On June 10, 2020, popular socialite, Dubai based Instagram big boy and Gucci lord Ramon Olorunwa Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi was arrested in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for multiple fraud and Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam charges. He was arrested by the Dubai Police alongside 11 other accomplices in a special operation tagged ‘Fox Hunt’.

The Dubai police said the suspects were accused of committing several crimes outside the UAE, listing money-laundering, cyber fraud, hacking, criminal impersonation, scamming individuals, banking fraud and identity theft as some of them.

He was later extradited to the USA to face his charges and have now pleaded guilty to all charges and naming several other high profile and popular individuals in Nigeria as having either intentionally benefited from his activities or being a direct accomplice.

His arrest did not come as a shock to many Nigerians because on several occasions people have questioned the source of his wealth, insisting people who work very hard to make money do not spend it or throw it around in the manner the Gucci master does.

Prior to his arrest Hushpuppi boasted to being a made man and lived a very posh, lavish, loud and pompous lifestyle. Acquiring several high end luxury cars including different models of Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Lamborghini etc. He lived in a state of the art building, only patronising cloth and shoe designers directly, to ensure he gets the most expensive of them all, earning him the name Gucci Lord.

He was so rich and popular that he challenged celebrities and other influencial personalities openly on Instagram, making them feel financially insufficient with their hard work. His net worth is estimated to be in excess of $100 million (N8.2billion) and to buttress this claim, they found $41 million in cash in his Dubai apartment during his arrest. All these wealth, luxury and fame, with no traceable source of income though his verified Instagram account which has about 2.5 million followers says he is a Real Estate Developer. However there is no physical structure to back that up.

What beats my imagination is how a person can be so smart in successfully pulling off multiple million dollar scams, yet so dumb in hiding and investing the proceeds. Like that is the very basic or first course you take while studying to become a fraudster. Drug lords maintain a low profile and do everything possible to hide their wealth from suspecting eyes and are brutal when is comes to their personal life, true identity and location. Politicians who have access to millions of public funds hide them away in Swiss accounts and use other legal fronts in keeping their investments out of the radar.

How does someone who is supposed to be so smart and clearly knows he can not defend his wealth when called upon, live literally in the public and doing everything possible to let everyone who cares to know that he is excessively rich? That for me is perfect oxymoron. Hushpuppi is the truly and undeniable successful smart intelligent criminal!

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In all reality and honesty, not a single thing is wrong with the females. Females are about the most amazing, angelic and awesome beings on earth. However, it is pointless to try to ignore an established rule. Also, it will be a great disservice to us if we shy aware from reality because of how sensitive this issue is.

Whatever the case, the reality remains that many parents, especially those of African descent do not have much prospect for the female child. It might look like such an absurd thing to do especially in this contemporary society, but that is the reality.

Thus, we are going to look at the possible reasons why less ambition and prospects is directed at the girl child. Many parents who place all their hopes on their male kids with very little or nothing on the females do so on perceived justified grounds.

If we want to conduct analyses based on their theories and conceptions, we may be tempted to adopt their stance. However, before we try to promote or reject their claims, I will love to highlight what their reasons are.

1. The Natural Duty To Work And Make Ends Meet Is On The Man

From both biological studies to theology, it is seen that men are the ones given the duty to be enterprising and to exert energy to sustain their homes and families. In Christianity, you can see that in the garden of eden, it was the man that was cursed to spend his sweat before finding food. He was to till the soil and be pierced by thorns in the Field. Here, we see that working to earn a living is made a man’s thing. Still in the same scene, the woman is relegated to the tasks of child birthing, raising her home and tending it. As such, many people use this view in their regard of women.

2. Women Are Naturally Less Suited For Struggle

We have seen in many instances and from facts that women are built naturally less sturdy than the men. From studies in biology, it is a fact that girls have far lesser bones than the boys even those of same age. In fact younger boys even have more bones and accumulate more masses than older girls. With this, in terms of exerting power and force for some tasks, you see that the boys have an upper hand naturally. Some religious people do even joke that a woman was made of a singular rib bone of a man. Imagine the comparison!

3. Women Have Their Lives Tied To Men

I am well aware that a lot of us would want to debate this proposition. Still, to a significant extent, the girls sometimes do not really have a life of their own. Once they are of age, they get attached to a man and then begin another life. A man can plan out his life, marking out the things he wishes to do for himself, when he will get married and all. In contrast, a woman only has the power to reject or accept a man when he comes. Yet, the time when the man comes is totally not hers to decide whereas a man can pin down at what point he will approach a lady. For this reason, a woman is not expected to do much than prepare and wait. Her life’s path to a large extent will be influenced and determined by her marriage decisions. Concurrently, a girl on getting married in some societies will have to drop and forgo her maiden name. She disowns her fathers name to take up another man’s name. This is a critical point influencing parent’s views and opinions.

4. Domestic Duties And Keeping Of The Home Usually Confine The Women

Though the debate will still rage on, the responsibility of tending the home, rearing and raising the family lies more on the girl child than the boys. Even if we try to share every other duties, that of conception, delivery and nursing babies in the home cannot be delegated to the man. It is a woman’s tasks. Of all tasks, this particular task is so much demanding in attention and time.

For this reason, the woman has little extra time to pursue other stuff. In the light of the above reasons, it is not difficult to see why the girl child is not entrusted with as much responsibilities and expectations as the male folk.

Not as though she is despised or unloved but because she does not have the capabilities (physically but not mentally) to handle them as good as the male folk do.