Grubstakers - Episode 210: Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu Part 2

Episode Date: December 30, 2020

On our last episode of the year we close out with part 2 on Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu. The lion of bourdillion, bobo Chicago and the biggest landlord in Nigeria. We cover the rest of the bio on Bola, his reign in the Lagos politics, his odd family connections, and close it out with the Lekki Toll Gate massacre. Thank you again to those of you enjoying our show. It has been an honor and a pleasure and we are looking forward to another year of billionaires to roast. Enjoy!

We find people that basically can't make enough to eat before they go into the fields. I don't believe that. I think that you're looking at other places that are not Central Romana. People actually who focus on and who like getting an orgasm never get one. Pull up your socks and figure out what you're going to do. Any chance we'll ever get to be a complete red state? Oh, yeah. For the future is always uncertain. But more uncertain now.

And listen, Blue Ivy is six years old. Beyonce's days, she tried to outbid me on a painting. Everybody in Atlanta right now at the Louis Vuitton store, if you black, don't go to Louis Vuitton today. In five, four, three, today in five four that's why you need to take a meeting with kanye west bernard arnaud hello everyone welcome to grubstakers the podcast on billionaires thank you for joining us on our part two of our look at asu asewa jew bolane amiradekunle tinabu for this profile i am joined by my Picasso-loving Akatas. Sean P. McCarthy.

Stu Jeffers. Andy Palmer. And before we begin our episode, we want to give a shout out to BreakawayPCT16 for their review of our show and recommending the Gupta family of South Africa. We will cover them in 2021, most likely. And just to let our audience know, if you give us a five-star review we'll we'll cover whoever you recommend on our show but recommend suggest itunes or i don't know so give us a five-star review somewhere uh yeah if you write it on a piece of paper and just leave it in a mail bin we'll get it don't worry you don't even have to write an address on it. But yes, leave us a five-star review on iTunes.

We'll cover a billionaire that you recommend. And if you leave us a four-star review, we're not doing shit. Okay? Five and out. Not at all. And the people that wrote Yogi's lame on your exit survey in Patreon, if I find you, I'm beating the shit out of you. Yeah.

Yeah, we have your payment information you you fucked up buddy i see the comments you're leaving and then i hurt my feelings but i think about beating you up at night all right um since made it a point not to look at anybody's opinion about the podcast especially exit surveys it is asking for trouble. You got to look at him sometimes, though, because you want to know, what are y'all saying when y'all leave? And they hurt my feelings every now and then. But to catch everyone up from part one,

we talked about Bola's connection to a matriarchal slave lord from the 1800s. We covered his connection to heroin dealing in Chicago, as well as his upbringing and many other finer details about Bola Tinaboo's life. And we haven't even gotten to why he's a bad billionaire yet. To give you context at everything he ends up owning after he becomes a governor in 99. We're going to be covering his time before then, just to catch you guys up on what he acquires during his time in politics in Nigeria. He owns the Oriental Hotel, Faloma Shopping Complex,

the First Nation Airline, the Leckie Concession Company, which owns the Leckie Toll Gates that we're going to be talking about later on in this episode, the Apapa Amusement Park, the Mayguan Land Project donation newspaper, the Renaissance Hotel, Tejuso Market with a joint ownership, the Akeja Shopping Mall, TV Continental, the converted Lagos polyland for TVC, the network. He owned the NNPC office building in Legos, the RadioContinental-owned school of nursing building in Legos, and he was the tax collector of Lego State, Alpha Beta. His wife is a member of the National Assembly. The son-in-law is a member of the National Assembly. The daughter is the President General of Market Women's Association Legosos and he had four billion naira government finance property for self at queen's drive legos so we're going to cover

all this and more on this episode i wanted to give you a look at everything this man stole essentially during his time as a governor i like that for 90 of our u.s listeners that list of names and properties that yogi just gave means absolutely nothing. I just have no frame of reference for any of the, the toll booth, the mall, the lunch, just total blank in my mind right now. But I'm sure a small group of our listeners know exactly what Yogi's

talking about. Sean, I'm sure some of them were going like, Oh, this, this motherfucker owns the Papa shopping center. It's an amusement park. Listen, if you don't like it, come on.

I don't know if y'all heard. I put Nigerian slang in our intro as well. I said that you guys were a whole bunch of booty loving white men. Guilty. So before we begin, before we continue on the, before we continue on the bio and history of Bolamed Tinabu, I wanted to cover his family real quick because I learned that his wife is Oloremi Tinabu, and with her, from the

book that I read, because I can read, he had three kids, Aluase Tinabu, who is the chief executive officer, chairman at Losed Promo Media, and Fulshay Leot, boy, one sec, Fulshay Tenebu, the Leotia General of Nigeria, and their daughter, Abibatu, Bola Tenebu's daughter, would be installed as the Leotia of Lagos State recently. But from my research outside the book, there were three other kids that aren't mentioned in it, Zainab Tenebu, Habibat Taboo, and Olainkatinaboo. I don't know why they're not mentioned, but then there's another kid that I found as well, which is yeah, it's H-A-B-I-B-A-T. I mean, I don't know if it's pronounced Habibat, but that's how I'm saying it. He also had another child named Jide who died of a heart attack in London in 2017.

Now, in looking at his, you know, there was a funeral in Bolo. It was very sad. But then I tried to find, you know, like this Gide's mother. And it's not the person listed as wife, Olaremi Tinabu. And so I looked into it further, and apparently Jide's mother lived at the Abraham Adesanya estate in a bungalow with a high fence and black gate towards the end of the road. This is from justlover.com that showed the property of Bola. I don't know exactly what's going on, but I think that Bola had a lady on the side that he had a child with who also then would mysteriously die two years later. In 2017, his son dies of a heart attack, and then Jide's mom also dies.

So I don't know exactly what's going on, but baby mamas are just dropping dead around Bola Tenebu, and it's a weird situation. Yeah, Bola's getting ready to run for president of Nigeria. He's got to tie up some loose ends. That is how it feels. I do want to mention, just related to that, we're going to talk briefly, not in depth, about the dictator of Nigeria, the military dictator in the 1990s, Sani Abacha. He dies in 1998. He dies of a heart attack.

