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| Chief Chris Anukam |
Chief Anukam failed to see my utter contempt for his conduct, if not his person for engaging in such conduct. Poor him; he misjudged my ordinary courtesy toward him to be a sign that I was available to join his charade in Irete Agubiam. Tufiakwa!!
Shunning Chief Anukam's invitations in Irete is not the only sign that I gave him that I'm not game for his shenanigans. No man has a right to be so dense. I have also diligently refused to participate in any of his schemes and scams starting in the 1980s when his greed and get-rich-quick schemes ruined the lives of many young men from Irete and its environs who then lived in the US, especially young men from his own Umuoma Village, including Chief Anukam’s younger brother, Chief Cy Amako, as he is now known. He lived large off of the proceeds of crimes committed by young men whose original reason for coming to the US was to get an education and improve their lives. For the sake of easy money, Chief Anukam did not hesitate to take a wrecking ball to the lives of those young men.
Those young men were arrested, charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced to years in prison for various criminal offenses, including fraud, theft, conspiracies, forgeries, and other financial crimes committed in furtherance of Chief Anukam’s personal interest and the interest of his now failed computer sales business. As Chief Anukam’s victims ended up in prisons across the United States, some of them lost the will to live. Some of his victims were deported to Nigeria in chains and shackles and subsequently died. Others became mere shadows of their former selves and their manifest potentials. It was a 1980s cold-blooded massacre that still reverberates in Irete.
I understand that one of his victims from Umuoma died several weeks ago; he died a hopeless, frustrated, and broken man, after struggling unsuccessfully to regain his footing in life, a life that saw him incarcerated in the US and deported back to Nigeria years ago. The last time I saw that gentleman, the Late Mr. Barth Amadi, in Nigeria, he complained bitterly that Chief Anukam abandoned him to his fate in spite of all the suffering he went through in the US to generate wealth for Chief Anukam.
Chief Anukam proceeded to dupe others, including some of my relatives in the US who used their credit cards to purchase computers and peripherals at Chief Anukam's request, only for those relatives of mine to wake up to jeopardy to their credit records as Chief Anukam failed to pay for the goods. Indeed, one of my relatives traveled from the US to Nigeria and physically confronted Chief Anukam, slapped him, and ultimately forced him to pay for the goods. He, too, would have ended up a victim of Chief Anukam's financial scam if he had not resorted to violence.
Even as I write, Chief Chris Anukam, a.k.a., Chris Anugwolu, and his Micro Products outfit continue to fleece Nigerians and engage in shady, dishonest, and crooked business dealings. The Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) is today stuck servicing Chief Anukam/Anugwolu's delinquent loan(s), which the company took over from unfortunate lenders from whom Chief Anugwolu borrowed huge sums of money but refused to pay back. According to AMCON, Chief Anukam owes almost One Billion Six Hundred Million Naira (₦1,568,839,810.06) and all avenues provided by the corporation for Chief Anugwolu to resolve his delinquency have failed. Chief Anukam is number 81 out of the 105 Nigerians who owe the country nearly One Trillion Naira in delinquent debt. A pattern begins to emerge. It is not possible to consider Chief Anukam's conduct in life and business without thinking that you are looking at a recidivist? Another nexus to recidivism is the one hundred and seventy million Naira (₦170M) Anukam ethics violation and contract fraud scandal at Nigeria's Ministry of Justice.
Those of us who discovered Chief Anukam’s ruse early still did everything we could to help his victims whilst they were in the US, in prison and out. That is a story for another day. But, we understood that avoiding business and financial dealings of any kind with Chief Anukam was, and remains, the beginning of wisdom. That is why, even within Irete, some of us are shy about participating with him in anything that involves finance, especially if he is in any way positioned to purport to exercise oversight or to actually take control of public funds or donations. Our caution will remain, even if his heists are masked with the newfound pablum called “self-help community development efforts.”
Evidently, the accumulation of the ill-gotten gains from his perfidy and the delinquent loans have imbued Chief Anukam with an exaggerated sense of self-worth, paving the way for this arrogant, antagonistic, and inconsequential man to sneer at his superiors. Ironically, while Chief Anukam attacks me, issues threats, and spouts curses like a petulant child suffering from Tourette Syndrome, he insists that he is entitled to respect because of his old age. Chief Anukam fails to understand that there are only a few things in life more tragically comical than when the hubris of a scalawag meets its appropriate nemesis. Chief Anukam also fails to understand that one lifetime is not enough to wash away one's heinous record, even if the evildoer adopts a different last name than the one used when the crimes were committed. ~~~ Agbara1
See also
Where Did My Ego Go?: Okonkwo Complex in the Premeditated Outbursts of Chiefs Anukam and Amako
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