Lagos businessman posting naked photos of ex-lovers sets up terms for surrender

Amarah Kennedy, a businessman from Lagos who went into hiding after two single mothers with whom he had connections were exposed in nude images, has promised to meet with authorities after PUNCH Newspapers stops covering the story.

Moreover, the 44-year-old said that while he was prepared to make amends with his victims, he still required assurances that the police wouldn’t get involved.

These were said by Kennedy, who is from the Anambra State community of Umunze, in WhatsApp conversations with one of our reporters on Wednesday.

Idowu Owohunwa, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, had earlier requested that the suspect appear and demonstrate his innocence at the command center.

Kennedy, a former bank employee turned businessman, was suspected of disseminating naked pictures of at least two single mothers he had previously dated. Our source had been keeping tabs on Kennedy’s activities.

The women, known only as Kester and Temi, first connected with him over social media at various points and fell in love with him when he made them marriage proposals and lavished their children with gifts.

After arguments, he shared their naked pictures with them and threatened to make the pictures go viral unless they paid him.

Temi gave him N15,000, while Kester, a widow, gave him N140,000. Nevertheless, he put the pictures on Facebook and WhatsApp.

This reporter was furious and vowed to further harm the women’s reputation when a special article on the subject was published on Sunday.

He then posted Kester’s nudes on his office’s social media profiles and the WhatsApp group for her church.

He also showed her late husband’s family the pictures.

In a chat seen by this reporter, he wrote, “Her (Kester) pictures are there. At Redeem parish WhatsApp group platform. I am all over the news, she also will be all over the news. By the time I am done, suicide will be her only option.”

Kester told Newsmen on Wednesday the suspect had started “sending my nudes all over Instagram and Twitter to random people, those that know me are calling me.”

But Kennedy, while speaking to this reporter on WhatsApp, said he had stopped spreading the photos.

PUNCH Metro advised him in response to his request for advice to ask the women for forgiveness, apologize on all social media sites where he had posted the naked images, and go to the police.

Reacting, he wrote, “You need to stop writing about me too. If you want me to do what you have suggested. I saw the story this morning (Wednesday) and I was wondering where all those information came from, unfortunately now whatever I say will be my word against theirs.

“I am not asking you to stop writing; I am saying the stories you write daily about me, can you stop. Let me find a way to resolve all these.

“I want to settle this issue out of the police. I am ready to do anything to make peace, but I want this issue resolved outside of the police.”