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2024-10-29 19:42:56A hundred million dollars, converted to local currency, it was four hundred and eleven million, five hundred thousand. The first thing I did was to buy us a house in victory island, yeah, a house, a real home with a large compound, a large dining room for our big family and pool at the back, things we thought only possible in our dreams, things we and others like us were denied. Funny how they always say crime don't pay, but the ones who say this all the time are the real criminals, they are in the business of stealing destinies and murdering dreams, taking what belongs to many for themselves alone, and discouraging others to take the same steps. That is a real gangster move, if you ask me.
Gangsters, hooligans, hoodlums, varmints, knave, rogues, miscreants, criminals. Those are the name they call us, but when you push even the most peaceful of men to the wall, when you allow a man's survival instinct to kick in, then you have a beast to deal with. And that is all we do, we s
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