, Idi-Iroko precisely, the undisputed kingpin of smuggling is Socopao. As IBD Dende is the overlord in Ilaro and other locations in Yewa South and Yewa North local governments, Socopao decides who…

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Good morning, @CustomsNG . I am aware that you summoned Patrick Odion, the OC Operations for Ajegunle-Ilaro Road, Ogun State, over my revelation — revelation, NOT allegation — that he broke into a house in Oja-Odan at 2 am or thereabouts two weeks ago, carting away 155 bags of…

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1 year

Good luck and welcome to everyone on Twitter who's newly discovering who Ben Hundeyin is -- someone who pontificates about a better Nigeria on Twitter only to turn a blind eye when supplied hard evidence about corrupt and brutal policemen.

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4 years

A stranded Lagos teacher, grey-haired. He'd begged the 3 cars ahead of me but none gave him a lift. I motioned him in. We talked a lot. Most striking thing he said: "I'll make sure my son never becomes a teacher like me. I have no car, okay. But why should I be trekking?"

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2 years

As someone who spent eight undercover days in prison just three years ago, I can tell you for free that this claim that Boko Haram stole N82million + $36,000 cash is a big lie. No Nigerian prison can hold that kind of money in cash. One million percent impossible!

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1 month

The man who saw the future, @novieverest .

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Fisayo Soyombo has a higher chance of being arrested than IBD Dende being arrested. That's how Nigeria works. The lady who complained about Ersico's product, instead of NAFDAC to check the product, the lady is instead fighting for her life. Nigeria isn't normal.

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Good morning, @CustomsNG . What are you doing about the unexplained wealth of many of your officers? It certainly isn’t coincidence that some of the biggest hotels around smuggling routes and border towns are owned by Customs officers. Below, for example, are pictures of…

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Good morning, @CustomsNG . I am aware of ongoing plans in your organisation to raise over 15,000 tweets against me. It is unfortunate that you consider most of my tweets “done in bad faith” and that I am “fronting for a group determined to pull the Service down by all means…

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4 years

No largescale jailbreak can succeed without: (i) the active connivance of prison insiders, (ii) the tacit support of prison security or (iii) the disguised involvement of prison authorities. When you're ready to tell us the truth -- or if you ever will -- we'll be here, waiting.

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3 years

For @fijnigeria , I tracked the casualties from the Oct 20 raid on #EndSARS protesters by soldiers. I established 21 deaths. #PortraitsOfBlood #LekkiMassacre PORTRAITS OF BLOOD (II): Names, Photos, Videos… How Lekki #EndSARS Protesters Were Massacred

PORTRAITS OF BLOOD (II): Names, Photos, Videos… How Lekki #EndSARS Protesters Were Massacred

‘Fisayo Soyombo spent 10 weeks tracing the deaths, disappearances and injuries from the military intervention in the Lekki Toll Gate protest.

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By the way, the 2024 Toyota land cruisers smuggled in-country overnight by IBD Dende are insanely expensive: $55,950 if it’s a ‘Land Cruiser 1958’, $61,950 if a ‘Land Cruiser’ and $74,950 if a ‘First Edition’. At the rate of N1,300 to a dollar, it amounts to N72,735,000,…

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1 year

The only shock I have watching Ada Anambra's AIT interview is that she tweeted videos of it herself. Like, someone had such a lacklustre, uninspiring TV interview and still thought "I did good; let me share it online".

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Good afternoon, @CustomsNG . In this @fijnigeria video are 600 cartons of chicken and turkey, smuggled into Lagos last night by ‘Sunday Ibadan’ (pictured), IBD Dende’s right hand man, after securing the nod of Hussein Ejigbunu, Comptroller, Federal Operations Unit Zone A — a man…

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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has been smuggling hard drugs such as tramadol & terrorist motorcycles into northern Nigeria. Read that again. NCS, the agency set up to combat smuggling, is smuggling dangerous items into the country. The conduit? IBD Dende Full story below👇

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#EndSARS protesters Nicholas Mbah and Ugwumba Chimezie will be arraigned at the Magistrate Court, Yaba, tomorrow -- for armed robbery, arson and rioting. Please help them regain their freedom in whatever way you can. Media coverage, legal defence, etc🙏

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4 years

Elon Musk is currently the toast of the world&will go into history as one of the greatest humans to ever live. But not many know that when he got into US in 1992 aged 17, it was only with ”$2,000, a backpack & a suitcase full of books". Chase your dreams even if nobody believes

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Good morning, @CustomsNG . Your men have a habit of gunning innocent bystanders down while chasing smugglers. Between 2016 and 2021 alone, Customs officers killed at least 32 innocent bystanders and petty smugglers in the Ogun West Senatorial District comprising Ipokia, Yewa…

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2 months

Good morning, @CustomsNG . An informant recently contacted some of your senior officers to offer the privileged information that IBD Dende was smuggling drugs, arms and ammunition into the country. But after that initial call, the officers blacklisted the informant’s number,…

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1 year

The Lagos State Neighbourhood Watch, an agency of the Lagos State government, is mandating all corps members to submit their PVCs tomorrw. This is totally wrong in a democracy. Citizen rights to voting decisions is enshrined in the constitution and must not be tainted.

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3 years

Iniubon Umoren's killer Uduak Akpan looked too fresh & unruffled for someone who's been in police detention for close to two weeks. After my 5 nights at Pedro Police Station during my undercover investigation, I didn't look that 'cool'. Not me, not anyone else in the cell. 1/2

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2 months

Good morning, @CustomsNG . Today is your day off. Tomorrow, too. On Monday, we go again!

