Kidnappers kill Olajide, Omoyole Sowore’s, younger brother in Edo

From Tony Osauzo, Benin

Olajide S‎owore, younger brother to the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, was yesterday morning shot dead by suspected kidnappers in Edo‎ State.

The younger Sowore, a Phar‎macy student of Igbinedion University, was reportedly killed about 0645hrs along Lagos-Benin Expressway by Isuwa, by the kidnappers, who also abducted five unidentified persons‎.

Spokesman of the Edo State Police Command, Bello Kontongs, who confirmed the incident in a statement, said Sowore’s corpse was deposited at the Igbinedion University Teaching Hospital.

“Good morning all. This is to confirm to you that suspected kidnappers at about 0645hrs along Lagos-Benin Expressway by Isuwa kidnapped five unidentified persons and on (sic) the process shot to death one Sowore Felix Olajide, male, a Pharmacy student of Igbinedion University Okada. His corpse has been deposited at IUTH mortuary, Okada, while effort is ongoing to rescue the other five victims. Search and rescue operation is ongoing pls,” Bello said in the statement he sent to‎ journalists.

The elder Sowore, a rights activist and convener of Revolution Now, had in a statement early yesterday, announced that his immediate younger brother, Olajide Sowore was yesterday shot and killed near Okada in Edo State by reportedly herdsmen/kidnappers on his way from Igbinedion University in Edo State where he is studying Pharmacy.

“They snuffed out the life yet another real human being!  Rest In Power, “Dr. Mamiye!” Sowore wrote, mourning his brother.‎

Meanwhile, Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, yesterday, assured that his government would collaborate with all security agencies to fish out the killers of Olajide Sowore and bring them to justice.

He gave the assurance in a condolence message he sent to Sowore over the death of his younger brother.