Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Nigerians believe, Bristol Isaac Tamunoibifiri of Pidom, has been killed as David Hundeyin said he got arrested by Nigerian Federal govt as he got tracked with his OkX and KuCoin wallet address. READ MORE HERE
Taking or Substack, David Hundeyin, claimed that the Nigeria Federal government might have arrested Bristol Isaac Tamunoibifiri of Pidomnigeria (CEO of the blog on Twitter).
That being the case, the hysterical insistence by the “family members” that I keep his disappearance secret made no sense. If indeed the person allegedly in detention at FCID called “Isaac Bristol M” is indeed suspected by the NSA’s office of being the same person as PIDOM NIGERIA, his biggest chance of ever achieving freedom again would be for the public to make as much noise as possible, so that he would become recognised – correctly – as a political prisoner. Keeping quiet – and even helping to conceal his disappearance by tweeting from his account – would make me complicit in his disappearance.
In our several conversations, PIDOM alluded many times to having multi-factor authentication and multiple layers of security on all his social media accounts and electronic devices. The idea that I would be able to login to his account using only a username and password – no 2FA code from the supposedly destroyed phone containing the authenticator apps – meant that someone had systematically gained control over all his internet accounts. That phone was definitely not destroyed in the “scuffle” that allegedly culminated in his arrest.
According to this unidentified person, PIDOM’s instructions to him/her were that if anything were to happen to him, the login details of his account should be handed over to me. Supposedly, his phone was destroyed during the arrest and given the alleged lack of evidence tying him to the Twitter handle, a case for his innocence could be made stronger if I used his account and tweeted in his voice. Supposedly, this person said, he had been granted administrative bail with “stringent conditions.”
Could it be the case that the government obtained his KYC information from Binance – which effectively has a hostage currently held by the Nigerian government? If in fact this is what happened, and the person linked to these wallets was the same person allegedly arrested by the government, that person would be in very big trouble right now – the sort that would not be served by keeping silent about it.
Using data from the algorithmic wallet identification startup Arkham Intelligence, Pelumi Adejumo of CryptoSlate published a story on August 14 showing that PIDOM’s Tether address had recorded multiple interactions with centralised crypto exchanges like KuCoin, Binance and OKX.
On August 13, National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu made a loud claim about having “arrested key protest sponsors and frozen crypto funds linked to them.” PIDOM – as is well known – carries out most of his daily transactions using crypto, and in fact he had his Tether and bitcoin wallet addresses pinned to the top of his Twitter profile.
Anyone who is familiar with the behaviour of the security establishment – particularly the Intelligence services – knows that their surprisingly sophisticated technology and endless budget to buy every sort of surveillance technology that Israel will sell to them, is only matched by their total absence of purpose and base barbarity. These people will buy a Japanese Samurai’s ceremonial Tantō for millions of naira, only to end up using it to cut suya in Garki. It’s just their nature.
All the Israeli surveillance tech they have spent billions on over the years was never used to prevent the ongoing hostile takeover of the Nigerian state that started in 2012. It was never used to prevent Nigeria from becoming the world leader in deaths caused by terrorism, ahead of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. It was not even used to prevent a coup next door which toppled a regime that was friendly to Nigeria, and installed one that chased NAF-001 – with Nigeria’s president onboard – out of its airspace at gunpoint.
Given this background, I had no idea what to do when this person claiming to be his close associate reached out to me using his account, offering me his login details. The purported associate claimed that PIDOM was arrested on August 5 in Port Harcourt and transferred to the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) in Abuja shortly thereafter, where he remains under the purview of the National Cybercrime Centre (NCCC).
The originating IP adresses of login attempts to Twitter and Gmail accounts can be viewed by anyone logged into the account. The purpose of giving me wrong login details could have been to attempt to view my IP address – and thus track my physical location. Unfortunately, I happen to use a VPN pointed permanently at Lagos, Nigeria or Accra, Ghana.