A Nigerian starts petition to stop 50 Cent’s Hushpuppi series, says it glorifies cybercrime

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A Nigerian starts petition to stop 50 Cent's Hushpuppi series, says it glorifies cybercrime


“For my scammers I gotta do this one, Hushpuppy series coming soon!” he wrote captioning his post which featured pictures of Hushpuppi.


This news caused an uproar online, with people complaining that the project will glorify cybercrime. This led to a petition calling for the TV series to be stopped.


Explaining his reason for starting the petition, Effiong wrote, “I am disappointed by 50 Cent’s recent announcement about a planned movie series on Ramon Olorunwa Abbas also known as Hushpuppi, a convicted felon currently serving 11 years in a maximum security prison in the U.S over cybercrime or “yahoo yahoo” as it is popularly called in Nigeria, this proposed series will further tank Nigeria’s battered image as it will reinforce stereotypes about all Nigerians being scammers.”

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The idea to make a movie based on Hushpuppi’s run-in with international law enforcement is not unique to 50 Cent. Prior to 50 Cent’s news, Universal Pictures, Will Packer Productions, and Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife acquired the rights to the Bloomberg article “The Fall of the Billionaire Gucci Master,” about the Instagram influencer Hushpuppi in 2021. This move got mostly negative reactions from Nigerians.

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