Ruby Saleh, the 41-year-old sister of the late Gokada
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Fahim Saleh, has vowed to get justice for
her 33-year-old brother who was murdered mid-July.
Recall that NigerianEye had earlier reported that the body
of the tech entrepreneur was dismembered inside his luxury Manhattan condo
where an electric saw was found.
Fahim’s former personal assistant, Tyrese Haspil, has since
been arrested by the New York City Police Department in connection to the crime
and he has been arraigned.
In an emotional video on Friday, Ruby said, “My family and I
will do everything to keep Fahim’s memory alive and to keep his visions going.
“We will also dedicate ourselves to ensure Fahim gets
justice. My brother’s death is a crime of the cruelest and heinous nature.
“Whether you know Fahim or not, we may reach out to you for
help in achieving our goals and we hope that you will be just as kind as Fahim
was.
“If you are someone’s sister, the next time you see your
brother, please hug him as tightly as you can, for as long as you want because
that’s all I want to do every time I see those photos. But I will never be able
to hug Fahim again.”
In another tribute titled, ‘Mourning my baby brother, Fahim’
posted on Medium, the deceased’s sister said she ensured all the body parts of
his late brother were properly fitted in the casket before he was buried on
Sunday, July 19, 2020, in the Hudson Valley.
She narrated, “Fahim was born in 1986. He was a precocious,
curious, active, and happy child. His love of technology began early. Any time
he received a toy, he would take it apart to see how it was built.
“Fahim’s passion was technology and his brilliance was his
endless creativity and curiosity. When he discovered the Internet, he finally
had a way to channel his God-given gifts. He was 12 when he built his first
website, “The Saleh Family”.
“Fahim quickly discovered that he could make money on the
Internet by creating websites. He monetised his first website in 1999, when he
was 13 years old. The site was called Monkeydoo: jokes, pranks, fake poop, fart
spray and more for teenagers. Our father worried when the first $500 check
arrived in the mail from Google, addressed to Fahim Saleh. How is this boy
making $500? That is so much money, he would later tell me he had thought.
“Our father’s relationship with my brother was very special.
They were so different: Our father worried too much, while Fahim never worried.
Fahim was the only one who could placate him. He showed our father the website
and explained the programming languages he had used to build it. Because our
father was a programmer himself, books about computer programming filled the
shelves of our house. Fahim had used those books to teach himself. “Teenagers
are visiting the site, Dad and I’m monetising their visits with ads from
Google,” he said.”
Ruby added, “When Fahim graduated in 2009, the job market
was in distress. He turned down a $50,000-a-year IT job, opting instead to
spend months in my parents’ basement building his next product. PrankDial was
born of one of my brother’s biggest hobbies.
“Fahim’s brain was a bottomless magic hat of ideas big and
small, wacky and serious, local and global. You never knew what he was going to
pull out next, but he got to work on every idea immediately. He couldn’t let
one sit; he was too excited to usher the vision in his head into the world for
the rest of us to enjoy.
“Fahim had zero interest in being a rich entrepreneur who
only hung out with other rich entrepreneurs. His heart was most open to those
in need. “These drivers depend on me,” he would say when talking about Gokada,
the motorbike-hailing app he developed in Nigeria.
“I had to arrange my beautiful boy’s funeral. Three days
prior, the funeral home called to report that it would not be possible to sew
his limbs and head back onto his torso before burial. Upon receiving that news,
I closed my eyes and crossed my arms over my chest like a Pharaoh, squeezing my
phone against my body.
“My hands formed fists that I pushed into my heart with all
my strength to contain my pain. Then I pleaded with the man to make sure all of
my sweet brother’s body parts were in their proper places in the casket. The
day before the funeral, the man called me again. “It wasn’t easy, but we were
able to put him back together,” he said.
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