Okada rider killed, motorcycle stolen in Kaduna

A 40-year-old motorcycle rider, Monday Dauda, popularly known arsenic an ‘Okada rider’, has been killed, and his assemblage dumped astatine Kasuwa Monday successful Kaduna South Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

Dauda’s assemblage was discovered successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday, October 14, 2026, by household members who had gone searching for him aft helium failed to instrumentality home. They had searched hospitals and constabulary stations successful Kaduna metropolis and its environs.

Speaking to DAILY POST, his archetypal son, Samson Monday, said, “My begetter is an Okada rider. He has been riding commercialized motorcycle since the closure of the textile institution wherever helium antecedently worked.

“He goes retired aboriginal successful the greeting astatine 7 americium and closes astatine 6 p.m. everyday. But yesterday, we waited, expecting him to travel location by 6 pm, 7 pm, 8 pm, we didn’t spot him. We called his number, and it was switched off. We began panicking, noticing that thing had happened.”

He said the household initially suspected that Dauda mightiness person been arrested by instrumentality enforcement agencies and decided to cheque astatine constabulary stations and Federal Road Safety Corps offices but could not find him.

He added that they searched hospitals astir the assemblage but inactive could not find him. They past extended the hunt crossed the area, lone to observe his assemblage that morning.

According to him, “We lone recovered his lifeless assemblage with bruises each implicit it.”

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