The Edo Police Command has confirmed the killing of Felix Olajide Sowore, the younger brother of activist Omoyele Sowore.
Omoyele owore first broke the news through a post on Saturday morning, alleging that his brother was killed by suspected herdsmen/kidnappers in Edo State.
The command’s spokesman, Bello Kontongs, in a one-paragraph message said: “In addition to killing the younger Sowore, the suspected kidnappers made away with five unidentified persons,” adding that “Sowore’s corpse had been deposited at the Igbinedion University Teaching Hospital.”
Kontongs wrote: “This is to confirm to you that suspected kidnappers at about 06:45hrs 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 remain has been deposited at IUTH mortuary, Okada, while effort is ongoing to rescue the five kidnap victims through search and rescue operation.”