So speaking of heart attacks, and then he's buried the same day per muslim custom however there's actually speculation printed by u.s intelligence sources in the new york times that he was in fact poisoned so when i hear death by heart attack uh never know or maybe him and the kid just went to the same mcdonald's they have that in nigeria sean mccarthy's kubrick bell start fucking flashing the moment he hears oh died from a heart attack oh that's interesting you know last thing i want to mention is one thing real quick my wife uh is on tiktok and uh i found this guy mr tov he came on my he came on her feed recently. And this is during the research of this episode. He talks about something that I found oddly suspicious. There's a trend on

TikTok where you do a thing called the duet where a video plays and then you respond to it. And the beginning of the video says, what's some crazy shit that a rich person did or didn't do for you? And this is this guy's story. And let me know if this seems at all familiar to you, what has happened. What's the most insane actual rich person behavior that you've experienced my dad is one of the richest men in nigeria so growing up as a child different world leaders used to have meetings with my dad in our house one day i met barack obama in my living room and he asked me if i knew he was going to become the next president of the United States. I just laughed and ran back to my room. He was still a senator then. My house in Nigeria has a massive helipad and every member of the family has a private helicopter there. Every girl I dated in high

school had to sign a prenup just in case we got married by accident. I have never been on public transport in my life and that's something I want to do at least once in my life one day my dad saw a homeless man with a lottery ticket and he paid him the maximum amount i see if he had won the lottery my dad said he was just trying to teach his kindness my brother once dated rihanna okay so this is the guy that i found on tiktok right and i was like you know during the during the research of this episode i looked up and and like there's only about four to seven listed Nigerian billionaires, according to Forbes. And I was like, that's interesting. I wonder if this guy could be related to the cat that I'm covering, right? Now, Mr. Tove, real name Ola Oja, or Oja Ola, I can't remember right now,

his last name is the same as Bola Tenebu's daughter's last name. And as we covered in the last episode, there are a whole bunch of, like, Bola changing his name for passports and academia and stuff. So am I saying that this guy is related to Bola Tenebu? I don't know. But here's a response to the original video that Mr. Tove posted a few days later. Oh my God, guys.

The video I posted yesterday about my childhood now has 2 million views. to the original video that Mr. Tove posted a few days later. some positive comments on the video shout out to you all you are amazing however guys unfortunately because of how viral the video went it has also been seen by some bad people so my dad's number one business rival in nigeria saw the video and tried to stalk me on instagram so i've had to put my instagram account on private now so at the moment i've got over 10 000 follow requests on instagram but don't worry guys i'm gonna be accepting all of them later today once i get some time so don't feel like i'm ignoring you i'm not ignoring anyone i love you guys so much okay so uh i guess there's a reason his brother not him got to date rihanna huh uh? Just to catch our listeners that might not have caught it, what he mentions is that one of his father's businessman rivals saw the video and stalked his Instagram. Now,

this guy, Mr. Tove, lives in London. A few of Bola's kids do live in London. And do I think he could be related to Bola? There's a possibility think he's bola's direct son i don't know maybe but it is it is uh an interesting coincidence and uh on this podcast we don't believe in coincidences uh so i wanted to mention this guy's silliness because he is just the most perfect instagram tiktok turd i also love how on brand he is saying like, yeah, I grew up extremely rich, so I got to meet Barack Obama. Right. Right. Well, if he is one of Bola's kids living in London, he should check himself for symptoms of hypertension.

Be right. Start exercising. You know, incidentally, there was a conspiracy before Bola, we'll cover some of this in a moment, ran for governor for a second term. There was a conspiracy that said that Bola Tinabu died and the new Bola is just a clone replacement and that the original Bola had a stroke and then maybe a heart attack. So odd heart attack conspiracy theories are abundant in this. The second billionaire. The Bola dead. The Bola dead conspiracy. Bola is dead conspiracy.

Yes. This is our second billionaire like this we've covered after Paul McCartney. I love the person may have died conspiracy because there's such a like medical science is good enough to clone a person and make them look exactly the same, but they're just a couple of tells that people don't recognize that us, the true chosen people can recognize. Yeah.

If you run this podcast through like an audio engineering software, you can detect a slight change in frequency when I died and was replaced by my clone. My favorite part of the McCartney conspiracy theory is some people like, you know, in the later albums, he's much better at bass.

It has to be a clone. There's no way this is the same person look at how good a musician he is so according to the book uh uh he would get married to olorimi tinabu in 1985 this was uh after he had worked at those american companies and dealt with racism and chose to join Mobile Oil Nigeria Limited. And after a few years of being there, he was like, I'm going into politics. From the book, it basically says that his boss was like, you're crazy. You can't do this. I'll give you a leave for a four year period. And if you want to come back after that, that sounds good. which is the like i don't know any company that's like you can be gone for four years but we want you back but

that is to the fable of bola's uh like amazingness i guess i believe we forgot to mention it on part one but also while while bola was working as an accountant for various firms he briefly worked for arthur anderson which used to be one of the big five accounting firms but they were shut down um because they were doing they were doing the books for enron uh which represents too good yes they uh that represents probably the last to go out on top it's like jay-z dropping his magnum opus and then retiring is the accounting equivalent of doing the books for enron um but yeah so and this is like one of the last serious white collar prosecutions to take place in the united states was the shutdown of arthur anderson but it's just kind of worth noting when we talk about bola t Tenebu stealing all this money while he's governor

and all these shady financial practices, you probably learned a lot of that from his time at Arthur Anderson. Definitely. So like we mentioned on the first episode, we won't be covering every political party and military coup that would occur in Nigeria between the early 80s to the early 2000s, because there's a lot of information there, and we want to focus fully on Bola Tinabu's time. We will be mentioning a few small details here and there, but this is not a complete look at the Nigerian political process and the military coups that occurred before Boletini would become governor. So in 1992, he began his career as a politician when he was elected to the Nigerian Senate. After the annulment of 1993 presidential elections, he became one of the creators of National Democratic Coalition,

also known as the NADECO. He would then shortly after this leave Nigeria for four years until he would return in 1998. And before we continue on that, Sean has a little bit about the dangers of Nigerians in this time. Yeah, I mean, I just got kind of a quick capsule Wikipedia history of the Nigerian military dictatorship of Sana Abacha. Um, he was the military dictator of Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998. And, uh,

I don't know much about this guy, but I can tell you, he loved doing military coups. He was, uh, he was a second Lieutenant, uh, when he took part in a July 1966 Nigerian coup. He played a prominent role in the 1983 Nigerian coup.

