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 @birkinbadxx
I’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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I’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
FollowI’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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I’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
FollowI’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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I’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
FollowI can understand the older folks and their ‘kids of nowadays’ mentality.
But from us? nah not really
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I’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
FollowBecause Dammy Krane is 24.
24. Arrested at 24.
At 24, I was so daft
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I’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
Follow26 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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I’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
FollowSo 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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I’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
FollowI 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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I’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
FollowThe 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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I’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
FollowSo 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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Follow@BaddieYo_
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Partner in concern
FollowDaniel Olukoya♦️ @ManLikeIcey
Dammy 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
Dammy 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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Dammy 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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Dammy 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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Because 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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Because 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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Because 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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Because 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.
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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.
Follow@alephile @birkinbadxx Especially when you’re not a child and fully rational.
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FollowJ(ones) @je_mc2
There 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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There 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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@je_mc2 Is not that he spent it on food or medical bills for him mum. He blew it on Private Jet.
Follow@FailedRift That’s the thing, isn’t it? The reason is so…banal. I can’t empathise with that BS.
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@FailedRift That’s the thing, isn’t it? The reason is so…banal. I can’t empathise with that BS.
Follow@je_mc2 And he just got caught. He has been flexing off people’s sweat long before.
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@je_mc2 And he just got caught. He has been flexing off people’s sweat long before.
Follow@FailedRift That’s the other thing. This wasn’t a one-off, was it? It’s not a first offence.
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@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?
@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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@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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Because 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 @SomiEkhasomhi
At 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 @Clarenceonyeks
Making decisions affecting entire industries. https://twitter.com/SomiEkhasomhi/status/871988271835992064 …
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At 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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I’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.
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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 ✔@4eyedmonk
What Dammy Krane needs is not empathy. He needs a badass lawyer.
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I’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
FollowRape, 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. @saratu
And too often, something has to happen to us first before we get why it’s messed up.
FollowI’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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FollowMoral compass issues + lack of big picture thinking https://twitter.com/saratu/status/871987405095542785 …
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FollowEchoChambers are bae @EuginhoCortez
I 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’ ? @AfroVII
Because Nigeria is a place where thieves are honoured, it seems y’all have grown accustomed to this warped reality.
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Because 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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FollowWe 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 @andyRoidO
Glad 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 @VikkiAngelX
At 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.
