Just in: Founder of Gokada, Fahim Saleh brutally murdered in his residence

The founder of motorcycle-hailing company ‘GoKada’ and co-founder of ride-sharing venture Pathao, Fahim Saleh, has been found brutally murdered in his home in New York.

The dismembered body of the tech entrepreneur who bought the New York apartment for $2.25 million last year was found around 3:30pm on Tuesday July 14.

Officers of the New York Police Department revealed that the limbless, headless torso of the 33-year-old millionaire tech entrepreneur was found with an electric saw lying next to the remains. 

Onyxnews Nigeria quotes New York Daily News reported that the police made this discovery in a building on E Houston St at Suffolk St. on the Lower East side at about 3:30pm. NYPD officers visited the seventh-floor condo after the the deceased’s sister called 911 because she had not seen her brother in  24 hours.

Fahim was last seen on surveillance footage on Monday afternoon around 1:40pm, when he entered his building’s elevator which opens right out to his seventh-floor apartment. The surveillance footage showed Fahim getting into the elevator,  hastenlyfollowed by a second man dressed in a suit, wearing gloves, a hat and a mask over his face.

After he walked out onto his floor, he fell immediately possibly shot or stunned. A police source revealed: “The perp had a suitcase. He was very professional.”

Pathao Co-founder Hussain Elius has reacted to the shocking incident, saying; 

“We are shocked and saddened to hear the reports of the death of Fahim Saleh, one of the founding members of the Pathao team. 

“Fahim believed in the potential for technology to transform lives in Bangladesh and beyond.

He saw the promise in us, when all we had was a common purpose and a shared vision.  He was, and will forever remain, an incredible inspiration for Pathao and our entire ecosystem.”

Fahim, a Bentley University alumnus, co-founded Pathao together with Hussain M Elius and Shifat Adnan in 2015. He was a computer science and engineering (CSE) graduate. 

Fahim started Gokada, a motorcycle ride-sharing company in Lagos, but the company faced some little challenges and mass layoffs after Lagos banned commercial motorcycles (Okada) from operating, in January 2020.