He was also, and then the general that they brought to power in the 1983 Nigerian coup, he also played a role in the 1985 Nigerian coup, which removed him from power. And then finally, on my birthday, no less, November 17, 1993, Abacha, who was then at that time the Minister of Defense of Nigeria, was the most senior person within the military hierarchy

at that time of a civilian government. He forced the interim president, Ernest Shonikon, to hand over power. And in 1994, he issued decrees that placed his military dictatorship above the jurisdiction of the courts. So giving him absolute power gave him the right to detain anybody for up to three months without trial. And more more decrees follow. And again, this is just kind of basic Wikipedia history, but I did find this interesting. Apparently, he had a personal security force of 3,000 men trained in North Korea. Like, where do you go when the fucking School of the Americas graduates are giving you too much shit about human rights.

This is honest. That's like a story of perseverance. It's one of those like... It's like he's on every championship team of the Bulls. That's right. Right. 419. He's like going for the sixth ring.

Yeah, I want to see his last dance documentary. Yeah, he like... At the end of a coup, he like hugs the guy they deposed and goes, fuck you, you bitch. He retired from the military to suck at single-A baseball for a while. Then he came back

and did more coups. Played in the minor leagues for a while and then he came back and did more cues in the minor leagues for a while didn't really do anything it's you know how uh a lot of people have this experience in their life where you you do something and then you realize you're really really good at it yeah that's true you're like this is what i'm gonna do with the rest of my life i didn't like who was elected in 93. And I took that personally. But yeah, Abacha, apparently, according to the New York Times, in 2004, some organization put a survey together of the 10 most self-enriching leaders of the previous two decades.

He ranked number four. The allegation, and you know, don't take this all with a grain of salt but this was reported in the new york times he's not jordan yes uh he's alleged to have embezzled him and his family are alleged to have embezzled between one and five billion u.s dollars uh throughout his five-year reign so he was uh taking it pretty quickly um and then also kind of more depressingly less funny was um shell uh royal dutch shell oil uh cooperated with the nigerian military dictatorship um nigeria has large oil resources uh royal royal dutch shell has been uh mining that for a while um throughout the 90s there were various non-violent protests by nigerians against royal dutch shell because

obviously they're uh ripping off the natural resources that belong to the nigerian people and taking a healthy chunk and leaving very little for the people in that impoverished country. There was an Ogoni activist named Ken Saro-Wiwa who led a movement of nonviolent protest against that. And in 1995, he was hanged by the military dictatorship. He was actually just one of several of of these activists who were uh executed murdered by the military dictatorship very much with the cooperation and help of royal dutch shell to the point where uh beginning in 1996 uh various human rights lawyers with the center for constitutional rights and earth rights international um and a few other human rights attorneys.

They brought a series of cases to hold Shell accountable. Under the Alien Tort Statute, it's a 1978 U.S. law that gives noncitizens the right to file suits in U.S. court for international human rights violation, including damages over torture or or extra or extra judicial killings regardless of where the violations take place in uh 2009 shell settled this for 15.5 million dollars um denied wrongdoing now if you carry out extra judicial killings do you get shell rewards points for that? They put the 15.5 million settlement on their shell MasterCard.

So they actually got a bunch of Delta miles because of how they paid out the settlement. But yeah. Yeah, I mean, from everything I read about Nigeria during this time period, it does play off like, man, this country was extremely destabilized during this time from the amount of coups going on. But all of it screams Western intervention based off the precious natural resources that were being mined in the region at the time. So am I shocked that this nation of oil and other precious goods is constantly at war with itself not really no i i expect that from uh the dutch it's fucking clogging fucks it is a very fascinating documentary i can't i wish

i could remember the name but it follows um these oil executives in ghana um after oil was discovered and they set up some offshore platforms and there's this uh politician who uh gives this speech about how he's going to be even taxing the oil producers and then backstage after the speech like one of the oil executives walks up to him he's like that thing about um raising taxes on businesses you're not really going to do that right and just says it right in front of the camera and the the politician just gets all flustered like oh well i i mean you know it it kind of perfect but yeah my main takeaway from the 1990s military dictatorship um that i guess

bola tenebu had to flee from briefly is that nigeria has gone from a country with uh horrific corruption and uh horrific human rights abuses from a country with uh horrific corruption and uh horrific human rights abuses to a country with horrific corruption and horrific human rights abuses yeah that is uh sadly i don't know if that will ever change in my lifetime which is very fucked up because nigerians seem great like i mean i've been shitting on bola and mr tov but from naira land to all the mothercats and the youtube videos that i've seen so far friendly fantastic uh very kind and honestly if you ain't got nigerians in your life you're fucking up they seem like a very fun lovely people

yeah our podcast does kind of present a biased perspective because we're only talking about the nigerians who have never taken public transportation yeah what are you gonna do i like that he's aspiring to take public transportation. Yeah, what are you going to do? I like that he's aspiring to take public transportation. It's something he has to build up to. Yeah, something I want to do once in my life. It's on his bucket list. Once in my life,

I just really want to take public transportation. You know, it's lifelong dream. I want to see Machu Picchu, and I want to take the bus. He's talking to his therapist like, I got 10 steps closer to the subway today, but then I smelled the urine and I turned around. But that's good, Mr. Toe.

This is progress. Talking to his future grandkids. Yeah, when I met Obama, I got scared and ran away to my room, but not nearly as scared as when I first saw a subway train and I saw a dude jerking off. I thought, this isn't as bad as Obama. All right. Moving back to this time period of the early 90s for Bola Tinabu,

from the book and my research, what I understand is that his time as senator was short-lived in 92. The Nigerian military coups and politics is that the 93 presidential election seemed suspicious to the military leaders who had begun the coup in 1985 and 83, like Sean mentioned. So due to the election results, Bola as well as other government officials would flee the country. From the book, General Sani Abacha turned Nigeria into a gulag for anyone

who had the temerity to question his autocratic rule. From page 249, moving to the next page. March 9th, 1994, the Abacha Killer Squad went after Senator Tinaboo and cordoned his office house in Victoria Island, Lagos. But fortunately for him, he had escaped, having been tipped off by an informant. Abacha's security killing squad firebombed the house, and that story continues on later on we're going to talk about a conspiracy about bola potentially destroying his own property for

