An Aide to the governor-elect of Lagos State, Babjide Sanwo-Olu has been accused by a Twitter user of being a fugitive of the law and a drug baron.
Funke ‘Tega Phillips, who is a media aide to the governor-elect was accused by One Ruona J. Meyer of being wanted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for charges relating to the smuggling of cocaine.
The Twitter user Ruona J. Meyer, a lawyer based abroad took to her twitter handle to publicly disassociate herself from business dealings she had with Mrs. Funke Tega Phillips.
Meyer who started that she had business dealings with Phillips, accused the media aide to Sanwo-Olu of jumping bail after being arraigned by the NDLEA before a court for the accused crime.
Read her Twitter Thread.
1/29 I’m making this PUBLIC disclaimer to FULLY dissociate myself from business dealings I had with @FunkePhillips in 2015/2016, which I terminated in 2016…
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
2/29…after I found out @FunkePhillips is facing COCAINE smuggling charges (with a 2009 court case); and on 4 July 2011, @ndlea_nigeria listed her as skipping bail. Link below, full screenshots to come: https://t.co/oebJipgkYG pic.twitter.com/8WGeROs7HZ
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
3/29 In 2015, I originated and conceptualised a blog and event portal on the business of drinking, from a female perspective. I needed a face for it, as I was not based in Nigeria. This is where @FunkePhillips came in. I later called it The Beverage SPACE (TBS) @beveragespace
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
4/29 I set up all email, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook accounts, paid a designer to make a logo (seen here for August 2015), everything. All @FunkePhillips had to do was go to events/bars, send in little notes, writings. pic.twitter.com/DwP7899O7R
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
5/29 I handled the blog, edited written copy, tapped my contacts in Corporate Communications, PR & media in general, to boost our networks. @FunkePhillips had no money at the time, so I handled practically all costs…
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
6/29…including domain hosting, calls to contacts, sending proposals for sponsored events planning hangouts, generating content ideas and even doing interviews from Germany with my Nigerian contacts.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
7/29 We started to make progress in a very short time; I flew into Nigeria, arranged meetings with my contacts, I will not mention them here, as they are private people and I may need their private testimony for court.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
8/29 But each time I told them I’d be working underground, as I was based outside, working on my day job anyway, and so @FunkePhillips would be TBS’ face. She attended some meetings, and was aware.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
9/ 29 Soon, we were about to get into signing partnerships, when my manager in Germany reminded me to do a character check on @FunkePhillips. I remembered I'd heard some absurd rumours, and went online to check…
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
10/29 I discovered @FunkePhillips was arrested in a Lagos airport with 3.14kgs of cocaine, and skipped bail, prompting then @ndlea_nigeria chairman Ahmadu to list her among wanted “drug barons” in July 2011. News story attached pic.twitter.com/PRyUsIogeP
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
11/29 The report states that the information that @FunkePhillips and other drug barons were on the loose was corroborated by then @ndlea_nigeria spokesperson Mitchell Ofoyeju (@mitchelljnr) cc @dg_ndlea
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
11/29 I next used my contacts in the courts and prisons to legally crosscheck these facts, and presented the situation to @FunkePhillips, asking her to explain. See her case file number photo: pic.twitter.com/lkbeAA7ro4
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
12a/29 In private chats I'll reserve for court, @FunkePhillips said she “went through a lot to settle the case.” I replied that the only way the case could be settled was if she was ACQUITTED, or SERVED TIME, but not so, according to @ndlea_nigeria I reminded her.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
12b/29 Attached are screenshots that show that weeks after @ndlea_nigeria noted her as a “drug baron” on the lam, @FunkePhillips was online, on social media. pic.twitter.com/6qrMnQ98fX
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
13/29 I therefore asked @FunkePhillips for her documents of acquittal. She responded that this was the work of her enemies. With such answers, I told her I could NEVER work with her on any basis; we needed to cut all ties immediately.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
14/29 Specifically, I told @FunkePhillips I would pay off those I had contracted to work for us, handle all the bills, take down everything to do with TBS – I wanted NOTHING more to do with a fugitive…
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
15/29 …even if Nigeria is mediocre enough to allow people like @FunkePhillips with a pending drug case walk the streets freely. This absurdity was not going to be my norm.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
16/29 I told @FunkePhillips that in fact I did not care what happened in Nigeria. I cared about my career and life in Europe, where even the whiff of an association with criminality is just as bad as criminality.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
17/29 Therefore, over subsequent communications, particularly through mutual friends, I asked her to make sure she never referred to me as someone she worked with, never referred to or made similarities to TBS…
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
18/29 … to ensure she never used any similar idea or contacts made, so that people would not subconsciously associate me with her, as we had gone far. @FunkePhillips agreed. I added she was a fraud, and must do right by the law.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
19/29 HOWEVER I thereafter had major surgery, job moves, and JUST discovered that in fact, shortly after this, @FunkePhillips set up THE BEVERAGE ROOM (TBR), using many ideas, & in some instances, even same contacts.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
20/29 Worse still, when I raised the issue 72 hours ago, contacts have since come to tell me they thought I was still a silent partner at TBR, and that is why they joined online groups, bought t-shirts, went to and had events, etc.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
21/29 To be clear: I publicly (via social media) tagged @FunkePhillips, asking her to pull down TBR, because it is a rip-off of TBS, and she knows why she has to: Intellectual property theft, and the matter of GROSS criminality.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
22/29 @FunkePhillips and her associates have since said I am doing it because I am “jealous” and I want to pull her down because I heard she is an aide to Lagos state governor-elect @jidesanwoolu. FOR THE RECORD: I ONLY JUST BECAME AWARE OF THIS.
— Ruona J. Meyer (@RGAMeyer) March 15, 2019
Station Magazine understands that Mrs. Philips have not publicly narrated her position as regards the accusation by her business partner.
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