Mr Ojonimi Ossai, a senior personnel of an oil company in Portharcourt has actually been hacked to death by his kidnappers despite the payment of a 5 million naira(N5m) ransom.

DAILY POST collected that late Ojonimi Ossai was on his method to go to the burial of his father-in-law in his country home at Igala Mela/ Odolu city government of Kogi State when he was abducted on Itobe-Anyigba road last weekend.

A source from the household said a ransom of N5 million naira was delivered to his kidnappers however unfortunately, his corpse was selected from the bush in the morning of Tuesday.

Late Ossai who was said to have actually been in the service of the oil business for about 23 years was reported to have actually objected to participating in the burial ceremony in his hometown however later succumbed to family pressure, leaving his base in Port Harcourt to Kogi State.

A household source hinted that his demonstration was depended upon what he had actually described as the ‘fragile security’ situation in his home state.

“He came home in a jalopy automobile to camouflage himself from abductors. Yet, he faced them at Itobe– Anyigba road. We chose his remains this early morning from the bush”, a family source disclosed.

It would be remembered that about this time in 2015, precisely 9th January 2021, a Saudi Arabia based oil tycoon, Ogacheko Atanu who was on vacation at Idah (because flank) was shot and killed by yet to be established ruffians.

The Kogi State Police Public Relations Officer,( PPRO) DSP William Ovye Aya was contacted however stated the command is yet to get the information of the incident.

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