The Comptroller of the Customs and Excise Division, Raju Boddu, revealed that despite receiving death threats he is not deterred from doing his job.
“I am not coward… If I have to die, I’ll die for the sake of the country, what better an honour there can be…to die for your country and the people you love,” said Raju Boddu.
Boddu, along with a customs investigative team, has been probing $3.2 million of revenue lost as a result of an alleged brokerage fraud. The broker, the department said, had been using someone else’s name to clear goods without exemptions.
The alleged broker, who may have begun defrauding the Customs and Excise Division over two and a half years ago, maybe facing criminal litigation as soon as next month.
According to Boddu, the investigation has caused the public to question his allegiance to Antigua and Barbuda, claiming that some of his own workers have leaked internal information because of their personal misgivings.
“Everybody has an agenda here. They want to pursue their own agendas so they won’t hesitate to even assassinate somebody, character-wise,” he explained.
“They won’t hesitate to even physically kill if needed because there were threats that they are going to finish me and my family if I make [say] a word. I am not worried about all these threats but I’m talking about the hatred that is in the human man,” said Boddu.
Boddu also put on blast, the media for what he believes is divisive and unconstructive criticism of the department’s internal affairs.
He claims that the media has done nothing but try to “provoke” and “lure” him.
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Antigua over India?
If these are not mere word but the truth of your heart, stand STRONG!!!,
Be careful of who who the person is connected to, we are a small island and our history has sometime shown that the one who it truly behind the crime is never persecuted.
My the army of the Lord surround you.
Yes Mr. Boddu
The human heart is DESPERATELY WICKED. Who can know it? Stand for truth though the heavens fall. What is in the dark must come to light. “Ye shall know the TRUTH and the truth shall set you free”
REAL TALK – GOOD ADVICE
Let it be clearly understood, ‘…imminent; …real or imaginary,’ there shall be no threat to the ‘…Sanctity of Life.’
However, when a Comptroller of Customs’ speaks to;
(a) ‘…Everybody has an agenda here; and
(b)…They want to pursue their own agendas…,’ these still not appear to be the most critical of issues.
The fundamental question is, ‘…How was the Customs Department under the tenure of a man who is willing to lay down his life for the ‘…nations of Antigua and Barbuda and India,’ allowed a Broker without detection, for equally as long as he has taken to identify a suitably qualified and competent officer to perform the duties of Comptroller of Customs?’
Likened to the contagious and deadly ‘…Coronavirus,’ if this is not mindboggling. then what is?
Sad reality is that this was going on for too long. People I am sure turned a blind eye in exchange for an open palm.
This has gotten way out of control. It is time for it to be blown wide open and the chips fall. There are too many people struggling for others to gain $$ by theft.
FROM HOSANNA TO ‘SENTIMENTALITY IN THE HIGHEST’
Much better if ‘…Boddu ‘doh’ bodder’ de media.’
Until he/she so reveals, never know what a person may wish to die for.
Some has died for ‘…Freedom; …Money; …Love of humanity; …Love of their life; …Stupidity and Country.’
Though not for the ‘…sake of peace,’ do believe that ‘…Duncy Bat,’ would wish to ‘…Die in Peace,’ while ‘…Ras Smood’ would wish to’…Die For Ganja.’
Not sure what the hell ‘…Comptroller of Customs Raju Boddu’ is singing for, or to whom he is singing, but likened to the song ‘…Hosanna,’ this seems like ‘…Sentimentality In The Highest.’
Do hope it is not against finding or considering ‘…some officer in the Customs Department,’ who has the capacity to succeed him.
At least everyone now knows that ‘…Comptroller of Customs Raju Boddu’ has an important ‘…Death Wish.’
Yes Sah!
To die for one’s Country is a desire of the ‘…Highest Nobility.’
Not sure if it is ‘…professionally wise’ to blame the media for that which it is seeking to unravel and inform.
That said, if any ‘…public administration/administrator’ speaks to;
(a) ‘…Transparency;
(b) …Accountability; and
(i) …Integrity,’ except being a’…wimp or so deeply enslaved by docility,’ these are as important as anything, anyone may wish to die for.
But do know from ‘…professional Law enforcement/ Media Relations Training,’ that when law enforcement, chose to block out the Media, they have two considerations.
Thus, for the ‘…Individuals; …Agencies; …Entities; …Organizations and Institutions’ those that are seen as Media-friendly;
(a) …They make you.’