personal gain and do i think maybe he did this at this time and chose to escape and be like i can't go home they're attacking me maybe maybe for like immigration extradition type of stuff. But honestly, he wouldn't necessarily need to do that. And Senator, I mean, General Obacha certainly, I mean, that dude can fuck. He could beat the shit out of people from what I understand. He was a straight hardcore gangster. Yeah. Can I just say if General Obacha sends me a check for 2000, he can do what he wants um so like sean mentioned uh abacha would be murdered on june 7th 1998 uh the book talks about a group called the kaduna mafia which is a group of northern power

brokers made up of retired military generals uh elite aimers intellectual, intellectuals, mullahs, and businessmen. A quote from Dr. Bashir Ahmed Ikara says, this group is a group of conservative people who regard power as their heritage in Nigeria. The book alludes to the death of Obacha as being linked to this group. And when it talks about what Bola Tenebu was doing at this time bola's like me and my friend were in london we saw it happen on tv when we saw the body we're like wow this is crazy and it's like boy this sounds like the perfect alibi for a man that may or may not be guilty in this crime i had no idea this was going to happen except for all those letters i sent saying hey you got to murder that guy before i come back. Do I think Bola Tenebu murdered Abacha? No, but I think he probably could have at this time.

As a man that moved millions of dollars worth of heroin in Chicago, do I think he could have pulled off a hit of a general in Nigeria? Maybe. I don't see why that's so far-fetched. And I mean, to talk about the corruption of Bola Tenebu, like his days of being the bag man for heroin in Chicago, I found an old Chicago news report that talked about a heroin dealer named Bobo that had been taken down that had run heroin between the late 70s and the early 80s. And from what they said, heroin grown from poppies could be like plucked like Monday morning and then by in Thailand I believe and then by Tuesday

at noon it would be on the Chicago streets. And FedEx can't even get me my fucking package by Christmas. That's called just in time logistics. Operation Warp Speed. They're contracting with Jeff Bezos and Amazon now.

I mean, yeah, basically. So from my understanding is that between Bola's time as an accountant and his time being a bag man, he was able to collaborate and connect with rich and powerful people all across the world that may or may not needed a crafty accountant that could cook books. So like, I mean, you're telling me that he couldn't have figured out how to get a guy murdered in Nigeria that was running a coup. I mean, it's very unlikely, but then at the same time, does he have the capital, the connections and the motive to do it? Oh yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. It's something where on part one, I was kind of confused as to why an accountant would bother to run heroin. You know, like, why don't you just spend your accountant money?

But I guess it's like, if you want to take over a country, then you have to also be running heroin. You need both sources of income and the connections with the kind of people who are running heroin and and all this kind of stuff probably sets him up pretty well for when he returns to nigeria yeah yeah and like the book alludes to the fact that like he he spent his time learning the craft of accounting the same time an american politician was growing up Barack Obama like there's no real like Obama and Bola are friends or nothing but there's a lot of like did you know they are both black and spent time in Chicago that is why they are great like a lot of um uh uh what's that warmongers name uh Bola uh no no not Bulla. I need that Mexican black tar by Tuesday.

Kissinger. There's a whole bunch of quotes in the book from Kissinger talking about why people can be great in times of strife. I was thinking about Obama visiting the other guy, and the kid is playing um he's playing xbox in his room and then obama is in there and then he's playing like nba jam or something or like nba 2k right right and obama just beats his ass at it now obola if uh you send me that trash you sent me last week, I'm going to put you on a kill list. So Bola Tinabu would return to Nigeria in 1998.

And in 1999, he was elected as executive governor of Lagos State and was reelected for the same position in 2003. In 2007, he would be replaced by Babatunde Fasola. During Bola's years in office, he heavily invested in education and growing infrastructure. Now, how he did this also inflated his wallet 10 to 15 times the amount he went in with, but that's a story for right now. Yeah, and just a little bit of context. Again, with the death of Abacha in 1998, this is kind of the, it restores a republic form of government to Nigeria so that Bola is able to come back

and run for governor of Lagos. And we mentioned on part one, he makes promises to build 10,000 housing units for the poor, which, you know, they're still in, checks in the mail. I'm sure they're gonna be up anytime now yeah the line of bordelian documentary calls him the looter in chief

and uh modern day nero essentially and i mean it's not necessarily wrong uh the way he was able to commit a lot of these acts was he would utilize a company called Alpha Beta Tax that was able to close the tax loopholes Nigerians were previously doing and then maximize the amount of things that you could be taxed for in Nigeria. And from that, he was able to fleece. I mean mean the documentary at one point alludes to him fleecing 75 percent of the amount of taxes that was paid during that time like alpha beta itself was taken like i think between uh 12 and 15 percent and bolo was pocketing like six billion naira a month some of those lines but then later on the documentary says one governor we found was taking 75 percent of the taxes and it's like okay this this documentary is about one governor it is probably

talking about you know um that documentary that we discussed a moment ago uh the line of also unmasked bulletin it was on youtube uh bola would sue over its existence and stop the rest of production run on that documentary done by TIC. Sean, do you have something? Yeah, and just for context, we mentioned it on part one, but Lagos state, the state that he's elected governor of, is the richest state in Nigeria. So when we talk about these kind of like scams that he's running to skim off the tax money, it should just be noted that he's able to make so much money doing this because he's uh in charge of the government of the richest state within the country of nigeria

and so now we're going to talk about how bolo was able to fleece uh the people of lagos of their tax money steven prior to bolo's uh governorship lagos had relatively like hodgepodge tax system that wasn't even electronic for the most part and he was able to contract his company he had a stake in alpha beta to be the tax consultant to modernize it and close loopholes and basically just make it like a rigorous tax system that could actually bring in whatever tax money they had the congress had passed right and it was already kind of fishy that someone had like just like a passive interest in the old the sole contractor to take on this massive program the fucking governor yeah a time, he was the sitting government governor while this was happening. From the book, the way they describe it is,

Bolo would bring on Alpha Beta to help fix the problems of the current tech situation. And at no point did they go, oh, yeah, he was running the show and fleecing it for his fucking pockets. Yeah, one of my favorite stats from the line of Berdillion was just the fact that Alpha Beta had no known history of revenue collection so definitely the kind of company you want doing this so eventually in years later after bola left that office it was found it was uncovered in some investigative journalism uh in 2014 alpha beta had these like unexplained transfers of money and it amounted to in their five such transfers that amounted in total to 4.45 billion naira which is about 12 million dollars and they even got the bank account

and it was traced eventually back to bola and this was like uh this was like well in excess of what he would have reaped from his ownership stake in alpha beta like you know like as getting a distribution just for their work as a contractor i was paying for the 10 000 houses for the poor steven wasn't it something like 16 bank accounts across a handful of banks that were looked at for this crime yeah yeah that's true i I should say that $12 million was what they could definitively prove for one account. But yeah, it's alleged to be much larger. governor, he passed a law that allowed it to happen. It changed the rules on the bidding process such that Alpha Beta could get the job. Just being a good businessman.

