Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home

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REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Dr. Bak­a­re Tun­de
Astro­nau­tics Pro­ject Mana­ger
Natio­nal Space Rese­arch and Deve­lo­p­ment Agen­cy (NASRDA)
Plot 555
Misau Street
PMB 437
Gar­ki, Abu­ja, FCT NIGERIA

Dear Mr. Sir,

I am Dr. Bak­a­re Tun­de, the cou­sin of Nige­ri­an Astro­naut, Air Force Major Abacha Tun­de. He was the first Afri­can in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space sta­ti­on in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spacef­light, Soyuz T‑16Z to the secret Soviet mili­ta­ry space sta­ti­on Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stran­ded the­re in 1990 when the Soviet Uni­on was dis­sol­ved. His other Soviet crew mem­bers retur­ned to earth on the Soyuz T‑16Z, but his place was taken up by return car­go. The­re have been occa­sio­nal Progrez sup­p­ly flights to keep him going sin­ce that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

In the 14-years sin­ce he has been on the sta­ti­on, he has accu­mu­la­ted flight pay and inte­rest amoun­ting to almost $ 15,000,000 Ame­ri­can Dol­lars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos Natio­nal Savings and Trust Asso­cia­ti­on. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down pay­ment with the Rus­si­an Space Aut­ho­ri­ties for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 Ame­ri­can Dol­lars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assis­tance.

Con­se­quent­ly, my col­le­agues and I are wil­ling to trans­fer the total amount to your account or sub­se­quent dis­bur­se­ment, sin­ce we as civil ser­vants are pro­hi­bi­ted by the Code of Con­duct Bureau (Civil Ser­vice Laws) from ope­ning and/ or ope­ra­ting for­eign accounts in our names.

Need­less to say, the trust repo­sed on you at this junc­tu­re is enorm­ous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 per­cent of the trans­fer­red sum, while 10 per­cent shall be set asi­de for inci­den­tal expen­ses (inter­nal and exter­nal) bet­ween the par­ties in the cour­se of the tran­sac­tion. You will be man­da­ted to remit the balan­ce 70 per­cent to other accounts in due cour­se.

Kind­ly expe­di­te action as we are behind sche­du­le to enable us include down­pay­ment in this finan­cial quar­ter.

Plea­se ack­now­ledge the receipt of this mes­sa­ge via my direct num­ber 234 (0) 9–234-2220 only.

Yours Sin­ce­re­ly, Dr. Bak­a­re Tun­de
Astro­nau­tics Pro­ject Mana­ger
tip@nasrda.gov.ng

http://www.nasrda.gov.ng/