Conversely, when they (including Law enforcement) becomes;
(a) …Too Secretive; and
(b) …Too hostile or Media unfriendly,’ one of the same two considerations is possible;
(i) …They break you.’
Advisedly, though, if he is not, it might be prudent to become ‘…media friendly.’
Not a messenger, so don’t shoot.
Just commenting on the news as ‘ANR’ has reported, and has allowed.
Mr. pompey, as usual, I get a good guffaw our if your truthful comments. Keep on being you. No apologies to the yes-men. I totally dislike yes-people.
Many are praying for you, and you have the support of the People. That is the word on the street. Keep up the good work. Justice shall prevail. Yes, as “Stand Strong” just wrote “MAY THE ARMY OF THE LORD SURROUND YOU”. Forward Ever! The guilty scamps will be brought down. The People want it so.
Those theives have been STEALING FOR YEARS ITS NOT A MERE 2 years its years n years ….. how many persons brought in TV LAPTOP FULL OF CASH N DRUGS ……THAT SAID PERSON IN CUSTOMS CAME TOOK THE 50″ TV &
LAPTOP WITHOUT ANYTHING BEEN SEARCHED ….. ost oftne females security officers and custom officers are in on it …this is t nothing knew THEY ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER…
Poor you MR BADU your innocent this is BIGGER THAN YOU AND THE INVESTIGATING TEAM ….
THE THEIVES ARE RIGHT THERE STILL WORKING GETTIING 1st hand info KNOWLEDGE to assist there frens…..
Why threatened ppl lives if your INNOCENT …..
When said persons are bringing in 50 60 TV’s and no custom officer searching back ……also thesheets sets that are loaded with cash drug cash .THE HAVE THE …CAMERAS FACING THE WRONG POSITION PPLKNOW WHERE TO THE CAMERAS ARENTT LOOKING…
Why when certain ppl travelling they arent searched when coming thru customs 5 to. 6 bags not search juswalk str8 thru loaded…i can give names too…
THIS IS SO HUGE IT GOES AL THE WAY BACK TO THE 90’s
Hold Strong sir. You have the support of the picky-head people. Let the chips fall where they may carz “who nah hear will feel.”
Customs officers hook up their “people” in return for favors. That CORRUPTION has got to STOP!!! Time to make an example of dem TEEFING libba
OH NO, PLEASE DON’T DIE. REMEMBER WHAT YOU SAID….. NOBODY CAN REPLACE YOU AS THE COMPTROLLER.THE DEPARTMENT WOULD BE IN A LEADERLESS STATE FOR DECADES TO COME. SO PLEASE PLEASE DON’T DIE!!!!!!!
Mr. Raju Boddu, why do you want to die for a country that is not your birthright? Man, why not pack up your georgie bungle and leave this fair land of ours.
You were contracted to cross train our custom officers and after all these years you still haven’t done it. Talking about our people are not ready to manage the operation of custom. Are you saying that our people heads are hard or dunce? It seems that you’re the dunce instead.
HARD HEADED OR DUNCE JOHN? – ONLY THE BAT AND HIS BROTHER
Couldn’t be talking about ‘…Duncy Bat and his brother Rock Head.’
These guys may not know the ‘ …Customs Management Act,’ and ‘…may not wish to die for this country,’ but still two darn bright fellows.
Instead of ‘…two years,’ the authorities may wish to give ‘…Deputy Comptroller Austin ‘Dynamite’ Greenaway’ two weeks to train them.
Don’t think Duncy Bat and Rock Head would allow any ‘…Importer/Exporter/Broker’ to ‘…defraud the Department’ on the importation of high quality Japanese cars such as the;
‘…Allion; …Axio; …Estima; …Fit; …Noah; …Passo; …Ractis; …Rush; …Vitz; or …Voxy.’
Do believe that ‘…all payable tariffs would be collected and accounted for.’
Hell work if ‘…Ras Smood’ becomes a ‘…Customs Broker or an Auctioneer.’
But there is a sneaking suspicion that ‘…no tariffs’ would be collected on ‘…vegetable substances’ coming in for ‘…Recreational use’ or going out for ‘…Medicinal therapy.’
Sure if he became an Auctioneer and there was ‘…Auction Sale,’ he would not say that he had been robbed.
But hell work, if this ‘Broker’ becomes ‘Irie.’
Whether coming in, or going out, likely that this darn ‘Broker’ would seize any substance, ‘…high leaf ah all.’
There would be but one option, replication of the treatment of ‘…former Agriculture Minister Dean Jonas.’
