Why UNILORIN student commits suicide over alleged 300M scam
A 19-year-old University of Ilorin student, Gbenga Favour Olaoye Akanbi popularly known as ‘Jasper’ committed suicide on Sunday over alleged 300million naira investment scam in forex.
Gbenga, a 300level student of Faculty of Agriculture died after consuming a snipper after he was said to have invested over 300 million naira into forex trading, having one Eseka Chukwutem Gospel as the boss he trades with.
In a WhatsApp voice note sent to The Informant247 by his colleague, Pelumi; she explained that Gbenga was a Middleman between his client and his boss known as ESG.
She said: “Jasper never told his clients he had a boss with the name ESG and vice versa, his clients thought they were investing with him directly not until he was scammed before he came out to say he had a boss, he was the middleman.”
If he had been truthful to them all the way, may be, just may be it wouldn’t have turned out this way, he might still be with us, I feel for his mother.”
In a video released on December 10 by the deceased via his verified twitter handle, he explained that the money was below 200 million naira and the trading went on smoothly for over 15 weeks before it turned into a ponzi scheme and crashed. He promised to pay everyone their money back before December.
@ahdemik_nsg @timmy_lawal @Abayomi48696461 @Mide63398324 @Smazy3 @UCJ_UNILORIN @intellect4all @EWAWUNMIII @promax_tv @HrcUnilorin @agbarena pic.twitter.com/7kmOm03Xbe
— Jasper_NSG (@JasperNsg) December 12, 2020
Immediately the alleged fraud story broke the internet, a very close friend of the deceased who pleaded anonymity told the Informant247 reporter that, “Jasper cannot scam anybody, he is a very cool guy, he’s my friend, I know him very well, I just pray he do not commit suicide because I have been calling him he’s not picking his calls,” the source said.
A Picture had earlier circulated social media platforms portraying the deceased as a fraudster where he dressed in a wine polo shirt holding his guitar with “Scam Alert” boldly written at the top.
