Where is Oluwole, the Headquaters of Forged and Fake Documents?
I
have had clients asking me questions about Oluwole, and every time I have been
asked about it, it shocks me a bit, as it is rare to find someone who knows
about Oluwole nowadays. Maybe everyone knows about Oluwole, but they don’t want
to talk about it anywhere because such discussion should be with people who are
really into hardcore runs too.
For
those who don’t know what Oluwole is, Oluwole is a place in Lagos where any
document can be forged, produced, fabricated… anything. As Computer Village is
for computer and computer accessories, Oluwole was the Computer Village of fake
and forged documents. There is nothing that cannot be done here; international
passports, certificates, anything that’s originally produced by humans and
machines can be reproduced at Oluwole. A lot of people are in the abroad today
because Oluwole did most of their papers.
Life
was easier when Oluwole was around. Academic problems and job problems were
easier to solve with Oluwole. All of a sudden, we just stop hearing about the syndicate.
I don’t know how they disappeared, but I know the last time I heard about them
was when they produced President Obasanjo’s business card, wrote a note on it
with his handwriting and appended his signature to the note, just to help some
three or four guys secure a job at one of the major oil companies in Nigeria. It
was far later that the runs casted due to carelessness of one of the
beneficiaries. The Government probably cracked Oluwole down after that.
Another
thing I could say caused the disappearance of Oluwole boys would be extinction;
“Yahoo-Yahoo” became popular around a time in Nigeria and men of Oluwole
started switching to “Yahoo”, they lost their existing men and no new ones got
trained to replace and carry the culture on. Hence, the sudden disappearance of
the syndicate. However, we all know things are still happening at relevant
offices; certificate things, transcript things… everything that has to do with academic
documents, they still happen where they happen, the only problem is getting the
right information and finding the right people to run it for you. Nothing in
this Nigeria is impossible; this is a public space, I cannot say more than that
here.
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