This would speak to ‘…consistency of treatment’ of those ‘…who cannot get along with people’ and those that out of apparent ‘…Grosse Negligence,’ allow ‘…Customs Tariffs’ to perilously wander astray.
Pompey, John Public to include, the agencies which you were trained in, and worked/working for, have for Centuries tried, “the replication of the treatment, of Dean Jonas;” as, in Character Assassination, and Public Humiliation, yet, as you are well aware, “no weapon formed against, Warriors like me, can assassinate my Spirit.
You, as in John Public would be left with no other option, but to ASSASSINATE my physical body, in Public; however, like the tree that I’ve grown into, allowing baldheads to climb, and get a better perspective on their surroundings, there are many new shoots being nurtured, and seeds, yet to germinate.
…dem a go tired;
…tired, fu see me face!
…yet, their soldiers and henchmen
…used, to annihilate this race!
…not, only fall from grace!
…they, usually end up being,
…a disgrace, to the HUEman race!
…this Cap, will fit!
…it’s, a one size fit
…for, ALL who tries it!
The Comptroller of Customs hands are tied behind his back, by the entrails of those crooked Pied Piper PoliTRICKtans. He’s trying to use his brains, but as to this report, those might be splattered in every direction, similar, to those dope dealers at the house, in Hodges Bay.
AH HA! – FROM ‘RAS SMOOD’ TO ‘WARRIOR’
So you gone from ‘…Ras Smood’ to ‘…Warrior,’ and singing like ‘…Bob Marley?’
Not only that, you also gone ‘…Scripturing’ (new word) as well, with ‘…No weapon form against Warriors like me…’
Not ah bad transition, but bad if ‘I n I’ wants to do battle.
Can’t do battle with ‘…Coronavirus’ though.
Whether ‘…I n I’ spend ‘…1 days in China, wipeout ‘I n I’ in just ‘…fourteen days.’
Know that friends do not ‘…form weapon against friends.’
Bob Marley sings, ‘…Your best friend could become your worst enemy.’
Any way, that only happens ‘…if two friends are no longer friends.’
Still not sure what the hell to believe.
Know when friends fall out, there is only one thing- ‘…Bitterness.’
Tried to pull ‘ I n I’ in these discussions a long time.
Believe ‘ I n I,’ was afraid of some darn thing to come in.
Now you got in, seems that ‘I n I’ got it, or has it ‘…dead wrong.’
As ‘…Battish or brattish,’ as our ‘…gud fren Duncy’ might be, even his ‘…Rock Head’ brother, do believe they know what has been’…dropping people like leaves falling from trees in ‘…Wuhan City, China.’
I n I should never believe that this phenomenon is ‘…Weapon Forming.’
No ‘Ras.
This is a ‘…deadly Virus,’ and bad like hell.
Ebrybody running from it, even ‘Warriors, Nurses and Doctors’ ah all.
If ‘I n I’ feels ‘…No Weapon formed against him, and ‘I n I’ is a ‘Warrior,’ then go ah China.’
Even without eating ‘…Bat Soup,’ I n I’ dropping too.
Now, there is a lot ah saying and lot ah dying in China and some other darn place.
Big ‘Merica’ say nobody muss’ go dey (China) or com dey (‘Merica).
Other nations say, nobody muss’ left dey and come an dey borders.
Even little ‘…Antigua and Barbuda’ say ‘…nobody must go dey, and who up dey, tap up dey.’
All ah dem ‘fraid like hell.
Know what ‘Ras Smood,’ was thinking of some other conditions.
Dem nah really kill, but bad like hell as well.’
Believe this darn ‘…Coronavirus,’ can be re-classified, if it only makes ‘I n I’ uncomfortable.’
Sure, ‘I n I know of;
(a) …Arthritis;
(b) …Fibrositis;
(c) …Negoitis;
(d) …Niggaritis;
(e) …Rigo Mortis;
(f) …Tendonitis; and
(g) …Tonsillitis;
These have been giving humans plenty trouble.
The best one though, might be ‘…Rigo Mortis.’
Likened to ‘…Coronavirus,’ this says ‘…ebry one wipeout.’
The bad thing, no one walks again and the darn ‘…gud thing,’ nobody complains again,’
Now for the ‘…Coronavirus,’ sure that the over ‘…12, 000 people reportedly affected in China’ [BBC], sure the milder condition can darn well be re- classified and call ‘…Coronavitis.’
Even so, ‘I n I’ must still not regard this re-classification as a ‘…weapon form against a warrior.’
