Ladies and gentlemen, let me relate to you a story that's more current than tomorrow's newspaper. In recent hours, the esteemed operatives of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission—or EFCC, as folks call them—swooped down on the fancy neighborhood of Lekki with the determination of Mississippi floodwaters.

Now, among the unlucky individuals was one Wole Afolabi, who is known in musical circles as wole afolabi Wole DSB. What a peculiar circumstance for a fellow who strums and hums to find himself mixed up in the long arms of the law?

The raid—conducted with the precision of a skilled riverboat pilot—rounded up a total of a few dozen accused digital bandits. I've seen catfish caught in nets with more dignity.

Laid bare before the world were the evidence of their alleged misdeeds: prohibited substances, tools of the digital trade, and other illicit items that would make a preacher turn pale.

I've observed that these digital con artists, as people thereabouts term them, have a particular affinity for the expensive trinkets in life—not unlike how a riverboat gambler might display his success.

The EFCC chairman, in commenting on this impressive apprehension, emphasized that the action forms part of their ongoing crusade to purify Nigeria of the plague of internet fraud. That's mighty righteous, though I imagine as many new swindlers emerge as lilies after a spring rain.

The musician Wole DSB now confronts serious charges that could place him in a place where the music ain't so sweet for many a moon.

Imagine that in recent times he might have been composing melodies, and presently he's composing statements for investigators. Life has a way of shifting like river currents.

In the event this story act as a caution to potential wrongdoers? Perhaps so, though folks being as they are, we'll never lack for souls who believe they're cleverer than authorities.

Thus, as this tale unfolds in the halls of justice, we common folks can only observe and contemplate at the curious paths that take a man of music to exchange his microphone for a defendant's stand.