Okada Rider Found Dead In Asaba, After Allegedly Hired By Unidentified Men

An Asaba based Okada rider, Danjuma Bako, 22 year old has been found dead in Kwale bush he has been allegedly hired by two unknown passengers from the popular Akpu Junction, Okpanam Road in the state capital.

It was gathered that the victim was last seen at about 7pm last Sunday when two men came to hire him to take them Fulani Camp located inside Akpu Junction area in Asaba. It was learnt that Danjuman who his colleagues at the Akpu Junction Motorcycle Park said hails from Plateau State never returned from that journey.

When our reporter visited the motorcycle park yesterday to ascertain what actually happened, the leadership of the park is still in shock and wondering how his corpse could be found in faraway Kwale bush when the two passengers who hired him did so to take them to Fulani Camp located in Asaba, the Delta State capital.

Speaking to our reporter, the Park Secretary simply identified as Mr. Ibina Colinus, said they were all surprised that the victim could not come back on that very day.

He said every day, for years now, they have plied their trade at Akpu Junction, even very late at night without any bad news of one of them missing, adding that this is the first time such a bad thing is happening to a member of the park.

The Park Secretary said immediately the victim’s neighbours came to report of his failure to return the previous night and after asking questions from his close friends, they organized search parties, looking for him in all the bushes in Asaba and its environs but could not get his whereabouts and so they decided to call his number severally, and there was no answer, but it was ringing.

“And so, on the third day, they called the number again only for someone who identified himself as a policeman to answer, informing us that Bako was found dead in Kwale bush by a farmer and that his corpse had been deposited in a hospital mortuary in Kwale”, he said.

Shocked over the news of Bako’s death, they organized a team who went to Kwale to identify him and it was confirmed that he was the one  found dead in the bush at Kwale.

When we got to Kwale Police Station, we were told that the corpse was found in the bush with his handset and his motorcycle side mirror by him and that the farmer who saw the corpse in his farm could not tell what happened as he only saw the dead body the next morning and decided to report to the police to avoid trouble on his side. The police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, confirmed the incident, adding that he was yet to get details