A Sweden returnee, Kester Ehiwe, has allegedly been killed by kidnappers, who abducted from his farm in Edo State.
According to Innocent Oshevire Okotubu, who shared the details on his Facebook page, Ehiwe had returned to Nigeria to invest after spending over 30 years in Sweden.
He was reportedly kidnapped on Monday, 2nd of July 2018 at his farm located in Akasa after Ekiadolo in Edo state by armed men and was later found dead on Saturday, 7th of July, 2018.
Okotubu said the deceased and his manager, popularly known as Pastor, were abducted by eleven armed men in the forest of Ekasa village in Ovia northeast local government area.
Ehiwe was to travel back to Sweden on Tuesday 3rd of July, before he was abducted on along with his staff.
He was reportedly meant to pay his workers salaries and settle other things that needed to be settled before jetting out to Europe until his unfortunate abduction occurred.
One Shehu Usman who is alleged to be the kingpin and four others have been arrested and are cooling off in police detention and have allegedly made confessional statements in connection to the abduction and killing of late Mr Kester Ehiwe and his manager.
Okotubu wrote,
I call on every Bini sons and daughters to demand justice for the Late Mr. Kester Ehiwe and his manager popularly known as Pastor.The duo were abducted by eleven Fulani armed men in the forest of Ekasa village in Ovia northeast local government area of Edo state.
Mr Kester was to travel back to Sweden on Tuesday 3rd of July,abducted on Monday 2nd of july in the presence of his staff on his way from farm,while His manager(deceased) was driving his hilux van towards Ekasa village.He was meant to pay his workers salaries and settle other things that needed to be settled before jetting out to Europe until his unfortunate abduction occurred.
One Shehu Usman who is alleged to be the kingpin and four others have been arrested and are cooling off in police detention,and have made confessional statements in connection to the abduction and killing of late Mr Kester Ehiwe and his manager. The deceased were said to have been killed after the abductors collected an undisclosed amount of ransom from the family.
Edo people must rise up to this challenge! This must not be swept under the carpet,I call on all good conscience Edolite to see to it that these marauders are brought to justice.
