The
richest black man in the world, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has lost his
business strategist to some faceless assailants who initially abducted
him.
Late Istifanus Bello Gurama
A senior strategist with Dangote Industries Limited, Istifanus
Bello Gurama, who was reportedly kidnapped three weeks ago, has been
murdered.
Reliable sources told Punch Gurama’s body was found in the gutter,
adding that one of the kidnappers must have alerted a member of the
public to where the body was.
Gurama was believed to have been kidnapped three weeks ago but news of his murder got to his family members (today) Monday.
Sources close to him told a correspondent that as a senior
strategist, Gurama was in charge of negotiations and handing ransom
payment to kidnappers whenever any of the expatriates in Dangote
Industries was kidnapped.
The day Gurama was allegedly kidnapped, he was said to have gone,
as usual, to negotiate and pay ransom money for the release of one of
the expatriates. However, on getting there, the kidnappers reportedly
said he was the one they were after and he was subsequently detained.
A close friend who refused to be named said Gurama showed him some of the videos of his negotiations with kidnappers.
During a visit to her on Monday, Gurama‘s wife of 20 years, Amina, was inconsolable.
She lamented, “Gurama was a lovely person, if he is not in the house one day, the children will be asking after him endlessly.
“Now, I do not know what to tell the children because he is
always chatting with them on social media and phone and for three weeks
since his disappearance, they have been wondering where he was because
all his activities on social media ceased and the children have observed
that it is quite unlike him.”
A key source in the Dangote Industries who confirmed the kidnap however reacted to the news of Gurama’s murder with surprise.
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