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Private Confessions… Coming Soon
The country is steep in recession. There is a huge shortfall in foreign exchange. Economic collapse looms unless there is an urgent significant injection of foreign exchange into the economy. The recovery of looted funds is high up on the government’s strategy for economic recovery as capital flight due to corruption has been fingered for the shortfall in foreign exchange. In a bid to reinvigorate its anticorruption drive, the federal government announces a whistleblower compensation scheme that pays between 2.5% and 5% of recovered loot to anyone who provides information that aids its loot recovery efforts. In its investigation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) profiles the characteristics of looters and finds that most corruption suspects travel by private jets. Meanwhile, its investigation uncovers how Kamal, a freelance private jet pilot, has, in the past five years, airlifted cocaine for a cartel. Rather than hand him over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the EFCC recruits him as an agent.
Tade is a graduate of Business Administration. He graduated from the University of Lagos three years ago but, since then, has not gotten a job. Rather than become a burden to society, he takes on the job of driving Chief Olakunle Bada, a business mogul. Tade gets wind that his flambouyant boss who is a retired Group Managing Director of the country’s oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (NNPCL), has $80 million hidden in a location which, however, is unknown. Tade, seeing an opportunity, passes the information to the EFCC.
Chief Bada and his last wife, Kathryne, plan a visit to their daughter who has just given birth to a son in New York. Nike is Chief Bada’s only child. Despite his harem of women, Chief Bada had no child until Kathryne gave him Nike who means the world to him. He is excited about his first grandson. He has just bought a private jet and plans to use it for the flight to New York. He wants to hire a pilot and reaches out to his close friend, Captain Don Emeka, the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). The EFCC obtains this intelligence and plots to get Chief Duro to hire Kamal. What does the EFCC have up its sleeves? Stay tuned for Private Confessions.