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Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Looks like Gokada had investors in America, South Africa, and Dubai[1], did most of their motorcycle ride-hailing business in Nigeria, but Nigeria recently banned passenger motorcycles which was obviously a huge blow to the business.

His investors probably weren't too thrilled seeing him live in a multi-million $ NYC condo shortly after their substantial investments tanked.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gokada#section-inves...

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Describing him as a "tech bro" in the first line is needlessly derogatory. Implying he deserved it. Like calling a rape victim "scantily clad." Pretty gross journalism if you ask me: designed to create outrage and drive clicks.

What a pathetic piece of shit this Stephen Rex Brown ( https://twitter.com/PPVSRB ) has to be to write an article so terrible about someone who was just brutally murdered.

Please don't, regardless of how terrible an article is. We don't want the online shaming and bullying culture on HN.

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Could have just as easily been a date, a hookup, a serial killer, someone perturbed at wealth inequality and better living standards. Just as much as this financial or business hitman speculation. Its all happened in NYC. Chopped up into bags sounds like cartel or organized, it happened to OneCoin promoters in Mexico this month too. But we dont know yet for this case. The chance is part of the rush.

>Could have just as easily been a date, a hookup, a serial killer, someone perturbed at wealth inequality and better living standards. The CCTV footage would seem to make those first two somewhat less likely: "One of the law enforcement officials said a surveillance camera had captured video of Mr. Saleh in the building’s elevator with another person who was wearing a black suit and black mask." "On the video, the el…

Did the assailant come with a chainsaw? How did the saw get there? It's highly unlikely that a condo dweller would have a chainsaw sitting around.

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One interesting fact linked to this country is that he was born in Saudi Arabia as well. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/dismembered-body...

Operating mode sounds much like it happened with Jamal Khashoggi, could he be another victim of MBS or some other Saudi prince?

Why would that be the case? Khashogi was clearly speaking up and was wanted killed, even he knew it

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If you read the news coverage it's extremely clear why they think they have video of the suspect (and it's not clairvoyance). The first few moments of the attack were captured in surveillance footage.

They must have changed the linked article. I don't see that anywhere (nor in the video). Just that they were in the elevator together.

Hence why I said "news coverage", not "the linked article". In Lagos we've been following this story for over half a day now - here's the article that broke the story https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-headless-t...

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you'd be surprised. it seems he was getting death threats because of his business. disrupting established syndicates doing business transferring large amounts of cash everyday is risky. in France for example, taxi drivers burned Ubers in protest.

Did they burn them with the drivers inside? If not, how is that comparable to killing and dismembering a human being?

Not specifically in France, but at least in Pretoria, South Africa an Uber driver's car was set on fire with him inside and he died. That's the only one where someone was burned to death in a car that I remember hearing about but there may have been other similar incidents.

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I look at one possibility as he raised/borrowed money from the wrong people and then when things went pear shaped, he couldn't get them their promised profit, got chopped up to set an example.

Either that or sex

He was followed by a man he did not invite to his apartment, doesn’t look like he knew his killer

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Wow, I went to school with Fahim at Bentley University. Although we shared friends, I didn't know him personally. I did take computer science classes with him and it was clear he was one of the most talented students in the program. This is so unbelievably sad and shocking. My heart goes out to his friends and family.

wow, I went to Bentley as well! never thought i would see alums on here (or getting dismembered)
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