In Atlanta, United States, the Nigerian community has expressed outrage over the gruesome killing of its member, Oloniyo Abuda, by kidnappers back home in Edo.

Victor Ubani, President of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO), Atlanta chapter, expressed the community’s reaction on Thursday.

Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York, Mr. Ubani condemned the killing of Abuda, a NIDO member, describing it as callous and inhuman.

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Abuda was reportedly abducted alongside three family members on the Benin bypass on Saturday.

According to reports, he was travelling from his hometown, Fugar, in Edo, to Lagos to catch his flight back to the US when the kidnappers attacked him.

His abductors were said to have shot him dead after he slumped during a forced march to their den in the forest.

Police operatives found Abuda’s decomposing body in a forest on Wednesday after a ransom had reportedly been paid to free him and other hostages.

The NIDO president said, “This was a man feeding about 1,000 people in the village and training about 200 others in various schools. He was serving humanity but look at the way he was killed; like a goat.

“This thing has been happening unabated in Nigeria, now it has happened to one of us. No! We cannot take this anymore. It is time we demanded decisive action from the government to put an end to the reign of kidnappers and terrorists in Nigeria.”

Also reacting to the incident, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, NIDO Americas, Obed Monago, described Abuda’s death as shocking.

The spokesperson for the police command in Edo, Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the incident, said security agents killed one of the abductors and arrested three others.

Mr. Nwabuzor added that the police were still in the forest searching for the other perpetrators.

(NAN)