He was said to have been seen in a particular hotel in Awoye.
There is tension in Akpata community, Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, after a missing 35-year-old man, Bekewei Mayomi Alonge, was found murdered.
SaharaReporters gathered that Bekewei got missing on October 2 after he left Gbaramatu community, Delta State, where he went to work and had spent almost five months and came home to see his family.
Bekewei's relatives and friends confirmed that he arrived at Awoye, an Ilaje community.
He was said to have been seen in a particular hotel in Awoye.
However, the publicity secretary of Arogbo Ijaw Ibe youth council and President Ugoububogho community, Utanghan Ebikontei Education, on Thursday confirmed to SaharaReporters that Bekewei was later found dead.
He said the deceased was seen by some Ijaw people with his hands and legs tied including his waist with heavy equipment.
According to the publicity secretary, Bekewei was attacked by some guys in the hotel and his corpse was taken to Ikorigho community and thrown into water until it later floated.
Ebikontei alleged that Ilaje people had in the past killed three persons from the Arogbo Ijaw, stressing that they had, however, not inflicted injury on anybody among them.
He accused Nigerian Navy officers at Awoye and the marine police in the area of aiding and abetting crimes and not alive to their responsibilities.
He said, “It was on the 2nd of October, 2022, he left Gbaramatu kingdom for his country home town, Akpata, which he told his wife and brothers as he was even on his way home with his 15 horse power Yamaha engine in a local plank boat, the motor shaw, and bag of wears.
"But unfortunately, as his people were expecting him at home on same day, it was one of his sisters who saw him while she was on her usual business trip around Ilaje community. The place is called Awoye.
"However, on October 5, they were baffled to have not seen him arrive. Meanwhile information was circulating that a dead body was floating across the Ilaje River and that everybody was pushing it away if it floated into their compound. It was on the following day, the family complained to the entire Akpata community and a delegation was sent to the Awoye community who confirmed his death.
"This is making the third case recorded of ilaje killing people.”
Meanwhile, Arogbo Ijaw Ibe Youth Council (AIIYC) earlier in a statement threatened to avenge the death.
In a statement issued by the group and jointly signed by National president, AIIYC, Soki Gbadia, and Publicity Secretary, Utanghan Ebikontei, issued a three-day ultimatum to apprehend the Director and managing director of the hotel and to embark on the necessary preliminary investigations in the appropriate quarters across Awoye and its environs.
The statement reads; "However, we as the national youth council in Arogbo Ijaw ethnic nationality, want to state categorically without mincing any words in respect of our distinguished colleague.
"We have resolved in one accord as youths in the kingdom to avenge on his death since his remains and properties are nowhere to be found in that Ilaje community, and are only issuing a three-day ultimatum with effect from today to apprehend the director and managing director of that hotel, and to embark on the necessary preliminary investigations in the appropriate quarters across Awoye and its environs.
"In conclusion, now that we have make it clear to the government and others, our logo is titled "No retreat, no surrender" until the accomplices would be apprehended and prosecuted by a qualified legal institution.”