It sounds like a new movie but incidentally it is not because Popular and controversial Nollywood star Emeka Ike is probably on his way to jail if he fails to do something quick about a small matter of bounced cheques.
From the gist mill Emeka Ike had organized a football
tournament called Desert Football Tournament by his
Unity Football Association (UFA).
Emeka said the main reason why he decided to host the tournament was to discover new football talents, and thereby
reduce crime rate in Nigeria. He had also claimed that Tottenham and
Togolese striker, Emmanuel Adebayor, had agreed to help some of the stars discovered in the tournament to get into clubs in Europe and also that scouts from some top European clubs will be present to see the players.
16 teams registered for the tournament and paid the sum of thrity thousand naira each. Emeka reportedly said he will reward the winning team with the sum of 500,000 naira, the first runner up with N100,000; and the 3rd place
winner with N75,000. None of the people he claimed would be around for the tournament showed up and almost six months after the tournament we gathered that, none of
the winning teams have redeemed their winnings. Emeka as we have gathered has also refused to take calls or text messages sent
to him after he issued bounced bank cheques to the teams.Trouble brews because this looks like fraud.
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