The National Association of Seadogs, a.k.a. The Pyrates Confraternity, has raised the alarm about identity theft by a group of people and warned members of the public to be wary of them.
The NAS Capoon of the Pyrates Confraternity, Abiola Owoaje, raised the alarm on Wednesday during a press conference in the Ikeja area of Lagos State.
He warned that the National Association of Seadogs would not hesitate to use the full force of the law against the perpetrators of the act.
The Seadog leader said, “We, the undersigned members of the Board of Trustees and Tortuga-in-Council of the National Association of Seadogs, a.k.a. The Pyrates Confraternity, having watched a video purportedly made by a group self-styled the Association of Humble and Obedient Youths (AHOY), in which the individuals who made the video seek, forlornly and incompetently, to associate their origins and continued existence with our organisation, especially with our Seven Founding Fathers, hereby place on record the following statement in denunciation of those claims.”
Owoaje continued, “The said video constitutes the most impudent, brazen episode of piracy on the high seas—the real thing yet to be acknowledged in seafaring lore.
“It is more comical than Baba Sala in cross-dressing, more improbable than a Mr Bean cartoon, and more puerile than the petulant antics of an infant denied a lick from an ice cream cone.”
The group leader also stated, “As an attempt to legitimise a dubious provenance through an unsustainable link to our organisation, it is a pathetic and abject failure.”
“The overwhelming inaccuracies in their accounts confirm that their objectives were disingenuously criminal. Many of the statements are serious, untrue, and highly inflammatory.”
He also added, “Indeed, some of them are outright malicious falsehoods. Some of the statements carry serious and continuing threats to our reputation and, specifically, our organisation’s collective and individual members’ personal integrity.”
“These circumstances lead to the inescapable conclusion that they have pursued this course not only with the specific intent of undeservedly elevating their dubious existence but, in doing so, to damage our reputation.”
The Seadogs leader declared, “All claims made by the authors of the video or that organisation that seeks this linkage are HEREBY DENIED AND REJECTED. There is no truth whatsoever in the assertions that they have sought to disseminate.”
He also stated, “We view this video and any related actions of the perpetrators as a brazen attempt to tarnish the hard-won image and reputation of our organisation, an action aimed at diminishing our significant positive contributions to the development of Nigerian and global society over the past 70 years.”
He stressed, “To ignore this impudence would be a gross abdication of the considerable responsibility that we have come to accept as one of the barometers of the social conscience in the communities within which we operate.”
“We will fail ourselves and squander legitimacy if we fail to alert all relevant security agencies and the public of the grave potential of this act of open criminality tied to political interests.”
The NAS leaders also stated, “Their satanic ploy is aimed at compromising publicly exposed members of our association.
“We do not rule out plans to eliminate some who, with one word, can dismantle this glossy tumour of lies, which, one must concede, has most seductively been packaged in hi-tech designs.”
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