- Police says efforts ongoing to rescue the 5 persons abducted where he was killed
The Nigeria Police on Saturday confirmed the death of the Felix Olajide, the immediate younger brother of Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara Reporters and human rights activist, saying that the assailants also abducted five persons.
Olajide was a Pharmacy student of Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State.
Edo State Police Spokesperson, Bello Kontongs, said the deceased was shot by suspected kidnappers at Isuwa community along Lagos- Benin expressway at about 6:45am on Saturday morning.
The Police Spokesperson said that the five persons abducted by the kidnappers were travelling alongside the deceased.
According to him, the victim’s corpse has been deposited at the Igbinedion University Teaching Hospital, Okada.
Sowore had earlier broken the news of his immediate younger brother “gruesome” killing in a Facebook post on Saturday morning.
Describing the incident as shocking, the Publisher said the law will catch up with his sibling’s killers.
He wrote on Facebook: “My immediate younger brother, Olajide Sowore, was today shot and killed near Okada in Edo state by reportedly herdsmen/kidnappers on his way from Igbinedion University in Edo sate where he is studying Pharmacy.
“They snuffed out the life of yet another real human being! Rest In Power, “Dr. Mamiye!”
“This act in itself will not delay their day of justice.
“I travelled widely with you and our father as a little kid. You were the most loved robust kid I ever first knew. You, Mr. magnet had no enemy!
“You, Mr. Sunshine Foundation who made everyone happy.
“You, the boy who snuck out his older ones to parties, taking all the blames when our disciplinarian father found out.
“You, the guy who was an out-of-the-box thinker who decided school wasn’t for you and created your own genre of music and then turned around to go to school after you almost turned 50!
“You lived your life so that everyone could be alright but now assassinated by everything that’s not alright! Saddest day yet!”
