According to Gambia’s Standard Newspaper, Seedy Momodou Lette, a longtime Gambian resident and former honorary consul in South Africa, was discovered dead yesterday, according to reliable sources who spoke with The Standard yesterday. Lette vanished on Tuesday, just days after celebrating his 70th birthday.
According to a missing person complaint, Mr. Lette was last seen alive in the Morningside district of Gauteng, a commercial and residential suburb of Johannesburg, wearing a navy jacket and brown jeans. In Gauteng province, in the area of Lenasia, south of Soweto, his car was discovered abandoned.
Standard reports that on Thursday, the missing person report verified that he had finally been discovered dead, with his corpse at a mortuary and allegedly bloodstains on his clothing. The S.A police reports indicate that an object may have struck Mr. Lette, causing his death in Soweto, a neighborhood notorious for serious crimes.
The former Yahya Jammeh administration named Mr. Lette, a prosperous businessman and consultant, as the first-ever Gambian honorary consul in South Africa. Prior to the official embassy’s opening in Pretoria, he assisted in the establishment of the first Gambian mission office in Santon.
Source: Standard Newspaper
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