The Okeadu family from Imo State has called for justice and urgent government intervention following the gruesome death of their son, Obinna Okeadu, allegedly murdered at a job scam centre in Myanmar reportedly linked to Thailand.
The 33-year-old engineer from Mbano, Imo State, was said to have been lured to Myanmar in August 2025 under the guise of a factory job offer with an attractive pay package. Upon arrival, his immigration documents were seized, and he was forced into a slave-like underground camp, according to family accounts.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja, Okechukwu Okeadu, the victim’s elder brother, said Obinna’s ordeal began shortly after he joined the centre. The operators allegedly confined hundreds of young men—mostly Africans—in shallow underground apartments, where they were denied access to communication and subjected to harsh working conditions.
According to reports, inmates at the centre were assigned targets and punished severely for non-performance. Failure to meet targets could reportedly lead to being sold to other camps, subjected to torture, or even having their organs harvested to “recover investments,” including airfare to Thailand.
One inmate, in a secret message to the Okeadu family, alleged that Obinna died after being beaten and injected with dangerous substances by his supervisors for expressing exhaustion.
“We were told he was tortured until urine was dripping from his organ. Another source said they may have harvested his organs to recover their investment on Obinna,” the family lamented.
The family said they have not received any official confirmation regarding Obinna’s death and are demanding proof of life or the return of his body.
“We want to see his body if Obinna is dead or alive,” they insisted.
They also appealed to President Bola Tinubu’s administration to investigate the circumstances surrounding Obinna’s death and take action to rescue other Nigerians reportedly trapped in similar camps in Myanmar and Cambodia.
Sources told SaharaReporters that the job scam centre, which previously operated in Nigeria before being shut down by authorities, had relocated to Myanmar, continuing its fraudulent recruitment of unsuspecting job seekers across Africa.
The Okeadu family urged the federal government and relevant international agencies to probe the operations of the job scam network, prosecute those responsible, and ensure the safe return of Nigerians still held in captivity.