Omoyele Sowore’s Brother Killed By Suspected Herdsmen

By Akinwale Kasali

Political Activist and Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and his family are in pains.

His younger brother, Olajide Sowore, was killed by  gunmen, suspected to be herdsmen while travelling between Benin and Ondo in the early hours of Saturday, September 4th, 2021.

The late Olajide was  a Pharmacy student at the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State.

Announcing the demise of his brother, the 2019 Presidential Candidate of African Action Congress, AAC, said his brother’s death is a huge loss to his family and friends.

In a Press Release announcing his brother’s murder, he wrote:

“My immediate younger brother, Olajide Sowore was, today, shot and killed near Okada in Edo state by reportedly herdsmen /kidnappers on his way from Igbinedion University in Edo sate where he is studying Pharmacy.

“They snuffed out the life yet another real human being!

Rest In Power, “Dr. Mamiye!”

“This act in itself will not delay their day of justice.

“I traveled widely with you and our father as a little kid. You were the most loved robust kid I ever first knew. You, Mr. magnet, had no enemy!

“You, Mr. Sunshine Foundation, who made everyone happy.

“You, the boy who snuck out his older ones to parties, taking all the blames when our disciplinarian father found out.

“You, the guy who was an out-of-the-box thinker, who decided school wasn’t for you and created your own genre of music and then turned around to go to school after you almost turned 50!

“You lived your life so that everyone could be alright but now assassinated by everything that’s not alright!

“Saddest day yet!” Ondo State, under Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, became the latest State to adopt a law against open grazing, approved by the State House of Assembly and signed into law by the Governor.

Attacks by suspected herdsmen have been a menace in the State over the years.

It would be recalled that in 2019, daughter of Afenifere leader, Reuben Fasoranti, Funke Olakunrin, was killed by suspected herdsmen along the same route where Olajide Sowore was killed today.