I have a friend with a similar experience and after everything happened he became cold and silent, I would have wanted him to speak and defend himself but his close friends whom he had brought to the platform made matters worse by hunting him.

I really do not know if his silence was golden because up till date people see him as a fraud and wicked person without fully understanding the real story.

I know certainly there must be some sort of vindication from an angle because after he left, the strong Nigeria community on steemit collapsed and the effect of the work he was single handedly doing left a huge gap which no one has been able to fill.