‘Instagram billionaire’, Mompha rebrands, features in image laundering skit

Instagram billionaire, Ismaila Mustapha, more populary known as Mompha is making an attempt to rebrand his already soiled image by featuring in a com

Instagram billionaire, Ismaila Mustapha, more populary known as Mompha is making an attempt to rebrand his already soiled image by featuring in a comedy skit with Instagram comedian, Samuel Perry, better known as Broda Shaggi. The skit which is aimed at laundering his image and to make the world see that he was ‘wrongly accussed’, has however sent tongues wagging on social media platforms.

Mompha, who is known for his lavish lifestyle, had fizzled from the spotlight in 2019 after he was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged money laundering totaling N3.2b. He was later granted bail in the sum of N100m

In the nearly three minutes footage, Broda Shaggi plays the role of a police officer flanked by an accomplice, also a police officer. Both officers brandishing guns stop a car on a street for a security check. The driver of the car turns out to be Mompha, who takes down the car’s windscreen and is immediately recognised by the police officers.

“Police don release you?,” Broda Shaggi asks.

“Who be Police? I be criminal,” Mompha retorts. “You’re a criminal!,” responds Broda Shaggi.

“Nigerian police will never tolerate and laugh with a criminal,” he continues. Mompha reiterates he is not a criminal and shouldn’t be addressed as such.

“I am not a criminal, stop calling me a criminal,” he says.

Broda Shaggi then proceeds to request for the car documents and driver’s license which Mompha duly obliges. He is then asked to come out of the car while Broda Shaggi accuses him of trying to run away. He argues Mompha — who owns a collection of exotic cars including Ferrari and Lamborghini — is driving a Toyota Camry so he could “disguise” himself.

Mompha responds by saying that is the ploy that suits the country as it likes to bring people on top, down.”
“No be wetin una country want? Una like to bring person wey don big down,” he said.

The video has since sparked a flurry of reactions on social media platforms especially Twitter.

“Everyone has a price, you just have to find out what it is. Brodashaggi is rebranding the image of Mompha here. PR work,” a Twitter user said.

“Mompha is using Broda Shaggi to do the work of Olivia Pope… Narrative rewriting… Mompha’s equivalent of Naira Marley’s Am I a Yahoo boy,” another user said.

See the video below