A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail
A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail
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He's only 39 with a 40 year old image 🤔
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The woman being harassed by this company and the police is the only that's 39. The article doesn't mention the founder's age, and he definitely looks older than 39 from a quick search.
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He worked hard in utero. /#neverstophustling
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He got the idea for a tomato purée company when he was still in the womb
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he would “rather die
This dude takes tomato sauce seriously.
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Blood may be thicker than water but tomato sauce is thicker than blood.
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Guess he won't be eating his own tomato puree then
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"I won't allow some lady to tarnish my image!"
"I will do it my self!"
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Sounds like corruption is playing a part in this
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No kidding. So far:
- What is at the most drastic possible interpretation only a case of exaggerated language. She said “killing people with this” when maybe she should have said “making people unhealthy with this” or “loading people up with too much sugar with this”. This civil case is being prosecuted under some kind of cyber terrorism / fomenting charge
- They put her in a water-filled holding cell where she could only stand or squat, not sit or lie down, for twelve hours
- After that, the police showed up at her home, invited themselves in, wouldn’t let her or her daughters leave, stayed there for twelve hours (doing what??)
This is evil, horrific, monstrous behavior. Corruption I think of as selling road building contracts over golf. This is evil corruption.
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What are the odds the food owner has a good friend at the ol’ Nigerian Justice Department.
This whole thing is bullshit on top of bullshit.
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Almost 100%, The justice dept is behaving in such an over the top way here, it’s either that or they just want to demonstrate how they themselves can get away with mistreating a citizen.
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You know what to do boys!
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This one deserved a internet "hug". I swear to god corrupt people like this should have their lifes destroyed
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manufacturer had used the incorrect stock photo for the part
That's apparently really common. It's a lot of trouble to bring every transmission, door handle, gas tank, hood hinge, etc... into the studio for a reference image. They use a "basic" image a lot of the times.
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"This tomato sauce is a bit sweet for my taste."
"FUCK YOU! I WILL KILL YOU, YOUR FAMILY, AND YOUR DOG, BURN EVERYTHING TO THE GROUND AND PISS ON THE ASHES!"
"Jesus Christ, man! I just said it was a bit too sweet."
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She actually said something along the lines of "your brother's company is killing people the sauce is so sweet" in response to a comment or so I read in another article this morning.
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It's in this article:
Help me advise your brother to stop ki***ing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it’s pure sugar.
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I hope that her defense also makes the argument that there is no damages because online reviews have zero value when the majority of them are fake paid reviews.
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I can just about hear someone saying, "Do you know who I am?" or "Do you know who my father is?"
This situation just screams of the diabeetus-loving tomato sauce company bribing the local police.
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Holy shit, fuck Nigeria. Can we freedom them next? Sounds like they actually need it, but there's probably no oil to be had.
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There's shittons of oil in Nigeria, and most of it is being siphoned off by multinational oil companies.
No need to invade if you can just get the corrupt government you're propping up to sell it to you cheap in the first place.
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Dutch person here, fuck Shell.
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They have a lot of rich but unfortunate princes though, so there must be something to sustain all the royalty trying to give me their money.
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Maybe don’t claim their product is killing people because it’s a little too sweet for your taste…?
Okoli responded: “Help me advise your brother to stop kiing people with his product, yesterday was my first time of using and it’s pure sugar.”
Yeah that’s not gonna go over well anywhere, even the USA. Especially being a business owner….
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It's hyperbole. If you want that to be illegal I'd be hanged for how hyperbolic I am.
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She shouldn't have been so melodramatic, but she also shouldn't have been arrested for being melodramatic.
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McDonalds kills people every day with unhealthy foods. No joke, no hyperbole pure murder. Kills them due to thier greed. I live in the US. Do you think I should be scared 😆
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Hahaha wow! That's your comment about this? Incredible!!!
Sure, if someone writes something on the internet that some business owner somewhere doesn't like, lets just torture them. Makes total sense!
In case you are actually this dumb: Her comment was a so called hyperbole. People like using these, often for humor reasons, especially on the internet and sometimes they are used to clarify something that's actually subtle. Nobody reading that comment actually thinks that she seriously means people would get killed by that stuff. And if they would, she should still be allowed to express what she thinks on the internet.
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Did a quick search to see if nutrition and ingredients were listed - they weren't. Saw a lot of "our products are super nutritious trust me bro" in their ads.
Actually makes me thankful of all the regulations our food suppliers have to follow in the US.
As a European: lol
Yeah - was about to do that
I think EU regulations for food and border-free movement between countries are the two most valuable EU advantages by far
I'm not sure what you're loling about, only major difference between EU and USA nutrition labels are the percentage amount listings.
For now
That’s the 40 year reputation he’s worked so hard to build: oversweet tomato purée with no nutrition facts published.
This is such horseshit.
Don’t know if others reas the article but they made her stand in a cell with water on the floor, for at least twelve hours.
That’s like Abu Ghraib level indignity and prisoner abuse. Over some lost tomato purée contracts.
This should be a civil matter, but it’s being treated as a criminal matter.
Fuck this guy, and fuck the corrupt government he’s using to torment this lady.
I think they're really going to lose a lot of business over this lawsuit. If they had just left that lady alone hardly anyone would have seen her review lol
Streisand effect hits hard
Makes me thankful that in the US the truth is a defense against libel.
Only if you can get through the years of litigation, harassment, stress, and have the money to weather it out. Truth and justice are more easily attainable for those who can afford it.