Five days ago, Afrobeat musician Dammy Krane was arrested in the Unites States on a 9-count charge, which includes credit card fraud and identity theft. His arrest was as a result of flexing on privates jets and paying for same with stolen credit cards. The Private Jets company, TapJets had a hand in his arrest.
When news of the musician’s arrest hit Nigeria, there was a mix of disappointment and anger.
But there are a few who feel Krane’s pain and want us to commisserate with him. And no, eiyah is not sufficient; we are admonished to empathise with him. Empathize!
See below:
Let’s gather together and sing Kumbayah
FollowMoné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
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Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowMoné @birkinbadxxI’ve read a few comments – we’ve made fun of him, we’ve laughed, we’ve pointed fingers. His arrest has been discussed on every platform
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Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowMoné @birkinbadxxI’m surprised but not really surprised by the lack of empathy coming from the people in my age group and younger
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Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowMoné @birkinbadxxI can understand the older folks and their ‘kids of nowadays’ mentality.
But from us? nah not really
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Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowMoné @birkinbadxxBecause Dammy Krane is 24.
24. Arrested at 24.
At 24, I was so daft
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Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowMoné @birkinbadxx26 and I’m still daft. Still making silly mistakes & I can’t sit down and think ‘why did he do it? It’s never that deep now’
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Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowMoné @birkinbadxxSo I’m not even mad at him. What he did was wrong but he’s so young & he may do time or get deported
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Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowMoné @birkinbadxxI can’t imagine what led him to make the decisions he made. Peer pressure is a bitch. I know from experience
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Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowMoné @birkinbadxxThe need to fit in. The need to be more than you actually are because of the people you surrounded yourself with
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Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowMoné @birkinbadxxSo I’m really praying for him because he’s going to need something bigger than him to get through this period of his life.
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FollowMoné @birkinbadxx@BaddieYo_
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Partner in concern
FollowDaniel Olukoya♦️ @ManLikeIceyDammy Krane is the only child of his mother according to the press and you are still slandering him like this don’t you have hearts?
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Your screws, nuts, bolts etc must be missing
Daniel Olukoya♦️ @ManLikeIceyDammy Krane is the only child of his mother according to the press and you are still slandering him like this don’t you have hearts?
Follow•Pretty Young Thing• @snazzy_sharlie@ManLikeIcey Eni to ba je gbi lo maa ku gbi
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Daniel Olukoya♦️ @ManLikeIceyDammy Krane is the only child of his mother according to the press and you are still slandering him like this don’t you have hearts?
FollowThe boy is good ?? @conradlomo@ManLikeIcey Thinking like tissue paper
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Daniel Olukoya♦️ @ManLikeIceyDammy Krane is the only child of his mother according to the press and you are still slandering him like this don’t you have hearts?
FollowGentleman Redefined @papisticks@ManLikeIcey As d only child, did his parents not teach and train him not to steal credit cards? Sit down pls!
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Moné @birkinbadxxBecause Dammy Krane is 24.
24. Arrested at 24.
At 24, I was so daft
FollowWale Adetona ✔@iSlimfit@birkinbadxx @prinzgbemi Empathize with a grown ass man that steals identify to flex? It’s bad you were daft at 24, it’s even worse you are still daft up till now!
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Moné @birkinbadxxBecause Dammy Krane is 24.
24. Arrested at 24.
At 24, I was so daft
FollowSith @lekuche@birkinbadxx Because you were a didinrin at 24 doesn’t mean everybody was. https://twitter.com/birkinbadxx/status/871827136503578625 …
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Moné @birkinbadxxBecause Dammy Krane is 24.
24. Arrested at 24.
At 24, I was so daft
Follow♥Oyindamola ibiyemi♥ @Msibiyemi@birkinbadxx Not our fault u were daft at 24…
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Moné @birkinbadxxBecause Dammy Krane is 24.
24. Arrested at 24.
At 24, I was so daft
FollowMr Man @MisterOrimoloye@birkinbadxx I wasn’t daft at 24…credit card fraud??!
Even a 5yr old would tell u it’s stealing and it’s bad.· Lagos, Nigeria
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Empathy ko, empathy ni
Lee Hoelloway @Cuntosaur@alephile @birkinbadxx Stealing so you can wear Gucci or fly on a jet is however not a level of empathy That makes sense in any form.
FollowLee Hoelloway @Cuntosaur@alephile @birkinbadxx Especially when you’re not a child and fully rational.
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FollowJ(ones) @je_mc2There are people in much greater material need than Dammy Krane, faced with bigger temptations, who have not broken. So, no. No empathy.
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J(ones) @je_mc2There are people in much greater material need than Dammy Krane, faced with bigger temptations, who have not broken. So, no. No empathy.
FollowIkenna رجل الصخرة @FailedRift@je_mc2 Is not that he spent it on food or medical bills for him mum. He blew it on Private Jet.
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Ikenna رجل الصخرة @FailedRift@je_mc2 Is not that he spent it on food or medical bills for him mum. He blew it on Private Jet.
FollowJ(ones) @je_mc2@FailedRift That’s the thing, isn’t it? The reason is so…banal. I can’t empathise with that BS.
