Lawmakers have once again come under the wrath of Nigerians.
It was Saturday, the day after Valentine’s, and Nigerians were fully ready to pick up the reality of their lives from where they had dropped it.
That was when the unexpected happened.
Do you remember Tigran Gambaryan? Gbam, Binance’s Head of Financial Crime Compliance, who was arrested and detained in Nigeria.
Yes, that is him.
All was going well until Gambaryan took to his 𝕏 account.
According to him, three Nigerian lawmakers demanded a $150 million bribe from him in order to facilitate his release from detention.
This allegation brings to bear the persistent issue of corruption in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the Binance executive had earlier spoken out via a statement on his 𝕏 handle on Friday, titled ‘Some Unknown Facts’.
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In that statement, he alleged that in collaboration with Department of State Sevices (DSS), House of Representatives members, Peter Akpanke, Philip Agbese and Ginger Obinna Onwusibe demanded a $150m bribe from him to be paid in cryptocurrency to their wallets.
What Nigerians Are Not Seeing
Agbese, Onwusibe, and the FG through the Minister of Information, denied this claim.
That was when Gambaryan decided to let the cat out of the bag.
He insisted on Saturday that his claims are nothing but the hard truth.
He added that his time in Nigeria was not only traumatizing for him, but for his entire family.
This latest development points us to a few things, we must look beneath the surface, only then will we be able to see the hidden facts?
This is a clear testament to the fact that corruption has eaten deep into the fiber of our system.
What Nigerians must demand at this time should not be just an investigation but punishment for those involved.
