REPORT: Reason Behind Assasination Of Gokada CEO Revealed

Fresh information has begun to come to the fore in the wake of the death of Chief executive officer of Gokada, Fahim Saleh.

Saleh, aged 33, was gruesomely murdered in his New York apartment on Tuesday.

Gokada, his motorcycle-hailing company, helped Lagos residents beat road traffic in the city.

However, preliminary findings revealed that the millionaire tech enthusiast was killed by an assassin in a “financially motivated” operation.

According to Daily Mail, Saleh’s ran into troubled water after a legal action was instituted against him over his prank call app by a man convicted for using the mobile tech.

It was the litigation that led to his assasination. Salem also had a prank call app in the US known as PrankDial which got him into trouble.

Daily Mail reported that a former prison deputy director jailed for using the app to listen to employees talk about him during calls, sued Saleh, claiming the app deceived him to think such usage was legal.

It also quoted police sources as saying his killer rode with him in the elevator up to his apartment where he got out and attacked him.

“The killer, dressed in a mask, gloves and hat and wearing what police sources described as a ‘ninja outfit’, had a suitcase with him – presumably to remove his remains when he’d finished the job,” the report added.

The killer was said to have abandoned the scene and escaped midway into the operation when Saleh’s sister showed up unexpectedly. He reportedly left his electronic saw behind.

The New York Daily News reported that autopsy shows the assassin “stabbed him repeatedly in the chest to kill him”.

It also quoted police sources as saying the killer “used a stun gun to incapacitate Saleh before murdering him.”

“He was dressed like a ninja, full out, so you can’t even see his face,” it quoted a source as saying.

“He clearly knew what he was doing. We think his intent was to get rid of the body parts and go back and clean it up and make it look like nothing happened. He left before he finished the job.”

No arrest has been made yet over Saleh’s killing but the New York Times reported that effort was made to “clean up any evidence”.

“There were several large plastic bags in the apartment,” it quoted a law enforcement officer involved in the matter as saying, adding that “it appeared that some effort had been made to clean up any evidence of what had happened.”