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@fisayosoyombo

2 years

An EndSARS protester whose testimony featured prominently in a number of post-Lekki massacre publications, not just the panel, was stabbed multiple times last night But some of you are still wondering "where are the friends/families of victims"? You know you're not okay, right?

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1 year

A Spaniard in the UK stopped me this morning to discuss Nigeria's presidential election. He asked: "I heard the guy with drug links is the one who won. How does that make you feel?" I was too ashamed to say anything. I just shook my head and walked away quietly. Oju gba mi ti.

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3 years

When a govt sleeps while its people are abducted & slaughtered, the emergence of people like Sunday Igboho is inevitable. All the noise from the Oyo Gov against Igboho's boldfaced declaration is just to save face. Wake up to your responsibility or watch a commoner take charge!

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Good morning, @CustomsNG . I am aware that in Idi-Iroko, ‘Ope Oloko’, a smuggler who was once zonal chairman of the tricycle riders association in the Agbara-Badagry axis, has been handed the authority, just like IBD Dende in Oja-Odan, to smuggle items into the country through the…

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3 years

No surprises about the video evidence of #LekkiMassacre tendered to the panel by a witness today. As I've repeatedly said, no amount of gaslighting can change the facts: soldiers were at the toll gate; they shot at #EndSARS protesters, killing & injuring many of them Full stop!

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4 years

CONFIRMED: The three #EndSARS protesters in Abeokuta initially arraigned in court yesterday on trumped-up charges of attempted murder have now been freed by the Police. They regained their freedom some 30minutes ago. Victory! #SarsMustGoNow

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2 months

On IGP Kayode Egbetokun's friendship and near-clanship with IBD Dende. I've never had any serious anti-crime expectations of the IGP, knowing he was the Commissioner of Police when 2 innocent Kwara policemen were dismissed for busting a car theft ring. @fijnigeria investigated…

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2 years

Who will tell Tinubu in faraway UK that even though it's still early days, some of his campaign funds are already being diverted? 1/2

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2 months

Good morning, @CustomsNG . Two quick facts to start the day: (i) Rice is the most frequently seized agricultural produce from smugglers by your officers; (ii) In Badagry, just before the Seme border with Benin Republic, half of rice warehouses are owned by Customs officers’ wives.…

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@fisayosoyombo

3 years

I've interacted with many protesters who were injured at Lekki Toll Gate, plus friends/families of the dead. None of them is a hoodlum as Lai Mohammed keeps saying. Soldiers/policemen gunned down some of the country's most patriotic souls for no reason. And in a democracy😡

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@fisayosoyombo

3 years

Six years Five attempts Three appearances on the shortlist Then, finally… I’m very honoured to have won the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism. ‘Fisayo Soyombo wins Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism

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2 years

Why is the attack on the Catholic Church in Ondo being reported as a bomb explosion? The videos indicate indiscriminate shooting at congregants, and at close range. Two people who lost their loved ones in told me they were "shot" at. In whose interest is this 'bomb' agenda?

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@fisayosoyombo

4 years

My lesson from the broadcast: Stop begging people who don't want to talk to you to talk to you. It will end in tears. They may talk at some point but they will end up saying nothing.

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2 years

It is now 100 days since Gov Dapo Abiodun, the 'eleyi' of Ogun State, started keeping blogger Hammed 'Labash' Olamilekan in prison for republishing a newspaper article about the gov on his blog. This is despite coercing Lekan into deleting the publication. #FreeLabashNow

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@fisayosoyombo

3 years

The Nigerian JOURNALISTS criticising David Hundeyin's work must do so CONSTRUCTIVELY or publish their own investigations. Constructive criticism is healthy, but if it's destructive na envy. We were all here when the murder was announced. If na so e easy, why you sef no do am?

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@fisayosoyombo

3 years

Who brought Uduak Akpan's 'The Mudder Squad' T-Shirt to him in detention? That person has '21 questions' to answer!

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@fisayosoyombo

24 days

I promised a one-stop compilation of everything @fijnigeria and I wrote on Customs in six weeks. From the trailer of ‘Undercover As a Smuggler’, to my final-day tweets on the smuggled SUVs, this thread documents almost everything I said about Customs, smuggling and gun-running👇

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@fisayosoyombo

2 years

Today, Gov Sanwo-Olu accompanied Tinubu to visit Akpabio. More than two days after the APC presidential primary, he isn't back to work. Our public sector is a huge mess; no company CEO would try this. The business of governance in Lagos is officially over. Until May 2023.

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26 days

For those who may have forgotten, Wadume, the kidnap kingpin whose return from prison was welcomed with fanfare in Taraba, was also a gun-runner. He supplied arms and ammunition to terrorists in the northeast and cattle rustlers across the north. When he was arrested by the…

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@fisayosoyombo

4 years

FCTA banning #EndSARS protests in Abuja is the latest of a litany of reasons to believe the announced reforms have yet to take off. Apparently, the FCT Minister and his team didn't observe what happened in Port Harcourt after Wike banned #EndSWAT protests in Rivers.

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@fisayosoyombo

2 years

Twitter ban that Buhari was supposed to lift on the eve of the 2023 presidential election. This APC no even get liver😂😂😂

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1 year

Tinubu's BBC interview is by far the closest to coherent he has been since the dawn of campaigns. But even this, being a recorded interaction, is a whitewash.

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@fisayosoyombo

4 years

Yesterday, in Katsina, a car in the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff hit a man on his bike and never stopped to check on him. He was rushed to General Hospital Katsina where he was certified dead at exactly 5:45pm. The wedding of this man’s daughter is just a few days away 1/6

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