The body of the Nigerian graduate of a Ukrainian university, Caleb Obari, who disappeared while taking a boat trip in Odesa, has been found by Ukrainian police in Odesa Oblast. Obari, 21, had been missing for nearly three weeks.
Obari just graduated from Ukraine’s Sumy State Agrarian University when he attended a yacht party at the invitation of a woman in the southern city of Odesa on Aug. 20. He never returned.
The boat set sail from the Sauvignon yacht club in Odesa and went four kilometres out from the coast, but returned back without Obari. According to the report, neither rescuers of the State Emergency Service nor the police had found the young man a week later.
Police said they found his body on September 12 near the coastline in Chornomorsk, a port city in Odesa Oblast. The cause of death is yet to be ascertained, although police are treating it as an accident.
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A volunteer group known as Rescue Platform 911 had said Obari was invited to a party on a boat by Vera Topalova, owner of a BDSM-themed bar Iznanka in Odesa. According to the Odesa volunteer group called Rescue Platform 911, Obari’s friend waited for him after the party was over, but the only thing he got was Obari’s personal belongings and phone without any explanations of what happened at sea.
The head of Rescue Platform 911 Alexander Sopelnik said the Nigerian was the only foreigner out of about 10 passengers on the boat.
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Six days after Obari’s disappearance, Topalova confirmed in a Facebook post that she invited Obari to the party. She wrote that Obari went swimming in the sea together with some other guests but never returned.
“Within a few minutes, I heard that they started looking for him. These were the most terrible minutes of that day,” wrote Topalova . Obari’s friends, however, said he couldn’t swim.
Franktalknow.com reported that before the body was found, Nigerian users on social media had shared posts with #JusticeforCaleb and #BlackLivesMatter hashtags.
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“The unfortunate disappearance of this young (man) won’t be taken lightly,” wrote Ekemini-Abasi Okon, head of Nigerian Student Union Ukraine on his Facebook page. “I urge all relevant authorities to look into why he disappeared, who made him disappear and within the shortest possible time!”
The National Police in Odesa Oblast said it had opened criminal proceedings under the premeditated murder statute and reported that experts will make “all necessary examinations if the body is found, including the cause of death.”
Obari’s parents had also pleaded with Nigerians in Ukraine to assist with information on their missing son’s whereabouts.
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