Kidnapped Ex-President Jonathan’s cousin found dead

It was all sorrow on Friday, when fishermen in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, recovered the body of a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, that was abducted alongside the former President’s foster father, Chief Inegite Jonathan.

According to relatives, the body of Samuel Oki, 35, was found floating on Otuoke River, two days after the abduction.

Read also: Gunmen kidnap Jonathan’s foster father, again

It would be recalled that armed men had on Wednesday abducted 72-year-old Chief Inegite Jonathan. It was however not known that Oki had also been taken away until much later.

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