By Adebayo Olodan
A family has expressed fear over the safety of surviving members
including; Tawakalitu Oyewole, Rasheedat Oyewole and Muritala Bakare
Oyewole, a member of the family in the Disapora.
The traumatic experience of the family began in April 2012 when their
patriarch, Chief Najimu Ayinde Oyewole, a business mogul who was the
CEO of NAKAM Enterprise, was kidnapped. The kidnappers made contact
with the family on 17th October 2012 after the businessman had spent
four days in captivity.
Apart from demanding a ransom of N50million, the kidnappers also
demanded that Muritala Oyewole should bring the money and also warned
against informing the police about the development. While the family
had pleaded that the ransom be reduced to N10million, the two parties
eventually settled for N20m and having arranged the cash on 20th
October, 2012, it was suggested that his nephew , Amudu Oyewole,
should be the bearer of the message rather than his son, Muritala .
Unfortunately that was the last the family saw of Amudu just as the
corpse of the kidnapped victim, Pa Najimu Oyewole, was later
discovered on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Muritala later processed his
travelling documents and relocated to United States. Not long
afterwards, the news of the assassination of his brother-in-law who
was his father’s bosom friend came. The assailants were said to have
asked about Muritala’s whereabouts before he was shot several times.
The unfortunate incident led the Oyewole family members wondering
whether Muritala was actually the target or could such onslaught have
emanated from business associates of the departed patriarch?
While still getting a breather from that, a development that returned
attention to issues surrounding the safety of the family members was
consequent to the death of the matriarch, Awawu Ajoro Oyewole in May,
2019.