Yeah, he's just speeding up. He's rooting out corruption from more established companies to get the little guy a shot. The little guy that he owns. Hilarious. And Steve, please correct me if I'm wrong here, but I did like that this seems to have the little guy a shot, the little guy that he owns. Hilarious. And Steve, please correct me if I'm wrong here, but I did like that this seems to have a little bit of a connection to Roman history, which I've been reading about more just to think about literally anything

except the JFK assassination. But under the Roman Empire and the Roman Republic. I don't want to think about JFK, but I do want to think about assassinations. Under the Roman Empire and the roman republic i want to think about jfk but i do want to think about assassinations uh under the roman empire and the republic the various uh provinces that they conquered they would the roman government would essentially sell the right to collect taxes there to private companies like so a private company would go collect the taxes and you know get a little bit of profit from that and And ostensibly under Roman law, senators were not supposed to have ownership stakes in those companies, but many did regardless.

But it is just sort of funny where- Bula is flagrantly flaunting Roman law right now. He's going to be crucified if he keeps this up. Caesar, during his life, he kept getting, or in his early career, he kept getting massive loans from Crassus to, like, put on public events and really

raise his profile. And the reason like Crassus kept giving him all this money for something that didn't have an immediate return was the assumption was that Caesar would eventually get high enough profile that he could go to a province and basically just loot it as the governor of a province but yeah so um this company alpha beta logistically was just kind of collecting the taxes on behalf of the lago state government to be, they actually did modernize it to an extent,

and it is somewhat workable now, especially considering where it came from. But also, there was just massive corruption that was partially facilitated by the contract. Yeah, and adding on to this, the documentary The Lion of Berdillion that we've been referencing here has a fun little stat. They say between 2000 and 2009 alpha beta took 15 percent of all tax revenue generated in lagos

so that's like literally 15 percent of all tax money went directly into their pocket as fees and these are like far higher fees than would be typically collected by any sort of private company then from 2010 to 2015 they took about 10 percent of just literally all tax revenue directly into their own pocket and that's not even like the stuff they stole on top this is just the fee they're collecting yeah that's another thing it was like a super unusual unusually sweet deal for them like it wouldn't normally be like okay you can not only are you taking a higher percentage of um the revenue but it's like baked in for year after year after year from that 2000 to 2009 period from the documentary it was approximately 1.464 trillion in taxes that was raised in this period with 13 that would go to bola in two years 26 billion

naira had been paid to bola i think part of why uh that one particular transaction i mentioned was important because otherwise there are a lot of other alleged connections through looking at unusual transaction activity from banks that were having to be linked to companies he owned. That just happened to be one where they like, I guess they, it's, uh, alleged that he just fucked up and didn't mask.

He didn't mask it properly. It's like, if you like, uh, the suspicious activity reports that we covered a while ago for the U S banking system. So they have that in Nigeria also. And so if you were to transfer over 200,000 nira,

you should probably just do 199,999 nira. Right, right, right. To look suspicious. Alert the system, yeah. Start not doing that. Can I just say, Bola Tenebu becoming a billionaire by being the governor of a province

and then owning the private tax collecting company that collects taxes there, it's nice to finally cover a billionaire who is a student of the classics. You know, this man has a history, appreciation for the history of Rome that we just haven't really gotten on this podcast before. You know, it's just amazing the kind of corruption you see in Nigeria, unlike,

you know, here in America, where our mayor of New York City, previous mayor, only started as a billionaire and then septupled his net worth as mayor. Is that right? Septuple? What's the five times? Quintuple? Oh, he quintupled his net worth from $5 billion to $25 billion while mayor. I wouldn't have called you on it if you hadn't asked, Andy. I would have been like that sounds right but yeah no that was my uh favorite uh reaction reading about the roman senators being uh barred

by law from owning these private tax collecting companies was uh oh i guess u.s senators are not actually barred by law from trading stock in their own name are they huh listen we're not we're not defending roman senators here but we're just saying they didn't engage in this particular vector of corruption. But yeah, and like, as we've mentioned, Lagos, of course, being the richest state in Nigeria is how he's able to become a billionaire off like stealing all this money. But the documentary line of Berdillion,

they actually list all of the different taxes collected in Lagos throughout the time. And we would play it, but it's like four minutes long yeah just a list of every single tax that they're paying that documentary is very hard to follow it's very dense great information but it's just like it's literally just a list of everything he owns i remember i sent steven the list i was like hey steven could you look at this list real quick he's like yeah sure and then like I got a message back a few like a day later it was just like that's a that's a really dense documentary it's like yeah yeah that's why I need your help with this gigantic fucking list because it is like a 7 to 12 minute I think really the reason Bola sued the documentary

was not because anything in it was incorrect but just the gall to be like you you want to know what the fuck you did here's eight minutes worth of scrolling text of everything that's now taxed because of your dumb ass i did like that the guy the guy lists the narrator uh you you could just you could feel the just the disgust that he has like as he was listing off he's like has this barely contained sort of like and then he he stole this shopping sitter from the people so you might be wondering where did all this money end up where does taxable money from nigerians that ends up in bola's pocket end up well the land in lagos that is controlled by bola

is valued at over 500 billion naira so what he would end up doing was taking that money and then investing in real estate in Lagos. And in some cases, not even just investing in it, but using the government finances to buy property and to have them gifted back to Bola if he signed a law into action, which is what occurred with one of his housing properties. Like, just the utter gall to be like, hey, guys, come on. I'll sign this law, but y'all got to buy me a house. Yeah.

Like, it's literally like car dealership negotiation. Like, I'll buy a car, but you got to throw in some fucking floor mats. This is public land and property. Right. A lot of it, anyway. Yeah, the documentary goes through too many examples of him just stealing land while he was governor

to list all of them, but just a couple of the funnier ones to me. So he's governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007. When he leaves in 2007, the Lagos State government personally grants him the governor's guest house since 1979. So the government just says, yeah, where the governor has a guest house, that's yours now, privately, forever. Right, right.

