My Checklist For Knowing An Uncaught Criminal! 

It’s important to state this, not to promote indolence but to draw the lines between what is illegitimate and what is not.

A few of the nouveau rich guys of this era are products of the “black economy” — largely internet fraud, drug trafficking and kidnapping. A bunch of lucky guys who escaped justice due to our weak and/or enabling criminal justice system. A better part of them have divested into what could be described as legitimate. Mostly, tech and real estate. A few others are into show business (entertainment).

However, criminal mannerisms do not go away so easily. One of such gross mannerisms is flauntiness, extreme loudness and a dead conscience that can no longer recognize illegality. When I see any so-called young “billionaire” I do this mannerism checks and this determines how I respond or deal with them. A bit of stereotyping would be needed to point to those coming behind us that these gross mannerisms are not the standard. You could even see a lady who is, in quote “doing well” in legitimate business still showing residues of this criminally influenced way of life.

Bottom line is, mind who you follow on this space, before what they do begins to shape your worldview, so much so that you become numb to deviance.

— Mazi Ejimofor Opara