I have just watched the NTV Murder Tapes segment by Brian Obuya on the death of Nick Imudia and Iโm honestly shattered.
He jumped to his death from his 7th floor apartment,..stepping from a battle of emotion,financial and psychological blackmail,he never wanted to fight anymore
He shared his password with his brother Geoffrey living in the USA,then plunged to his death.
This was not just another executive,..Nick Imudia was one of Africaโs brightest corporate minds.
He was Nigerian technology and business leader,..who built a remarkable career across telecommunications, e-commerce and digital transformation.
His academic credentials were stellar,.man with a Bachelor of Engineering from Finland and a Masterโs degree from Denmark and an MBA in International Business Management.
He spent nearly two decades at Nokia rising through the ranks to oversee operations across West and Central Africa.
He later became CEO of Konga and eventually Group CEO of d.light, leading renewable energy expansion across Africa and Asia while based in Nairobi.
Nick had spent over 20 years building a name, a family, a legacy and a future.
Then everything slowly came crashing down.
As CEO of d.light, Nick allegedly began a relationship with his personal assistant Diana Kavesa after their professional relationship turned romantic.
According to the segment, Diana allegedly managed his schedule, booked hotels and hangout spots for them and reportedly recorded their intimate moments.
Everything was sweet and rosy, until she became pregnant.
Their relationship suddenly became toxic, messy and dangerous.
Diana started making demands that she delivered with threats.
She would pressure him to do stuff or else she sends his wife and board members clips of their intimate moments and messages.
Nick started living in constant panic and fear.. the very reputation he had spent decades building now allegedly sat in the hands of someone threatening to destroy..
To show Nick that she wasn’t bluffing,she send him some of those clips.
Ninja was shaken to the core,the documentary paints a picture of a man who didn’t want to hurt his family,… and was cornered emotionally, psychologically and financially.
He would then cave to her demands,not once, not twice, but several times..
Attempts were then made to quietly deal with their situationship by moving Diana to another department after her maternity leave.
But even that,..opened another chapter of negotiations and demands.
She wanted to be made HR business partner with an upward salary of KSH 200,000 from 115,000.
Then came the non disclosure agreement (NDA).
Nick wanted some legal binding that would prevent Diana from telling his wife about their affair.
She demanded for 50M
Nick said he could afford 5M.
They settled on 8.5M
Through their lawyers the agreement was signed and money paid plus Nick’s pledge to support a child not yet born.
Nick thought he could now breath.
He was wrong!
Another figure entered the story,Melody Midewa,Diana’s friend from Kakamega posing as a mediator.
She pretended to be understanding of Nick’s situation,painting her friend’s demands as ridiculous.
She then asked him to connect her to a better job juu she was earning only 50K
He promised to look for something for her in Uganda
Kidogo,kidogo she became impatient and started making her own demands
She accused Nick of sexual harassment and asked for 3M kukanyagia story.
Nick was shocked but agreed to pay her 700K.
He succumbed before msking that payment.
Some of the messages shown in the documentary are heartbreaking…
During his final days the messages he shared were depicting a man on the edge,…a man on the verge of giving up.
But the women continued with their torments.
His phone and computer kept blowing up with threats ,blackmails and demands from Diana;her mum and Melody.
In one of those messages he wrote;
โI do not understand what I got myself into in Kenya.
“God knows Iโm tired”.
In another to his lawyer,..he told her to continue fighting for him after..
According to the documentary, the final blow allegedly came when Nick learned that the messages and affair had reached his wife afterall…
He reportedly told his lawyer that his daughter had said: โMummy is moving us to Europe.โ
Behind his title,Nick was drowning,this was a husband terrified his marriage was collapsing,a father afraid his children would hate him,a man who was fighting shame,fear,blackmail,public exposure all at once.
After back and forth ,accusations and counter accusations it was established that it was Melody who told the wife and Nick’s colleagues about their affair with Diana ,pregnancy and (NDA)
He lost his 20-year marriage, he did everything humanly possible to protect.
He then lost his life…
Despite volumes of WhatsApp messages allegedly recovered from his devices by his brother..despite all the allegations, despite the disturbing details, the DCI reportedly says the evidence does not meet the legal threshold.
There are also allegations of life insurance that family members want to cash in.
Buana this is tragic from every angle.
“You won ” was his last message to Diana…
Nick Imudia was not at peace in his final days…and thatโs deeply heartbreaking.
