Justice for Caleb: Missing Nigerian feared thrown overboard from a yatch in Ukraine

 A 21-year-old Nigerian who recently graduated from University of Sumy is feared to have been thrown overboard during a yatch cruise on the black sea on August 20 in Odessa, Ukraine.

Caleb Obari was reportedly the only black on the yatch in the company of all Ukrainians including his older girlfriend Vera Topaleva and others. Conflicting reports by nine other passengers include a story of Obari going out for a swim on his own and never returning.

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OTHER LADIES ON THE BOAT

A social media post by Topaleva states that narrative but Daniel, a close friend of Caleb’s rebutted in a video posting that “that is a big lie because Caleb cannot swim so there is no way he would go out on his own to swim.”

Another lie that there was no drinking of alcohol on the boat appears to also be refuted by video found on Caleb’s phone that showed drinking.

Even that, no police report was known to have been made after the yatch returned to Odessa on the same day. According to Daniel in a chat with an unidentified blogger, “the detective who is working on this case right now never even received a case in the police database initially.”

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Police is tight-lipped about the incident and did not offer any information to Daniel when they called him in to retrieve Caleb’s belongings including his phone. The Nigerian community in Ukraine has launched a “Justive for Caleb campaign to keep the focus of the Ukrainian authorities on the missing friend. They have even gone on a peaceful demonstration on the case and gotten the Nigerian Ambassador to Ukraine involved.

Caleb’s mother Mrs Obari in an emotional video posting flatly rejected the notion that her son may be dead. “I strongly believe that you’re hiding him somewhere,” she said to Vera.

Africans are increasingly dying in Ukraine especially from their romantic association with Ukrainian women. Four months ago, a Congolese student was stabbed to death allegedly by his Ukrainian girlfriend after he posted video of her and another woman in a lesbian encounter on social media.

Africans in Ukraine complain that criminal activities against Africans have increased because the law enforcement authorities do not pursue the perpetrators and bring them to face the law.