03/11/2025
😭😭Tragedy in Ogun Forest: Missing Badagry Okada Rider Found Mutilated After a Week-Long Search
After seven agonizing days of uncertainty, the search for missing Badagry commercial motorcyclist, Afesomu Amos, has ended in horror. His dismembered remains were discovered in a forest at Obakobe, Ado-Odo, Ogun State, bringing unimaginable grief to his family and community.
According to reports by News Peddlers, police confirmed the discovery of Amos’s mutilated body on Thursday, October 30, 2025, following a week-long investigation. The deceased, a father of six from Vetho-Ajara, was last seen alive on Friday, October 24, when he left home for his regular motorcycle work.
His wife recounted their last conversation around 7:30 p.m., when Amos told her he was returning home from dropping off a passenger in Ado-Odo. Moments later, his phone went dead—and he never came back.
The following day, his anxious family began searching. His younger brother, Afesomu Samuel, immediately reported the case to the police. “On that Saturday, I was told my brother was missing, so I rushed to the station to report,” Samuel told News Peddlers. Investigators later contacted him to verify details about his brother’s motorcycle.
Days later, police apprehended three suspects allegedly trying to sell Amos’s bike. The suspects claimed they got it from a man known as ‘Banga’. The case was escalated to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Panti, Ikeja, where detectives arrested an elderly man in Ajara, Badagry, and recovered a mobile phone linked to the crime.
On Thursday, the main suspect, Banga, was captured in Makoko, Lagos, rekindling the family’s hope that Amos might still be alive. But that hope was shattered the next day when Samuel received a devastating call—his brother’s mutilated body had been found near Ikogale, Ogun State. Amos’s remains had been brutally dismembered, with his arms, eyes, and private parts missing.
Overwhelmed with grief, Samuel praised the swift response of the Badagry Police Division but pleaded for justice:
“My brother cannot die like this without justice. We are begging the authorities to ensure that everyone involved in this wicked act faces the law.”
The gruesome murder has sent shockwaves through the Badagry community, sparking public outrage and renewed calls for the protection of commercial motorcyclists who risk their lives daily to provide for their families.
