| Blogger/blackmailer unmasked |
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| Written by Mike Jimoh, The Sun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Blogger/blackmailer unmasked Log in to his website and you’re sure to read the latest sleaze on dubious politicians or government officials in Naija. And such is the flow of information that the site is updated every hour, every minute, thus making it the hottest and most surfed site by Nigerians anywhere in the world. These days, Mr Blogger, let’s call him that for now, is using his e-fame for other purposes, and not something good. By the way, our friend’s trade name sounds like a piece of dry land. {mosgoogle}From what we hear, this blogger has turned blackmailer, turning the screw ferociously on bent public officials and milking them dry in the hope of doing consultancy jobs for them. How does he go about it? Simple. First, the bloke, who was once with a national daily here in the Centre of Excellence, approaches a potential prey – some of them serving public officials like gominas – tells him there is something bad to be published about him and nothing can be done about it. No, not that nothing can be done. At this juncture, he would sell himself or, to put it another way, make his services available to the by now unnerved rogue. Who would not be? Imagine how much cowries Alams would have willingly shelled out to stop all the wahala he has since gone through if somebody had as much as suggested there was a way out right from day one. Just think of it. This our man, our blogger/ blackmailer, has since thought of it and come up with something uniquely his. His latest victim, we gather, is the Oga Gomina in the seat of Dan Fodio’s caliphate. Still can’t recognise him? The one with great stripes across his cheeks, that is. You know of course as a former watchdog, our blogger gets to know things, both good and bad, especially bad things about people. Next, he offers to be media consultant, never mind he isn’t a government man. Confronted with a list of purloined loot - in bank accounts or choice condos overseas – only a few can call his bluff. Come to think of it, its more like a devil’s alternative: whichever option you choose, you’re in no good position. You will always be at the blogger’s mercy! After all here is a man who owns and controls a website with a vast reach. By the time Mr Blogger was through with the gomina, he was 8mila cowries richer and the job he promised to do with all that loot was not even begun! Lucky chap, you’d say. Yes, but up to a point. A strategist from the wrong end of the table, Blogger had laid out his plans carefully – much like a general before a great battle – to HE on how he was going to use the cowries to coordinate and expand the gomina’s campaign for his presidential ambition. A man with a website of his own is easier to believe, not so? There were several nosey parkers and a whole line of people he drew into his plans. Of course all of that were phantom names, as far as Blogger was concerned. He’d been long in the game. Even the adverts he promised to place never appeared, not even as an earpiece. Now, to some politicians, 8 mila is still peanuts but not this time. If the blogger had done a quarter of the things he promised, it might never have gone this bad for him. Nothing, nothing at all was done. Trapped in his own snare, Blogger was asked what he used all the cowries for and then began a tale of lies so long and obvious that some were wondering if he was really that smart. Fib number 1: Blogger said he used part of the cowries to fly some senior nosey parkers for the flag-off campaign. That isn’t true because when they crosschecked, it turned out the said newspapers didn’t know of any such flight. Now, according to our source, the senior nosey parkers are themselves angry that their names are allegedly dropped by the dupe to cover his flanks. Also angry with Blogger are those in the campaign committee of the gomina. Recognising his actions as pure scam and nothing else, some of them plan to squeal to EFCC, so Blogger will be taught a lesson of his life. Some of them plan for something more lasting, like what happened to the goat thief way back in the state not far from where this happened.
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Posted by Robot| 03.03.2007 12:36