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J(ones) @je_mc2@FailedRift That’s the thing, isn’t it? The reason is so…banal. I can’t empathise with that BS.
FollowIkenna رجل الصخرة @FailedRift@je_mc2 And he just got caught. He has been flexing off people’s sweat long before.
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Ikenna رجل الصخرة @FailedRift@je_mc2 And he just got caught. He has been flexing off people’s sweat long before.
FollowJ(ones) @je_mc2@FailedRift That’s the other thing. This wasn’t a one-off, was it? It’s not a first offence.
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J(ones) @je_mc2@FailedRift That’s the other thing. This wasn’t a one-off, was it? It’s not a first offence.
FollowOladayo @oladayo01@je_mc2 @FailedRift Talking about. Empathy. Empathy Ko, sympathy ni. Nonsense
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What’s age got to do with it?
Moné @birkinbadxx@BaddieYo_
FollowKiki Mordi @kikimordi@birkinbadxx @BaddieYo_ GRAND Theft. Pre meditated, well thought out plan, (in) intelligently executed is what you’re atributing to juvenile delinquency lmao #SHOOK
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Moné @birkinbadxx@timigod I haven’t said what he did was not daft/wrong. I actually said he was wrong.
FollowTimi Ajiboye @timigod@birkinbadxx Ah, alrighty. But it’s generally better to empathise with the victims sha. It pretty much always sounds like excuse giving.
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Moné @birkinbadxxBecause Dammy Krane is 24.
24. Arrested at 24.
At 24, I was so daft
FollowAyoFemi @Omo_Harkin@birkinbadxx I don’t even care abt the fraud…. It’s d people that get ripped off I can’t stand
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FollowSomi @SomiEkhasomhiAt 24 some people already have serious jobs and are making decisions that reflect on senior management and bosses. https://twitter.com/birkinbadxx/status/871827136503578625 …
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FollowClxrence @ClarenceonyeksMaking decisions affecting entire industries. https://twitter.com/SomiEkhasomhi/status/871988271835992064 …
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Somi @SomiEkhasomhiAt 24 some people already have serious jobs and are making decisions that reflect on senior management and bosses. https://twitter.com/birkinbadxx/status/871827136503578625 …
FollowOLAMILEKAN. @ojumulekan@SomiEkhasomhi true, I have a close friend who is just 24 and works with UNESCO in Addis Ababa.
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Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowVa Va Voom. @Temituoyo_E@birkinbadxx It’s even more annoying that you are saying we should show empathy because he’s 24.
We made youthful mistakes at 24 and this is not one.· Lagos, Nigeria
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Lazaro @Ifedotunxii@VikkiAngelX @Dikachim Lmao. I hate you
FollowNwakibeya @Dikachim@Ifedotunxii @VikkiAngelX My own is that she may be using height to judge age because I don’t think the car switch happened at 24
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It’s quarter to “suit up”
FollowHENRY Okelue ✔@4eyedmonkWhat Dammy Krane needs is not empathy. He needs a badass lawyer.
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Sango loading
Moné @birkinbadxxI’ve spent a few days thinking about Dammy Krane and empathizing with him. I have a thing for thinking about stepping into people’s shoes
FollowChristian @Chrisblin@birkinbadxx I work 12 hours a day and one idiot would sit back and scam me off my money?
His generation wont see peace sef..
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Our sympathy system is weird
FollowClxrence @ClarenceonyeksRape, DV, fraud…. we only tend to get it when it involves us or ours… https://twitter.com/saratu/status/871987173817548800 …
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S. @saratuAnd too often, something has to happen to us first before we get why it’s messed up.
FollowS. @saratuI’m not sure how we will build a society that works for all if our collective moral compass is so broken.
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FollowClxrence @ClarenceonyeksMoral compass issues + lack of big picture thinking https://twitter.com/saratu/status/871987405095542785 …
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FollowEchoChambers are bae @EuginhoCortezI don’t even think the Dami Krane thing is worth discussing. He took a risk knowing what the possibilities were. He will deal.
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FollowT. Rankïn’ ? @AfroVIIBecause Nigeria is a place where thieves are honoured, it seems y’all have grown accustomed to this warped reality.
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T. Rankïn’ ? @AfroVIIBecause Nigeria is a place where thieves are honoured, it seems y’all have grown accustomed to this warped reality.
FollowChioma Agwuegbo ✔@ChiomaChuka@AfroVII Exactly. We like him so it’s okay for him to steal. Not because he was hungry (and even that’s not an excuse), but to show off. Rubbish.
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FollowT. Rankïn’ ? @AfroVIIWe know man’s singles ain’t popping like that, who was he tryna stunt on? This is what you get when you run from your truth. Kmt.
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That Dammy-Kemen connection
FolloworwelliANDYstopia @andyRoidOGlad Naijas broadly are revolted by idea of sympathy for Dammy.
419 has victims.
For same reason, I was also revolted by sympathy for Kemen.
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Oh,
FollowUgonna @VikkiAngelXAt 24 you can pretend your Honda is a benz. But credit card fraud? You will sit your grown ass in jail. https://twitter.com/birkinbadxx/status/871827136503578625 …
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And get a brain rest, while at it.
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