This whole situation with mamman nasir ali really shocked a lot of people! Basically, he and another guy named Christian Taylor were found guilty of being part of a crazy big oil subsidy scam worth N2.2 billion. According to news, the Lagos Special Offences Court convicted them because they basically faked documents and claims about imported fuel, getting paid money from the government that they honestly didn't earn.

I've seen cases like this pop up in Nigerian news before, but when I heard mamman nasir ali, who’s the son of a former PDP chairman, got 14 years, I thought, wow, maybe this time there are serious consequences for rich and connected people too. It's wild because most people think the big guys usually get away with stuff. The judge decided jail time for both of them was fair because regular people suffer a lot when subsidy money is stolen—like, fuel becomes more expensive. I think this case might scare some scammers, but I’m not totally sure it means things will really change. Still, it's kind of a big deal! If you ask me, seeing folks in power actually get sentenced gives me a bit of hope, even though I don’t trust the system 100%.