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Before the Blockchain Technology came; decent earnings on the internet was so sparsely recorded and making money online sounds like a myth in several corners of Africa. Majority of the people believed if you earn on the internet, then you probably a cyber criminal! They were partially right back then, so this makes internet gigs a no-go area for lot of responsible youths- After which came Steemit!

One of those youths was me! Back in the days, about a decade plus ago; Cyber crime was a dominant charade- internet frauds, credit card frauds, check scams etc were reigning supreme. It was a menace so bad that hardly on any street you wouldn't find culprits called "Yahoo Boyz!" As they were fondly and ceremonially called, i had a couple of them as friends- "even though they were decent lads from childhood who got swayed by dominating crime". The reason i never resolved to carrying out some of this acts remains a mystery to me up until now- Which makes my honor and pride still intact!

"INGLORIOUS DICKHEADS"

I had five friends, two of which were my bosom friends. We attended a diploma course in Electrical Engineering together, so we were damn close; the others ain't so close but just a regular friend and we became housemates back in 2007 when i was doing my internship, we all stayed in the same apartment for seven months!

This douchebags do not give out cash, irrespective of how much their bounty was; they'll rather take you out to a pub and you all drink yourselves to death! That was their cue, i remember one of us was dead broke and sick; the dude couldn't afford to go to the hospital to treat himself and yet three of my then roomies had about 1 Million Naira($2,800) approx apiece. None of these guys helped my fella who needs just about $100 to get himself treated!

Imagine spending about $700 on booze and girls, and not one of these sons of gun offered to help this dude. He figured he was going to die so he managed to travel to another states, meet his relatives and got treated. Few weeks afterwards, he was back with a blood feud; waiting for a strike back with his comrades in crime.

One time, we all went to a night club. Another visiting friend, all seven of us went into the city to have some fun. So this two ladies keeps flirting with two of our guys, after a couple of hours-some minutes before midnight; they signaled to us to find our way home as they need to take the ladies back home in the car. By few minutes past 1am, we were home.

My friends, the ladies men came home shortly after us with this two ladies, all looking so fly. I always have a 6th sense for trouble so i bailed to go sleep in our landlady's apartment with his son. By 2.am on the dot, their was ruckus from our flat, went over to check what was wrong and all doors were locked; but you could see through the windows with bright white light flooding the interior.

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The Reason:
Apparently, my five friends with the visiting friend all want to take turns to have sex with this two unfortunate girls. A very improper fraction of 2 to 6, this ladies had declined and were stripped naked with their cloths soaked and thrown outside on the porch, i could see their full blown nakedness now as they shiver and one of them had her face smeared with tears already, the other had a blood looking gangster look.

As i was knocking for this guys not to commit additional crime with what we had been supposedly committing(Because everybody on our street thinks of us all as thugs and criminals). The girls heard me and started screaming my name for help after the guys told me to get lost. I was soliciting for them and at the same time pondering on if this guys decided to attack me for disturbing their gang raping fest- tell me how i could handle six guys all at once? Although, one-on-one i could take them one at a time because i took on three of them in a fight during my 7 months stint with them.

Sadly, i couldn't help and the ladies were brutally molested; you could hear those horrific moaning and shriek of pains not of pleasure. I had little pity for them because they were so dumb to follow two guys into the apartment of five more!

A little past 5.am, they were both released from their sexual hostage. One was cursing and threatening to bring cops, unknown to her; my evil roommates had all the cops in that area under payroll!

So after two, three days; then weeks turned into one month and still no sign of the girls with Po-po, we figured out she went to the nearest corrupt police station to report and they were probably taken as drunks. That was how six guys took their turns on this young wild and free girls searching for their missing fun!

RETRIBUTION

But a certain season came, an anti-cyber crime task-force special police squad was inaugurated to combat this exponential crime growth, It was Hell!

Our apartment was raided six times in an all assault style. On the third raid, i ran barefooted for about 4 kilometers after jumping over an 7ft fence in other not to end up in jail. How i escaped the other raids, i couldn't tell if it's because of my agility and sportsmanship or just sheer luck- one thing was certain, my mama's prayer never ceased even though i did not talk to her once during those seven months because of a little quarrel we had.

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SURVIVING WAS MAGICAL

After the 6th arrest raid, it dawned on me that i won't escape the next waves. I packed m bags and came back to the city of Lagos Nigeria.

One of my Childhood friend in South Africa was moved by the spirit and sent me close to $300, i don't know how he knew the kind of state i was in or the midst of the Ghouls i was in; all i remembered was seeing his offline message on Skype and the details of the wire transfer to me. Mama raised me to be very prudent with little have got and not wasteful, i only buy what i need an look away from whatever it's tempting me to go on a spending spree. So it was on this bucks i survived on for a small part of those horrible period, i never had to depend on those scums to feed and help spend in their illegitimate riches!

How i survived those miserable months with this criminals, i wish i could state here. It will amuse you to know that out of the six housemate, i was singled out to have my conscience still intact hence i never had the though of defrauding some foreign woman or man.

PRESENT DAYS

Before long, i heard rumors of three of my old room mates traveled out of the country; one to Malaysia, one to the UK and the last one to UAE. That was about 7 years ago today by the way, six years ago the one in the UK sent me a message on Facebook with his Wife, a British woman about 20 years older than him. The content of the message was to mock me, asking me where my semi-saint mentality had taken me to in life. Fast forward to the year 2015, my dear friend had been deported with reasons i do not care to know about.

MORAL

The life of crime is a short one, a temporary gust that perpetrators enjoys in some season but in the end they suffer most. Today, i only know of two of my old roommates being alive, the rest i had no idea what had become of them.

I hoped they are well and had faces the consequences of their actions!

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