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Home » Breaking: Ekeh, Zinox Chairman May Acquire Jumia
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Breaking: Ekeh, Zinox Chairman May Acquire Jumia

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Confidential information from a few highly placed sources indicates that the Chairman of the Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh, is ramping up shares indirectly in eCommerce giants, Jumia for a possible acquisition, Digital TimesNG can report.

Feelers say the serial digital entrepreneur, who is credited with pioneering e-commerce in Africa with his now-defunct BuyRight Africa over 12 years ago, is replicating the same strategy which he deployed successfully in acquiring Yes Mobile, a cosmopolitan high-value retail outfit, Ashour Corporation, a foremost telecommunications services provider headquartered in Dubai, UAE and more recently, Konga.

Efforts by our reporter to reach Ekeh, who is believed to be on a foreign trip, proved abortive.

When contacted, however, Gideon Ayogu, Head of Corporate Communications, Zinox Group, stated that while nothing positive is impossible, it would be a surprising development if the Group is intent on acquiring Jumia, especially considering the huge work put in by the new owners and current management of Konga in repositioning the brand to its current impressive trajectory.

“I am yet to hear Mr. Ekeh speak of any such potential investment,” he added.

Jumia, one of the major eCommerce players in the African market, appears to be battling severe headwinds after its share price – which once traded at record highs of $59.96 tumbling down and currently trading at less than $5 – prompting speculations of a loss of investor confidence and a surprise takeover by Sub-Saharan Africa’s leading tech conglomerate, the Zinox Group.

In April 2019, Jumia had listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with an eye-catching IPO which witnessed share prices opening at $14.5 and rising as high as $26.

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However, two weeks after, a damning report by Citron Research had accused Jumia of fraud, describing its stock as worthless.

Specifically, the report had highlighted discrepancies in financials between investor presentations and SEC filings by Jumia, accusing its management of fraudulently inflating order numbers, while also labelling it a company burdened with inefficiencies.

Although Jumia denied any wrongdoing, the allegations from Andrew Left, founder of Citroen Research, resulted in a class-action lawsuit which Jumia recently settled out of court for $5m.

However, the debacle appeared to have seen investor confidence in Jumia take a huge bashing, with the likes of Rocket Internet and MTN Group, among others, exiting.

Several reports and articles in local and international media also detailed how the company which prided itself as the continent’s first unicorn fell from grace and how Jumia’s misadventure had tainted the potential of African eCommerce.

Recall that Ekeh acquired Konga, another latter-day eCommerce pioneer, at a dying stage in 2018 and turned it around to the point of profitability in barely three years, becoming the first eCommerce brand to achieve this feat which industry experts have termed a miracle.

Confidential sources claim Ekeh is supporting Konga’s massive investment in technology, and logistics with a recent investment of over N4b and other infrastructure, including acquiring the single largest warehouse in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Onitsha not too long ago, with the brand also attracting concrete interest from a horde of potential investors.

The Zinox Chairman, a restless but very passionate eCommerce enthusiast, is rumoured by sources to be keen on consolidating the eCommerce brand with a presence in 15 African countries under Konga to actualize his great but very silent ambition to alter the destiny of Africans.

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