Suspected fraudsters disguising as assassins have threatened to eliminate the Founder of Penpushing Media, Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji, with an option to spare him if he could cough out N20 million.
The gang, led by a member who identified himself as Femi Poly, at about 7:30am on Sunday put a phone call across to the journalist.
Poly said they had been assigned to eliminate Kayode-Adedeji, but had a rethink on carrying out the operation.
He said: “We have your photograph, we are assigned by somebody close to you to kill you, but we observed that you are an elderly man, and decided not to carry out the assignment, but to reach out to you if you can offer us N20 million.”
The gang leader, operating with mobile phone numbers: +2349036869898 and +2348080858130, when asked who their sponsor was and the reason given to eliminate the journalist, said he would provide the information after paying them the N20 million demanded.
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He added: “The person is your close associate, who told us he had issues with you, but can you keep it to yourself if we reveal the identity, which we shall do that after payment of the N20 million.”
When Kayode-Adedeji told them he has no such amount, the gang offered to accept N500,000.
When he told them he could also not afford such an amount, the suspects further reduced it to N150,000.
The journalist again told them that he could not also raise the N150,000 immediately, and that he had N10,000 as at the time of the conversation, the gang said he should send the N10,000 as part-payment, and immediately provided an Access Bank account with number 0002884692 and the name Aminu Adamu.
Kayode-Adedeji said he has informed the police of the development, adding that as at the time of filing this report, police authorities have commenced investigation into the matter.
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