Whose $125,000?

An Accra Daily Mail Report

The senior echelons of the Ghanaian media fraternity are awash with rumours concerning a senior member who has been "exposed" by a close associate.

Still at the rumour stage, the story has gained such currency that some editors are privately vouching for its veracity. At the time of going to press last week, ADM was still tracing an 024 number and a name associated with royalty given it by a whistleblower to seek confirmation.

What's so tickling the imagination of the media fraternity is that a senior member, not generally known for solvency has recently been discovered by a close associate to be in possession of one hundred and twenty five thousand US dollars in cash.

A number of phone calls to some senior editors to cross-check the veracity of the above has been met with, "that's what I have also heard".

The closest therefore anybody has gotten to unearth the truth therefore lies with the mysterious 024 number and the royal sounding name in possession of ADM.

The story doing the rounds has it that a senior member of the inky fraternity recently gave the wife of a close associate a box to keep. The associate was not at home then. On his return, his wife pointed at the box and said Mr. X said she should give it to him for safekeeping.

A little later, he was overcome by curiosity and decided to peek into the box to make sure what the content was. To his amazement and shock, he saw wads of dollars staring at him. Inexorably, as if hypnotised, he set about counting the money. He counted a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars in mostly one hundred-dollar notes.

Much later, his friend came to claim his box and he asked him, "X, who is all that money for?"

Reply: "Someone is investing in my business."

ADM investigations continue.