According to the senior pastor of Remnant Christian Network in Makurdi, the state capital, ransom was paid to the abductors however Ojinimi died due to “severe stress on his health”.

Arome, in a grief-stricken Facebook post published the photo of Ojinimi and composed, “My older bro, Ojinimi Osayi simply passed (on) under extremely heartbreaking situations caused by the enormous insecurity that’s got Nigeria on a chokehold. He was kidnapped, ransom was paid yet did not make it because of serious stress on his health.

“We did our finest. Now we must accept the undeniable will of God. The grief is much however the pleasure of the Lord is our strength. We evaluate God faithful in the middle of everything.

“Rest on in the bosom of the Lord, huge brother, ‘Ojay’, as we fondly called you. Peace!

“Though we stroll through the valley of the shadow of death, we shall fear no evil.”

All over Nigeria, kidnapping has actually ended up being a sordid hazard and a profitable ‘enterprise’ in Nigeria as the West African nation’s security scenario gets worse.

Lots of Nigerians are dissatisfied in the program of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who rode to power on the heels of combating the security challenges pestering the country in 2015 but the scenario appears to have actually been worsened in the last 6 and half years.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that no less than 3,125 innocent persons were killed and 2,703 abducted by bandits in northern Nigeria in 2021, according to figures gotten from the Nigeria Security Tracker, a job of the Council on Foreign Relations’ an American think tank as well as quarterly reports released by the Kaduna State Government from January to September.

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