Traders in the Lafenwa market, Abeokuta, are calling for help after a Ponzi scheme company allegedly vanished into thin air with their money.
According to testimonies of the victims, the company, Perennial global services limited, had allegedly approached them under the guise of helping them manage, and double their monies if the traders invested with them.
One of the victims said, “They came to us posing as a financial company and promised to give us loans to expand our businesses. We were asked to form groups consisting of a minimum of 10 people per group. We were asked to contribute N26,000 each.
Before we gave them our money, we visited their office to verify and ascertain if they were sc@mmers or not. We saw that they had a standard office and we proceeded with the contributions.
However, rumors had started spreading last week that the company was fake but unfortunately for us, we had deposited a lot of money with them. We got to their office space and found out that the staff had packed out. We only saw sprinkles of salt and other f£tish items in the office.
We need the good people of Nigeria to come to our aid and ensure these fra¥dsters are caught. We invested our hard-earned money only for us to be d¥ped. We reported the matter at Lafenwa police station but the police officers told us that they weren’t the ones who collected money from us so we would have to wait till investigations are concluded.”