Missing APC ward chairman found dead by roadside

An All Progressives’ Congress ward chairman, Alhaji Babatunde Saka, who was declared missing, has been found dead and abandoned on the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos.Saka, 67, was the APC ward chairman of Ward C of the Orile Agege Local Council Development Area, Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro had reported on Tuesday, November 9, that Saka had been missing from home for about three days.

It was also reported that the chairman, a native of Agbowa, Ikorodu, Lagos, went missing shortly after he returned from a trip to Abeokuta, Ogun State where he went to treat an illness, which had to do with cerebral fever.Speaking with PUNCH Metro on Saturday, the deceased’s younger brother, who identified himself simply as Baba Saka, said the chairman was found dead on the expressway and was initially picked up by the Lagos State Ambulance Services...

He added that Saka, as a result of the brain sickness, had lost track of his home and wandered away to the Lekki area.He said, “We think that when he became too weak to go further, he laid by the roadside. He had a loss of memory. It was the LASAMBUS which picked him up. He was still alive by then.“They found his Permanent Voter Card on him and it was the address on the card that was used to trace the family. He died while he was being taken home. Eventually, they found us and we collected his corpse. That was on Thursday.”Our correspondent gathered that the late chairman was taken to his hometown in Agbowa, and had been buried on Friday.