January 13, (THEWILL) – An official of Shell Petroleum Development Company, Ojonimi Osayi, has been killed by kidnappers after collecting N5million ransom from his family.
The Kogi-born Oil and Gas expert, who was said to have spent 23 years in the service of Shell, was on his way to the burial ceremony of his father in-law at Igala Mela/Odolu local government of Kogi when he was abducted last weekend.
THEWILL learnt that Ossai was kidnapped last weekend by gunmen along Itobe-Anyigba road.
Family source said, a ransom of N5 million was delivered to the abductors of Ossai, but unfortunately, it was his corpse that was found and picked from the bush on Tuesday morning.
“He came home in a jalopy car to disguise himself from kidnappers. Yet, he ran into them (gunmen) at Itobe-Anyigba road. We picked his corpse this early morning from the bush”, a source in the family said.
When contacted, Police Public Relations Officer in the state, PPRO, William Aya, said the command was yet to get the details of the incident.
