Popular ponzi scheme, MMM, has
been fingered for the death of a 34-year-old mother of two, Mrs Gloria
Samson in Makurdi, the Benue state capital.
Metronaija reports that woman had taken loans from 4 different
places in December and just few days after investing the money with
hopes of getting massive returns, the controversial scheme announced the
freeze in December.
The woman was said to have left
her home on December 28, 2016 to drown herself in River Benue and sadly,
her body was discovered on January 2, 2017 by police. When she was
leaving the house on the said day before her alleged death, she was said
to have asked for forgiveness from her two children. She also sent the
children to plead with their dad on her behalf to forgive her.
According
to the deceased’s neighbors at Vandeikiya street, High level in
Makurdi, she had borrowed about N400,000.00 from different micro finance
banks and invested it in MMM only for the scheme to announce a freeze
on cashing out a few days after her investment.
“What
we gathered is that she had borrowed money from four different places
and invested in MMM but shortly after MMM suspended payment to
subscribers, she withdrew to her shell,” one of the neighbors said.
Samson
David, the deceased’s widower confirmed that he was aware that his wife
took loans, but he could not confirm if she actually invested it in
MMM.
“Towards November and
December, 2016, I discovered she took loan from four places over
N400,000.00, but I don’t know what she actually did with the money
because this time there was nothing in the shop to suggest that she
invested the money into her business but truly she took loans”.
The
state police spokesman, ASP Moses Yamu confirmed that the police
actually recovered the body of a woman from River Benue. She was laid to
mother earth on Friday, January 20, at the Ankpa ward public cemetery.
Sad!
