The night was quiet until it wasn’t.
At 3 a.m. in November 2024, Oladipupo Olabode Oladimeji better known as Oladips was scrolling through his phone in bed when his estate’s WhatsApp group exploded. EFCC operatives were moving house to house. He laughed it off. “I don’t do fraud,” he told himself.
Minutes later, his kitchen door came crashing down.
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Officers stormed in, demanding phones and laptops. Oladips handed over his two iPhones, no laptop, no secrets. They took him anyway.
For five days, he sat in what he calls a “nonsense cell.” Phones were scanned. Nothing. No scams. No yahoo links. Clean.
Then the twist came.
With fraud off the table, one officer leaned in: “Do you pay tax?”
That was it. The charge flipped. No more internet crimes, just unpaid personal income tax. Oladips says they held him until he paid. Not through FIRS. Not with a receipt.
Straight to the officers.
₦10 million. Cash. Gone.
“Dollar was still ₦1,600 then,” he recalled bitterly in a Hip TV interview that dropped late October 29, 2025. By morning, clips were everywhere.
“I told them from the start, I don’t do fraud,” he said, voice steady but eyes tired. “They found nothing. Then they switched to tax. That’s how Nigeria happened to me.”
He got his phones back. No apology. No paperwork. Just freedom and a warning never to speak lightly about the system.
But he spoke anyway.
Today, October 30, 2025, the video is blowing up. Fans are angry. Upcoming artists are scared. One tweet reads: “EFCC now tax collectors with guns?”
Oladips says he’s not changed much. “Not really,” he shrugs. But deep down? He admits the stress nearly broke him. He thought about suing. Then let it go. “Too much wahala.”
Still, he has advice for the next big name: “Pay your tax. Fame comes with bills.”
EFCC has stayed silent. No statement. No denial.
For now, Oladips walks free but the story walks louder.
And in Nigeria tonight, phones are staying closer to chests. Just in case.
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