The state buys his residence and then sells it back to him. Or no, they didn't even sell it. They gave it back to him. They just gave him money and gave it back to him for free. Apparently a 250 hectare plot was meant for a hospital is seized by him. Becomes his own personal property. And then just like the last thing that I found so funny. So he leaves the governor's office in 2007.

His former chief of staff becomes the next governor. So, of course, he's still in there. And the legislature, the Lago State Assembly, marches to his private residence and pledges allegiance to him immediately after his successor is sworn in. Right. So Babatunde Fasola is like, hey, you're the new guy. And then immediately after that meeting, they're like,

hey, let's go over to Bola's and let him know. We're still cool with you, bro. But yeah, the documentary alleges that even after he left the governorship, he continued to sign documents and backdate them to the time that he was in office. So he would like just grant himself properties. And, you know, of course, like he establishes this whole patronage network. So the documentary goes through. He has all these people that are like on his payroll working at the Nigeria, the Lago State Land Office who just say like, yeah, this transfer looks legit. So he'll just sign shit and say, yeah, I did this in 2005.

I gave myself this piece of property and just does that all the time. I think before that he was like, check this out. I learned this from arthur anderson yeah from the documentary it talks about uh in additional to federal taxes they pay taxes on a long list of items uh from dr dominic's petition he is quoted as saying the government of lego state boasts of internally generated revenue of about 40 billion naira every month translating into the commission of six billion Naira being paid to Alphabeta Consulting LTD also every month, which some I consider unfavorable and outrageous to me as a taxpayer and citizen of Lagos State. Moving on in the documentary, it talks about the Lagos Progressive Movement would finger Bola in a huge land scam running in billions of Naira. They put out a

statement saying we the legos progressive movement once again wish to update fellow nigerians on the various land scams perpetuated by former governor bola tinabu and being covered up by governor babatunde fashula the facts are true and verifiable we have gone further to quote real names of collaborators and addresses of for of properties for readers to verify themselves. The collaborators who enabled Bola were Bengi Afshafa, the former Permanent Secretary in Lanes Bureau since 2001 and serving Senator, as well as Ms. Felicia Obofusea, the former Permanent Secretary and a relation to Bola Tenebu from Uragri, Osun State, and Hakeem Murray Okunola,

the former personal assistant to Tenebu, who is now the permanent secretary minister of lands. So essentially, people that were working for him then later on were in positions that he could hook Bola up in. So it's like, hey, listen, I know you used to run coffee for me, but now you're the secretary of land in fucking legos could you just sign this property over to me so i don't yell at you tomorrow yeah sure boss can i just say respect to you yogi for giving the old college try at pronouncing those names because all right i didn't do i definitely i had the names and i intentionally punt it on saying the names so if you're a billionaire out there and you don't want to get bad press on grub stakers just make

your name very hard to pronounce you know what on that last episode when we did them icelandic fucks i was like you know i'm gonna leave this aside i got about 12 to 17 fucking nigerian names i got in my heart real quick yeah it's true we were covering the countries with the hardest names to pronounce for americans there was there was one name in that episode that was very easy to pronounce. Yeah, I had fun with it. I put some Windows Air sounds when I was trying to read some names. It was too bad.

Thor Björgolfsson, check it out. I was talking about George Lincoln Rockwell. Oh, sure, yeah. Thor Björgolfsson, the episode. Definitely check it out. Well, for our SoundCloud people, they did not hear this Patreon episode, but if you pay us five bucks

and listen to our show, then you could hear. And also, we have an open-standing, well, open-door policy. If you tell us you can't afford our show, but you want to listen to it, we'll give it to you for free. Yeah, but I just canceled that policy unilaterally. You want to hear the pronunciation? You got to pay, you broke motherfuckers.

If you gift us property after we leave office, then you'll get the Patreon. You know, a lot of people think Sean was a lot nicer before he broke Corona rules and went up to Connecticut. But then after that, this new version of Sean that came on the show, just a lot more vicious, a lot more knowledgeable about Roman rule for some reason. And he won't stop talking about the CIA. I'm not, I'm not exactly sure what's going on, but I'm pretty sure that this was the moment that the camel's back broke and the grub stakers,

instead of being on the top of the stoil went under to the underbelly of society. This is a weird tangent but you guys remember when I went to Washington D.C. on Easter weekend and on the steps of the Capitol there was a guy dressed as a centurion standing next to a cross. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I remember that yeah. And then we're

we're going to do a bit with him on camera and then he turned out to be real nice and so like I guess I guess it would be mean to make fun of you for this weird thing you're doing what if what if you were a guy who's thought it was bullshit the paul mccartney is dead conspiracy but you actually thought paul mccartney died of coronavirus and they just replaced him so you're like it was the same paul mccartney until 2020 but now it's a new paul mccartney um before we move on to our final controversy on this episode one quick one i wanted to mention

to you guys that i found recently was um in march of 2017 it was announced that bolatinebu was to spar in a boxing match against Evander Holyfield, former world champion in heavyweight. The match was a charity event that was intended to attract international attention to numerous problems of the African continent, especially serious diseases in children. The 54-year-old former champion and 65-year-old former governor were supposed to fight on May 24th. But when the date of the match rolled in,enebu didn't show up smart even even though a lot of people thought i see what you got too scared he has a fish issued an official apology where he stated that he had some national assignment to take care of which boy if that's not a squelch i've never heard a worse one in my life uh uh i i'm supposed to spar with evander

holyfield today could you give me some busy works for on may 24th he was gonna eat his other ear but just to mention there are a couple other random hits from the documentary uh we we mentioned all those properties according to the documentary bola is the biggest landlord in all of nigeria um that's alleged but it should just be noted kind of the scale of all this they also say he is the most indicted governor in the history of lagos since its creation in 1967 um he's we won't go through really all of his court cases but you can imagine he's gotten away with most of them just through his network of influence and uh the gold bully on vans that we mentioned in the previous episode um the previous part one and also one other piece of property that i didn't mention in my list there was a multi-billion

