Nigerian blogger - Dayo Coker Receives Death Threats From Intercontinental Bank.?

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Posted by Oluchi Okwu on April 11, 2009 at 10:00:04:

Taken from saharareporters.com

Blogger Dayo Coker Receives Death Threats From Intercontinental Bank.

Friday, 20 March 2009 08:18 Sahara Admin
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"I received a threatening email from Intercontinental Bank this morning. I'm still kind of shaken and I can't figure out if they are threatening a "Spiritual" or "Physical" attack. Why would a "healthy" bank threaten a "lowly" blogger for doing a public service? After all, the CBN is conducting a "Special Examination" of the bank. Well, if anything happens to me, I guess my wife and kids will know who to hold responsible. I plan to take this threat seriously. I won't be bullied. I remain an intrepid newshound.

Here's the text of the email from Intercontinental Bank's Corporate Affairs Departmemt

CPU Ibadan
todayo.coker@gmail.com
ccCorporate Affairs
dateFri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:20 AM
subjectRE:INTERCONTINENTAL ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE
mailed-byintercontinentalbankplc.com
hide details 11:20 AM (39 minutes ago)
Reply

What exactly do you hope to achieve by doing this? IF YOU DO NOT STOP THIS BLASPHEMY, those of us who are here and who eat from here will put you in the "centre'' of a FIRE which you will not be able to withstand.

Stop this nonsense in your own interest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have been warned.

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I wonder how true this is and i read about it to later find out that the blogger, Dayo Coker has a blog at dayocoker.wordpress.com and in that blog, he made sensitive statements about the bank saying that it was on it's way to collapse in the midst of the global recession. Really, i support freedom of speech, but one' man' freedom must end where another's begins. That write-up by Dayo Coker should have been left for the authorities to decide. A bank is the lifewire of the society and we should be careful about statements that we make, even if it were true, what would be the outcome if such blog posts were publicised? It would do greater harm than good to the Nigerian society. Dayo may have had the right to blog freely but this one is too sensitive and if he actually recieved a threat or somewhat, i guess he must have been expecting it.

Follow Ups:

Posted by Obisi on April 28, 2009 at 08:53:31:
In Reply to: Nigerian blogger - Dayo Coker Receives Death Threats From Intercontinental Bank.? posted by Oluchi Okwu on April 11, 2009 at 10:00:04:

Guy should go for deliverance so that the forces of evil may not prevail against him.

Re: Nigerian blogger - Dayo Coker Receives Death Threats From Intercontinental Bank.?

Posted by Felix Okoli on September 06, 2010 at 05:45:47:
In Reply to: Nigerian blogger - Dayo Coker Receives Death Threats From Intercontinental Bank.? posted by Oluchi Okwu on April 11, 2009 at 10:00:04:

Just wrote a topic on how to be a Nigerian blogger

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