The owner of motorcycle-hailing company GoKada and co-founder of ride-sharing venture Pathao, Fahim Saleh has been dead in his New York apartment.
New York Police Department said Saleh’s corpse was found limbless and headless in a building on E. Houston St. at Suffolk St. on the Lower East side, New York. But the dismembered body parts were found at the scene of the murder.
He bought the condo in 2019 for $2.2 million, New York Post reported on Tuesday.
“We have a torso, a head that’s been removed, arms, and legs. Everything is still on the scene. We don’t have a motive,” NYPD spokesman Sgt. Carlos Nieves said.
Police were alerted to the crime by the victim’s sister who called 911 after discovering the corpse of her brother in his home.
Apart from his business in Nigeria, Fahim, a Bentley University alumnus, co-founded Pathao together with Hussain M Elius and Shifat Adnan in 2015.
Gokada was founded in 2017 by Nigerian entrepreneurs. The service was launched originally and started operations in Yaba Axis of Lagos state and has extended their operations to Victoria Island – Lekki Axis Lagos, Nigeria.
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In February 2019, the company launched a new headquarters.
In May 2019 Gokada raised $5.4 million in series A to grow its two-wheel transit business.
Gokada added luxury yacht service to its bike services in June 2019.
Before Gokada, Fahim had founded Pathao, a Bangladeshi transportation network company that has one of the most popular ride-sharing services in the country. The statement said he “ brought Deji on board to focus on Gokada’s first year of growth.”
Fahim told Techpoint he will be moving fully to Nigeria to fully function in the new position.
“Even through last year, I spent about 50% of my time in Nigeria,” he said.
On the layoffs last year, allegations of mismanagement and misconduct at Gokada, Fahim said the whole story was not quite true.
“In August 2018, there was a very big pivot of the business which included layoffs of 70% of the staff, change in business model, and change in the app. This caused many ex-employees to grow frustrated and produce false stories about Gokada. While they were distracting, we just continued to execute.”
Source: Adeoba Olusegun