Would you say this to the many other Antiguans living abroad in other people country?? Would you tell them to pack up and walk with dem geordiebundle??? Tha man have he right to stay here jus like we want our antiguans to be welcomed else where. Your comment reeks of your prejudices to other races and people that na come directly from Antigua…Just remember Plenty Antiguans are abroad in other countries..i hope if someone threatens their life that you will echo the same sentiments of “pack up ya georgiebundle and leave”….
Very strong words Raju!!! Let’s hope that you mean what you say…. It leads me to wonder where does your allegiance really lies.. Is it with your place of birth, India or is it where you have been contracted for a job, Antigua?? Anyway Jack must be given his jacket when he deserves it. Similarly kudos must be given to you for doing a great job with the tax collections at Customs…..
LOL money just really make people chat foolishness.
Mr Boddu the government is sending you to China to upgrade your skills in anticipation for the new direct China to Antigua cargo ships, when the new port open in a few short months.
Are you ready to go to China Mr Boddu, this is for Antigua and Barbuda…….
NOT ATALL MELLIE
Money makes people chat foolishness, Mellie? Na-a-ah!
Thought it was ‘…Rum and Ganja.’
Now about ‘…Money’ and people in high position.
Have a vague idea what it makes some people do.
But really and truly, it is not ‘Money’ itself.
Do know that people who are broke;
(i) …Steal it from whom they can;
(ii) …Go with knife and gun, rob and kill; and
(iii) …Commit fraud to get it.’
In the case of ‘Customs,’ the ‘…unidentified Broker may have ‘…committed fraud to get his goods’ and not ‘…Money.’
If one follows this closely, it was ‘…Boddu’s officers’ that had ‘…processed the documentation for the ‘…Broker to get his goods.’
Now you are ‘…very cruel to;
…Raju Boddu;
…Duncy Bat;
…His brother Rock Head;
…Ras Smood;
…The other commenters; and
… Me.’
Two possible things could happen, if ‘Boddu’ travels to China;
(i) …Ketch the darn thing and dead one time; or
(ii) …Come back with it ‘…half dead,’ and kill off ‘ebrybody.’
Though not a wise idea, can still discuss travel with ‘…Health Minister Molwyn Joseph.’
Might just tell ‘…Boddu’ if he gets by this darn Virus, bring back some ‘…Vitz.’
Not killing as many people as the darn ‘…Coronavirus.’
woieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee is wicked he wickid Mr Pompey…He want to kill off poor Boddu and all of us when/if he comes back.
I believe my words were pellucid. I did not incite anything.
So your interpretation came from you and has nothing to do with me.
Please do not include me in your analysis.
The Chinese ambassador spoke about the ship and the PM spoke about training…
Pompey, you as a Law Enforcement officer, and one who have had the opportunity, to understand the intricacies, of the Customs Department, in Our Nation have known for decades, how the “BOBOL” thing runs, at Our Ports from Deep Water Harbour to the Private docks, all around the Nation.
You also know, of the dangers and threats posed, not only to Law enforcement agencies, but to the Civilian population, as well.
In the not too, distant memory, if the cavalier haven’t kicked in as yet, I am sure that, you can recall the MURDER, of a former head of Customs by the name of Samuels…
You should remember said murder, and all of the “dutty roads” which led to many prominent Nationals homes and offices. Therefore, Bodou “Murder Forecast” may seem, farfetched, asinine to ridiculous, but it would not come at a surprise to many!
Question…do the Commissary operated by the RPFAB still operate a rum bar on their Headquarters Compound?
Bluddy Blake, he means what he says, these indian guys always put honor before their own lives.
Pompey, you as a Law Enforcement officer, and one who have had the opportunity, to understand the intricacies, of the Customs Department, in Our Nation have known for decades, how the “BOBOL” thing runs, at Our Ports from Deep Water Harbour to the Private docks, all around the Nation.
You also know, of the dangers and threats posed, not only to Law enforcement agencies, but to the Civilian population, as well.
In the not too, distant memory, if the cavalier haven’t kicked in as yet, I am sure that, you can recall the MURDER, of a former head of Customs by the name of Samuels…
You should remember said murder, and all of the “dutty roads” which led to many prominent Nationals homes and offices. Therefore, Bodou “Murder Forecast” may seem, farfetched, asinine to ridiculous, but it would not come at a surprise to many!
Question…do the Commissary operated by the RPFAB still operate a rum bar on their Headquarters Compound?
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