*Body dismembered
Fahim Saleh, founder and Chief Executive Officer of ride-hailing company, Gokada, has been found dead in his New York home.
His body was found on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on Tuesday.
Saleh, a Bangladeshi founded Gokada in Lagos State in 2018. It was founded to up the game of motorcycle taxis in the state which is referred to as Okada in local parlance.
Saleh’s body was cut in pieces and scattered in different locations within his apartment.
Homicide detectives said his body parts and an electric saw were found in separate places within the apartment, adding that effort had been made to clean up any evidence of what had happened.
His dog was however, found alive in the apartment at 265, East Houston Street near Suffolk Street.
The 33-year-old technology entrepreneur was murdered by yet unknown assailants. His sister made the discovery around 3:30pm when she went to check on him after not hearing from him for a day.
The saw that was used to kill him was still plugged into an electrical outlet when the police arrived, leading detectives to investigate whether the arrival of Saleh’s sister at the condo might have interrupted the killing and prompted the killer to flee through another exit.
It was gathered that a surveillance camera had captured a video of Saleh in the building’s elevator with another person, who was wearing a black suit and black mask.
In the video, the elevator door opened and Saleh went into the apartment while the masked person followed directly behind him, and they started struggling.
The sister was seen on the video arriving a short time later. The assailants perhaps escaped through a service entrance.