dollar highway uh constructed in lago state uh bola tenebu got a 30-year concession to build, operate, and transfer, like do upkeep on this highway. So, you know, like the guy has tons of different revenue streams all over the place. And then he creates this patronage network where he has people in the Lands Bureau. He has his former chief of staff as the governor, the parliament pledging allegiance to him. He just spreads the money around enough that even after he leaves, he has enough power and money and enough of an influence network to continue being the kingmaker in Lagos. All right. So what I want to cover real quick before we cover our last controversy with Bolotinabou is his wife runs a charity that is for impoverished children that have been orphaned and or sexually assaulted from the numbers it's something like one in every five boys and one in three girls is assaulted sexually assaulted by like seven or eight years old by bulletin of this yeah i thought you're so the thing i'm the thing i am actually going

towards is that like they have built like a facility for or you know children to stay out if they're being abused as well as like an app to be like hey i'm being abused i need help right oh and it's like that'll fix the problem that app is tiktok they have an app for you can let people know if bola is near you i was gonna say this is another example of Bolo giving fat government contracts to private companies connected to him. He's actually the one doing the sexual assaulting and the one who owns the company that helps with the sexual assaulting. I mean, that's what I'm trying to say, though. Jokes aside here, if you wanted to cover your tracks of you or your employees or people you know wanting to fuck kids, you would totally create

like we're covering everyone that we're trying to end this problem and it's like i you know my brain kind of breaks but then it's like oh fucking abacha dies of a heart attack and then his son does and then his there's a woman that's not his wife but it's clearly a woman he knocked up and oh now his current wife has a charity where she takes care of kids that have been sexually assaulted it's just it's just odd the fact that we allow billionaires to have control of the lives of the people that are on the bottom of the barrel in society is only going to lead to more impoverished people being abused for the rest of time and i hate that my brain immediately went

to oh his wife runs a charity how are they raping kids like it has immediately where my brain went but didn't take y'all to figure that out either so i come not at least i'm not alone in this madness i like to imagine bola's lawyers listening to this episode for two hours and then hearing yogogi say that and going, all right, now we got him. You know, his nephew owns Awanda Oil, and in 2017, they are wrapped up in an investigation for alleged financial malpractice. Huh, someone connected to Ebola does malpractice with finance and oil. The Awanda 250 million market cap energy conglomerate with assets in downstream, midstream, and upstream sectors is one of Nigeria's largest independent oil companies and is listed on Nigerian and South African Stock Exchange. The SEC sent a formal letter to the company as it examines the oil regulations have been breached. Meanwhile, the market reacted negatively to the news, obviously. Oando paid $1.65 billion for the acquisition of oil-producing assets owned by Kuniko Phillips in 2014.

And so, similar to our Rainbaxy episode, essentially, I think that they bought something that could or could not have been a lemon and didn't pay for it. I don't know exactly what's going on, but Bully Tenebu is directly connected with Oanda oil. Taking a couple steps back, does anyone know what country specifically Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, and Bill Clinton flew to in Africa with Jeffrey Epstein? I don't. I don't offhand, Andy. I don't. I'm browsing around and everything just says Africa. It's perfectly coarse. Yeah. Just wait till you find they stopped by Bola Tenebu's charity. Had a rest stop at his charity and Epstein felt very relaxed afterwards.

I was going to say. But yeah, I did want to mention, we said earlier we wouldn't cover all the court cases, but just from a couple of them that are representative. We mentioned on part one, Bola faced perjury charges for forging his academic qualifications when he filled out forms to run for governor in 1999. He lied about the different schools he went to. He blames the perjury on his political aides filling out the forms for him and obviously pretending that he went to a better college like the University of Chicago. In April 2007, he's brought to trial over 16 separate foreign accounts we mentioned briefly, these accounts with banks like Citibank that he'd previously been running heroin with, but he's able to get off on that. And in September 2009,

the British Metropolitan Police investigated the Lagos state government for its investment in able to get off on that and and to september 2009 the british metropolitan police investigated uh the lago state government uh for its investment in econet also known as airtel which is apparently a company that bola tenebu has connection to but the nigerian federal government refused to release information to british prosecutors so there was uh no uh trial there but you know because bola operates in london and some of his kids operate operate in London, he did almost face a court case there at one point. Yeah. I mean, the man is internationally connected and he's got his hands in many pockets all around the world. And it makes sense.

I mean, you know, in a lot of our billionaire stories, there's a 10 to 20 year period where you're just kind of learning the game and for bulletin abu from after he's in college to before he becomes governor he just spends about 12 to 15 ish years traveling the country of the united states and the world doing accounting for major blue chip corporations and other shady people that we may or may not know about like like eventually in cartel i mean eventually the motherfucker went you know what i think i could put two and two together for myself as well and it shows he was like yeah those heroin dealers were pretty bad but i really learned the life of crime when i met barack obama so to close out our episode we're going to be covering the Lekki-Tolgate massacre. And like I mentioned at the beginning of this episode, the corporation Lekki Concession Company, LCC, owns the Lekki-Tolgates. in mid-October about a protest in Nigeria against SARS, which is a group that's long title is Special Anti-Robbery Squad. I mean, basically, they're just, you know,

they're like NYPD, but slightly less hardcore. No, you know, honestly, just straight up police brutality. Everything from if you got an iPhone, you're walking around, they go, how come you got money and rob you and roll out? And from the news reports I found from Nigeria, people literally are like, if you dress nice, they show up and say, you seem like you got money. How come it's not in my pocket? And so early in October, they were protesting at the Lucky Toll Gates and an incident occurred. Sean, you want to elaborate?

Yeah. Yeah. And just to kind of follow up on what you were saying there, Yogi, October 2020 starts this End SARS protest. The hashtag that goes around Twitter is End SARS, which is not a racist take on the coronavirus. It's actually related to this special anti-robbery squad that Yogi mentioned. The special anti-robbery squad was set up in the 1990s under the military dictatorship. There was a serious problem with armed robbery and armed gangs robbing people. So the idea you have a special anti-robbery squad, it's plainclothes police who

are supposed to deal with all this robbery but it ends up kind of like the crash unit in los angeles or you know denzel washington in the movie training day they get uh very corrupt they end up getting accused of extortion robbery rape torture extrajudicial killings um setting up checkpoints where they're shaking people down or like yogi mentioned if they just see anybody with money, they'll pull them over and say, oh, you must be an internet scammer or something. And they'll throw you in jail if you don't hand over whatever. So there have been these massive protests against the special anti-robbery squad.

And they were actually successful. And SARS has been disbanded. Uh, by which I mean it has had its name changed to SWAT special weapons and tactics. Jeez. And this is actually the fourth time that SARS has been disbanded. Uh, wow.

