Suspected fraudsters disguising as assassins have threatened to eliminate the Founder of Penpushing Media, Prince Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji, with an option to spare him if he could cough out N20 million.
At about 7.30am last Wednesday, a certain Femi Poly put a phone call across to Kayode-Adedeji, claiming that his gang had been assigned to eliminate the journalist, but had a rethink on carrying out the operation.
‘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 suspect said.
When asked who was the gang’s sponsor and the motive for their assignment, the caller, operating with mobile phone numbers +2349036869898, +2348080858130, said he would provide the information after receiving the N20 million demanded.
‘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’, the caller said.
When the journalist told them he has no such amount, the gang said they would reduce the amount to N500,000, and after telling them he could also not afford such an amount, the suspects further reduced it to N150,000.
Kayode-Adedeji again told them that he could not also raise 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 they provided an access bank account with number 0002884692 with the name, Aminu Adamu.
The journalist, however, said that he has informed the police of the development, which have commenced investigation.
