A gang of suspected fraudsters have threatened to eliminate the Founder of Penpushing Media, Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji, however offering to spare him if he could cough out N20million as ransom.
The gang, led by a member who identified himself as Femi Poly, at about 7.30am put a phone call across to the journalist at Abeokuta, saying they had been contracted to eliminate him, 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 N20million’, the suspect said.
The gang, operating with mobile phone numbers +2349036869898, +2348080858130 were asked who was their sponsor and what was the reason given to them to warrant the assignment to finish the journalist. They however said he would be provided the information after paying them the N20million 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 suspects said.
When the journalist told them he had no such amount, the gang reduced the ransom to N500, 000, and after telling them he still could not afford such an amount, the suspects further reduced it to N150, 000.
The journalist said he again told them he had only N10,000 at the time of the conversation, and he he was told to send the N10, 000, as part-payment, and immediately they provided an access bank account with number 0002884692 with the name Aminu Adamu.
Speaking with colleagues, Kayode-Adedeji said he has informed the police of the development and police authorities have commenced investigation into the matter.
