"I AM AN INDENTITY" - CONVICTED IGBO DRUG LORD OSUAMADI.

Icheoku says except that the white people of Australia could care less whether or not he is an Igbo high chief, an identity or that his ancestry is allegedly traceable to King Solomon's one night stand paramour, Queen of Sheba. He tried to fool them with his fabulous tales by the moonlight but they were not buying it and did not buy into any of his baloney. Instead, to the big house they sent him to cool off and for six long years. He was convicted by Parramatta District court of running a drug syndicate which specialized in methamphetamine and heroine supply throughout Western Sydney. Eze-Igbo 1 of Igboland in Sydney, Australia, HRH Eze Maximus Osuamadi, was nabbed in a sting operation lasting several years, during which he was severally caught on tapes discussing drug supply operations; as well as on video, physically supplying commercial quantity methamphetamine to an undercover office inside a garden.  

The convict fronted businesses including an African Foods/Grocery store, a Western Union Franchise/agency,  a Limousine service and an Internet Cafe, while dealing his illicit drug business underneath. He was busted following an extended sting operation, beginning in 2010, which caught him red-handed, involved in an extensive drug running operation  covering China, Nigeria, Brazil and some Asian countries. True to type, he lived it up and big and as befits his "royal" status of Eze Igbo of Ndigbo Sydney. He was tooling around in flashy Mercedes-Benz and smooching with local politicians and senior police officers including the commissioner of police. He was also himself actively involved in local politics of his Western Sydney operational base. 

As one officer put it, Chief Osuamadi lived a "lavish lifestyle"; which in turn became his greatest undoing as it attracted curiosity from the authorities who wanted to know the funding sources for such life of affluence, befitting of only a king. Chief Osuamadi was described by the authorities in Sydney as the Godfather of a West Africa crime syndicate in Sydney, from where he directed operations extending as far as to Nigeria, Brazil, China and some other Asian countries. When he was arrested, he went into a tirade demanding to know from the arresting officers if they in fact know who he was and who they are messing with; stating "do you know who I am?' Continuing, Chief Osuamadi thundered, "Everybody in Granville (Western Sydney) knows me. The police there and the local politicians know me. I am an identity. I am Chief of the Igbo community and people call me Chief Maximus. I don't know if you know about the African tradition of royalty. We trace our royalty back to the Queen'of Sheeba of Israel and Ethiopia." 

Icheoku says what a name dropper who forgot he was in Australia and not in Nigeria; thinking that who he knows or did not know mattered to the country's law enforcement officials. Luckily he did not threaten to give them a "dirty slap" nor even "slapped: them before they slapped the handcuffs on his wrists and frog-marched him to jail. Icheoku says the Igbo drug chief was indeed very lucky that he did not pry his trade in Nigeria during the now President-elect Muhammadu Buhari's first time around; neither was he personally conducting his druggie business inside Indonesia, otherwise he would have become part of the statistics of executed Nigerian drug dealers. It is also instructive to mention that Chief Osuamadi once wanted to become a priest before he found the devil, abandoning his pastoral calling and training in Rome for Australia, where he discovered the easy money lavish lifestyle which drug begets and never looked back ever since. He was also involved in identity theft racket and the procuring of false passports and traveling documents. But hey, he is only going away for a few years and will rebound to take yet another title from his people, who could care less whether or not his money is hot or was genuinely earned. So until then, Icheoku asks, like Chief Osuamadi, are you also an identity?