Some Nigerian celebrities have reacted the arrest of social media celebrities, Hushpuppi and Woodberry, which was released by the Dubai police on Thursday, June 25.
Nollywood actress, Uche Jombo, media personality, Toolz and singer Paul Okoye shared their reactions on their different social medie accounts.
Hushpuppi, Woodberry, and eleven others were arrested for alleged 150 million dirhams (N168 billion) fraud.
According to a video shared Dubai media office on Twitter on Thursday, they were tracked and arrested in an operation code-named ‘Fox Hunt 2’ with huge sums of money, cars, mobile phones, and other gadgets were confiscated from them.
Uche, 40, tweeted, “It’s all fun and game… Millions of families and lives ruined Billions stolen ….l just watched the Hushpuppi arrest video.”
While the 37-year-old Tool joked, “Dubai used him for promo video…..”
The mother-of-one later added, “But 2 million victims wow!! Imagine someone had saved a nice sum for their retirement…and its all gone in a blink of an eye. Could damn near push someone to suicide.”
Sensational singer, Paul of defunct Psquare expressed surprise at the amount of money Hushpuppi stole from people and how social media led to his downfall. The father of three wrote “Abeg una hear the amount of money? Oh oh oh.. Social media go kill this generation”
