“I was threatened with a gun by a Local Government Chairman for demanding to be paid after building website” says Victor Asemota

Tech entrepreneur, Victor Asemota, has narrated how a Local Government Chairman threatened him with a gun after he demanded to be paid for a job done.

He narrated this while explaining the challenges tech start-ups face in Nigeria.

He said he was to be paid 600,000 Naira for the website he built, but administrators involved laundered the money with the aid of a community bank.

When he asked to be paid, his life was threatened.

He wrote: “I built a website for a local government and charged them 600k for it. We never got paid.

“Someone had added another zero to a fake invoice, collected the cheque, and cleared it through a community bank.

“We raised Hell and the Chairman told me it was in my interest to shut up

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