A man has attempted to commit suicide in Benue State by
ingesting insecticide after Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox froze accounts of
participants in the Ponzi scheme, two weeks to his wedding.
The development which has led to panic among millions in the
country hit the man, identified as Adakole, hard as he had reportedly
invested N300,000 meant for his wedding in the scheme.
Realising that not only was his investment and 30 per cent
interest unlikely to accrue to him before the wedding, but he risked
losing everything, he opted to take his life and consumed insecticide.
Daily Post quoted a friend of the MMM victim as saying he is battling for his life at a clinic in Otukpo where the incident occurred.
The friend, who said Adakole had called him to confirm if it
was true that the scheme had “crashed” before attempting to take his
life, also told Daily Post that he had contacted the fiancée who resided in Abuja.
MMM had on Tuesday announced that it was freezing accounts
for one month, a move seen by many as indicating that the scheme had
crashed as long expected.
Although those behind the scheme stressed in a notice to
participants that it had not crash, many believe it was just masking the
fact that it had scammed people as predicted by regulatory authorities.
The scheme had since been declared illegal by the Federal Government.
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