So the Nigerian government is on a great run of changing the name of this organization to try to placate, uh, the protests that have been springing up since its creation right i think that i need to try as more community policing really get to know the neighborhood the people that you're shaking down that's right it's like when you're a fugitive and you keep making up names to keep ahead of the law. Right, right, right, right. Lance Evercutt. But yeah, this most recent protest in October 2020

has been the largest because other issues such as corruption and demands for better schools, better jobs have also become part of the protest. So it got a lot of people out on the street. Yeah, I believe that some of it that wasn't nearly as covered was the fact that there was government aid for coronavirus that was hidden in warehouses and there were video reports around the same time as these protests of people like storming a warehouse that just had pallets of pallets of masks hand sanitizer and food for the people that was just never distributed

so just i mean there's nigerians that are seeing straight up corruption and saying fuck this noise uh they need to know that we're not taking the shit anymore yeah and when we mentioned corruption um i haven't been able to tie bola to this directly it seems like more of an issue with the nigerian federal government though i'm sure he knows players involved and has relationships with them. But there was a report that came out that said about 20 billion U.S. dollars worth of Nigerian oil wealth is unaccounted for. Very likely just taken offshore and stuck in a Cayman Islands account by somebody. So you can just imagine the kind of public anger that is fueling these protests. And so at the Leky Toll Gates in mid-October, at one point during the protests,

protesters are not necessarily corralled, but sort of corralled into an area. From one report, lights were then turned off, and the SARS and police that belonged to the military open fired on the protesters. And I believe they murdered six people, Sean, is that correct? And then injured 20, something along those lines? Yeah, so there's conflicting reports.

Amnesty International says at least a dozen people died. There's a good CNN article. They pointed their guns at us and started shooting. How a bloody night of bullets and brutality quashed a young protest movement. So October 21, 2020, like late just after midnight, according to CNN, dozens of eyewitnesses say they were shot at first by members of the Nigerian army and then hours later by the police eyewitnesses told cnn they saw the army remove a number of bodies from the scene in the immediate aftermath the army denied any involvement saying that it was fake news before backtracking and saying that soldiers were present but fired their weapons in the air and used blanks but not live rounds it's the same thing that happened with those blackwater guys and killed all those

people in iraq that's why they got pardoned they weren't bullets bro they were planks um one of the connections to bolaf at the lecky tolgate massacre was that there were billboards that were owned by a son of bolas that had turned their lights off as well as the property itself that Bola's connected to. So you have protesters in the dark being shot. I mean, getting shot is a terrible experience in itself, but in the dark, terrifying, terrifying. You're just hearing bangs and loud flashes are in your face, disorienting as fuck, if you ask me. Yeah, it's owned by one of the sons of Bola

who doesn't have any cardiovascular problems and following this uh lecky toolkit massacre a few of bola's properties the oranta hotel uh the paper he owns those buildings were burned and i also supposedly in london his son say he was kidnapped as well. Although I haven't found any reports after the initial kidnapping that happened after the Lekki Tolke massacre. Some people believe that the buildings being on fire were to instigate hate against the protesters and to lend sympathy to Bola, basically being like he set up those buildings being on fire so that people would be like, oh oh he's losing a property and those protesters are violent to instigate that narrative which very plausible

and only only adds to my mistrust of uh bolam uh tinaboo yeah and we should just emphasize you can watch videos online if you can stomach it that's part of how the cnn report was put together they put a bunch of uh cell phone videos together to kind of show what happened these are entirely peaceful protests who probably about a dozen of them were just shot dead by the military and the police uh because they wanted to live in a country that wasn't totally corrupt and where you know 15 of all tax revenue didn't go to one guy in a country with endemic poverty um but Yogi also sent me a pretty fascinating article just about Bola Tenebu's son and the Lekki

tollgate massacre. This is just from news2.onlinenigeria.com. So the advert company that has these billboards that Yogi mentioned on the Lekki tollgate, it's owned by Seye Tenebu, who is one of the sons of Bola Tenebu. And then just quoting the sons of Bola Tenebu.

And then just quoting from the article, there has been outrage over the decision to disable CCTV cameras and turn off the billboard lights shortly before NSAR's protesters were attacked at the Lekki toll gate. So it's not just that this guy shut off the lights. He also turned off all the CCTV cameras. And apparently they posted a statement on their Instagram handle saying, quote, When the end SARS and say no to police brutality protests started from day one,

we wholly supported the movement and used all our platforms to promote the message. I believe the promoters can verify this information, as we believed in the cause. On Tuesday, when the curfew was announced, we heeded the governor's warnings and didn't want our staff in the cause. On Tuesday, when the curfew was announced, we heeded the governor's warnings and didn't want our staff in any danger. Hence, by 3 p.m., our staff had been ordered to leave the site and the board was switched off based on the governor's curfew request.

So they're essentially just punting and saying like, oh, we were just following the governor's orders. And it's like, well, who owns the governor of Lago State? Why, that would be Bola Tenebu. Well, you know, security cameras notoriously have to be manned 24-7. So I want to ask all y'all a question right now. Do you think Bola Tenebu will run for president in 2023? And if he does, will he win?

Because his power only grows with everything we've mentioned. And really, I mean, before I started doing research for this episode, I had no idea just the level of corruption going on in Nigeria, let alone being corroborated by one person. The notion that he would become president of the country only fills me with the most dread then again who knows if i'll be alive in 2023 if you know what i mean i think he'll run but if more things like the lion of bordelian come out then he wouldn't win but if things like that don't happen then i don't know he's got a shot i i think he's gonna run and he's going to win. Trump became president in America. It's almost foretold that he's going to win.

Yeah, that's a good point. Sean? I think he's going to run. I think he would. I don't know. I think the corruption might be too much. But what I'll say is if he does announce that he's running for president, invest in uh the

company that makes brinks trucks just invent like just get all the stock you can in every company that makes trucks that transport money because uh there's gonna be a lot of them rolling through nigeria it'll be like taxis at the airport just one after the other going to influential people's houses. Sean's looking for his next investment move after Palantir. Yeah. Well, thank you for joining us on our episode of Bola Ahmed out of Kunle Tinabu. This was suggested by a user on Twitter. Please reach out to us and let us know if you have a suggestion for a billionaire. Leave a five-star review and a suggestion,

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