Olusegun Agbelegbe, a Borno State-based civil servant, has narrated how Amijcoo, an agricultural investment platform, stole N3 million from him.

Agbelegbe told FIJ that he invested the sum with the company, which was formerly known as Porkvest, in 2021.

“When I came across the investment offers from Amijcoo, I was very much interested in their pig farming business,” Agbelegbe said.

“The investment was supposed to attract a 25 percent return on investment (RoI) after nine months.

“So, when I invested N1 million on two separate pig farming portfolios between February and March 2021, I got paid N1.25 million twice between October and November of the same year.

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“After receiving the payment, I felt encouraged and invested an additional N3 million on three separate pig farming portfolios between November and December 2021.”

Agbelegbe said things took a different turn after he made the N3 million payment.

“When it was time to receive my payment in September 2022, Amijcoo sent me a mail stating that there would be a delay in repayment by one month,” Agbelegbe said.

“The company further said the reason for the delay was that their farmers were yet to finish selling their pigs, and that once they were done, the payment would be made.

“However, the one month repayment period they promised passed and they still did not make the payment. This was when I became worried.

“It became clear that Amijcoo had chosen to keep me in the dark over their inability to pay when they stopped answering my calls. They also stopped responding to my emails.

“As we speak, the company’s official telephone lines are unreachable. Please, I need to recover my money.”

FIJ made several phone calls to 09090009288 and 070255593423, Amijcoo’s official phone numbers, but they were switched off. Text messages sent to the numbers had also not been responded to at press time.

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Emails sent to [email protected] and [email protected] did not go through.

Further investigations showed that Akinwole Oluwakunle, the CEO of Amijcoo, is also the owner of Jadek Farms, the company the investment platform claimed it was partnering with while trying to convince investors to invest in the pig farming business.

He was last active on Facebook in June 2021, the same period he was last active on LinkedIn.

Apart from Jadek Farm’s official Twitter handle, which was last active in May 2021, there is no evidence to show that Akinwole operates a personal handle.