Bamise and Elizabeth Ajetunmobi – ‘Bankers to the less privileged’ accused of masterminding one of Nigeria’s biggest investment frauds

Bamise Samson Ajetunmobi is not your regular start-up CEO. He is an affable, calm, and soft-spoken businessman who is neither colourful nor outlandish like many CEOs like him born in the late 1980s. His head houses a small factory spinning out business models he believes would reduce poverty in Nigeria which overtook India as the world’s poverty capital in 2018.

‘Banker to the less privileged’. That’s what the 35-year-old CEO called himself in a March 2021 interview with YouTu...